price of chicken meat

[Bossroo]

Consider this.... The Cornish X is the most efficient converter of feed to meat in all of chickendom. The so called dual purpose birds means that they are only mediocre in producing numbers of eggs as well as mediocre in meat production. No wonder that the Cornish X are the "Gold Standard" for very economical meat production so they are the choice of professional chicken meat producers. MILLIONS are produced vs. meer handfuls of the dual purpose in comparison. ( compare any High School football team playing against a Professional team) Since they grow very fast one needs to learn and follow proper husbandry practices or one will experience unpleasant issues. Just read about some of the bashers of the bird ( most bashers refer to the Cornish X as "Frankenbird" as somehow they were genetically engineered, however when they were selectively bred genetic engineering just did NOT exist ) and soon one will come to the conclusion that the problems are the basher's self inflicted issues or they have an axe to grind against professional producers. I, as well as many here on this site, manage to grow the Cornish X quite successfully and economically. Oh yea, they taste GREAT too ! The Leghorn is the choice for egg production as they are the most efficient converter of feed to eggs bar none. Goo luck !

 

[BCMaraniac]

Consider this.... The Cornish X is the most efficient converter of feed to meat in all of chickendom. The so called dual purpose birds means that they are only mediocre in producing numbers of eggs as well as mediocre in meat production. No wonder that the Cornish X are the "Gold Standard" for very economical meat production so they are the choice of professional chicken meat producers. MILLIONS are produced vs. meer handfuls of the dual purpose in comparison. ( compare any High School football team playing against a Professional team) Since they grow very fast one needs to learn and follow proper husbandry practices or one will experience unpleasant issues. Just read about some of the bashers of the bird ( most bashers refer to the Cornish X as "Frankenbird" as somehow they were genetically engineered, however when they were selectively bred genetic engineering just did NOT exist ) and soon one will come to the conclusion that the problems are the basher's self inflicted issues or they have an axe to grind against professional producers. I, as well as many here on this site, manage to grow the Cornish X quite successfully and economically. Oh yea, they taste GREAT too ! The Leghorn is the choice for egg production as they are the most efficient converter of feed to eggs bar none. Goo luck !

You are correct. CX produced commercially actually exceed a BILLION annually.

They definitely spoil you in terms of their feed conversion efficiency, and we raise them.

I do like the dual purpose birds, though, since I have the room and the time......and I like hatching out babies....and I LOVE watching the Mamas raise their babies(my Marans go broody often).

 

[whisperinghopef]

You are real close to me. We are around 45 min. from Rock Hill - just on the other side of Clover and not all the way into Gastonia. If you are ever in the area let me know.

 

[Buster52]

Answering the question that was asked...

Below is a grid that appeared in a recent APPPA Grit magazine. It is a survey of professional producers from around the country. These are obviously averages, so some areas charge more, some less depending on market. We charge $3.25 for dressed whole broilers, but will likely raise our prices next season.



If you don't already belong to APPPA and you want to produce and sell your own meat birds, I highly recommend joining. A number of us on this board are members.

http://www.apppa.org/

 

[Buster52]

The Leghorn is the choice for egg production as they are the most efficient converter of feed to eggs bar none. Goo luck !

Not any more. There are several hybrid layers that outproduce Leghorns, including Red Stars and the Hubbard Golden Comet. They lay earlier, better, bigger, and longer.

 

[whisperinghopef]

thank you for the information. Also good information on the top egg layers. Strange thing is we tend to focus on hatching chicks to sell to city people and others. I have found that people know the name RIR so that is what they look for because word has it that they are the best large brown egg layers. Now the ones you mentioned probably lay better but I doubt that they would sell among regular people as well because they only know what is commonly heard. Our chickens are just starting to lay again. We have an older flock that abruptly stopped laying and finally the younger group that we kept just started to lay a couple eggs. It was so slow we had to buy a dozen eggs from the store. We haven't done that in a couple years and it was hard for me to do! I refused to use my duck eggs because I have this thing for the incubator and hatch out every egg I see - just hatched out duck number 21 and another chick all in 3 weeks!

 

[Buster52]

No, you don't want to try to breed these hybrids. This generation is outstanding, but the second and third would be hit or miss. For heritage, RIR or Leghorns are the way to go for top producers.

 

[Buster52]

Answering the question that was asked...

Below is a grid that appeared in a recent APPPA Grit magazine. It is a survey of professional producers from around the country. These are obviously averages, so some areas charge more, some less depending on market. We charge $3.25 for dressed whole broilers, but will likely raise our prices next season.



If you don't already belong to APPPA and you want to produce and sell your own meat birds, I highly recommend joining. A number of us on this board are members.

http://www.apppa.org/

I should clarify... we charge $3.25 a pound, average processed weight around 5 pounds.

We don't sell $3.25 per bird.

 

[trunkman]

You do the same whisper.

 

[Bossroo]

I should clarify... we charge $3.25 a pound, average processed weight around 5 pounds.

We don't sell $3.25 per bird.

Your chart shows that grocery chicken is going for an average of $ 3.56 . lb. Here in Vancouver, Washington - Portland, Ore. area every grocer has an add in the paper every 2 weeks for whole chicken for $0.79 / lb. - $ 0.89/ lb. ( birds are 4-5 lbs.) .. . Two days ago my wife bought 20 lbs. of chicken thighs for $0.88/ lb. for a BBQ birthday party this weekend. Turkey is advertised at $0.69/ lb. - $0.79/lb. when one buys $50.00 of other groceries. While Chuck's Produce & street market has an add in this morning's paper for 10 - 22 lb. frozen Norbest turkey for $ 1.19/lb. That's $0.40 - $0.50 / lb. more than all the other grocers. In their full page add... all of their Thanksgiving trimmings are way over what all the other grocers in the area are charging too. I can't even come close to those prices with my own chickens due to high feed costs alone.