Chicken prices

[MossRoad]

I prefer the dark meat, but when you buy wings, legs, thighs or quarters you're paying for a lot of bone and other waste. Some of it can be used for soups, but not a lot. When I see thigh quarters for $1.49/lb and boneless, skinless breasts for $1.99/lb, the choice is fairly easy.

Chicken quarters here are regularly priced at .69/lb at grocery store, .49/lb for 10lbs at butcher, .45/lb for 40lb at butcher.
Boneless chicken breasts are regularly priced at 1.99/lb at grocery store, $1.59/lb for 10lbs at butcher, $1.50/lb for 40lb at butcher.

 

[k0ua]

His 9-10 cents would be very good. But that only covers his compensation for housing and raising of the birds, it does not include the chick or feed cost. Feed is the biggest cost by far.

Yes, and of course his price per pound is affected by the amount of feed Tyson has to provide. The better the grower you are the more money you make as your efficiency come up. He says a lot of people go broke by not being very hands on with programing and maintaining the feed equipment and watching the flock all the time. Of course the business is all computerized, but there are still tricks to growing more pounds of chicken with high feed efficiencies, but it requires attention to detail all the time. Apparently there is a lot more to growing chickens that most people realize. A lot of things can go wrong, and go wrong in a hurry. The chickens can get too hot, they can get too cold, they can run out of feed or water and it all affects the bottom line real quick.

 

[Jstpssng]

If it comes down to just a matter of money I would be better off selling my tractor, tiller, and other gardening equipment; sell my land, move to a room in the city, and spend the rest of my life using public transportation and living on McDonald's food for the rest of my life. Instead I enjoy raising things, knowing the environment my food is raised in and that the animals I kill have had a good life right until the last few hours.

I've actually have people argue that they are doing the feedlot animals a favor by creating a demand thereby putting them put out of their misery, while I'm a bad guy for raising my livestock and by hunting in the fall.

 

[fried1765]

Chicken quarters here are regularly priced at .69/lb at grocery store, .49/lb for 10lbs at butcher, .45/lb for 40lb at butcher.
Boneless chicken breasts are regularly priced at 1.99/lb at grocery store, $1.59/lb for 10lbs at butcher, $1.50/lb for 40lb at butcher.

Must be nice to have a butcher shop nearby.

 

[MossRoad]

Must be nice to have a butcher shop nearby.

We've got 3.

 

[tallyho8]

I don't actually raise my chickens for meat. I raise them for the eggs. I free range them all day and put them up at night. They run around eating bugs and grasses and about anything that doesn't move too fast although they can catch flies. Eggs by chickens that free range on the farm and eat things other than pure chicken feed have darker yolks and much, much more flavor than store eggs.

When our chickens were molting and we could not get enough eggs, my wife went to the grocery and bought expensive "organic", "cage free eggs" and "yard eggs". None of them came close to tasting nearly as good as our free range eggs. After the chickens get old enough they lay very little if at all and then are only good for chicken stew. Sadly, most of our chickens die of either dogs or old age because after my wife names them and raises them a few years she can't get rid of her "pets".

Beef is so expensive right now and chicken is so cheap that all the burger joints are now making and pushing chicken sandwiches.

 

[Norm W]

After they quit laying and have become a "Pet", when they die they become a plank chicken. By that time they are so tough that you nail the carcass to an oak plank. Roast them over a slow fire, basting with salted butter. After an hour you can scrape off the chicken and eat the plank.

 

[Jstpssng]

After they quit laying and have become a "Pet", when they die they become a plank chicken. By that time they are so tough that you nail the carcass to an oak plank. Roast them over a slow fire, basting with salted butter. After an hour you can scrape off the chicken and eat the plank.

Mine are like those of the poster's above you; they generally die before I have to worry about them. The oldest I've had one get is 5 YO. One day last fall she was acting doggy so I put her in the coop. An hour later I went back and she was laying dead and in pieces in the driveway... I suspect that a crow went in to steal eggs and found her instead.

 

[JethroB]

Chicken quarters here are regularly priced at .69/lb at grocery store, .49/lb for 10lbs at butcher, .45/lb for 40lb at butcher.
Boneless chicken breasts are regularly priced at 1.99/lb at grocery store, $1.59/lb for 10lbs at butcher, $1.50/lb for 40lb at butcher.

Those are really good prices at your butcher. He's not marking up his cost much. Wholesale prices of chicken are pretty low right now except for wings.

 

[jmc]

Those are really good prices at your butcher. He's not marking up his cost much. Wholesale prices of chicken are pretty low right now except for wings.

Dave Barry exposed the chicken wing business. According to him, you order a plate of buffalo style wings and you gnaw on them for awhile. Then they clear your table, run the bones thru the dishwasher, put some more sauce on them, and serve them to the next guest.