Branded Egger Hybrids Chicks — What's a Fair Price?
Prices from 2 hatcheries, updated October 24, 2026. In stock at 2 of 2 right now.
A Branded Egger Hybrids pullet chick typically sells for around $6.37 right now; straight run (unsexed) runs around $5.44. Prices below are each hatchery's current listing per sex.
Price by hatchery
| Hatchery | Pullet (female) | Straight run | Cockerel (male) | Unsexed / see listing | Next hatch | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meyer Hatchery Ohio | $4.98 Sold out | $4.05 Sold out | $3.26 In stock | — | — | view → |
| Cackle Hatchery Missouri | — | — | — | $8.44 In stock | — | 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
Branded Egger Hybrids is listed at 2 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 all 2 of them — every hatchery that carries it can take an order right now. That means you can shop on price and shipping rather than racing a sell-out, so it's a good moment to compare the table above carefully.
Before your chicks arrive
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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 Branded Egger Hybrids chicks cost?
- As of October 24, 2026, the index tracks 22 Branded Egger Hybrids chick listings at 2 of the 6 US hatcheries it follows. Chick prices depend on sex, so each class is priced separately: pullets (sexed females) — median $6.37 across 6 listings ranging $4.98 to $13.00; straight run (unsexed) — median $5.44 across 6 listings ranging $4.05 to $11.00; cockerels (sexed males) — median $4.64 across 3 listings ranging $3.26 to $4.64; listings the hatchery publishes without a sex label — median $10.39 across 3 listings ranging $8.44 to $12.99. Prices are per chick and exclude shipping, and hatcheries set minimum order quantities. A further 4 tracked listings carry no published price at all, so they are counted above but left out of every price figure. No pullets (sexed females) and straight run (unsexed) listing is in stock at a tracked hatchery today, so those figures are the most recently published prices rather than an order you can place right now.
- Which hatcheries sell Branded Egger Hybrids chicks?
- 2 of the 6 US hatcheries the index tracks list Branded Egger Hybrids chicks as of October 24, 2026: Meyer Hatchery from $3.26 (cockerels) and Cackle Hatchery from $8.44 (sex not stated). Each price is that hatchery's cheapest current Branded Egger Hybrids listing, whichever sex class it falls in, so the classes named can differ from hatchery to hatchery.
- Are Branded Egger Hybrids chicks in stock right now?
- 6 of the 22 Branded Egger Hybrids chick listings the index tracks were in stock as of October 24, 2026, at 2 of the 2 hatcheries carrying the breed. No tracked hatchery publishes a next hatch date for Branded Egger Hybrids right now. Availability is the figure that moves day to day on this site; price mostly isn't.
- Has the price of Branded Egger Hybrids chicks changed?
- The daily median for Branded Egger Hybrids chicks has moved 7 times across the 103 days the index has tracked them, starting July 14, 2026 — but that is the mix changing, not a hatchery changing a price: when a sold-out listing drops out of the in-stock pool or a different sex class restocks, the median moves on its own. Genuine repricings are rare here — the index has observed 1 across 105,926 day-over-day listing comparisons.
- Do pullet Branded Egger Hybrids chicks cost more than straight run?
- Yes. Branded Egger Hybrids pullets (sexed females) run a median $6.37 against $5.44 for straight run — $0.93 more per chick, about 17%. Sexing costs money and most buyers want hens, so females carry a premium across nearly every breed. Both figures come from a single hatchery (Meyer Hatchery), so this is one hatchery's price ladder rather than a market-wide premium. Cockerels (sexed males) sit at a median $4.64.
Cite this page: Chick Price Index, "Branded Egger Hybrids chick price," data through October 24, 2026. https://chickpriceindex.com/breeds/easter_egger_branded
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- 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.
- Do Baby Chick Prices Actually Move? We Measured. — More than 12,000 priced listing-day comparisons across six US hatcheries — and not one genuine repricing of a chick listing. What that means for when (and whether) to wait for a deal.
How this works: we collect every public Branded Egger Hybrids listing from tracked hatcheries daily and record price and availability by sex. Full methodology.