Chickens are over priced

[Walk together]

A fellow up the street is selling live chickens for $25 each I told him I can get a cooked one at the supermarket for $10 go figure.

 

[Benjamin Müller]

Live chickens for butchering? As egg layers? As pets?

I don't know; $25 might be reasonable depending on how he's figuring out the cost of raising them. Obviously, going to the supermarket is cheaper, but you have to remember those chickens come from factory farms. Homegrown and homemade anything always cost more due to materials and labor.

Grain costs; electricity costs for the barn or incubator. . . . I could see the cost of a chicken easily getting calculated to $25 each, especially if he's going to do the work of butchering it for you. Or if the chicken is a novelty breed.

I'm going to play the devil's advocate. You'll have to be make a clearer case for the farmer being unreasonable.

 

[Minister Monardo]

A fellow up the street is selling live chickens for $25 each I told him I can get a cooked one at the supermarket for $10 go figure.

Give a man a cooked chicken, feed him for a day.
Give a man a live chicken, and teach it to fish.

 

[Sabertooth]

Speaking of Chickens,... Three-Legged Chicken --Ronald Reagan
A man was driving along the motorway when he noticed a chicken running alongside his car. He was amazed to see the chicken keeping up with him, as he was doing 60 mph. He accelerated to 70, and the chicken stayed right next to him. He sped up to 75 mph, but the chicken overtook him.

Then the man noticed that the chicken had three legs. So he followed the chicken, speeding all the way, and ended up at a farm. He got out of his car and saw that all the chickens on the farm had three legs.

When he spotted the farmer he asked him, "Where did you get these chickens?"

The farmer replied "Well, everybody likes chicken legs, so I bred a three-legged bird. I'm going to be a millionaire."

The man was impressed and asked him how they tasted.
The farmer said, "Don't know, I haven't caught one yet."

 

[Walk together]

Live chickens for butchering? As egg layers? As pets?

I don't know; $25 might be reasonable depending on how he's figuring out the cost of raising them. Obviously, going to the supermarket is cheaper, but you have to remember those chickens come from factory farms. Homegrown and homemade anything always cost more due to materials and labor.

Grain costs; electricity costs for the barn or incubator. . . . I could see the cost of a chicken easily getting calculated to $25 each, especially if he's going to do the work of butchering it for you. Or if the chicken is a novelty breed.

I'm going to play the devil's advocate. You'll have to be make a clearer case for the farmer being unreasonable.

I can get one for $10 at the supermarket.

 

[dqhall]

I can get one for $10 at the supermarket.

Walmart has a 36 oz rotiserrie chicken for sale for $6.97.

 

[Walk together]

Walmart has a 36 oz rotiserrie chicken for sale for $6.97.

That's not bad some times my local supermarket reduces the price down to $7.99 I told the bloke up the street that it's too much work and far too expensive Not to mention I don't want the chicken's blood on my hands.

 

[Tom 1]

I can get one for $10 at the supermarket.

Does it lay eggs?

 

[Walk together]

Does it lay eggs?

It could before it ended up on the rotisary.

 

[Sabertooth]

It could before it ended up on the rotisary.

(Not if it was a rooster...)

 

[Tom 1]

It could before it ended up on the rotisary.

A few years of eggs before going in the oven could cover the extra $15, no? There’s probably some use for feathers too.

 

[Hank77]

Live chickens for butchering? As egg layers? As pets?

I don't know; $25 might be reasonable depending on how he's figuring out the cost of raising them. Obviously, going to the supermarket is cheaper, but you have to remember those chickens come from factory farms. Homegrown and homemade anything always cost more due to materials and labor.

Grain costs; electricity costs for the barn or incubator. . . . I could see the cost of a chicken easily getting calculated to $25 each, especially if he's going to do the work of butchering it for you. Or if the chicken is a novelty breed.

I'm going to play the devil's advocate. You'll have to be make a clearer case for the farmer being unreasonable.

Maybe they are Free-Range.
Free-Range chickens are more expensive. F.R. chickens are healthier; less prone to disease than caged chickens.

 

[Hank77]

A few years of eggs before going in the oven could cover the extra $15, no? There’s probably some use for feathers too.

One might want to keep both a hen and a rooster. Might want to let the hen keep a few of her eggs to incubate. Now you got your own little flock of chickens to sell for $25 a piece, plus eggs to sell.
At one time I raised 100 chickens for meat and eggs.

 

[Tom 1]

One might want to keep both a hen and a rooster. Might want to let the hen keep a few of her eggs to incubate. Now you got your own little flock of chickens to sell for $25 a piece, plus eggs to sell.
At one time I raised 100 chickens for meat and eggs.

Good fertiliser too, for the garden, I would think.

 

[Walk together]

(Not if it was a rooster...)

I would do an autopsy on it but there's only stuffing inside.

 

[Tom 1]

I would do an autopsy on it but there's only stuffing inside.

What do people typically stuff chickens with in the US?

 

[Sabertooth]

What do people typically stuff chickens with in the US?

None that I am aware of.

 

[Tom 1]

None that I am aware of.

You have stuffing with Turkey tho right? For Thanksgiving? Or is that only the TV version?

 

[Sabertooth]

Yes, turkey stuffing is common, but not universal.

 

[Walk together]

What do people typically stuff chickens with in the US?

We use breed crums in Australia with seasoning and herbs. It adds flavour to an otherwise lifeless chicken.