What will you pay for chicks?

[MrSquirrel]

I know it depends on breed and that type of thing, but what do you consider a good price for chicks? Straight run and pullets. I'm looking at ordering some online and I've never bought store chickens full price.

 

[Mrs. K]

I basically want enough egg production to sell some and make the girls pay for their food.
LOL.

Repeat to yourself, "this is a HOBBY, which takes money, not makes money" LOL.

 

[21hens-incharge]

I would expect to pay around $5 a chick for day old pullets of common breeds. For day old straight run I would expect to pay around $3.50 for common breeds.
Then there's the add on of shipping.....that will surely drive the price up per chick once it's all done.

 

[LuciferRoo]

Oh I know, I know. I am always amazed at the wrecks I have had, and having to start over. Currently I have 11 hens and LongJohns my rooster. It has taken me two years to get over my last wreck with coons, and coyotes.

This is a fun hobby, and yet frustrating. Seems like things are going well, and you get hit by a predator or some other freak accident.

Right now, I am getting 2 eggs a day, one out of a BA that molted hard, and then started laying in mid December. We have had a winter for bright sunny days. And a production red, who should be giving me brown eggs, and instead gives me a pretty green egg. Two out of 11. 4 are point of lay pullets that should start soonish?

Mrs K

I would be happy to start getting green eggs.
Ironically that is how I starred with the chickens. I was having a conversation with a lady and told her I want to have chickens that lay colored eggs. Blue or green.
She told me she has chickens and would ask her chicken helper to put eggs in an incubator (she was working away from her house so someone was taking care of her chickens while she was away). She delivered 19 chicks and 14 turned out to be male. None of the females lay colored eggs. That was spring of last year and how my chicken journey began.
My next chickens will be Ameraucana. I want my colored eggs

 

[Mrs. K]

Find someone to order with you and split the chicks will help. I have ordered a couple of times from Sandhills preservation a potluck order. 25 or 50 chicks, I think 8 different breeds minimum. It is a fun way to try something different and the cheapest chicks I have found.

After years of rebuilding, I finally have a stable flock, and hope to hatch out chicks under Gramma Feathers this spring, (if she makes it that long, she is going on 5, but has brooded well for me).

Mrs K

 

[Mrs. K]

Oh I know, I know. I am always amazed at the wrecks I have had, and having to start over. Currently I have 11 hens and LongJohns my rooster. It has taken me two years to get over my last wreck with coons, and coyotes.

This is a fun hobby, and yet frustrating. Seems like things are going well, and you get hit by a predator or some other freak accident.

Right now, I am getting 2 eggs a day, one out of a BA that molted hard, and then started laying in mid December. We have had a winter for bright sunny days. And a production red, who should be giving me brown eggs, and instead gives me a pretty green egg. Two out of 11. 4 are point of lay pullets that should start soonish?

Mrs K

 

[Sally PB]

My next purchase is going to be pullets who are old enough for me to definitely identify as female.

Or, get an autosexing breed. The male and female chicks look different at hatch.

 

[Galaxy_rules]

Pullets 6-12 weeks should cost around $ 20-30 for standard breeds.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I know it depends on breed and that type of thing, but what do you consider a good price for chicks? Straight run and pullets. I'm looking at ordering some online and I've never bought store chickens full price.

Depends on the breed. I have a trio that was 79 bucks a chick at day old st run before shipping and vaccines were added (about another 60 total). Not what I ended up wanting, but I do still enjoy them and the cockerel and pullet I hatched from them are super pretty for my potluck flocks

 

[Dough Hill]

Is this a trick Question?