Can you make money on a small homestead? Our one year income/expenses breakdown.

Very informative! Thank you for sharing. Value of self-sustenance? Priceless.

What did do to hair?

Thank you for the farm profit break down. My daughter has takin on meat rabbits for food not profit. I will be watching your older videos on rabbits. ~Pam ~

I really appreciate your sharing all this and your transparency. We are planning on doing some of this and the information is helpful. But I think it's going to be about more than just dollars and cents for us. We will have the advantage of a retirement income so for us the fulfillment that comes from doing for self and the process will be a huge part of it. Hard to put a price tag on that aspect but your smile and attitude says a lot about that part too.. Thanks again for sharing.

This was a great video! I know I did not make a profit this year, even though I made money. My goats brought me just under $500 and live bird sales brought me approximately $150. I am still building my place up, so I am hoping we go up from here. I need to sit down and figure out my expenses. One good thing is that a lot of if not all of our expenses are tax deductible. Since my husband took money out of his 401k at the beginning of the year, we are hoping to get a significant amount of the taxes he paid on it back.
So far, the investment in my bottle calf has been $85 for purchase price, he nursed off my dairy goat so feeding cost was $0, I paid a vet to disbud him which cost me $5, and I banded him with my goat bander so I guess that cost me $0.01. Not planning on feeding him anything but grass and hay. Grass is free, hay price has not been bad for me. I don't know how much the butcher price will be yet.

RU sure people won't spend $3.50 a dozen for your quality (and probably great tasting) eggs?

I love the way you have shared your costs and expenses. What was your most profitable garden crop? What would you grow/not grow again?

Really great video! Don’t forget to factor in joy and healthy living!! 😀

Love the hair color💥 Very interesting info on costs.

When we had hogs we had a small bulk bin and the elevator came and filled it with their truck and the feed was much cheaper. Great video.

Thank you for giving a super realistic view on what running a small farm really does cost. Oh and I absolutely love your hair it's adorable!!!

Love your hair !

i love videos like this. im jealous that you can sell butchered rabbits. no go here in iowa. i offer to sell them a live rabbit and "help" them butcher it.

I love watching your journey! Thanks for sharing friend :)

This was awesome.

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Lorella you gave to reason that you did not make money right in the show notes, "Part time Homesteading". Also you are very very small. Say if you we to raise and sell 5 beef cattle and raise the price even 25c per lb per 1000# live animal will equal an additional $250 per animal. The reason why the beef are so profitable is you grow 95% of their feed. I realize that food costs are different in all areas. Here even CAFO eggs you cannot buy for less than $3 per dozen. Pasture raised eggs start at $5.50 per dozen and people are happy to pay that. Lamb is another meat you should try to raise. This year we have been getting $3.5 per pound live weight just in the sales barn. If we were to raise and butcher our own lamb we would charge $10.50 to $12 per pound and people would be happy to pay it because lamb imported from New Zealand costs around $25 per pound. Lamb sells best to the ethnic community for direct sales.
God Bless Joe Scott

Thank you! We just got our first 20 chicks on Monday and we're going to be building their enclosures this upcoming week. You're always here to give me a good idea of what I have coming up to look forward to. We have 2.26 acres and it's not with our home (about 10 minutes up the road) so we'll be adding some costs of having to get over there and whatnot but I get a very good idea of a lot due to you! Keep up the great work.

I did the math on egg selling a few years ago and it came out the same, break even. But I did discover that you can actually make good money selling pullets at point of lay. Most people who want a few backyard hens for eggs are disappointed to discover they have to wait so long to get eggs.

You should check out the channel Just a Few Acres Farm. Pete has tons of information on making a small farm profitable. He gets into the nitty gritty of the need to make a profit v. the desire for low costs goods by consumers. Might be helpful for you. Love your channel!

Neat video! We are Missouri also

Hi, Lorella Crews! My name is Lyndee McGloin, I am deaf woman. My goal to have a small farm in somewhere but i don't know where or which start. So can you share with me? i have been seek for what would I do.Thank you for your time to respond me back if you get this.

sell at farmers market once a month. one delivery. they come to you.

its sad when hard work and homesteading is worthless.

you are left with nothing more than big corporations who own markets drive prices so low that noone can compete and have no choice but to work for them then they hire basically slave labor at the cheapest possible income rates

its no longer a good thing to try to become self reliant because that concept will bassiclly distroy your finances and leave you struggle while making even more work for your self

sure now you have natural food you know where it came from and what it ate but you also cant pay your power bill or enjoy the aspects of life that bring joy unless you sell yourself to a corporation for cheap

Very clear very honest very informative. THANK YOU

I love these type of break down videos, just ran into your channel, have subscribed.

This was such a useful video. I like how you just got right to the info.

How many hives do you have?

Look into compost feeding for laying chickens. Not saying do it. Just research it.

i wouldn't mind having a farm with alpacas some day

how do you survive?

I'm confused how you had to feed a pig 1650lbs each... Average pig from farrow to finish takes 7 or 8 months and they will eat 800lbs or so, feed should've been closer to 3200lbs

Love this video with real numbers. Thank you. An orchard let us get the old pears off of the ground for our compost.. Worms LOVE pears, so it reduced our chicken feed costs

Thank you very much for all that info! Finally I found some one who talks about expenses. My husband and I, in the process of buying 10 acres in Missouri. It's my dream to start homestead.

Country Girl Grit watching from Myrtle Beach SC. Thank you for sharing

The breakdown is so interesting! We have lost money each year in set up costs but came out ahead for the first time In 2022. We don't have exact number for egg sales but we average $200/month in egg sales during heavy laying season (april-sept) and we made about $1500 profit in cornish cross chickens after all costs. That's a decent year for us!! We plan to focus more on those chickens this year. Our next step, probably next year is to raise lamb for meat. Our current sheep have names.....
I can't eat them 🫣😆

Thank you for sharing the details and being so honest. This helps others who are considering starting a farm/homestead.

I love your videos!

any vet bills injections preventive care?

I love this breakdown! Great info for people needing real numbers.

You aren’t able to just feed them kitchen waste?

Thanks for being real with your information

Did you say we can sale chicken we process our self in Missouri??

Where in mo. I love in mo also

Thanks for sharing! I just found your channel and subscribed.

Whoa. Rabbits were only $8 EACH? I pay $12.99/lb in my area!

It seems like if you could cut down feed costs, you could make a little more income... Thank you so much for sharing this!! I LOVE the breakdown. Have you changed anything in the last 3 years that has increased your profits??

Just $3/dozen?? That's horrible.