Suggested Pricing for Selling Chickens of Various Breeds and Ages

[aart]

I have seen pictures of animals and no money discussed, then ask for a PM if interested for Facebook, is that what you mean AArt?

Yes.
Being very careful of the language used.
Like saying "up for discussion"....then using PM to work out the details.
And don't ever use marketplace... you want to stay local anyway.
Scroll thru some poultry pages to see the examples.

 

[Beaker99]

I just sold 5 2-3 month old pullets. Posted on Facebook farm and garden they were sold (no picture even) in less than 12 hours. $15 for common breeds (buff orp, two silver laced wyandottes) and then 20 for the Bielefelder and 20 for the cuckoo Maran.... No one blinked at price, could have sold them 3 times over. Was just a matter of who got here first

Wow. Makes me reconsider what I might charge for my black copper Marans.
I've considered selling a breeding trio to help rid myself of the cockerel too. Wonder what I could charge.

 

[RubelliteRose]

This is the most recent list of no no words from our local chicken FB group. (Aka words that will get the group banned from FB)

 

[raingarden]

Join the movement. Free chickens for everyone.

 

[aart]

This is the most recent list of no no words from our local chicken FB group.

What was the first one?

 

[SourRoses]

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.

Wow that was so insulting of her to say!
Waaay back in 2003 one of the families in our church sold us all eggs on Sundays for $1 / dozen as a generosity discount while stores were selling their cruelty eggs for $2 / dozen.
With even normal inflation that price is long gone. Let alone Covid disruption. There's no way Aldi is selling $1 / dozen eggs, LMFAO.

 

[RubelliteRose]

What was the first one?

I have no idea I guess there is a word that was originally banned from the group but is now allowed.

 

[SourRoses]

We recently sold our laying flock of 9-10 month old Speckled Sussex for $25 / hen. We have a "Roosters are free" policy but no one would take the Roo.
It took longer to sell them at that price than I would have liked, we had to keep re-listing them, but we eventually got it. My mom had put her foot down that she wasn't losing out on prime layers unless the $ was worth it, just because I wanted more room for new breeds.

We still have 8 of their three-month-old offspring, after selling the first half we've gotten $7 when they were two months old, and $10 more recently, but the buyers we've had come out have only wanted 2-3 at a time so it's been slow.

 

[3KillerBs]

I sold my 4, 16-week-old cockerels tonight.

I'd asked $7 each but accepted $20 for all 4 since they've been up on Craigslist 2 weeks and I was getting ready to eat them.

 

[lleeme]

I will have 2 old hens, and 6 chicks to sell.

The chicks will be well past 3 months and most at point of lay:

They will be light brown leghorn, prairie blue, green starlight, and an exchequer leghorn. I do have a matching rooster for the exchequer, and the light brown leghorn - he is beautiful. The leghorns are from Sandhill Preservation.

I got the leghorns pretty reasonable - less than three, but the colored egg layers were over 7.

Just not quite sure how to go about this, I have never really sold birds before (I fed a lot of coons)

I have lost one hen and one of the chicks I raised. Last week I lost 2 poults on my porch. Trapped the first coon Friday.