Anybody having hard time selling chicks?

[william9792]

for i hatch about 150 to 200 chicks amonth and can not keep up with demand, have ten bators now and looking to buy more. i have a friend that is going to give me one from a hatchery that will do 1000 chicken eggs at a time, it is about ten years old and they got a new one. just got to get time to go get it and it is heavy 1200lbs

 

[B. Saffles Farms]

I hatch chicks every Tuesday and The RIR are usually gone by Friday. Around here they are selling great.

 

[SussexInSeattle]

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Last week when we had about 3 seconds worth of sun peeks, I sold out of all I had to offer, so yes, I do believe it is weather related more than anything. For a while, I thought I might never sell anything and was fearful of being over-run with chickens so I bought a 50 pound sack of chick starter and now I have brooder full of THREE CHICKS. And one is BANTAM!

That's life though, isn't it?

 

[DuckyBoys]

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Maybe t he problemis that there are too many fed stores near you that have a little better mixture of chicks? I got mine at Elizabeth Coutnry Corner and my own personal hatchery order, but Big R has them and Kiowa Country Corner has them, they get in 200 a week they told me - at BOTH stores!

And they are almost all pullets.

I just bought a nesting box unit from someone about a month ago and she was trying to sell me pullets when she delivered it, they were in Parker over by County Line Road. Plus, on Craig's List it seems that they are coming out of the woodwork.

I will have several roos that I will need to get rid of in a couple of months, but we show for 4H, so we're keeping them all until we see who looks good.

I think the market is just flooded - best to grow them out and keep them or eat them.

 

[yfchoice]

oops...wrong post.......brain freeze

 

[tazcat70]

I have noticed that craigslist here has been having a lot of listings for chicks. But lots of people wanting laying hens.

 

[equus2]

Just had a woman call me 5 minutes ago - I have listed a young flock of 5 laying silkies and roo. She gave me heck for asking $80. But she ended saying, "I just can't find laying silkies ANYWHERE."

Ok, coffee time.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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I've noticed that too - that is why hubby and I are building onto the chicken coops to have a coop/run for growing out POL pullets and a few roos to go with them. I figure I hadn't ought to have a problem selling an "instant flock" to someone.

I have sold a lot of chicks this spring - straight run, pure bred, various breeds, and a lot of my mutt babies, too. I figure if I can get twice what I have into them, I'm doing great - sometimes that means a buck per chick, sometimes it means 3 bucks per chick.

Our feedstore here in town is having chicks days all this month (various ship dates on chicks, so they don't run out and stay run out) but they get about 400 to 600 chicks per order, and they are out of chicks within a day or two - so I figure if they run out, and I have some, then someone missed out and will buy mine.

In the last couple weeks I've sold about 100 +/- chicks. Not great if I'm running a business, but I'm merely feeding my own obsession, so it pays me enough to do that.

meri

 

[warmfuzzies]

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Maybe t he problemis that there are too many fed stores near you that have a little better mixture of chicks? I got mine at Elizabeth Coutnry Corner and my own personal hatchery order, but Big R has them and Kiowa Country Corner has them, they get in 200 a week they told me - at BOTH stores!

And they are almost all pullets.

I just bought a nesting box unit from someone about a month ago and she was trying to sell me pullets when she delivered it, they were in Parker over by County Line Road. Plus, on Craig's List it seems that they are coming out of the woodwork.

I will have several roos that I will need to get rid of in a couple of months, but we show for 4H, so we're keeping them all until we see who looks good.

I think the market is just flooded - best to grow them out and keep them or eat them.

This must be alot of it, because down here, if someone wants chicks, they almost always order them. If you dont want to order them, our Big R is the only place to get them, other then a FEW people who breed them around here, and they are gone before they hatch it seems like. I would bet you will be able to sell more of them in the next few months.

 

[roosterjerry]

We went to tractor Supply on Thursday they had 4 bins of chicks with about 200 in each. Went back yesterday all gone. There are a lot of adds on Craigs list here also. 2 days ago I got 2 EE laying hens for twelve dollars each and one Rooster for eight. There were some Rhode Island laying hens for eight each