Help Pricing Hens Please

[ObiBlaze]

I’m asking in hopes someone is at least relatively in my area or has a little more insight for me.

I got my quails and hoped to sell eggs, so I got a bunch of hatching eggs to hatch in hopes of Hens to lay. We’ll, I never thought about people wanting to buy my live birds lol I have a gent who wants 6 hens and I know location, type and Celadon seem to be important.

I will be swing him 7 week old, Red Celadon (some tuxedo, some standard red variants) potentially Jumbo hens.

Should I take this into consideration with pricing? As far as I know, I’m “the only game in town” for quails and eggs without driving 40 mins in one direction out the highway.

Please and Thank You for any help.

 

[scyllarus]

Whereabouts are you located? That might be a factor in price.

I've typically spent about $5 per bird, but I'm also a huge cheapskate and prefer hatching eggs as they're cheaper. I've seen people selling them for up to $15 per hen, usually for celadon layers.

 

[ObiBlaze]

Whereabouts are you located? That might be a factor in price.

I've typically spent about $5 per bird, but I'm also a huge cheapskate and prefer hatching eggs as they're cheaper. I've seen people selling them for up to $15 per hen, usually for celadon layers.

My apologies, I meant to include that. I am just outside of York, Pa. If the gent buys the reds he is interested in, they are celadon layers. I also hatched these eggs, so should I take that into account do you think?

 

[scyllarus]

My apologies, I meant to include that. I am just outside of York, Pa. If the gent buys the reds he is interested in, they are celadon layers. I also hatched these eggs, so should I take that into account do you think?

I haven't really seen that be a factor since, well, he'll be getting the same kind of birds whether you bought them or raised them.

 

[Nabiki]

Price really depends on where you are. Some of the factors to take into account are:

• How much they cost you to hatch (think electricity, incubator, thermometers, etc)
• How much they cost you to feed up to selling time
• How much time you spent raising them
• Location - how much do people in your area spend? This can vary a LOT
• Rarity - how common are they in your area? The more common, the cheaper they will be.

 

[Daniel Grey]

As a brit, I sell mine as £8 each (hens)