CHICKENS TEST - Farming Simulator 22

[@cygnusx7]

Sorghum grows much faster! I can use the field to grow grass (for silage) afterwards. Nobody is buying the food, so determining the overall profit by basing it on the buy prices isn't a good way to compare this. You should instead look at the time invested, yield, and growth duration of these 3 foods.

[@alexmcd378]

Good point

[@beauneo]

I feed them Barley. It’s not just about the worth of the crop it’s about the yield on Barley. Which puts wheat and Sorghum to shame per acre. I’ve got two smallish fields and it feeds the chickens year round for little cost.

[@julian75411]

Only reason I used sorghum was because you can also feed horses with it (instead of oat) Thank you for this

[@KansasFarmGuy]

Thanks for your videos enjoy them greatly.. when i first started you were one of the first people i watch to figure FS22 out.

[@GamerTeah]

im glad your doing updated videos :)

[@moonpieface7627]

I guess it depends on the map, but I like doing wheat if you can double plant the field with soybeans during the same year. Wheat for chicken feed and soybean for profit.

[@brandonfoss9445]

One thing to note, in base game there is no (that I know of) buying station for eggs so if you have a bakery you need chickens.

[@_i_a_n_]

Enhanced Animals mod is great. Appreciate the vanilla review either way!

[@Munkey282]

Thanks for making videos like these. I really enjoy comparison videos and the analysis part in Excel. Well done!

[@gamingwithmr.fregles8802]

It's a Google sheet

[@DarkVoidIII]

It would be interesting to see how the eggs integrate into products that use eggs. Are you planning on a video to estimate setup costs for producing food that would include eggs in them?

[@austinolson5302]

I currently have a massive spreadsheet that calculates monthly production incomes, months to recoup building costs, and it also will tell you the most efficient equipment setup for however many hectares your farm. I have a few more things I want to add to it then I’ll post some videos on it.

[@Darindul]

This is eggactly the guide i was needing! Btw i knew that capital A would bother You 😂

[@budgetracing3425]

Always enjoy your detailed look into animals in FS22, Thanks!

[@foodgeek1495]

Thanks for this. Was JUST about to feed my chickens some sorghum.

[@gordobot24]

Very useful video and excellent community comments.

[@it899]

I buy 45 chickens each day till they start reproducing. I sell them at 7 months, they have produced another 45 chickens so I no longer have to buy any. I thought they started producing eggs before 6 months.

[@jimmyjones2901]

My chick says you sound like gonzo from muppets👍 a personal fav of ours lol. Nice video, will have saved me a lot of time!

[@GamerTeah]

Any chance you can do how to get 100% yeild (or highest) on grapes? ive watched a ton of vids still confusing as heck what order to do things for max yeild.

[@3D_Drafter]

Thanks for this guide FC. Traditionally I only grow corn (for cracked corn and cereal), wheat (for cakes) and oats (for cereal). I have been feeding my chickens wheat but wonder now if I should keep 100% of wheat for my productions (cakes) and use the profits from that to buy barley. Will have to have a look.

[@Jones7854]

I always put 1 rooster in my chicken coop

[@wonderly8542]

i tested it on 5000 chicken coup. Fully healthy + auto load eggs. in 1 year i lose 200/300 k depending on prices. Compared to barley+straw sell

[@MullyAKL]

Thanks for the vid - I have the bakery which I want to expand from bread to cakes so need eggs (I have greenhouses for strawberries and a sugar mill)

[@dennis-raven]

Everyone passes by the roosters, but did you know that they are worth quite a lot? you buy them cheap, raise them and then sell them for a lot of profit

[@emilymschoener9193]

Yeah, no one seems to realise this.

[@Ajidamal420]

Was there a difference in number of eggs produced between the wheat, barley, and sorghum? It looks like you only show combined totals for all three.

[@philash824]

I’m guessing there wasn’t a difference. If there was a difference I’m sure he would of said

[@fredpryde8555]

that was really interesting to find out thanks for that

[@dalesmith4778]

Not gonna get rich off of them. Tell me youve never done chickens without telling me. Chickens are extremely profitable especially if you run around a thousand chickens. Save your eggs til November and sell them for huge profit.

[@dylanbelmore4048]

You'd have some dissatisfied customers. Eggs don't have much of a shelf life.

[@Glegh]

​@@dylanbelmore4048my brother in christ this is farming simulator

[@tonyphillip21]

@dalesmith4778 that's not true. Put them in a sealed mason jar with water and put them in a root cellar and they will stay good for so long it's not funny. Old rural storage method.

[@dylanbelmore4048]

​@tonyphillip21 thank you for the information! I wonder how different the egg would be from a 30 day farm to shelf egg.

[@JAleksandr]

@@tonyphillip21facts! There are actually many methods that you can get a year of shelf life with.

[@amandabassett9472]

This came out just in time I'm going to put chicken on my farm tomorrow and was about to plant sorgham

[@Rasip]

If i understood that right..? Buy 60 chicks every month for 6 months, sell the oldest 60 every month starting at 7 months. Make $1140 and 1200 eggs for 2160L of grain every month.

[@frankensteinracing3520]

Only reason I use sorghum is that it is pretty much the quickest crop to grow.

[@NevFTW]

The profit is per chicken and the coop holds 360, so would you multiply that end cost by 360? That seems like a lot if so.

[@jordananderson2728]

It would be a waste to purchase that many chickens; since they produce a chick every 2 months once they turn 6, and those produce every 2 months once they turn 6, and et cetera and so forth, you'll have filled the coop off of natural breeding very quickly. You should probably only buy 20 or so; after a year those 20 will have become 80, after another year those 80 will have become the full 360 for the coop. So for an initial investment of 40 + coop, then your feed costs, after 2 years you will be making the 4k/mo shown in video.

[@Crosshairs1329]

I know sorghum is expensive but I like it because if the field is a decent size you can set some aside for your chickens and sell the rest. And yes I do know you can do this with the other two but I think sorghum sells for more per liter.

[@Darindul]

You could also leave a strip for barley to feed chickens and use the rest of the field to grow sorghum

[@Crosshairs1329]

@@Darindul that’s good to

[@adamsandin]

u know any good chicken mods, bigger pens?

[@FarmerCop]

There are quite a few on the modhub, dont have a specific one that comes to mind but id download several and try them out

[@deanboudreau9887]

Chickens are the most profitable in fs22 a trailer with 45000 litres with net u over 100k

[@docholliday1811]

Thank you, good information.

[@archer92longshot29]

Do they still eat 6 litres of food a day if the month length is longer/shorter?

[@Rasip]

Should be 6 per month regardless of the number of days. Doesn't everyone play on 1 day months anyway?

[@donutfarmer4224]

Does the profit come from eggs or from selling adult chickens? I think I gathered you just let them gro to adult, max the pen population and just sell the eggs.

[@FarmerCop]

Profit is almost entirely from eggs

[@Rasip]

42L of grain for $19 per chicken if i understood the video right.

[@HisNameIsRobertPaulson01]

"Chickens are decent people." -George Carlin

[@brandonmedeiros7944]

No offense farmer cop!! But does anyone hear Kermit?

[@jamespugh]

Cool

[@mamalannightshyaman]

I stole 120k sorghum off a farm I bought and resold, there were no harvestable wheat fields in the save I started. I saw the thumbnail and panicked but it was because it’s expensive not for any other reason. /phew

[@FarmerCop]

Yea if you have sorghum lying around, no big deal, use it hahaha

[@321-sleep]

I'VE ALWAYS USED WHEAT. GONNA BE CHANGING THAT.

[@neilharbott8394]

When you grow your own animal food, you need to watch the yield per acre - Barley produces slightly more than Wheat, but it's worth less - but only insofar as the sale value per acre is near enough the same. If you do pigs, then there would be a similar consideration for canola/soybeans/sunflower options.

[@andrewpowell4727]

Seems like animals are not worth it. If you factor in the time to prepare the field and grow and harvest the crop plus the cost of all equipment needed and then the profit of selling the entire yield, the profit from the animals are minimal.

[@razzlebazzle420]

Until you're running cows, and making butter, cheese and chocolate, and selling excess milk to buy sugar. After 5 years, I'm running 4000 head in the buildable feedlots, and now I buy grains when the price is low to run 6 grist mills for mineral feed. Slurry and manure, 250l and 200l per cow per month, to the BGA, still gives you digestate to sell or fertilise with, and you can sell all the excess. The grains I was growing for straw now support 7000 chickens and eggs are like 3-4x more valuable than grain. The tlx 2020 pack has a feeder bed, which is excellent for up to about 40 cows, but it's honestly less hassle to use a dedicated TMR production if you go beyond the base game pens. I've got so much left over grass I can't fit it in my Silage clamps and I'm thinking about putting some sheep in and some fabric and clothes productions down. Every September when the milk price maxes out I buy more land and more productions, more sugar, more animals. I've got space for another 4 pens, but 8000 cows would be absolute bank.

[@aks47u]

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[@memenationalcentre]

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