Suggested Pricing for Selling Chickens of Various Breeds and Ages

[All4Eggz]

How do y’all price the chickens you sell?

I sold 12 chickens today and I was just wondering how y’all price your pullets, cockerels, hens, and roosters depending on age and breed.

How do you calculate labor/feed costs into the final price?
How much would you sell the following for?

- 1 (one), two month old pullet (variety of common breeds from TSC)
- 10 (ten), two month old pullets (variety of common breeds from TSC)
- 1 (one), 1 year old rooster (variety of common birds from TSC)
- 1 (one), 1 year old laying hen (common breed)
- 1 (one), 1 year old laying hen (Delaware breed- apparently critically endangered)
- 3 (three), 2 year old laying hens (Delaware breed)
- 5 barnyard mix day-old chicks
- 1 (one), 3 month old cockerel (Silver Laced Wyandotte)

TIA

 

[3KillerBs]

I set my prices based on the going rate on the local Craigslist ads -- adjusted for age and desirability of breed.

 

[rod5591]

- 1 (one), two month old pullet (variety of common breeds from TSC)
- 10 (ten), two month old pullets (variety of common breeds from TSC)
- 1 (one), 1 year old rooster (variety of common birds from TSC)
- 1 (one), 1 year old laying hen (common breed)
- 1 (one), 1 year old laying hen (Delaware breed- apparently critically endangered)
- 3 (three), 2 year old laying hens (Delaware breed)
- 5 barnyard mix day-old chicks
- 1 (one), 3 month old cockerel (Silver Laced Wyandotte)

Here is what I would sell for:

$10 each- 1 (one), two month old pullet (variety of common breeds from TSC)
$90- 10 (ten), two month old pullets (variety of common breeds from TSC)
$10 - 1 (one), 1 year old rooster (variety of common birds from TSC)
$25 - 1 (one), 1 year old laying hen (common breed)
$25 - 1 (one), 1 year old laying hen (Delaware breed- apparently critically endangered)
$20 - 3 (three), 2 year old laying hens (Delaware breed)
$4 each - 5 barnyard mix day-old chicks
$10 - 1 (one), 3 month old cockerel (Silver Laced Wyandotte)

 

[3KillerBs]

What are the current rates?
If you were to sell now, what would the pricing be?

This is only valid for my local area. Other regions undoubtedly have other pricing.

But here you go:

https://fayetteville.craigslist.org/grd/d/carthage-ludwig-gentleman-black/7497863145.html

https://fayetteville.craigslist.org/grd/d/carthage-blue-australorp-pullets-almost/7497873910.html

https://fayetteville.craigslist.org/grd/d/carthage-australorp-australorp-cross/7497884578.html

I've got some younger cockerels to go on for $5 each and I'll raise the price on the pullets to $20 for blues once they hit POL. Young chicks were $5 each straight-run.

 

[JedJackson]

Definitely research what the going rate for these is in your area. Craigslist is a good resource. That said, I would up the price to 15 to 20 bucks for the two month pullets and would probably drop the price of the roosters unless they are selling for that price.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Wow. Never heard anyone selling a laying hen for $3.
Sounds like you get a lot of customers?

Not really. I wish I could sell more birds. I would have to some advertising. I've sold more chicks then anything else.

Eating eggs is the #1. Thing I sell even more of though, $2.00 a dozen.

 

[3KillerBs]

How much would you pay for a chicken dinner cockerel?

Maybe 50 cents per pound of expected dressed weight since I'd have to do the processing and can buy 10lb bags of leg quarters for about a $1/lb most of the time (though the flavor would be inferior).

Of course the boys in Camp Cockerel waiting for me to do the deed probably have more feed in them than that, but selling a few of them here and there helps offset it.

Eating eggs is the #1. Thing I sell even more of though, $2.00 a dozen.

That's cheap! I'm getting $5 for an 18-pack on casual sales and not even trying to use the farmers' markets.

Free-range eggs in the grocery store I work at are $4-5 per dozen.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Maybe 50 cents per pound of expected dressed weight since I'd have to do the processing and can buy 10lb bags of leg quarters for about a $1/lb most of the time (though the flavor would be inferior).

Of course the boys in Camp Cockerel waiting for me to do the deed probably have more feed in them than that, but selling a few of them here and there helps offset it.



That's cheap! I'm getting $5 for an 18-pack on casual sales and not even trying to use the farmers' markets.

Free-range eggs in the grocery store I work at are $4-5 per dozen.

I've been selling them for $2 before the pandemic, & bird flu began. I like to keep things affordable for people who maybe struggling with money.

 

[All4Eggz]

I think it would be cool to make a chart (in an article) for current chicken pricing in every state... and update it often. It would be a lot of work but it would be very helpful.

 

[Mrs. K]

I got the cull roosters caught tonight ( a bit of a rodeo) and put them in a bachelor pen. I could feel the tension rising in my main coop as everyone was getting bigger, and the cockerels were coming into their own.

So we will see, I so hope someone buys some of them. But step one in chicken math subtraction is done.