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Welcome to the Chicken Club my Alabama buddy! :frow This is the place to be! You will learn more and laugh more than you ever thought possible!

Where about in AL are you? Not asking for specifics, just general. I live in Centre. Around here I get $3.50/dozen for eating eggs. I have yet to sell any fertile eggs or chicks/chickens for anything other than excess cockerels for processing. I went ahead and got my NPIP certification this past Spring, in hopes of gearing up for selling this coming Spring. Even though I got $10 each for the cockerels I sold for processing, I do not know how much a purebred, NPIP certified bird or dozen eggs would bring. I hope to find out though.

I, too, want to breed CCL’s, and BCM’s at some point so I’m still trying to learn as much as I can. I wish you much success in your endeavors.
 
In my area cream legbars are prohibitively expensive, like $90 for a POL pullet, $50 a rooster and $60 for a dozen eggs which led to me rolling my eyes and embarking on a project to breed a better blue-egg layer from araucanas and commercial layers. The auto-sexing thing is exciting for new breeders but unless you're prepared to drop all your males into a blender on day 1, relatively worthless since you can sex any breed by observation well before the 6 week mark (hint: the roosters are the ones that keep fighting) and you should be observing for at least that long before deciding what to cull/keep.
That said I've since seen CL roosters going for a lot cheaper, as low as $5, mainly by panicked residential owners who have been given a week to get rid of a crowing rooster by their council and, of course, the more people that buy and breed a rare breed, the less rare it becomes and so the price will come down over time. The best way to price a breed in your area is to monitor the local ads and pay attention to which ads disappear after a few hours and which ones stay up for weeks and you'll eventually a gut feeling for the median value of a bird.
 
Also given that you have 2 roosters and 4 hens now might be a good time to look into flock rotation where you do something like separate 1 of the roosters from the hens and hatch 1 lot of chicks from him, then switch the roosters for the second batch. Or have 2 hens / 1 rooster in 1 pen and the others in a second and swap the roosters every second generation. If you can keep records and document this it's the kind of thing that adds value to you as a reputable breeder above and beyond the default market value of your birds.
 
FortCluck said:
In my area cream legbars are $3-$10 per chick, $20 for a pullet, and $30 for a hen. Roosters usually go for $10 any breed in my area. I bought a hen for $10 that was a cream legbar, but only because she was a bully to her previous flock, she was a bully in mine too so a friend rehomed her to someone he knows.
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If you don’t mind me asking, I’m curious as to what your area is? Those prices seem a bit on the low side. What do a dozen, fertile eggs bring?
 

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