The chickens have laid 115 eggs. Our spending on chicken-related paraphernalia has gone up to $192.27. The chickens don't seem to be eating as furiously as before, and our neighbour gave us a bale of hay. But, we also put down more money building infrastructure for the chickens: a chicken tractor and a chicken hoop house (which we'll talk more about in a future post).
Fortunately, we made $30 by selling some eggs to Jan's colleagues. The "fortunate" part is partly because we made some money, but mostly because we didn't have to eat 115 eggs. (The egg revenues are not included in the graph above).
Our costs per egg have gone down, but not quite as much as we predicted before. In fact, they seem rather to have stabilized:
Our cost per egg is now $1.65. Not great, especially given that the chickens, along with some of the equipment and feed, came for free. But, our egg economics model (i.e., the linear fit we put on the curve with an awesome R-squared of .7361) predicts that we will become profitable tomorrow!
If you take out the "infrastructure" costs, the marginal cost per egg goes down to $1.06.
The costs breakdown to date:
| Percent of total costs | Percent of operating costs | Category | |
| 37% | 58% | Feed | |
| 16% | 25% | Bedding | |
| 7% | 10% | Electric | |
| 36% | Infrastructure | ||
| 4% | 7% | Consumable |
NOTE: This post was written by Adam Delved. Eva Spun spurns Excel graphs.
nerrrrrd!
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