Batch A revenue - batch A expenses = batch A profit

Batch B revenue - batch B expenses = batch B profit

You accounted for both batch A and batch B expenses in batch A, which is fine, but you can't account for batch B expenses again in batch B profits. So batch B profit is now the full $11,250. Otherwise you are double dipping.

In other words you are subtracting the cost of 1,000 birds from the revenue from 500 birds.

Which will then gross you another $11,250 which will cost you $0 because you already accounted for that expense with the last batch?

That's not really how that math works.

This is going to sound a little ass-hole ish but I don't mean it that way. If you are going to try to make a living like this you really need to get a better handle on the numbers. A lot of small businesses fail only because they suck at keeping books.

So your gross sales on 450 birds is $11,250 and your expenses are $4,562

That makes your net $6,688. Why did you subtract your cost from that a second time?

I am getting $6,668 / 139 hours = $48 per hour

Of course that's ignoring taxes and your overhead for the land and all that. I'm just trying to get a feel for the numbers you are putting out there.

Ah gotcha. That's fair.

>You won't find any motor made today that doesn't need to be regularly oiled, but at least those two have oil ports which will make it much easier.

Really? Not to be argumentative but I have run box fans and ceiling fans literally continuously for years without oiling anything. This thing was running slow and screeching in less than 10 hours. If you have to take the back of the motor off to oil it it's not meant to be oiled. I would like one with an oil port though.

I should have thought of Lasko. I had one of their cheapie walmart box fans blowing on me as I slept for like 10 years