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mustangsaguaro:
For those of you who sell and ship fertile eggs as well as sell chicks local how do you determine the price you will sell for?

How do you determine what you will sell a dozen eggs for to someone? I have seen eggs anywhere from $45 on up to $70 for Ameraucana eggs.

For the chicks you might consider culls or rejects that you would sell what is your determining factor for price? Right now I have about 2 dozen eggs in the incubator. I don\'t plan on keeping everything as my husband would literally kill me.

Also, as the chicks get older what would one consider age wise (how many weeks?) a started bird and how much do you usually sell started birds for? I know the price would go up for already started birds vs. day olds. But what kind of a price difference is there? Do you raise your price by the week as they get older. Say .25 or .50 per week?

Just curious for those of you that have been doing it awhile. I want to be fair on pricing but yet not overcharge someone as well.

Thanks

OldChurchEggery:
I\'ve never sold Ameraucanas before, but I have sold other breeds I raise. I sell unsexed day-old Australorps for $3.50 each. I increase the price by dollar when they hit 10 days, and then between .50 and a dollar a week until they are four weeks old, which is usually the point at which I can tell whether they\'re definitely male or female. I gave a range because if someone wants a big group, I cut them a break. At 4 weeks the males go off to the meat pen or get given away whenever someone wants a few pullets and I convince them to take a cockerel, too. I either eat the remainders or sell them for $4 each to the lady down the road so she can resell to her customers coming for goats and sheep. I charge more for the pullets at 4 weeks- 7 dollars each. Then the price goes up every other week. I look around on craigslist to see what other folks are selling their birds for as a comparison. Australorps are pretty common, so people aren\'t willing to pay more than $10 a pullet at 16 weeks. I guess you\'d have to factor in what you paid for your stock, too.

John:

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Since they are my culls and I\'m selling them as backyard/barnyard chickens and looking at what others are asking for chicks on Craig\'s List I sell very cheap.  The brooder space is valuable since a new hatch in coming each week and I need the chicks to be gone by then.  I generally say $2 each with a 10 chick minimum or $1 each if you take them all...or best offer.  As they get older the price either stays the same or I keep lowering it until someone decides they just can\'t pass up such a good deal.
When TSC was afraid of the chicken flu they didn\'t sell chicks for year or so.  Now they do again and when they clear them out they sell them for much less than a buck each...it is hard to compete with that.
Any money I get for the culls is great and more then I would get if I disposed of them.

dak:
I was getting $2/ chick on craigslist til the feedstores recently got their chicks in.  These were the cull Blacks from my Lav split x split breeding.  Now with numbers accumulating and hatching continuing, someone is going to get some very cheap chicks at the swap this weekend.

I know some breeders cull at hatch, but I haven\'t been able to bring myself to that.

Birdcrazy:
I usually take my culls to a local sale barn. Same story as most of you. After comission, they may bring $1.50- $2.00 for 5-6 wk old birds.  Once in awhile maybe up to $6.00. One time I took 2 LF adult cocks thinking, well there will be $2 birds. I got my check and they each brought $14 each. You never know. But that is not the norm! Usually I just shake my head and say \"Well, at least they aren\'t eating my $15 a bag feed anymore! Then I go out to the coops and admire the ones I kept.
Boy do they look nice. They better, cause ther\'e still eating my $15 a bag feed.

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