Any chicken farmers on the board?

Huge NO.

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Would you recommend it as a job/side hustle?

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Are you talking about raising proper meat birds, selling eggs, or selling your soul to Tyson?

Chickens need more water than you can imagine. Everything that walks,crawls or flies loves chicken
And you can't take vacations.

You better hope it comes complete with the Arkansas version of Kaleb Cooper, otherwise, you're gonna be screwed like this guy would have been:

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Any chicken farmers on the board?

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Farms the internets for weak minds.

Good work if you can get it.

We used to live in East Texas and there were many, many chicken farmers there. Can be very lucrative. A little labor involved in getting ready for a new batch (6000-20,000 fryers), and a little work getting ready for the pickup, but the rest of the time (6 weeks) not much to it other than making sure the feeders are working, the water is working, fans in the summer and heaters in the winter. Walk through every day to pickup any that have died.

The company you contract with will bring you a batch when they are a week old, and provide the feed. They pick them up at 7 weeks, and you get paid on the gain. Then they bring in bobcats to scoop out the litter, which is also sold.
Have some very good friends that do this, and they have paid for their farm with the chickens, and recently built several more houses.

Like someone said, it’s expensive to get started.

A lot have a cow calf operation as their built in side hustle.

View the houses as equipment. The companies you contract with dictate what updates you have to do to the houses. You own the land and the houses.

If you owe on the land and the houses, life will be tough.

If you owe on one or the other, you can make a living.

If you don’t owe on anything, you can be rich. (But if you don’t owe on anything, you were probably rich already).

Miniature goats and cows are all the rage and bring in lots of money. Look into that.

Don't do it. My folks had a couple of farms while I was growing up. They made great money but constant upgrades, new regulations, and other shite that would go wrong isn't worth it. A generator failing to start was the last straw for them, they lost 2 houses of birds due to suffocation. If you do it, hire someone good to help run it.