Easter Egger (Bantam) Chicks — What's a Fair Price?
Prices from 3 hatcheries, updated October 24, 2026. In stock at 2 of 3 right now.
A Easter Egger (Bantam) pullet chick typically sells for around $19.99 right now; straight run (unsexed) runs around $9.99. Prices below are each hatchery's current listing per sex.
Price by hatchery
| Hatchery | Pullet (female) | Straight run | Cockerel (male) | Next hatch | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cackle Hatchery Missouri | — | $6.99 In stock | — | — | view → |
| My Pet Chicken online retailer | $19.99 In stock | $9.99 In stock | $6.99 In stock | — | view → |
| Meyer Hatchery Ohio | $11.98 Sold out | $6.45 Sold out | $5.41 Sold out | — | view → |
Minimum order quantities and shipping differ by hatchery and can change which is cheapest to your door. "Call hatchery" means that hatchery publishes prices but not live availability.
Reading the availability signal
Easter Egger (Bantam) is listed at 3 of the 6 hatcheries this index tracks — the others don't currently carry it under this breed name, and today it's in stock at 2 of those 3. When some hatcheries have sold out but others haven't, the remaining in-stock listings set the real price of getting chicks now — the medians above already exclude sold-out listings when in-stock ones exist, so they reflect what you can actually order today.
Before your chicks arrive
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Day-old chicks need a heat source, chick-specific feed, and clean water ready before the shipping box arrives. Chewy — a pet-supplies retailer, not one of the hatcheries this index tracks — carries chick starter feed, brooder heat plates, and chick feeders and waterers.
Price history
A flat line here is normal, not a tracking gap: US hatcheries publish seasonal catalog prices and hold them, so genuine repricings are rare events (we measured — zero across our entire tracking window so far). The median moves only when the in-stock mix changes. What varies day to day is availability, shown above.
Common questions
Every answer below is computed from this page's own numbers at build time, and updates with the daily data refresh.
- How much do Easter Egger (Bantam) chicks cost?
- As of October 24, 2026, the index tracks 22 Easter Egger (Bantam) chick listings at 3 of the 6 US hatcheries it follows. Chick prices depend on sex, so each class is priced separately: pullets (sexed females) — median $19.99 across 4 listings ranging $19.99 to $24.99; straight run (unsexed) — median $9.99 across 5 listings ranging $6.99 to $14.99; cockerels (sexed males) — median $6.99 across 4 listings ranging $6.99 to $9.99. Prices are per chick and exclude shipping, and hatcheries set minimum order quantities. A further 9 tracked listings carry no published price at all, so they are counted above but left out of every price figure.
- Which hatcheries sell Easter Egger (Bantam) chicks?
- 3 of the 6 US hatcheries the index tracks list Easter Egger (Bantam) chicks as of October 24, 2026: Meyer Hatchery from $5.41 (cockerels, currently sold out), Cackle Hatchery from $6.99 (straight run) and My Pet Chicken from $6.99 (cockerels). Each price is that hatchery's cheapest current Easter Egger (Bantam) listing, whichever sex class it falls in, so the classes named can differ from hatchery to hatchery. Prices marked sold out or with unpublished availability sit outside the medians above, which are built from in-stock listings wherever the breed has any.
- Are Easter Egger (Bantam) chicks in stock right now?
- 13 of the 22 Easter Egger (Bantam) chick listings the index tracks were in stock as of October 24, 2026, at 2 of the 3 hatcheries carrying the breed. No tracked hatchery publishes a next hatch date for Easter Egger (Bantam) right now. Availability is the figure that moves day to day on this site; price mostly isn't.
- Has the price of Easter Egger (Bantam) chicks changed?
- No. The daily median has held at $9.99 on every one of the 103 days the index has tracked Easter Egger (Bantam) chicks, starting July 14, 2026. Genuine repricings are rare here — the index has observed 1 across 105,926 day-over-day listing comparisons.
- Do pullet Easter Egger (Bantam) chicks cost more than straight run?
- Yes. Easter Egger (Bantam) pullets (sexed females) run a median $19.99 against $9.99 for straight run — $10.00 more per chick, about 100%. Sexing costs money and most buyers want hens, so females carry a premium across nearly every breed. The two medians don't come from the same set of hatcheries (1 for pullets, 2 for straight run), so part of this gap can be hatchery mix rather than the sex premium alone. Cockerels (sexed males) sit at a median $6.99.
Cite this page: Chick Price Index, "Easter Egger (Bantam) chick price," data through October 24, 2026. https://chickpriceindex.com/breeds/easter_egger-bantam
Related reading
- Blue and Green Egg Layers: Ameraucana, Easter Egger, and Olive Egger Prices — The price gap between an Ameraucana and an Easter Egger is real money, and hatchery naming makes it easy to pay one price for the other. Current prices and how to read the labels.
- Bantam vs. Large Fowl: Same Breed Name, Different Price — A bantam eats less, lays less, and often costs more as a chick. Cross-hatchery prices for the breeds sold in both sizes, measured from live listings.
- The Pullet Premium, Measured: What Sexed Chicks Really Cost — Same breed, same hatchery, same hatch — and the female chick costs two-thirds more. We measured the pullet premium across every matched pair we track, and found the one bird where it flips.
How this works: we collect every public Easter Egger (Bantam) listing from tracked hatcheries daily and record price and availability by sex. Full methodology.