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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1455029" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>You can take the control back to a degree. In Va you are only "allowed " to process 3,000 birds a year before you have to meet a different set of requirements.... he has an outside processing facility. </p><p></p><p> Once you get the house paid for then yes you could do something like that, but those houses are meant to FAST grow out 22,000 every 45 days....The poultry company pays the feed, and LP for heat for the baby chicks, and then pays you for your labor basically, based on rate of gain etc.. And since the thing that makes the money is free range, the houses are not much benefit.... but developing a market is really tough too. I think it is getting somewhat saturated because the prices are much higher on the finished bird. And they grow slower when in a range situation. </p><p>There is also ALOT of time put into developing the market and then you also have to deal with liability. It certainly isn't as rosy a picture as he paints.</p><p></p><p>Believe me, Mennonites are not above really pushing for these houses and the fast track to making a little money.... The things you see BEHIND the scenes...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1455029, member: 25884"] You can take the control back to a degree. In Va you are only "allowed " to process 3,000 birds a year before you have to meet a different set of requirements.... he has an outside processing facility. Once you get the house paid for then yes you could do something like that, but those houses are meant to FAST grow out 22,000 every 45 days....The poultry company pays the feed, and LP for heat for the baby chicks, and then pays you for your labor basically, based on rate of gain etc.. And since the thing that makes the money is free range, the houses are not much benefit.... but developing a market is really tough too. I think it is getting somewhat saturated because the prices are much higher on the finished bird. And they grow slower when in a range situation. There is also ALOT of time put into developing the market and then you also have to deal with liability. It certainly isn't as rosy a picture as he paints. Believe me, Mennonites are not above really pushing for these houses and the fast track to making a little money.... The things you see BEHIND the scenes... [/QUOTE]
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