How do you sell chickens?

NellaBean

Graceland Farms
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Mar 4, 2009
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Okay, not LITERALLY how do you sell them.....but how do you get them to the buyer? As in, what do you put them in? Cardboard boxes? Carriers? Cages? I have some "not so friendly" chickens. Not mean, just the usual scared flighty stuff. I would hate to have to switch over from my carrier to the person's own cage. How do you guys normally handle transporting a chicken if you are meeting someone? How about a group of chickens?
 
I went to a swap meet and put several in a dog crate to sell. I had some people come to my house to buy some and I caught them and put them in their dog crate. I recently was given a duck, I met the person in a parking lot and she handed it to me in a box which I drove home with.
 
Usually I bring a box when I'm meeting/going to the seller. Transferring hasn't been an issue. One woman brought 6 chickens in a rabbit cage for me to choose from, I chose 2, and put them in a box I brought.

I've also "carried" them home if I wasn't prepared and saw some I had to have.

When I was selling at the flea market, I would bring boxes and a tool to cut holes into them as the chickens sold, for the people who didn't want to carry them home.

It's never been an issue bringing my own box/cage, and every single person I ever bought from requested it.
 

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