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Additional Thoughts on Poultry Compensation. Stephen L. Ott. Small & Independent Poultry Producers. C ommercial Poultry Producers . Feral Birds, Fighting Cocks, Specialty Birds, e.g. racing pigeons. Backyard, Exhibition (Show), Pets, Zoos. Commercial poultry
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Additional Thoughts on Poultry Compensation Stephen L. Ott
Small & Independent Poultry Producers Commercial Poultry Producers Feral Birds, Fighting Cocks, Specialty Birds, e.g. racing pigeons Backyard, Exhibition (Show), Pets, Zoos
Commercial poultry • Value based upon industry data • Backyard, exhibition (show), pets, zoos • Value = Established replacement costs • Value = cost of young chicks plus cost of feed to reach adulthood
Range Chickens Back yard Chicken $5-$15 Crossbred Common Bantam $2-$5 Purebred Exhibition $5-$25 Chicks $0.50-$5 Pit Game – Fighting Cocks Pit Game Proven (1 year or older) $75-$100 Pit Game Unproven (less 1 year old) $50-$100 Brood cocks $50-$200 Brood Hens $35-$125 Ducks Duck Black $16-$17 Duck Fulvous $20-$22 Duck Greenwing Teal $27 Duck Hood Mergansers $50 Duck Manderine $20 Duck Marble Teal $22-$25 Duck Pintail $20 Duck Red Crested $20 Pochards $22 Duck Redhead $20 Duck Ringed Teal $20 Duck Ruddy $50 Duck Teal $25 Duck wood duck $15 Domestic Ducks $10-$25 Domestic Fowl Pricing(California, May 8, 2003)
Pigeon Pigeon Nicobar $250 Pigeon Racing $6 Pigeons $3-$20 Pheasant Pheasant $12-$50 Pheasant Amherst $12 Pheasant Golden $12 Pheasant Reeves $12 Swan Swan Black Neck $500 Swan Trumpeter $500 Geese Goose Blue $50 Goose Egyption $30 Goose Ganada $36 Goose Magellan $125 Goose Red-breasted $250 Goose Sebastropol $50 Goose Crossbred $5-$10 Goose Purebred $10-$20 Miscellaneous birds Peacock $25-$100 Peafowl $50-$100 Quail $3-$20 Quail Bobwhite $4 Turkeys $15-$30 Ostriches $75-$100 Emus $75-$150 Domestic Fowl Pricing(California, May 8, 2003)
Gamecocks(Fighting Cocks) Brood Cocks (caged breeding birds) $50 - $200 Brood Hens (caged breeding birds) $35 - $125 Fighting Roosters (loose birds) $25 - $100 Hens (loose birds) $25 - $50 Juvenile $20 - $40 Chicks $5 Backyard Chickens: Male, Female $5 - $15 Game-Hunting Birds, Water Fowl, Exhibition Doves $5 - $12 Ducks $5 - $20 Geese $15 - $25 Guinea $10 - $15 Ostriches/Emus $75 - $150 Game Birds, Water Fowl, Exhibition Peacock $25 - $100 Pigeon: Nicobar $250 Pigeon: Racing $6 Pigeon: Other $3 - $20 Quail $5 - $10 Turkeys $15 - $30 Pheasants Red, Yellow $200 Impeyian $400 Swine hoe $300 White—Crested Kalij $300 Silver $120 Golden $150 Lady Amherst $175 Blueback Mongolian $35 Albino $250 California Bird Prices, December, 2003
Pet Bird Values(California, December, 2003) • Amazon • Yellow Naped Amazon (Amazona auropalliata) $1,000 • Yellow Faced Amazon (Amazona xanthops) $800 • Tres Maria Amazon (Amazona ochrocephala tresmarie) $1,200 • Blue Fronted Amazon (Amazona aestiva xanthopteryx) $700-$900 • Double Yellow Headed Amazon (Amazon ochrocephala oratrix) $600-$850 • Jamaican Yellow Billed Amazon (Amazonia collaria) $1,800 • Cackatoo • Red-Vented Cockatoo (Cacatua haematuropygia) $2,200 • Umbrella Cockatoo (Cacatua alba) $1,000 • Ducorp Cockatoo (Cacatua ducorps) $1,000 • Goffin Cockatoo (Cacatua ducorps) $700-$1000 • Leadbeater Cockatoo (Cacatua leadbeateri) $4,000 • Moluccan Cockatoo (Cacatua moluccensis) $600-$1500 • Long Billed Corella Cockatoo (Cacatua tenuirostris) $2,200 • Cockatoo $500-$1500
Pet Bird Values(California, December, 2003) • Conure • Green Conure (Pyrrhura molinae) $250 • Sun Conure (Aratinga solstitialis) $350 • Yellow Green Conure (Pyrrhura malinae) $400 • Fallow Green checked Conure (Pyrrhura Molinae) $250 • Small Pet Birds • Finches $5-$35 • Finches Common $5-$20 • Lovebirds $25-$75 • Parakeets $5-$25 • Canaries $25-$100 • Cockatiels $25-$100
Small or Independent Producers • Production from a few hundred to a hundreds of thousand birds • May have own breeding lines • Value the same as similar birds in large commercial operations, unless owner can demonstrate with production, financial and tax records their birds are worth more
Feral Birds • Owned by no one, yet could be a community food resource • Their elimination may be important in disease control • Methods for obtaining such birds • Government paid hunters • But doesn’t address loss value to the community • Pay bounty for dead birds presented to government officials • Bounty must be less than indemnity paid for backyard birds
Fighting Cocks • Ownership is legal, but the fighting may not be • Ability to fight gives rise to increased value • Moral dilemma • Paying more for birds that fight may be viewed by the public as government endorsement of cock fighting which can cause public relations problems • However, such owners are often expert at avoiding government officials and will hide their birds during a disease outbreak • May want to develop government or official fighting pits • Would allow disease testing of such birds • Also generate tax revenue • Work with such owners before an outbreak • Establish typical distribution of quality within a fighting bird flock and values associated with various quality levels
Specialty Birds • Birds with very unique characteristics • Examples: racing pigeons, rolling skating parrot • How to value such characteristics? • Expert opinion • Need to be careful of bias, especially if expert is not experienced in appraisal methods • May want to have a maximum valuation