Avg date/length for sale of day olds in SW Missouri

[pcdreams]

Hello, I'm in SW Missouri and wanting to get into selling day olds locally. I know they're sold in the spring, but I was wanting to get an idea of roughly when earliest would be, so I know when to set my first batch for hatching. Same on the opposite end of the season.

 

[Beaker99]

Hello, I'm in SW Missouri and wanting to get into selling day olds locally. I know they're sold in the spring, but I was wanting to get an idea of roughly when earliest would be, so I know when to set my first batch for hatching. Same on the opposite end of the season.

Check the 417 poultry page on Facebook. Might get a better idea.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Hello, I'm in SW Missouri and wanting to get into selling day olds locally. I know they're sold in the spring, but I was wanting to get an idea of roughly when earliest would be, so I know when to set my first batch for hatching. Same on the opposite end of the season.

Good luck! Please let us know how you do. Sounds like a great side hustle. Marketing will be your biggest challenge, I'm thinking.

 

[pcdreams]

Good luck! Please let us know how you do. Sounds like a great side hustle. Marketing will be your biggest challenge, I'm thinking.

I had mixed results. I still haven't gotten a time frame down (think I may have been a bit late). It took me a couple extra weeks, but I ended up selling what I had at $6-7/bird. Going forward I think I'd try to find a better method than Craigslist though. Sold straight run with Delewares, Astrolorps, and Buff Orpingtons.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

$6-7/per sounds pretty good to me!

 

[BastyPutt]

$6-7/per sounds pretty good to me!

Yes it does. Especially as straight run.

 

[pcdreams]

$6-7/per sounds pretty good to me!

yea that was good. Just needed to move them faster and in quantity. lol. It was a good experiment. Now I know that I'd probably do weekly hatches rather than all in one go.