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Thats pretty much the feeling I get from others, also the supermarkets have pushed the price of chicken down to such a low price that the smaller farms that do free range chicken just can't compete, We have nothing local to us that produce free range chicken the stall at the farmers market that sell it come from suffolk/norfolk area, at least a two hour drive away we used to pay around £12 for a 2.5kg bird which compared to some places is not a bad price, we have worked out that its going to cost us under half that per bird that inc sending them away to be slaughtered/plucked/dressed etc

I remember watching a programme last year in which a farmer who raised broiler chickens said he would accept an offer of 3p profit per bird

<blockquote data-quote="Aldaniti" data-source="post: 2101273" data-attributes="member: 65274">Thats pretty much the feeling I get from others, also the supermarkets have pushed the price of chicken down to such a low price that the smaller farms that do free range chicken just can&#039;t compete, We have nothing local to us that produce free range chicken the stall at the farmers market that sell it come from suffolk/norfolk area, at least a two hour drive away&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":unsure:" title="Unsure&nbsp; &nbsp; :unsure:"&nbsp; data-smilie="24"data-shortname=":unsure:" />&nbsp; we used to pay around £12 for a 2.5kg bird which compared to some places is not a bad price, we have worked out that its going to cost us under half that per bird that inc sending them away to be slaughtered/plucked/dressed etc I remember watching a programme last year in which a farmer who raised broiler chickens said he would accept an offer of 3p profit per bird&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :o"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aldaniti, post: 2101273, member: 65274"] Thats pretty much the feeling I get from others, also the supermarkets have pushed the price of chicken down to such a low price that the smaller farms that do free range chicken just can't compete, We have nothing local to us that produce free range chicken the stall at the farmers market that sell it come from suffolk/norfolk area, at least a two hour drive away :unsure: we used to pay around £12 for a 2.5kg bird which compared to some places is not a bad price, we have worked out that its going to cost us under half that per bird that inc sending them away to be slaughtered/plucked/dressed etc I remember watching a programme last year in which a farmer who raised broiler chickens said he would accept an offer of 3p profit per bird :o [/QUOTE]

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