[chooknewbie]

Hi Folks....

Not been about for a while...bit busy will the silly season and all that....Hope you are all well.

I have had a text today asking how much i would want for my hens!!

The poor guy in question bought a load of chicks earlier in the year and has managed to end up with a ton of cockrels!...oops! So he has asked me how much i would want for some of my girls.... I have said that I would only sell a duo or trio...(although thinking about it now it would only be a duo as a trio would leave me with only one new girl and 2 boys) but i dont know how much to ask for them! They are Maran crosses... i think! there are some pictures floating about somewhere if you want a look.

what ya think....how much???

[naughty nick]

Hi ya, surely the price would be dependant on wether you want to sell them and not just feelling guilty about him getting cockrells,  :?

[chooknewbie]

well...i had intended on sending two away with my sis, but things went pearshaped there... since them have kept them ( they are chooks that I hatched...have still got my original 4 as well as this 6)...

since i got let down i hadnt really thought about rehoming or anything, but with 8 girlies i am gonna get an awful lot of eggies when these babies start laying...

so not really sure.... bit of a dilema really

[Vember]

If it were me I'd work out how much they had cost me to feed them
Say for arguments sake
Corn = £6, 1 bag lasts 2 weeks  so £3 per week devide by amount of hens you have. Times that by how ever many weeks you've had them, add a bit for time & care given & presto

See what what that works out at  - Just an idea :?


Sarah

[pushrod]

£15 to £25 for point of lay crosses depending on how benevolent you are.

[chooknewbie]

good idea vember....will try and work that out!

and i didnt think they were going for that much at the mo pushrod...!!!...nice Christmas earner....lol

[nnbreeder]

Check out some of the prices here, it should give you a good idea.

http://www.birdtrader.co.uk/list/8

[chooknewbie]

well...have traided two chooks, for a weekends labour...do better than that if you can! he and his son are going to strim, and then rotivate my allotment!! cant ask for more than that!!!  

[Kate and her Ducks]

Wow! That sounds like a fantastic deal!

Hope you had a great Christmas

[chooknewbie]

lovely thanks...now its just the downhill run to our holiday....cannot cannot cannot wait!!!!!!! March here we come...!

[Sassy]

Not very helpful but prices seem to vary considerably depending where in the British isles you live!!

Locally hens seem to go for about £10 each at POL but pure bred Marrans do fetch more.

[Alby]

Just bought 7 speckled ( cuckoo ) Marans POL for £9 each. Seems like I got a good deal as they are laying well

Alby

[chooknewbie]

i worked it out using vembers method and it came out at about £10, but am chuffed with the result i have got....no way i could have gotten labour, and a machine for £20!  

Happy New Year everyone....in half an hour at least....