Sumatra Chicks — What's a Fair Price?

Prices from 4 hatcheries, updated September 4, 2026. In stock at 3 of 4 right now.

A Sumatra pullet chick typically sells for around $7.68 right now; straight run (unsexed) runs around $7.99. Prices below are each hatchery's current listing per sex.

Price by hatchery

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

Sumatra is listed at 4 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 3 of those 4. 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

Disclosure: the Chewy links below are affiliate links — if you buy through them we earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. This never affects the prices or hatchery rankings above. Details.

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 Sumatra chicks cost?

As of September 4, 2026, the index tracks 10 Sumatra chick listings at 4 of the 6 US hatcheries it follows. Chick prices depend on sex, so each class is priced separately: pullets (sexed females) — median $7.68 across 2 listings ranging $6.37 to $8.99; straight run (unsexed) — median $7.99 across 3 listings ranging $5.44 to $9.99; cockerels (sexed males) — median $4.81 across 2 listings ranging $4.64 to $4.99; listings the hatchery publishes without a sex label — median $8.24 across 2 listings ranging $6.49 to $9.99. Prices are per chick and exclude shipping, and hatcheries set minimum order quantities. One further tracked listing carries no published price at all, so it is counted above but left out of every price figure.

Which hatchery has the cheapest Sumatra chicks?

Meyer Hatchery has the lowest price for pullets (sexed females) at $6.37 per chick, as of September 4, 2026, compared across the 2 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 Sumatra chicks?

4 of the 6 US hatcheries the index tracks list Sumatra chicks as of September 4, 2026: Meyer Hatchery from $4.64 (cockerels), My Pet Chicken from $4.99 (cockerels), Cackle Hatchery from $6.49 (sex not stated) and Murray McMurray Hatchery (listed with no published price). Each price is that hatchery's cheapest current Sumatra listing, whichever sex class it falls in, so the classes named can differ from hatchery to hatchery.

Are Sumatra chicks in stock right now?

9 of the 10 Sumatra chick listings the index tracks were in stock as of September 4, 2026, at 3 of the 4 hatcheries carrying the breed. No tracked hatchery publishes a next hatch date for Sumatra right now. Availability is the figure that moves day to day on this site; price mostly isn't.

Has the price of Sumatra chicks changed?

The daily median for Sumatra chicks has moved 1 time across the 53 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 54,809 day-over-day listing comparisons.

Do pullet Sumatra chicks cost more than straight run?

No — it runs the other way for Sumatra. Pullets (sexed females) have a median $7.68 against $7.99 for straight run, making the sexed females $0.31 per chick cheaper. That inversion is unusual and worth checking against the hatchery table above before ordering. The two medians don't come from the same set of hatcheries (2 for pullets, 3 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 $4.81.

Cite this page: Chick Price Index, "Sumatra chick price," data through September 4, 2026. https://chickpriceindex.com/breeds/sumatra

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 Sumatra listing from tracked hatcheries daily and record price and availability by sex. Full methodology.