How Much Do Your Birds Sell For?

[PluckyClucker99]

Thank you again!! The auction is the end of July so end of May-beginning of June should do.

 

[Sabz]

And also less fights. If you have cockerels and females they can fight more.

I had a mis-sexed chick and it's a female, with many other males. She is smaller and always the drudge.
Around 5 weeks old, she was attacked to the head and I cleaned her, fixed her and put back in the coop 2 days later.

Yesterday (10 weeks I think?) I found her laying on her back in the pen?! The other had scratched her face again and I guess they wouldn't let her stand up again. Poor girl.

 

[PluckyClucker99]

!!!! What??? I plan to have a show coop right next to them, would this cause a problem? They would range sometimes with supervision.

 

[KlopKlop]

!!!! What??? I plan to have a show coop right next to them, would this cause a problem? They would range sometimes with supervision.

I've never had issues with sexual aggression in CXs. At 8 weeks they haven't matured yet and care more about their next meal than any girls
I had one pullet in my cockerels this year as well and had no issues

 

[chiques chicks]

Since you are raising for 4h...

Not sure how it is in your area, but around here the 4h auctions have nothing to do with market price. It's all about supporting 4h. Random people will bid items high just to make make the donation to the youth. That's really what it is all about, encouragement. The same holds true with fairs and farm shows.

I personally think it is a great thing and I have never been directly involved in 4h unless you count being dragged along with my mom 50 years ago when she taught 4h sewing.

 

[Sabz]

I've never had issues with sexual aggression in CXs. At 8 weeks they haven't matured yet and care more about their next meal than any girls

I had one pullet in my cockerels this year as well and had no issues

Yeah I don't know for sure The people selling me the 1 day chicks told me that and well, this time it proved true. Maybe the little one would have been aggressed even if it was a male, just because it's the smallest of the flock.

Could be wrong info, but.. why take chances? cockerels yield more meat anyhow!

 

[PluckyClucker99]

Okay, thank you all! I will get all cockerels then.

 

[Neebs]

Price up here North of MN border is $3.75 a pound, course I buy black market birds that aren't processed at an abattoir, since our local one refuses to get the license to do so.

 

[donrae]

I agree with cheques. 4-H price and real life market value are two totally different animals. Pigs are a big 4-H animal here and they get over $8/lb live weight.....that's not gonna happen in the real world.

 

[chickenmanIL89]

The 4-H auctions are for supporting the youth and putting some $ back into their next projects. Also, here anyway, its businesses that spend the big $ to make them look good.
Other than a 4-h auction you can be profitable if you put your time in and do your homework! Good luck!