*POLL*What do you consider too much money for a chick ?

[Auntiejessi3]

I'm going to post this pic and then get back to it later when I can sit down and post my thoughts.
Love the feedback and keep it coming!

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I would pay most of those prices for 4-6 week olds because I don't really want to mess with chicks

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I'm going to post this pic and then get back to it later when I can sit down and post my thoughts.
Love the feedback and keep it coming!

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So the breeds on there that I would actually be interested are very all prices I would be willing to pay for pretty much every category

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Do they have pics of their breeding stock? $20/chick for SLW is insane.

To be fair, their patterns are absolutely stunning

 

[Fallenone05]

The most expensive bird I ever got was a pullet that was about 5 months old. She was $35. I don't want to buy a chick for lots of money because chicks can die too easily. I think Atwoods charges too much for their chicks, depending on their breed. $5.00 for a chick from Atwoods

 

[SarahGfa]

People pay alot of money for gamefowl. Like, thousands of dollars for one bird. I think the amounts they spend are as much as some people pay for purebred puppies with pedigrees.

I don't buy chicks myself, but just saying, those people are out there.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

To be fair, their patterns are absolutely stunning

I concur.
All my thoughts later.

 

[Ebony Rose]

Around here (Panama), buying chicks is like buying a pig in a poke, you never know what you're gonna get until you've got several months worth of feed in them, and then you're not sure of their behavior until their hormones kick in at adolescence. Even at $0.25 a pound on feed (pre-covid price), one could expect to have a full grown, ready to provide meat or eggs birds for about $8 worth of feed. The FEED is supposed to be the expensive part of keeping chickens...

The price of admission on your poll starts at $20 and goes up, per chick... I'm afraid you've exceeded my willingness to pay.

I have never paid over $3 a chick, and that price is for the pricier 'meat bird' chicks. I now only pay electricity (to run the incubator with automatic turner) to obtain new chicks, and periodically purchase a couple dozen eggs from a neighbor-lady as she has a flock of 30 or more hens running with 4 roosters. She sells her eggs for $3 a dozen with zero guarantee that they're even fertile as she sells them for human consumption.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

People pay alot of money for gamefowl. Like, thousands of dollars for one bird. I think the amounts they spend are as much as some people pay for purebred puppies with pedigrees.

I don't buy chicks myself, but just saying, those people are out there.

For the probability of a winning progeny..the genetic value of that gamefowl is the reason for the pricing.

 

[Painted Calls]

To be fair, their patterns are absolutely stunning

That's why I asked if there were pics. Quality of birds was going to be question 2, hehe.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

I did spend 36 on a hatchery jubilee orpington sexed pullet, so thats about as much as I'd ever want to spend on one.

Pray tell, why would you spend those $36.00 on that particular bird?
No troll.