Suggested Pricing for Selling Chickens of Various Breeds and Ages

[All4Eggz]

*Personally* unless it were a rare breed or something specifically unusual like a proven broody or a show winner, I wouldn't pay more for an older hen than I'd pay for a chicken dinner cockerel.

After all, the stress of moving would probably throw her into a molt and who knows if she'd ever lay eggs again.

How much would you pay for a chicken dinner cockerel?

 

[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.

 

[3KillerBs]

P.S. What I would pay for something and what I might be able to sell something for aren't necessarily the same thing.

I sold a Blue Cuckoo Marans cockerel for, IIRC, $15 last fall.

 

[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]

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'm also selling at $4 a dozen to close friends and $5 a dozen to the public.
Eggs here are $5 per dozen for "cage free" eggs. Pasture raised are almost $6.

 

[RubelliteRose]

Farm eggs in my immediate area are going for $3 a dozen. Both pre-pandemic and now. We are at the end of a dead end street, so I haven't tried to sell eggs yet. Last year I was offered a dollar a dozen by someone at work because " that was more than what she would pay at Aldi" I gifted everyone a half dozen eggs and never offered to sell any.

 

[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.

 

[All4Eggz]

I sold
• 3, two year old Delaware hens
• 8, three month old TSC pullets (6 White Leghorns, 1 BA, 1 Isa Brown)
• 1, three month old SLW Cockerel

I did $13 each for the Delawares = $40
I did $12 each for the pullets = $96
I did $7 for the SLW cockerel = $7
I had a $30 feed cost
Which brought the total to $170 for a total of 12 birds.

Was this reasonable pricing?

 

[All4Eggz]

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.

Are you making any profit at all, after considering feed costs and care?