Chicken prices?

[Winter Creek Coop]

I am not really sure if this js the right place for this but here it goes.

What are you folks seeing for pricing of various poultry stock, at various venues and retail farms? In other words, what are the birds you know about going for in your area? If you buy meat chickens from a local farm producer what are they going for? If you attend public chicken sales, what are grown birds or chicks or exotics, or whatever bringing?

How about show SOP quality birds? Is that market strong or weak?

You get the idea. Think of this as general pricing thread. Please mention your area so we can get a regional idea.

 

[Winter Creek Coop]

I’ll start the ball rolling.

Last weekend I attended a local chicken sale. About three hindred people
Attended. There was a good selction of poultry. All of the pricing seemed pretty strong to me. I saw a mature pair of speckled sussex go for $50 each. A beautiful little set of 3 pairs of bb red OEG went for $30/bird.

 

[ameliathedominant]

i got my chicks at a farm supply store for about 2 dollars a pop. might not be what your looking for but thats what ive got. lol

 

[Winter Creek Coop]

i got my chicks at a farm supply store for about 2 dollars a pop. might not be what your looking for but thats what ive got. lol

No that’s great. Did you get them recently? Our feed stores don’t have any chicks yet.

 

[ameliathedominant]

i got them last summer

 

[CluckerFamily]

My local co-op just announced spring chick orders are open. Broiler chicks are $1.60 each, barred rock & Rhode Island Red chicks are $2.75 each, Egger chicks are $3.10 each and dual purpose chicks are $2.40 each.

 

[Ebony Rose]

I purchased 8 (promised to be) cornish cross & 8 americauna/austrolorpe (my best guess on breed) chicks in mid-November (16 chicks in all) for "day old" chicks. I gave $1.25 each for the cornish cross (only one of these birds grew up to be a cornish cross, the rest are obviously production reds or mixed with production red) and $0.90 each for the black chicks. Basically, I got soaked on the price of the cornish cross, as only one of the birds was of the breed promised so I will have to feed the others for at least twice as long to get them to harvest weight. I live in Panama, and am not fluent in Spanish (yet), but have a decent understanding of the language. Asking the clerk at the feed store what type of chicks the black ones were resulted in a response that was equivalent to "egg layers". Within the first three days, four of the chicks perished; 3 of the meat birds and 1 of the egg layers. All of the meat birds that survived are male. One of the black set is male, with six pullets. I will be keeping the black cockerel as he's a good looker, has a nice attitude with just enough standoffishness, and is the best candidate for producing strong, healthy offspring in the future. He won't be passing along the reproductive disorders found in productions reds in this country nor will he pass on the complications of the fast growing meat birds.

 

[Winter Creek Coop]

My local co-op just announced spring chick orders are open. Broiler chicks are $1.60 each, barred rock & Rhode Island Red chicks are $2.75 each, Egger chicks are $3.10 each and dual purpose chicks are $2.40 each.

Great! Thank you.

 

[Winter Creek Coop]

My local co-op just announced spring chick orders are open. Broiler chicks are $1.60 each, barred rock & Rhode Island Red chicks are $2.75 each, Egger chicks are $3.10 each and dual purpose chicks are $2.40 each.

Oh what part of the world are you in? What region? Thanks

 

[Winter Creek Coop]

I purchased 8 (promised to be) cornish cross & 8 americauna/austrolorpe (my best guess on breed) chicks in mid-November (16 chicks in all) for "day old" chicks. I gave $1.25 each for the cornish cross (only one of these birds grew up to be a cornish cross, the rest are obviously production reds or mixed with production red) and $0.90 each for the black chicks. Basically, I got soaked on the price of the cornish cross, as only one of the birds was of the breed promised so I will have to feed the others for at least twice as long to get them to harvest weight. I live in Panama, and am not fluent in Spanish (yet), but have a decent understanding of the language. Asking the clerk at the feed store what type of chicks the black ones were resulted in a response that was equivalent to "egg layers". Within the first three days, four of the chicks perished; 3 of the meat birds and 1 of the egg layers. All of the meat birds that survived are male. One of the black set is male, with six pullets. I will be keeping the black cockerel as he's a good looker, has a nice attitude with just enough standoffishness, and is the best candidate for producing strong, healthy offspring in the future. He won't be passing along the reproductive disorders found in productions reds in this country nor will he pass on the complications of the fast growing meat birds.

Too bad about the cornish. Thank you for this reply!