You can't go wrong with chickens! They will eat most anything and be happy to have it. We currently have 55 hens that produce enough egg money to cover all our feed costs (what little we have as we raise our animals on pasture). Other pluses are chickens don't collect tics, they eat them. we have ours follow the cattle and eat the fly larva in the cow poop, then they spread is so we don't have any burn spots in the pasture..... I could go on and on. Good luck with your micro homestead / farm, keep the posts coming, very will done.
Thanks! It sounds like you have pretty much utilized everything you can with chickens. Great job! Hopefully someday we will be able to say the same thing. Just out of curiosity, where do you get most of your customers with eggs? I find that competition and obviously the prices of eggs at the grocery store make it difficult.
To be honest, Church.... Then the word spread from there. We started with education, always promoting the pasture raised and no antibiotics and meds. We talk about the egg itself promoting the additional nutrients in a pasture raised egg. Then there is the big one, our eggs are not subjected to radiation like the ones you buy at Walmart. We don't wash our eggs and promote the benefits of that. Best of luck to you, if we can be of any help please let us know!
Thanks! That's some great advice.