Nice to hear somebody is squeaking by, somehow. There used to be chicken farms all over the place here, but the last shut down maybe 20 years ago? Egg production was the first to fail, and some places hung on making money raising and selling started-pullets. There was a huge place near me that raised starters for AGWAY in a huge three-story barn. No hatching and no egg laying. AGWAY shipped then chicks, and they later shipped out started-birds.
If you know Oneonta at all, the big Chrysler dealer is the site of the last big chicken farm in this area. Royal Chrysler. I was there working on a tractor when the Royal people came over and made the farmer an offer he couldn't refuse. Around 1980. He told me all his steel chicken cages were rotted and due for replacement -and it just wasn't worth it to farm any more.
I wonder how the people you mention can afford feed and sell eggs at a profit. Usually that sort of thing won't work in the Northeast because someone can ship stuff in cheaper from better areas of the US, or from overseas. I've been told that the only products that will work here are something that cannot be shipped at a profit. Like fresh "organic milk", Chevon from hand-picked live goats (better known as goat meat, fresh sweet corn, fingerling Peruvian potatoes to local restaurants, etc. With the cost of feed, fuel, taxes, heat, etc. I can't imagine how somebody can still make eggs here at a profit. I believe you, but still find it baffling.
There's a woman near me who raises certified organic beef and supplies many New York City restaurants. All her tractors are big 1970s Farmalls. She pays top dollar for them and has a full time, on site mechanic. I'm not sure what HER secret to success is. Maybe she's a farming genius, or maybe there's more going on there that meets the eye.
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