What are you paying for pasture poultry?

[suzukiaustin]

I especially would like to hear from those who are buying pasture poultry whose diet is supplemented with organic, non-GMO grain.

Thanks!

[crunchy_mama]

Our chickens we get are not supplemented w/ organic grain, but local as I understand it- . I believe I ended up paying right around $2 lb- I got many discounts though. I order 75 at a time. I put in a deposit in April. I helped w/ butchering and bagged them myself.

[CrunchyChristianMama]

There's a local farm in town that sells them at the grocery store for 3.85/lbs. They supplement in the winter, but are completely free-range in the spring/summer months.

[Magelet]

We don't really, because its $5 a lb at the farmer's market, and for a 4-5 lb chicken, its just too much of our weekly food budget, even though it is several meals. We could get two meals out of a lb of pastured local ground beef, for 5 or 6 bucks. we do buy "rosie" chickens, (which are local, and listed as a compromise in the wapf guide), for about 2.50 or 3 a lb.

[deditus]

After months of searching, I have managed to find two farms that sell pastured chicken for $2.50/lb. Any grain used is local, organic and not soy! At the farmers market and co-ops, similar products start at like $5/lb.

[snowbunny]

$4.25 / lb. It's more expensive this year because the price of local, non-gmo grain has risen substantially.

[BedHead]

$3.20 per lb. Their supplement is "a quality feed mix that is enriched with vitamins and trace minerals." but since they're certified organic I am assuming it has to be non GMO organic supplement too.

[PeggyinNC]

We pay about $6-$8 per chicken at EarthFare. I roast two of them every week, and then immediately after removing the meat, I put both carcasses in to make broth.

[Brown Lioness]

$3.75/lb for a 4lb chicken.

[mom61508]

GEEZ! I pay 9 a pound from out farmers market. What the heck!!!

[newbymom05]

$3.40 a lb but that doesn't include the delivery fee, probably comes out to $4 a lb.

[bobandjess99]

$2.50 a lb, but their diet is enriched with...eh, whatever. Table scraps, basically. It's an amish farm, and thats the way they do it, i guess? But it's the best I can get locally, within reason financially. They live in a big fenced yard, and have a nice, big, clean shed they choose to go in and out of, and they hunt for bugs and whatever in their little field most of the day, but then they get thrown some extra. I figure it's still a lot better than store eggs and chicken, you know?