Packing Peanuts - Turned into Meaties?

[Tiffrz-N-Kidz]

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I never realized there'd be a lucrative market for those! Did you sell them by the pair or by the pound?

I sold them by the bird. I asked $1/bird because I needed them GONE (animal control was on my butt) but I could have easily gotten $2-$3 a bird had I had the luxury of time.

I figure at 10 weeks I had about $2.50/bird invested in them so I did lose money, but I also invested a LOT more in these birds than I would have in 'packing peanuts'. For example, I paid $0.60 each for the ones I sold. Packing peanuts are free. I paid $17/bag of feed for the gamebird starter, this round of packing peanuts is getting $13/bag non-medicated chick starter.

I wouldn't call it 'lucrative' but $60 is $60. And I kept the capons.

 

[Statix653]

beg to differ, packaging peanuts are not free! they charge a $7 small order fee now if it is less than 1/4 box (25 chicks). So the 9 partridge rock roos I got a few weeks ago cost me about 70 cents a piece.

 

[wahigh]

I ordered from Mt. Healthy I order 100 chicks and get the 50 bonus chicks (usually Roos) they go in tractors in my pasture till grown and I have no problem selling them. Here Roo's bring as much as hens most of the time since we have a large Hispanic and Asian Population and they love them. But they will not purchase CX chickens because there is a poultry processing plant a few miles from me and the workers tell me they dont want white chickens because they are afraid they will be accused of stealing.