Australian 12-year-olds open chicken farms to earn money every month.

An Australian teenager became a successful small businessman by selling eggs

According to the Daily Telegraph of November 2, a 12-year-old boy in Australia has become a successful small businessman by raising hens to sell eggs.

The 12-year-old named Calvin Moran first came up with the idea of starting a Calvin's Eggs small business after looking after dozens of hens for his mother Vanessa, providing eggs for local churches every Sunday.

Soon after, Kelvin realized that his hens were "hatching" a potential gold mine. He began to save his daily pocket money of 5 Australian dollars (28.92 yuan) and bought more hens with the help of his parents. Now he has raised 120 hens in his one-hectare family property in Gerringong, the southern district of Wollongong.

Kelvin loved his hens and said, "they make me feel like I have a lot of responsibility and a lot of things to do." I have to feed them, and recently they have started to hatch their eggs. "" In the morning, I usually do some work and then go to school. I will feed the chickens and help them pour water to make sure they are all right. In the afternoon, I will add water to them again, feed them-for example, some abandoned leaves in the garden, and then pick up eggs every week and pack them in cardboard boxes. "

Although there are too many hens to name one by one, Calvin and his 6-year-old brother Roxy still named several of them, such as Bronte, Golden Girl and Golden Boy.

Kelvin does business in a different way. Every time he picks out one of a box of eggs and introduces the coffee shop owner to the difference between his eggs and his competitors' products. Calvin's Eggs now provides 30 cartons of eggs to three local cafes, so Kelvin earns about A $100 a week.

Vanessa said: "We are teaching him some business principles. I'm proud that he's doing a good job."I was really impressed by him. He also took the initiative to learn something about hen breeding. His hens lay good eggs." But for Kelvin, he didn't do it to make money. When his hens stop laying eggs, he will let them "retire" because he is not going to kill the hens. "it's really nice to have more pocket money, but the hens are great, and I don't want to give up."