$$$What is the most expensive chicken you have brought or sold?$$$

[acid_chipmunk]

Just paid $60 a piar for 2 pair of SQ bantam Polish and $40 for another pair of SQ Polish. They are the most expensive I have bought so far. I'm sure eventaully I will end up spending more to get more birds of one of the variety that I raise.

 

[Duramaxgirl]

About $89 for 21 BLRW eggs and only 3 hatched and one is a straight comb!

other then that I've paid $12 each for 3 amerucanus from pips&peeps before, and I'm going back! She has really great healthy birds and I love the blue eggs!

 

[phasianidae]

Quote:
Does Jim La Gendre have a website?

 

[babyrnlc]

Not very expensive lol. My most expensive was the 8 week BR pullets that were $5 each. Then we got the EE chicks (1 week and 1 day olds) and they were $1.25 each. The girls (Dark Cornish and EE) were given to us for free.

I am a cheapy. But out of the two layers, we get two eggs a day. Every once in a while the EE will skip a day (like today), but it is rare; The DC skipped one day once, and then a few days later laid two. So I am not complaining about my free girls and they are pretty!

 

[fargosmom]

If you don't count the $500+ that our coop cost us when we built it for four $3.25 hatchery pullets

then I just hit my tops last weekend spending $30 for 3 marans chicks. Two black copper and one splash. Boy oh boy do I hope they're all girls!!!

 

[ginormous chicken]

WOW! Here I am not wanting to pay 55 dollars for eggs!

The most I paid was 25.00 for my Black Copper Maran. From a breeder, she sure is pretty.... her eggs are not A line quality but they aren't bottom of the line either. I was hoping for a little darker.

I always feel that I can't justify paying 80 bucks for eggs. After reading all your posts... I am going to have to rethink the justification line of reasoning. Might have to shell out once the new coop is built!

 

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

Probably my Barred Rock hen, Pauline. She was worth every penny of the 8.50 I paid at auction for her. She is bossy and mean, and closely related to a wild boar both in stature and hunger, but she is a dependable layer and is the undisputed "boss" of our coop.

Just for reference, here's a list of our chickens and costs of each:

Scooter: Red standard cochin roo: 6.50 from local seller

Beatrix: our pet andalusian hen: 7.50 from local seller

NeeNee: our partridge silkie hen: 5.00 from local seller

Charity: our dud RSL pullet: 6.00 from local production farmer

Trudy: our RIR pullet: 3.00 from a local seller

Chester: our BR boy: 3.00 local seller (came with Trudy)

Sunshine: disputed silkie hen or roo: 5.00 as hen at auction

Yumi and Naoki: Pharoah quail: free from two tiny eggs a friend gave me : )

3 Bobwhite quail: 9.00 total or 3.00 each: local breeder

Ginger, Marion, Martha, Persiphony: OEGB hens: FREE!! From local man who was moving...he was obviously nuts! : )

Pierre: OEGB rooster: FREE as repayment for original free OEGB boy "Monty" who the neighbor's dog killed....I want Monty back...so I have:

VIGGO: Monty's juvenile son who is growing up to replace useless Pierre. Cost for Viggo: FREE! I incubated the little fella with his two sisters, Veronica and Violet. As well as a horribly ugly cochin silkie cross (ScooterXNeeNee) named LeeLee.

I also have 5 BR chicks that costed me 2.00/dozen eggs to hatch...so...since out of a dozen I only hatched 5, that would make them worth about .40 cents each according to what I paid....and two who knows what white birds that came from RIR eggs I got for free....

Whew! I just wanted to list my birds I guess....

 

[suzettex5]

I recently dropped about $300 on 18 Maria Hall Jersey Giant chicks that I wont even get till April or May. So, thats pretty much the most I've ever spent at one time on a chicken.

I think I've sold laying hens for about $15 to $20 tops.

 

[TomG]

$15 for a WFOF .....(Whole foods organic fryer)

 

[Matt A NC]

The most I spent for a single bird was for a Show Quality Cochin Cockerel from one of the best breeders in the country for $60.

The most I have sold a single bird for was a SQ Black Ameraucana Cockerel for $30.

Matt