What will you pay for chicks?

[fuzzi]

I would be happy to start getting green eggs.
Ironically that is how I starred with the chickens. I was having a conversation with a lady and told her I want to have chickens that lay colored eggs. Blue or green.
She told me she has chickens and would ask her chicken helper to put eggs in an incubator (she was working away from her house so someone was taking care of her chickens while she was away). She delivered 19 chicks and 14 turned out to be male. None of the females lay colored eggs. That was spring of last year and how my chicken journey began.
My next chickens will be Ameraucana. I want my colored eggs

Easter Eggers lay colored eggs, too.

 

[TexasBlues]

The local farm & ranch store sells sexed chicks for $8 a pop. I see straight run chicks on Craigslist for around $5 -$10 each.
I recently ordered hatching eggs for about $8 an egg after shipping costs. I hatched 9 healthy chicks so they ended up being about 10.50 a chick.

 

[PoppasGrill]

If we buy pullets it’s from the crapshoot of Rural King farm store locally . Usually 1 in 3 are Roos .
We have acquired a few Cemani, originally was 8 chicks that turned out to be 6 cockerels . One hen died from a bobcat attack through the fence, so the one remaining hen was afraid to get off the roosting bars with 6 Roos circling like sharks.
We separated 5 Roos and paid for 3 more hens, going rate in our area was $45 per at 5-6 months old.
Cemani are gorgeous chickens but don’t lay a lot, we get 3-5 eggs a week. We are planning on getting a few clutches out of them and, if they are healthy chicks, making a deal with other local chicken crazies like us.

 

[bhwms]

I try to buy 20 or so at a time, and get others to go in with me on my breeds (currently Barred Rocks and Australorp), then we get price breaks. At Meyer Hatchery, they are $4.58 qty 1-5, but $4.02 qty 26-49. Better price breaks up to 100+. Shipping is $10. At Murray McMurray, $5.71 qty 1-5, $4.64 qty 26-50. Shipping at qty is free. But order early.

 

[Teresavarnado]

I only had one order and the cost was $5 something for female barred rocks.
Minimum order size was 12.
That is about what I would expect to pay for standard breeds.
For pullets near laying age, I would go up to $25 max.
Honestly chickens and eggs are extremity cheap when you consider what you get.

Right now I only have 5 laying hens but 3 more should start laying in about a month or two.
That will give me 8 eggs per day.
Those 8 eggs contain a ton of nutritional value.
However, if I start selling eggs, I would probably do it at $3.00 per dozen. Maybe $4.00.
That is an absolute bargain when you consider how much nutrition is in those eggs. They are absolutely loaded.

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I do plan on adding a few more ladies to up the egg production. However, because I seem to be a rooster magnet when hatching or buying chicks, I will only buy pullets.
I basically want enough egg production to sell some and make the girls pay for their food.
LOL.

Wow, 8 eggs a day sounds amazing! $3-$4 per dozen is a steal for fresh, nutritious eggs. Thanks for sharing! Good luck with your pullets!

 

[AinaWGSD]

We paid 4.50-16.50 for sexed pullets from Meyer. I would have been willing to go up to $23-23 for a breed or variety I really wanted, but that's about my high end limit for hatchery stock. Personally I might consider going higher for straight run chicks from a good breeder but I doubt I'd convince husband.