Selling A $24 Chicken - AMA S12:E2

[@shawnhagen6871]

You earned my respect today. You’re in rare company in the KZbin community. Thankyou for being truthful, and very open about the business.

[@hvlineman5227]

They pay it here. Can’t keep up with demand. No need to bother with farmers markets anymore. They come to me. Test your market folks. Great video John. Thanks for being truthful.

[@daleyadventures3896]

Crazy how many people on here that are striving to get back to the farm. Love it.

[@TheAbleFarmer]

Thanks John, I am figuring out how much it cost for me to raise a chicken right now. My market for a $20 chicken is very small. It is hard to convince people to pay 4x more for my chickens compared to a Walmart chicken. Educating our customers is huge!

[@FarmBuilder]

Portioning chickens into pieces is also a good way to hit the numbers you need with a lower total ticket price. We move about 50% of our birds as cut ups and have no issues selling breast at 3X the per pound price of a whole bird. The price for lesser cuts can then be lowered to a point where inventory balance is maintained.

[@farmmarketing]

I agree whole heartedly! Here's a great video on cutting up birds for those interested. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXXKoJ5roMZ3gac

[@haniebrown8876]

Honesty is an expensive give....thank God for that...... Greetings to Kate.

[@Thewigglybiscuit]

Great Video John! I also work 60 hours a week and have always had a dream of working from home on a farm. I have raised chickens for a couple of years now. I processed my own for the first time this year. And that is where I realized that it will not work in my area. I have sold a few birds at $3.50 a pound. The problem is, it's too expensive in my area for people to buy, and not profitable enough for me to continue to do all that work. But I will always continue to raise them for my family. It's a great stress reliever after a long day's work!

[@patc1309]

Good for you! Raise them for yourself and your family and you'll never starve and have more skills than most of this lazy MODERN HIGH TECH society

[@timberridgeranch4066]

Thank you for this. We are currently growing our farm and added hogs and broilers. It definitely takes more than over night to become successful.

[@kimlaboyne2474]

John! Addicted to your videos and reading material!! Looking to get up and running my own within next 2 years!! I live on Long Island NY. Visited a poultry farm out East and I spent 46$ for a 5.52 lb pastured chicken! Couldn't find pastured at Whole Foods...Gonna have to order out of state. Can you do a video on reading food labels? Also, can you put out a book like the Pastured Poultry but on Pigs!!! Your Awesome!!

[@stephenlockridge1095]

Thank you for all your advice and ideas I'll certainly put it to use and I would like to plan a trip to come check your farm out sometime next year if possible

[@Hawkvol1]

Really appreciate your Chanel, John.

[@OakandSpore]

Advice that can be used for any product!

[@johnbeckman8916]

Yuuuuuuuuuuuuup. Figures that Troy would keep track of the cost of ice cream everywhere he goes! 😃

[@kazbleasdale1310]

Great video. Lots of useful information. Thank you.

[@rickayers3150]

You bring up some good points john. Start small find your nitch.

[@flybyav8tor]

2024: Chicken is selling for $22/ lb for cuts in Washington DC. $14 / lb hr and a half outside the city. Distance to market matters a lot

[@Constitutionalapologist]

Maybe get linked up with those home meal making delivery services. Become their e5exclusive chicken provider, talk about job security. :)

[@greatdanerescuemom1]

yup here in NJ they wont pay it. they dont understand when we are paying 30.00 a bag for 40 lbs of organic non gmo feed, a 6 lb bird will cost me more even on grass then your 25.00 price tag. they would rather pay 5.99 for a bird that was fed crap and lives in a dark dungeon. but they drive 85 thousand dollar vehicles. they dont even want to pay 5 .00 for eggs..

[@greatdanerescuemom1]

@@LincolnLog good then YOU continue to eat the gmo , feather meal , garbage fed, ammonia rinsed inhumane meat - and when you end up with cancer or something else dont question why.

[@dougyankunas3104]

mai pi here in Wisconsin you can get the same product for 4 bucks a pound grown on pasture all day from multiple farms.

[@greatdanerescuemom1]

@@dougyankunas3104 yes organic fed should be about 4 a lb so a 6 lb free range bird would be 24. folks here are paying 5.99 or less for the entire chicken. cant even imagine what it was fed. or housed.

[@johnmccoy8635]

For how many weeks should you feed chick starter to your broilers?

[@Ren_-ce7mu]

I get 3 organic chicken cutlet for $20 in NY sometime more..

[@victorybeginsinthegarden]

to early in the morning for a truth boom lol

[@justawfulgamer7738]

Salatin charges 43.80 to ship ONE bird. That's just shipping. Who is paying that?!

[@PopleBackyardFarm]

Enjoyed this

[@131dyana]

thank you. New York State is really expensive.

[@patc1309]

It's disgusting! That's why I left the Northeast years ago. High taxes and too many stupid laws

[@teresavandenhazel1679]

So...how old do you slaughter your chickens at?

[@shermdog6969]

I can get a $6 whole organic chicken here in New Mexico.

[@movinon1242]

A lot of producers play fast and loose with labels like "organic", "grass fed", etc. "Organic" generally means "fed with a certain minimum percentage of 'organic' feed". And then you can have "organic" feed that was still GMO based and covered in insecticide, herbicide, etc. At $6 for a whole chicken, it certainly isn't truly organic, and organic has nothing to do with pasture raised. That $6 chicken was raised in a massive factory farm with a "coop" the size of a commercial airline hangar, pumped full of insecticides, steroids, antibiotics, growth hormones, the lot. They just fed them with at least 51% "organic" feed. You need to investigate a food source to know what you ate truly eating. Everything else is just marketing BS.

[@dennypinar9482]

People will pay $5 lb of burger $15 for steak. But poopoo $4 lb for chicken. I’ll never get it.

[@vickiburt2676]

Would it help just to have a simple fan on you while you are talking on camera in ur studio?