Around here, the Barredrocks, RIR, Dominiques, red and black sexlinks are your best sellers. Some also like the Buffs. Oldtimey heritage breeds like the dark red RIR will sell exceptional well also, but the market will only absorb so many. I have found most people just want eggs and lots of them and aint to particular about the breeds. Most also want POL pulletts, which is what starts you down the road to extra expense added to the cost of your birds. POl means feeding them until they are 5-6 months old so you need to charge a premium if you wish to make any money. Hatching eggs also means hatching as many roos as pullets. This is something you will have to take care of pronto or risk buying more feed than selling the grown roos will bring at market. My solution is to cull all the roos as chicks, even if they dont bring 50cents apeice. I find that even selling at that low price is better than investing a ton of feed to raise them to meat birds.I have a trader that will take very bird I want to sell, reguardless of the size. He picks them up at my place and takes them straight to auction so he never buys feed.
