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The author mentioned the low cost of vaccines (the one that prevents the deadly Newcastle disease costs less than 20 cents). I suspect the reason that this is n
by bko 10y ago
The author mentioned the low cost of vaccines (the one that prevents the deadly Newcastle disease costs less than 20 cents). I suspect the reason that this is not already being done by the locals is that there are some other costs or factors that are specific to the local market that outsiders have no way of assessing.
- lukeschlather 10y agoIt sounds like in order to get money you need to be raising and selling on the order of 100-300 chickens per year. So we're talking $20-40 year. To put that in perspective for a contract software developer making $100k+/year, that's like spending $20k/year on software licenses.
- allannienhuis 10y ago$.20 cost of vaccination per $5.00 chicken is 4 percent cost. You're quoting 20 percent cost comparison. Am I missing something?
- lukeschlather 10y agoI was comparing against the farmers' current income estimated at $2/day, not the income post-chickens. Though presumably their income is substantially less than $5/chicken.
- bryanlarsen 10y ago$5 is for the full grown chicken. The chicks must sell for a lot less or there would be no profit in raising them...