Butchered price for turkeys?

[Outhouser]

First time seller of farm-raised turkeys and I'm not sure how much to ask for them. Anyone here have experience with this? I'm the butcher too. Turkeys are roughly 20lb.

 

[PatS]

Are they pastured? Fed organically? Heritage or broad breasted? How old? There are many factors. I know where I am, folks pay a LOT for pastured turkeys.

 

[Outhouser]

Double breasted bronze, roughly 17lb +/- butchered. They are pastured, non-organic feed but from a local feed store that makes their own. Just butchered one for myself for thanksgiving and it was amazing.

 

[Outhouser]

And they are 7 months old.

 

[bibliophile birds]

i sold mine for $4/lb and didn't have problems getting what i asked. mine were also pastured on non-organic feed that was specifically blended locally. i was only selling to friends and family though, so i don't know if that price would be competitive amongst other buyers.

 

[dwest]

This past year I had some broad-breasted white and broad-breasted bronze. They were free range, non-organic. Sold them for $2.50/lb, primarily to cover my costs and give me free meat. Next year we'll be raising heritage breeds, free range non-organic and will be going for $5/lb. From the various heritage breed websites I've looked at selling table-ready birds this comes in well below the retail price of a heritage bird. The next closest I've seen in price is $5.25/lb by another small producer.

 

[PotterWatch]

We are going to be selling our heritage, free-range, organically-fed turkeys for $4/lb this coming year. I expect we will sell out within a few months, we have already had two people give their deposits.