Cheapest meat birds

[ShrekDawg]

This is just for curiosity’s sake since I can’t have chickens at the new place but maybe it will help somebody else soooo…..

What’s the cheapest place to buy meat birds? Specifically Cornish Cross but also maybe ranger types?

I know it probably varies some or some maybe have sales or whatever but yeah.

 

[NorthwoodsChick]

Yup, wait till they are a week or two old and the employees will be begging you to take them.

Brilliant! Saves ya two weeks of feed and two weeks less doody-duty

 

[RoosterML]

TSC doesn’t make the money on the chicks, they offer them to bring you in to buy everything else to go along with them. Feed, feeders, waterers, lights, you get my point.
The cheapest chicken you can get is free roosters off Craigslist mid summer once people realize it’s not a pullet.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Brilliant! Saves ya two weeks of feed and two weeks less doody-duty

I didn’t even think about that part! Excellent point! And I’ve sometimes seen them down to even just like $1 or 50 cents even.

 

[HumbleAmerican]

I wait for the $0.25 each sale. Then I'll look at the manager and tell them I'll take the lot for $0.20 each.

Haven't been told no yet.

All I know is I'm not paying 3 bucks for a meat bird. Rather buy it.

 

[HumbleAmerican]

I bought 23 cornish cross, five straight run bar rocks (all pullets, I was picky) and 5 RIR day Olds for 8 bucks.

Raised the pullets with the cornish. Slaughtered and they kept the coop. At POL I sold the 10 girls for 25 each.

I eat as close to free chicken as I can get.

 

[Apis mellifera]

Yup, wait till they are a week or two old and the employees will be begging you to take them.

Too funny, I got to know one of the employees and he was begging me to take them this fall. I just didnt have the room or the time to process more birds.

 

[Apis mellifera]

I wonder if they’ll do it again next year

Most likely. I dont think the managers have a whole lot of control when it comes to inventory, so they always have plenty of stock. In the spring they sell like crazy but as the season moves foward there's always deals to be had.

 

[Isadora]

Our local feed store still has baby chicks... It's December!!

 

[Bigtom Turkey]

Tractor supply you can get Cornish Cross cheap.

Yup, wait till they are a week or two old and the employees will be begging you to take them.