Chicken breeding or eggs?

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Chicken breeding or eggs?

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Are you better off maxing chickens in the coop for egg production or leaving room for the chickens to breed.
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I went for maxing it in FS19 as it was annoying trying to get rid of the right chickens in the interface. But I guess you can make some dollars extra with micromanagement there
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If you have to wait, buy some adult chickens and some little chickens as well.

Only the fenced chicken coop is only for 15 chickens.. So its not really worth it.

The base chicken coop is only handy to get on some small quantity limited egg.
When going to produce then you already need the bigger chicken coop. It can hold more chickens, so they produce the eggs faster.
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Ironically, there is no economy of scale. The smaller chicken pen can house 30 chickens at £6000 (£200 per chicken); and the bigger one 360 at £79,000 (£219.44 per chicken). But its more manageable to feed them and pick up the eggs from the big one.

To work this out, is fairly easy: you need to work out the cost (in loss of egg production) of "giving up" half the housing to free space so they breed and produce chicks - then sell at 1 month old. If you wanted to keep them longer and sell as adults, you'd need to factor in the 6 months it takes before they go up in value. I can't remember the sell price (minus transport) of a chick so I can't do the sums for you.
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razrbx wrote: Sat Jan 15, 2022 5:37 pm Are you better off maxing chickens in the coop for egg production or leaving room for the chickens to breed.
You are better off maximizing eggs. I ran a test on this. It was fairly simple.

In the large chicken coop, I sold off half the chickens. I kept the 180 that were reproducing that month. The next month I had 180 chicks, so the coop was half and half. It would take six months for the chicks to mature.

I already know that mature chickens produce 7 liters of eggs per month. So 180 chickens x 7 liters x 6 months = 7560 liters of eggs. If I figure I can sell around the high price point on normal settings ($2,500/1,000 L), I'll make $18,900 income in 6 months.

Chicks take six months to mature, and they mature at a linear rate of four dollars a month. At 0 months, they are worth $1. Each successive month is $5, $9, $13, $17, $21, and finally $25. They also consume the exact same amount of food, regardless of their age (5Ltr/month). So the cost of feeding chickens or chicks is the same. At the end of six months, the 180 chicks mature to a total value of $4,500. It would only cost $15 in total fees to sell them. If you were going to sell, this would be the ideal time (not earlier), because they also produce eggs during this time, with their egg production increasing each month. Over the six months maturing time, the 180 chicks produced 3,270 eggs. Selling these at $2,500/1,000 liters would make $8,175, for a total income of $12,660 ($8,175 + $4,485).

I estimated expenses for the entire coop for six months at about $7,900. That includes 10,800 liters of Barley, selling it to myself at $676/1,000 liters ($7300), and $100/month for property maintenance ($600).

Final analysis: If you maximize egg production (360 mature chickens), you will make a profit of $29,900 in six months ($37,800 income - $7,900 expenses) or $59,800/year. If you go half and half, selling half the flock whenever the other half reaches maturity, you will make a profit of $23,660 ($18,900 + $12,660 - $7,900) in six months, or $47,320/year. Both are obviously good. You'll cover your chicken coop in less than two years. But max eggs is clearly the best.
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I bought 250 chickens at the mature age. They reproduced, and when the 250 chicks turn 6 months old and are one day away from reproducing, I will sell the older chickens so the following day they give birth and keep the pen at max capacity.
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Great analysis NDDan!
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NDDan wrote: Sun Jan 16, 2022 5:00 am
razrbx wrote: Sat Jan 15, 2022 5:37 pm Are you better off maxing chickens in the coop for egg production or leaving room for the chickens to breed.
You are better off maximizing eggs. I ran a test on this. It was fairly simple.

In the large chicken coop, I sold off half the chickens. I kept the 180 that were reproducing that month. The next month I had 180 chicks, so the coop was half and half. It would take six months for the chicks to mature.

I already know that mature chickens produce 7 liters of eggs per month. So 180 chickens x 7 liters x 6 months = 7560 liters of eggs. If I figure I can sell around the high price point on normal settings ($2,500/1,000 L), I'll make $18,900 income in 6 months.

Chicks take six months to mature, and they mature at a linear rate of four dollars a month. At 0 months, they are worth $1. Each successive month is $5, $9, $13, $17, $21, and finally $25. They also consume the exact same amount of food, regardless of their age (5Ltr/month). So the cost of feeding chickens or chicks is the same. At the end of six months, the 180 chicks mature to a total value of $4,500. It would only cost $15 in total fees to sell them. If you were going to sell, this would be the ideal time (not earlier), because they also produce eggs during this time, with their egg production increasing each month. Over the six months maturing time, the 180 chicks produced 3,270 eggs. Selling these at $2,500/1,000 liters would make $8,175, for a total income of $12,660 ($8,175 + $4,485).

I estimated expenses for the entire coop for six months at about $7,900. That includes 10,800 liters of Barley, selling it to myself at $676/1,000 liters ($7300), and $100/month for property maintenance ($600).

Final analysis: If you maximize egg production (360 mature chickens), you will make a profit of $29,900 in six months ($37,800 income - $7,900 expenses) or $59,800/year. If you go half and half, selling half the flock whenever the other half reaches maturity, you will make a profit of $23,660 ($18,900 + $12,660 - $7,900) in six months, or $47,320/year. Both are obviously good. You'll cover your chicken coop in less than two years. But max eggs is clearly the best.
Which is why they probably didn't have a chicken trailer in the stock game, although splitting your chickens after buying another coop is definitely something they didn't foresee.
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