Golden Laced Wyandotte Chicks — What's a Fair Price?
Prices from 3 hatcheries, updated September 4, 2026. In stock at 3 of 3 right now.
A Golden Laced Wyandotte pullet chick typically sells for around $6.89 right now; straight run (unsexed) runs around $5.85. Prices below are each hatchery's current listing per sex.
Price by hatchery
| Hatchery | Pullet (female) | Straight run | Cockerel (male) | Next hatch | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meyer Hatchery Ohio | $4.98 In stock | $4.05 In stock | $3.26 In stock | — | view → |
| My Pet Chicken online retailer | $7.49 In stock | $5.99 In stock | $3.99 In stock | — | view → |
| Townline Hatchery Michigan | $6.89 In stock | $5.85 In stock | $4.05 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
Golden Laced Wyandotte 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 all 3 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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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 Golden Laced Wyandotte chicks cost?
- As of September 4, 2026, the index tracks 9 Golden Laced Wyandotte 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 $6.89 across 3 listings ranging $4.98 to $7.49; straight run (unsexed) — median $5.85 across 3 listings ranging $4.05 to $5.99; cockerels (sexed males) — median $3.99 across 3 listings ranging $3.26 to $4.05. Prices are per chick and exclude shipping, and hatcheries set minimum order quantities.
- Which hatchery has the cheapest Golden Laced Wyandotte chicks?
- Meyer Hatchery has the lowest price for pullets (sexed females) at $4.98 per chick, as of September 4, 2026, compared across the 3 hatcheries with that class in stock. Minimum order quantities, vaccination options and shipping differ by hatchery and can change which one is cheapest to your door.
- Which hatcheries sell Golden Laced Wyandotte chicks?
- 3 of the 6 US hatcheries the index tracks list Golden Laced Wyandotte chicks as of September 4, 2026: Meyer Hatchery from $3.26 (cockerels), My Pet Chicken from $3.99 (cockerels) and Townline Hatchery from $4.05 (cockerels). Each price is that hatchery's cheapest current Golden Laced Wyandotte listing, whichever sex class it falls in, so the classes named can differ from hatchery to hatchery.
- Are Golden Laced Wyandotte chicks in stock right now?
- 9 of the 9 Golden Laced Wyandotte chick listings the index tracks were in stock as of September 4, 2026, at 3 of the 3 hatcheries carrying the breed. No tracked hatchery publishes a next hatch date for Golden Laced Wyandotte right now. Availability is the figure that moves day to day on this site; price mostly isn't.
- Has the price of Golden Laced Wyandotte chicks changed?
- No. The daily median has held at $4.98 on every one of the 53 days the index has tracked Golden Laced Wyandotte chicks, starting July 14, 2026. Genuine repricings are rare here — the index has observed 1 across 54,809 day-over-day listing comparisons.
- Do pullet Golden Laced Wyandotte chicks cost more than straight run?
- Yes. Golden Laced Wyandotte pullets (sexed females) run a median $6.89 against $5.85 for straight run — $1.04 more per chick, about 18%. Sexing costs money and most buyers want hens, so females carry a premium across nearly every breed. Both medians come from the same 3 hatcheries. Cockerels (sexed males) sit at a median $3.99.
Cite this page: Chick Price Index, "Golden Laced Wyandotte chick price," data through September 4, 2026. https://chickpriceindex.com/breeds/golden_laced_wyandotte
Related reading
- 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 Golden Laced Wyandotte listing from tracked hatcheries daily and record price and availability by sex. Full methodology.