Fowl Math

 Can anyone help me figure this out, please?
I paid .99/lb for a chicken and made some broth to freeze
for future use.
My yield was 1.6 lbs of *pure ground chicken meat and 7 full
quarts of broth.
* meaning no bones in the grinder-I handpicked the carcass
so the weight of the meat was just that, meat only and I have
an accurate scale.

The ingredients that went into the broth were from the garden so I can't
for the life of me figure out how to calculate the cost of
the seeds or plants.
That's problem #1.
The bones were used for simmering and later put into the
compost bin.
Water was done by irrigation water shares and by flood so
no pump electricity was used for watering.
The time on my electric range to cook the chicken down was
a total of 5 hours over the course of two days.
I'm not including any of my time spent processing the chicken.
Problem #2 is:
What would the price per pound of the chicken really be
when all is said and done? And would I need to deduct
the cost of the broth from the total?

I should know how to do this and it's driving me crazy.

 

A P pound chicken?


So the cost of the pure chicken was about $0.99P/1.6lb.


The seeds and plants woulda been bought, no?


How do you start a flood?


Maybe 5 hours x 200 watts = 1 kWh worth about 10 cents.


About $(0.10+0.99P)/1.6lb.


The calculations seem easy enough, but what's the goal? You might compare
the cost of the chicken with the cost of 1.6 pounds of pure chicken from
a deli plus the cost of 7 quarts of chicken broth in cans and calculate
your equivalent hourly wage from that.

Nick

 nicksanspam@ece.villanova.edu wrote in


You lost me here.
The bird was an organic whole bird at Costco, initial price of .99 per
pound.


Correct.

We turn the head gate valve on and open the sliders on the
irrigation pipe.


It's for science! Heh.
I do plan on raising chickens next year so by knowing
what the price is this way I can compare it later on when
I'm growing my own.

Thank you for helping, Nick. I appreciate your time.

 4ax.com:


But the difference in quality makes up for the added expenses.

This can be amortized ove ther next X years. Chickens give little wear/tear
to fence and coop.


Feed has increased (doubled?) in the last few years what with the demand
for corn.


Our locker charges $1.50/bird, plucked, cleaned, cooled to 40F. We cut em
up and package for 2 adults.

 

We paid 85¢/chick and raise 20-25 each year. Have been for 8-10 years.
They are ready to butcher in 6-7 weeks. Again, the quality of the meat is
SO much better than store bought from the chicken factories as to be
uncomparable. Once you've eaten it you'll see that store-bought tastes like
spotted-owl, or worse.

Steve
41N

 

That's pretty good. The local place I was looking at charges $3.00/bird:
http://www.homegrownpoultry.net/