Welcome to Hazel's Happy Hens!!
What started as a fun project, with my barely two year old daughter, has turned into her own little business. Through raising chickens and being responsible for their care, Hazel has developed invaluable knowledge of "school subjects" with real life applications.
Hazel is responsible for selecting and raising chicks for her flock, cleaning up after them, purchasing food and supplies and collecting eggs....most days! Through this experience she has learned about illness and loss, supply and demand, marketing, customer service, a lot of math and so much more.
Hazel is currently selling her ladie's eggs for $4.00 a dozen. She helped me with the math to determine how much a chicken's care costs and how much she needed to get per dozen. When it is time to purchase food, supplies, egg cartons, new chicks or even business cards, it all comes out of her "eggie" money.
She does not make a large profit and has started to complain about her pay! At the end of each month, after all of the expenses have beed deducted, her profit is split into 3.....well, really 4. A buffer incase of a surprise expense, a portion that goes into savings, a portion that goes to her to save for something that she wants and last but not least.......Hazel was "tired of doing ALL of the work", so she hired her little brother and she is now learning the all about what it takes to be a leader and the trade off for help at her own expense!!
Hazel is now in school and I hope that she is able to continue incorperating what she learns in the classroom, to real life experiences.
Hazel is responsible for selecting and raising chicks for her flock, cleaning up after them, purchasing food and supplies and collecting eggs....most days! Through this experience she has learned about illness and loss, supply and demand, marketing, customer service, a lot of math and so much more.
Hazel is currently selling her ladie's eggs for $4.00 a dozen. She helped me with the math to determine how much a chicken's care costs and how much she needed to get per dozen. When it is time to purchase food, supplies, egg cartons, new chicks or even business cards, it all comes out of her "eggie" money.
She does not make a large profit and has started to complain about her pay! At the end of each month, after all of the expenses have beed deducted, her profit is split into 3.....well, really 4. A buffer incase of a surprise expense, a portion that goes into savings, a portion that goes to her to save for something that she wants and last but not least.......Hazel was "tired of doing ALL of the work", so she hired her little brother and she is now learning the all about what it takes to be a leader and the trade off for help at her own expense!!
Hazel is now in school and I hope that she is able to continue incorperating what she learns in the classroom, to real life experiences.
