How much are hens worth

[Kenzie22]

I have someone who is interested in buying my laying hens, but some of them are older and it is cold here right now so it is hard to tell which ones are for sure laying, but quite a few out of the 22 that I have still are definitely laying. How much do I charge her for them? Several of them are brown egg laying but some are blue egg layers.

 

[WingItRanch]

Try checking Facebook or Craiglist to see the going rate for your area. In East Texas, I see them priced from $20-40 but that's typically for grown pullets, not older hens. When you do sell them, I would just explain that egg production decreases with age and give them the age of the hen so it's full transparency. Good luck!

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

How old are the "older" birds? For example are they headed for their second laying cycle, third, fourth? The value of a laying hen will decrease with each laying cycle after the second (second cycleis the most productive when considering both number and size, as her initial laying cycle is productive in number but not so much in size as it can take time for her to go from laying pullet eggs to regular sized eggs) that is one less period of production that the buyer can expect to get from the bird.