Which breed of fowl fetches the largest price

[smokindave]

I'm raising chickens again. I love it! I'm raising less expensive "rare " breeds to insure that my facilities are predator proof and my methods effective at growing a sound and healthy birds. Next year, I hope to upgrade my stock. I am not wealthy,so it behooves me to raise a flock that will have value on the market. Like any stock, it takes the same amount of cash to keep a broke down gilding for one year as it does a money winning through breed. So why not raise something of value?
My question for the experts ( that's you ), is what is the most expensive breed on the market? You can include guineas, peafowl, or where ever the money is. Thank You!

 

[A.T. Hagan]

There are a number of breeds and varieties on the market that fetch a very nice price.

But what the birds sell for only tells you part of what you need to know.

What will it cost you to procure your breeding stock and what will it cost to propagate them in such a way that people will pay YOU those nice prices. Those last two are very important.

In a nutshell there is a reason why the birds that bring the big money cost so much. They are very hard to come by and equally hard (or harder) to continue breeding in such a way as to continue to bring in the big bucks.

White Cornish comes to mind. The real thing is very rare. High quality stock rarer still. They sell for a very nice price.

But first you have to find an established, reputable breeder willing to sell you birds in the first place. Then you have to begin breeding them to improve the stock so that others will pay you those nice prices.

By the time you get to that point I think you'll find that the net profit you make from each bird is going to be very small (or non-existent) no matter what you sell them for.

 

[NYREDS]

I know someone who regularly gets $100 each for his Rosecomb Bantams but that doesn't mean you'd get that if you were raising them. In fact it's highly unlikely that you would. He gets that partly because his birds are very good but mostly because he has an extensive winning record & he's well known.
Everyone wants to buy a few birds & immediately start making money but it doesn't usually work that way. You have to pay some dues & you have to develop something someone would want. It's not enough to start with good stock, you als have to know what you're doing. There' a lot more to breeding chickens than putting a male with a female & hatching the resultant eggs. It's complex which is why so few peolpe are good at it.
Frankly, approaching it from your "I want to make some money" point of view almost guarantees failure.