Chicken is often one of the cheaper meats at the grocery store, but you can still pay a premium price for the poultry if you try hard enough. Bresse chickens, from their namesake area in France, are valued for their gamey flavor and tender flesh while Silkie chickens are valued as show chickens for their almost mammalian plumage. The Sussex chickens offered by Greenfire Farms, however, may be the most expensive chickens in the world.
Sussex chickens are a dual-purpose breed. They’re useful for both their egg-laying capacity—up to 250 eggs per year—and their fat, meaty bodies. As the breed’s name suggests, the Sussex chicken comes from Sussex County in England and only four of the eight different varieties of Sussex chicken are widely available in the US.
Greenfire Farms offers two of the varieties less common in the US, the Silver Sussex and the Coronation Sussex, for a hefty price. The Silver is black with prevalent streaks of white and silver while the Coronation is an almost opalescent white. Greenfire offers both of these bloodlines at $750 for six day-old chicks.
Coronation and Silver Sussex chickens
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OMG! So that chicken does taste gold, huh?
hi all, i live in france where i breed and sell, at the moment i have a very rare red dorking bantam for sale at 100 euros but after reading that sussex are the most expensive, i might up the price.
Unbelievable. For me to buy these, they would have to lay solid gold eggs, and poop goose liver pate on a silver plate…and serve it to me.
Actually I’ve heard Thailand has a farm that sells more expensive chickens which were bred for Cock-Fighting though, but the price for the most expenive they’ve ever sold was 800,000 baht which is about $25,000.
i own the worlds biggest bantam farm i have 2 million different breeds of bantams and i earn up to £150,000,000 a month.