How much $$$ for these Silkie chicks?

[Sweet Violet]

Here in So Cal, on CL they would probably go for $10 to $15 each.

 

[robin416]

I would pay 35 for the pair right now if it was cool enough to ship.

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

Racuda - I am in north carolina as well, and honestly for 9 week olds unsure of sexes on silkies (which just aren't very popular around my part for some reason) 10$ is a norm I see pretty often for medium sized silkies. I had to give away a white silkie (wasn't sure of sex - but was a butt head) - and no one would take it after going around to a few flea markets and chicken folks round here.

put of CL for 15$ each of 20$ a pair

They should go pretty quick though to someone who is into silkies. If I needed any whites I would take a few off your hands but as it is I have a few mystery colored chicks that I need to figure out what they are and develop into and will wait on new chickens for next year.

Good luck on selling

 

[racuda]

Thanks for the advice, everyone. Their parents were hatched from eggs I got from Bobbi Porto, though that wouldn't mean anything to someone around here. In fact most people who have seen them have never even heard of Silkies before.

I heard one of them try to crow this morning...when I tried to see who it was he shut up. I would like to pair them up and sell them that way, so I'll give them a few more weeks to make their gender known.

 

[featherbaby]

If you have Bobbi Porto stock, they are definitely worth more than $15. She sells her 6 month olds for about $50 (more if they are on the higher grade of show quality). That pedigree alone puts them in the $25 each category, and that's a bargain. You just have to educate your potential buyers that they are getting babies from someone who has Champion, award winning stock and these are going to be excellent breeders if not show quality when they get a little older. Believe me, Bobbi doesn't keep ANYTHING in her breeding pens that isn't a show quality potential or a past award winner.

Also, we need to not sell our pure breeds too cheaply. Very few people make enough money selling their chicks to pay their feed bill anyway. I feel that those who breed/hatch/raise good healthy babies deserve to be able to sell them for a reasonable figure that will compensate them for their cost of raising them. Breeders of other animals have set the pricing standards high enough to recoup their expenses and because most of them hold their prices up, everyone expects to pay more for a pure bred animal. If we silkie enthusiasts set our standard starting prices a little higher, then that's what people will pay for them. They are a unique breed, in demand, and if anyone has watched what some breeders got on "Eggbid" for their silkies (Some went for $400+) I think we can reasonably set the baseline price for silkies at $25 and go up from there based on quality.

I would love to hear what other Silkie breeders think about this.

 

[joe17]

I have three Bobbi Porto silkies that are 2 months old and they are georgeous! I couldn't sell them for more than 10 dollars around here. No one shows or has silkies. It's easy to say you are going to sell them for more than 20$ bucks but we have to be logical. I could tell someone that my silkie was from the best breeder in the whole world but they still wouldn't care. I sure wish I would be able to sell chicks and started birds for that much money!

 

[Smoky73]

just depends on your area, but if you plan to sell them online you can get more for them. One of the two in the pics you posted is definetly a rooster. The other could be but so far looks like a pullet. Its iffy. If you put them online auction, I would start at $25 for the pair.

I have never gotten birds from Bobbi Porto, but I have had friends who have. Let say that some people have had nice birds and some have gotten really bad ones. My one friend in CO would not buy from her again if she wanted silkies. I only deal with Premier Silkies really for most of my birds, but also Bren in TX. I do think though that yours appear quite nice. Everyone gets crap at some point. I do not judge.

 

[KinderKorner]

I have the same problem.

I have Bobbi Porto, George M, Alan Standford, Hattrick bloodlines.

I sold two hens and 2 chicks today for $15 at the local swap.

Last month a sold 20 chicks from my full bobbi porto rooster for $1 each.

The chicken market here is terrible. Everyone is farmers that think I'm crazy if I try to sell a chick for more than a couple bucks, or a goat for more than $50. It's disheartening.

I also sold 25 4month old mille fleur and mottled cochins today for $1 each. I had to. I don't have space. And I've been trying to sell them for months.

My plan from now on is I will only hatch a few at a time. And I will pair them up and sell them online. It's my only option. I can't stand seeing chicks from the birds I spent thousands on go for $1 as 4 months old.

I said $4 a bird. Thinking that was way more than the lowest of low. And the peoples eyes about popped out, I got a bunch of offers for $1. I finally had to take it.

I just can't continue keeping them all. I figured I would save more money selling them now and not feeding them longer.

It's all online business for me I guess. If I can't sell on here, then I'll have to resort back to the unfair fair.

Same with my Kinder goats. They sold like hotcakes last year on BYH. Before they were even born. This year I have 5 does due in a couple months, and I don't even have a bite. I'm worried I won't find buyers and will be stuck with 30 more goats.

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

Kinder yep I took a trade on a white silkie for 2 soft balls my DD wanted to buy off a guy at the local fleamarket. lol. If anything the best things that sell around here are production layers (RIR, BR, NHR, RSL, etc) and large roosters (for food). Farming areas do not care about bloodlines or 'cutesy breeds' (as i've been told my silkies and past cochins were

lol) they are looking for something to provide eggs and meat only and they don't really care if its purebred or a mutt as long as it looks nice.

 

[KinderKorner]

Yup big layer breeds are really the only thing that goes around here too. But even then your lucky if you get $5.

I don't understand. Last year I was popping out chicks as fast as I could. And no one sneered at paying $10 a hen. Now I almost can't give them away.