Gosling Price Help

[Deja_view]

Hello everyone,
I have not sold any of my goslings in the past, so am a bit new to pricing.

I have four three-month-old, female, Pilgrim goslings that will be fully feathered soon. I also have one one-month-old mixed breed gosling of unknown gender. An acquaintance of my husband's knows we have them and asked if he could buy four of them for $50 each.

This seems a bit underpriced to me, given that you buy day old female Pilgrim goslings from the big hatcheries for $69-74 each, when they're not sold out for the season. The goslings I have a much more established and will soon be ready to be outside full time/weatherproof.

Any advice?

 

[Goosebaby]

Metzer has them at $45/$36 per gosling. Meyer has them at $75/ $35.

Some factors to consider is that #1 hatchery goslings aren’t necessarily show quality. If yours are from show lines they’ll be worth more.

#2 Hatchery goslings are more likely to be proven purebreds, backyard bred birds are more likely to be mixed despite what the owner claims. Owners that have a long history of breeding and selling quality birds have worked up a good reputation, besides them any one of us are a gamble to a buyer if they are looking for specific breeds. I’ve seen people selling birds that they 100% thought weren’t mixed but very clearly were to the eye and others trying to sell mixed Chinese geese claiming that they were “French Toulouse” for a high price like that’s some sort of endangered breed.
For a buyer that isn’t particular with breeds and just wants a backyard goose they’re not going to care if the goslings are mixed or not but they're not going to want to pay $75 each for them.

#3 girls are worth more than boys, girls are layers, a lot of people aren’t interested in having too many ganders so if your geese are straight run the price should reflect that. Strait run for pilgrims is around $40 across most sites.