I just thought I'd add my 2.
I go to one of the poultry auctions almost every monday morning. I've see young POL Dom poulets for 55 cents and I've seen them go for $25. At an auction!
Mind you you aren't buying 1 bird. They are usually in cages holding 5-10 and a lot of times the price is for mulitple pens.
I've seen Foster Farms layers going for 15 cents up to $20 and penned the same way. Mind you these birds look like the ones in the commercials that are trying to imitate the FF chickens. Dirty, stringy. I know what a real FFF chicken looks like.
There are a lot of chicken people out here, but the ones who know what they are getting will pay top dollar for what they want.
That $25 Dom auction was for 350+ birds and the buyer took every pen.
I paid $3.99 a piece for some hatchery chicks at the feedstore a few months ago, because I only got one chick out of a hatch. Didn't want her lonely.
I've paid $20-$40 for roosters! Yep, roosters. What I haven't hatched from shipped eggs I've paid about $20 and up for hens. OK, I didn't but my husband did it for me before he died.
Thing is, even outside the Bay Area they aren't cheap.
Modesto is a big place. Not the big city buildings like Oakland and The City, but huge and there's tons of farm land to boot and the prices are still pretty high.
Now if I copuld get more than $6 tops for some of my birds at auction I'd be thrilled. LOL Somehow I've had more them my share of Silkie roos and although I spent a bunch, I usually get like 4 bucks for them.
I can't believe I thought that TruNorth was just chickens. Never been on the site, so didn't realize that it was that "TruNorth." OMG my husband had a friend with a horse or horses there once. I saw pics and wow it was nice. So cool to find out it was the same place. I do remember him saying something about chickens there, but never put it together.
I go to one of the poultry auctions almost every monday morning. I've see young POL Dom poulets for 55 cents and I've seen them go for $25. At an auction!
Mind you you aren't buying 1 bird. They are usually in cages holding 5-10 and a lot of times the price is for mulitple pens.
I've seen Foster Farms layers going for 15 cents up to $20 and penned the same way. Mind you these birds look like the ones in the commercials that are trying to imitate the FF chickens. Dirty, stringy. I know what a real FFF chicken looks like.
There are a lot of chicken people out here, but the ones who know what they are getting will pay top dollar for what they want.
That $25 Dom auction was for 350+ birds and the buyer took every pen.
I paid $3.99 a piece for some hatchery chicks at the feedstore a few months ago, because I only got one chick out of a hatch. Didn't want her lonely.
I've paid $20-$40 for roosters! Yep, roosters. What I haven't hatched from shipped eggs I've paid about $20 and up for hens. OK, I didn't but my husband did it for me before he died.
Thing is, even outside the Bay Area they aren't cheap.
Modesto is a big place. Not the big city buildings like Oakland and The City, but huge and there's tons of farm land to boot and the prices are still pretty high.
Now if I copuld get more than $6 tops for some of my birds at auction I'd be thrilled. LOL Somehow I've had more them my share of Silkie roos and although I spent a bunch, I usually get like 4 bucks for them.
I can't believe I thought that TruNorth was just chickens. Never been on the site, so didn't realize that it was that "TruNorth." OMG my husband had a friend with a horse or horses there once. I saw pics and wow it was nice. So cool to find out it was the same place. I do remember him saying something about chickens there, but never put it together.
