Help!
My neighbor across the street has asked my opinion on how much to charge for two of her pullets since she originally got them from me at three weeks old.
I am a newbie to chicken sales myself and unsure what to tell her because the prices I have seen on craigslist in the inland empire are so dramatically different than the few listings that rarely appear around here in the coastal L.A. and O.C. areas over the last few months. I have seen them go as high as $30 for a Buff Orpington hen on craigslist in Huntington Beach, but most of the listings I find are for the inland empire area and are much less, around $8-$12 for sex-linked or leghorn hens most of the time.
Her pullets are 18 weeks old on Monday, and I think they will be 20 to 22 weeks when she lists them for sale. I believe the two she will sell are one of her Buff Orpingtons and a Black Australorp, but she is still trying to decide since they are all sweet. She just wants the egg color variety from the Easter Eggers chicks she is raising and will introduce soon. Eight chickens are too many for her coop so she has to downsize. They have been fed organic feed since the time they were mine as day old chicks and they forage in her organic garden for part of the day. They have been hand raised around kids. They were vaccinated for Mereks by Welp hatchery as a day old.
She said she thinking of listing them as a pair for $50 and she doesn't want to split them up. What do you think? With limited local supply, is that price too high or about right? I am unsure what kind of demand there would be around here.
My neighbor across the street has asked my opinion on how much to charge for two of her pullets since she originally got them from me at three weeks old.
I am a newbie to chicken sales myself and unsure what to tell her because the prices I have seen on craigslist in the inland empire are so dramatically different than the few listings that rarely appear around here in the coastal L.A. and O.C. areas over the last few months. I have seen them go as high as $30 for a Buff Orpington hen on craigslist in Huntington Beach, but most of the listings I find are for the inland empire area and are much less, around $8-$12 for sex-linked or leghorn hens most of the time.
Her pullets are 18 weeks old on Monday, and I think they will be 20 to 22 weeks when she lists them for sale. I believe the two she will sell are one of her Buff Orpingtons and a Black Australorp, but she is still trying to decide since they are all sweet. She just wants the egg color variety from the Easter Eggers chicks she is raising and will introduce soon. Eight chickens are too many for her coop so she has to downsize. They have been fed organic feed since the time they were mine as day old chicks and they forage in her organic garden for part of the day. They have been hand raised around kids. They were vaccinated for Mereks by Welp hatchery as a day old.
She said she thinking of listing them as a pair for $50 and she doesn't want to split them up. What do you think? With limited local supply, is that price too high or about right? I am unsure what kind of demand there would be around here.
