I love it....

Also, everyone's situation is different and I couldn't raise a family on my farms income alone. I'm very thankful to have a wife that is employed.

It was a lot better 10 year ago, whole different ballgame now

From what little I have seen and heard by a friend who has houses, ^^^^^^ is very accurate.


God Bless,
David B.

There are 40 houses in my family all broilers pm me if you want to crunch numbers and hear real bad, and real good. It’s all how you make it

Are you crazy, there are a lot more opportunities out there than a back breaking chicken house. You must be drunk or high.

I remember back in the late 70s early 80s you could build and have them paid for short term without the yearly updates. Now I would hate to guess how long they finance these multi million dollar operations.

Didn't read responses but no from who I know

Have cousins in the business. They are right in that years ago, chicken houses made a good deal of money. But now your contract company controls everything. They can speed you up or slow you down by controlling feed. About the time you get close to making money or even, they require you to upgrade your houses. Back in debt again or you get no chickens. Get a bad batch of chickens and it's all your fault when they die. Had a farmer I know show me his records for death loss from past years and it was great. He had a bad batch and suddenly he didn't know what he was doing. Had to have more of this and had to do that before he would pass inspection to get chicks. Fish farmers I know say their industry is becoming just like chickens. Companies say we want certain fish sizes but when they get there, it has all changed and you get docked for too big of fish or too small.

Yea doc keep pulling teeth, hard work will kill most 🐈’s these days.. speaking of which you better
start some kind of air conditioning, low stress, low sweat environment business doc...bc people these days that need to be
ain’t doing shat but pushing buttons, prolly be better off hurting your back on purpose and pulling unemployment and food
assistance then mow yards for cash and sale your pain meds. Say the hell with smelling bad breath and chicken shat all day

One of my best friends family built 16 houses several years ago. They started on the chickens because the family was spreading out and profitable jobs were needed for the families eating from the same farm. They used the chicken litter for the row crop areas they have and were pleased. I heard many times him tell me the chicken houses saved the farm and kept them in groceries. Now, about 15 years later, all the houses are sitting vacant. Upgrades and being told how to run the houses were their turn offs. They are still row crop farming and the houses look practically new just sitting there gathering dust. I always hoped one of the family members would start them back but they haven't yet. It took millions to build all these houses. I just can't see pulling the plug and letting them sit.
B

Invest in a tattoo removal business. I think there will be a big market for that in the near future.

"Doc Massey's Dentistry and Tattoo Removal Service"

...Has a nice ring to it.

They could stand to clean up around their place just a bit tho. They are damn good people too.

Add "Rotten" to that list.

Thanks for all of the comments. Just looking at some ways to diversify. I own several dental offices across the state along with a lot of commercial real estate. I don't need completely passive, but the whole goal is to reduce the load a stress I have now. Sounds like this is not the avenue I don't want to just by myself another job.

As a kid living in Graham, AL, I'm plenty familiar with the smell. I've spent many hours cleaning out houses between loads for extra cash. We also had no AC and a big attic fan. When the cattle farmers would spread their fields with chicken droppings, it would fill our house with that smell for a few days.

I’ll take a root canal and remove beckys name off my chest please

Interesting thread. I always thought it was a shame the way that the processors took control of the chicken business long ago and completely put the little guy out of business.

I know nothing of the current rules and laws regarding poultry. Is it legal for a small time guy to raise chickens and sell them directly to the public now? I have heard rumors of small farmers selling "food baskets" with fresh fruit and vegetables and also fresh chicken. I have doubted that the chicken part of it was legal, but I really don't know.

Have to add tanning salon and game room.

Check out this farm. http://www.polyfacefarms.com/ It is owned by a guy named Joel Salatin. He has some very good podcast about returning to self sustainable agriculture. Her grows, processes, and sells his own chicken, pork, beef, and vegetables. It's very interesting. He rotates fields almost daily, the animals naturally fertilize, and he doesn't use weed killers or pesticides.

And Video. Back in the day every tanning salon also said 'Video' .............