"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[chicken hawk 33]

Question for everyone who sells fertile/hatching eggs and/or chicks/chickens:

What breed brings in the most money per sell?

What breed do you sell the most of?

Where do you sell your eggs/chicks/chickens at? Live auction? Internet auction? TSC swaps? Internet sale page? Facebook sale page? other?

What sells better: eggs or chicks?

Thank you in advance, I really appreciate any responses. Feel free to add any info I may not have questioned about.  And yes, I have given up, I am not fighting the addiction any longer. Hello, my name is Teresa, I am a chicken addict. :cd

I found Silkies..

 

[mire0042]

I found Silkies..

I love my silkies. They r the friendliest chickens I have. I have a female and a male.

meet Chewie

and Han

 

[forgetful]

Question for everyone who sells fertile/hatching eggs and/or chicks/chickens:

What breed brings in the most money per sell? This will depend entirely on your area. Some places love the fancy/rare breeds, while other places just want red or white layers. Your price will also depend on the area. Some places can charge $25 a laying hen, and others $10-15. I raise black japanese bantams, black copper marans, and large silver laced wyandottes.

What breed do you sell the most of? I sell way more of the marans and wyandotte than the bantam japanese.

Where do you sell your eggs/chicks/chickens at? Live auction? Internet auction? TSC swaps? Internet sale page? Facebook sale page? other? I used to sell both on Facebook sale pages and TSC swaps. I can no longer attend swaps, so i sell strictly from Facebook.

What sells better: eggs or chicks? This is personal preference. You have less time and money into eggs and can sell more since you don't lose any in the hatching process. However chicks will normally sell better and you can charge more for. If you sell day old chicks you only have the money spent on electricity for the incubator invested in them. With eggs you have nothing invested at all. I suggest, if you sell chicks, to have buyers lined up before they hatch. This way you insure you aren't stuck with unbought chicks to house and feed.

My personal experience and way I work, in my area, is to mainly focus on selling chicks but also offer hatching eggs. If someone wants eggs it works out just fine, because you can't gather eggs too far in advance without lowering hatch rates. I honestly make almost zero revenue since it goes entirely back into my birds, and so I do not suggest trying to make a living off of selling eggs or chicks. You will have to keep a very tight budget. I sell excess for the fun or hatching and to lower the cost of keeping my birds just a little. I also have learned to up front say that birds are either sexed/unsexed and that I either do/don't have additional stock for sale that isn't listed. Some people will hem and haw because the straight run chicks you gave them weren't all hens, but that's their own personal problem and I normally don't do business with them again.

Thank you in advance, I really appreciate any responses. Feel free to add any info I may not have questioned about. And yes, I have given up, I am not fighting the addiction any longer. Hello, my name is Teresa, I am a chicken addict.

 

[cajun chicken]

Question for everyone who sells fertile/hatching eggs and/or chicks/chickens:

What breed brings in the most money per sell?

What breed do you sell the most of?

Where do you sell your eggs/chicks/chickens at? Live auction? Internet auction? TSC swaps? Internet sale page? Facebook sale page? other?

What sells better: eggs or chicks?

Thank you in advance, I really appreciate any responses. Feel free to add any info I may not have questioned about.  And yes, I have given up, I am not fighting the addiction any longer. Hello, my name is Teresa, I am a chicken addict. :cd

Calmly step away from the incubator...lol. You're not alone. I'm addicted as well. As far as selling, I'm not selling much yet but im working on breeding lavender orpingtons, which sell for about $10 each for healthy chicks. I have to be honest, I don't think I'm going to get rich selling them lol. It's been fun for us to do as a family and maybe teach my kids a little about where your food comes from and how business works. Just my $.02

 

[cajun chicken]

BTW this is my Lavender roo....

 

[forgetful]

Calmly step away from the incubator...lol. You're not alone. I'm addicted as well. As far as selling, I'm not selling much yet but im working on breeding lavender orpingtons, which sell for about $10 each for healthy chicks. I have to be honest, I don't think I'm going to get rich selling them lol. It's been fun for us to do as a family and maybe teach my kids a little about where your food comes from and how business works. Just my $.02

How did you decide on your chick price? I know I could charge more, but even for my wyandotte that are pretty dang good quality I'm only charging $5 a chick.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

How did you decide on your chick price? I know I could charge more, but even for my wyandotte that are pretty dang good quality I'm only charging $5 a chick.

Silkie, at the tractor supply swap by where I live sold for $8.00 a peice as chicks.Easter egger hens and roos sold for $20.00

 

[campingshaws]

Calmly step away from the incubator...lol. You're not alone. I'm addicted as well. As far as selling, I'm not selling much yet but im working on breeding lavender orpingtons, which sell for about $10 each for healthy chicks. I have to be honest, I don't think I'm going to get rich selling them lol. It's been fun for us to do as a family and maybe teach my kids a little about where your food comes from and how business works. Just my $.02

How did you decide on your chick price? I know I could charge more, but even for my wyandotte that are pretty dang good quality I'm only charging $5 a chick.

Look at the chick prices in your area. Compare similarly, not heritage prices against hatchery, or layers against ornamentals. Then you can either match prices, go up, or go down from there. Also make deals like $5 each or 5 for $20. People like that. And just stand your ground. If you have a quality product, folks will pay a quality price. There's always a few who want to get a sweet deal or talk you out of money. It's up to you em whether you will or not.

It's easier to start high and go low than the other way around. If your chicks aren't moving at the price you choose, consider a "flash sale" and drop the price temporarily. Or wait it out.

Choose a breed that is popular where you are, or one that is popular but scarce. I did well with the speckled sussex, eventually, but it took a lot of breed info, pictures, and time to get there. Several times I had chicks and just couldn't sell them.

 

[forgetful]

The silver laced are selling very well but I don't have much to compare to. There aren't people in my area that carry the same quality as me. I don't want to rip people off, but also don't want to short myself just to be nice. I've seen people selling some honestly pretty terrible quality silver laced for $6 a chick. I've been selling them for $5 for a few months now and do offer discounts on bulk quantities. I also use them to sweeten the pot, so to speak, on mixed groups that include harder to sell chicks. What do you sell your sussex for?

 

[campingshaws]

The silver laced are selling very well but I don't have much to compare to. There aren't people in my area that carry the same quality as me. I don't want to rip people off, but also don't want to short myself just to be nice. I've seen people selling some honestly pretty terrible quality silver laced for $6 a chick. I've been selling them for $5 for a few months now and do offer discounts on bulk quantities. I also use them to sweeten the pot, so to speak, on mixed groups that include harder to sell chicks. What do you sell your sussex for?

I sold them for $5, but I'm not in them any more. I found it easier to sell hatching eggs. I did $15 a dozen, but could have easily gotten more. I was insecure about their quality for a long time, and by the time I had compared them to the standard and figured they were darn good, they weren't laying. And then I lost my roo. C'est la vie.