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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: piggy on June 11, 2010, 11:15:00 pm

Title: Christmas geese prices
Post by: piggy on June 11, 2010, 11:15:00 pm
We are raising some geese for christmas,i have no idea what sort of prices i should be charging?
They are free ranging with a handfull of corn a day.
Any clues?
Thanks
Title: Re: Christmas geese prices
Post by: bamford6 on June 13, 2010, 09:37:21 am
£25 to 28 pound and iff its a realey nice bird £35 to 40 and thats avarage at the sale 22 
Title: Re: Christmas geese prices
Post by: Frieslandfilly on June 14, 2010, 03:12:57 pm
We raised 10 geese for the first time last year, we charged an average of £30 depending on size, I think the smallest was £28 and the biggest....we kept for ourselves!! They went like hotcakes at that price.
As we didnt plan it too cleverly and were all quite busy in the run up to Christmas we found a local chap to kill and dress them that was £8 per bird, but still a good profit on each one considering they mostly lived on grass.
Title: Re: Christmas geese prices
Post by: shetlandpaul on June 15, 2010, 09:24:21 am
seeingv how long it takes to pluck it very cheap.