Good Price for Meat Birds

[Zgm12]

I am new to selling meat chickens and I am having trouble coming up with a price for the birds by pound. I have Cornish X roosters and most are around 7-8 pounds. They have been free-ranging outside in the fresh grass all day, everyday since they were chicks. At night, they are housed in a spacious, clean coop with plenty of fresh water and food. In total, I've spent over twelve dollars a bird and I only have 10 out of the 12 I originally bought. I am selling locally to a friend of the family and want to give him a reasonable price, but still make some money. What is a good price for local, free-range chickens?

 

[Zgm12]

I was thinking $2 a pound, is that too much?

 

[blucoondawg]

Most would probably tell you it's not enough but if selling to a friend if it were me I wouldn't worry too much about making money. Those are pretty large chickens as well, I'm not sure if the bigger ones would bring as high a price per lb as the average 4 or 5 lb bird, also depends heavily on your market