So I bought 30 chicks to raise and sell but I’m having trouble selling them where I live what should I do?!

[Ke11er98]

It might be the breed or maybe a marketing issue. Or everyone who wants chickens has chickens.

Yes I guess I should have made sure I could sell them first

 

[nuthatched]

Yes I guess I should have made sure I could sell them first

It's hard to tell from year to year, 3 years ago in my area, easter eggers were in high demand, this year and last year, no one cares.

 

[Percheron chick]

Not sure yet was thinking 10-15 a bird?

That's a great price but doesn't put much $$ in your pocket. You will barely break even as they exponentially start going through feed. I count on 10# feed for each pullet to get to 10 weeks. At $20/50#, that's $4 just in feed. I follow a similar plan but my market is Denver where we have many no rooster neighborhoods so offering guaranteed pullets is an advantage. I've sold close to 500 over the years.
Test the market. As soon as they are outside off heat and you can guarantee the sex (2-3 weeks) put them on CL and see if you can get $8 and go from there.

 

[chickfused]

That’s what I’m scared of lol

If it makes you feel any better, I've got 2 cockerels in the yard that are going to have to go into the pot soon. And I've got 7 babies in the brooder. And uh...19 fertile eggs in the incubator... And 24 more eggs coming in a month. This is very much not good.

 

[Ke11er98]

If it makes you feel any better, I've got 2 cockerels in the yard that are going to have to go into the pot soon. And I've got 7 babies in the brooder. And uh...19 fertile eggs in the incubator... And 24 more eggs coming in a month. This is very much not good.

Ahahaha actually it does make me feel a little better you hatching out so many ?

 

[chickfused]

Chicken math.

 

[SpicyDisaster]

Chicken math.

Can confirm, chicken math Have 31 in the grow out pen and 21 (to be updated to 40-42) coming in July. Yet I also have 15 from a neighbor in the incubator to see how it goes. Gotta test it out, right? I told myself we aren't keeping any of these incubated chicks...

 

[Coops Dad]

My wife loves to incubate eggs because she's addicted to chicks. For the last few years, we hatched out as many as 50 a month and raise them until point of lay. Once they're laying or just about there, I get $20 a pullet on Craigslist. I put up the ad on Thursday and they're usually gone by Sunday.

Mostly Ameracaunas and Americauna/Marans mixes. I can usually give away a rooster if a buyer takes several hens but I've never been able to sell a rooster on its own. We grow out most roosters and I put them in the freezer at 6-8 months.

Best luck!

 

[JBoland]

So I bought 30 chicks to raise and sell but I’m having trouble selling them where I live what should I do?!

Where do you live, can you ship them? i would buy them!

 

[chickfused]

That's an interesting proposition. Point of lay pullets $30 unless you take this damn rooster, then you can have them for $20.