Raymond man pays big for grandson’s chicken at County Fair auction

For $4,050, you could buy four big screen TVs or two top of the line laptops — or a chicken?

Chicken at the grocery store sells for about $2 a pound, but a live chicken sold for $4,050 at the Racine County Fair Sunday livestock auction. Butch, the 10-pound rooster sold Sunday, cost $405 per pound.

“You could buy enough chickens for a lifetime with $4,000,” said Ron Bretl, 65, of Raymond, who bought the Cornish Cross rooster at auction from his 12-year-old grandson, Ryan Goessl. “I think my wife was in shock. She was pulling on my leg and hollering at me.”

Butch was the largest sale in the small animal category. Chickens normally sell for between $150 and $350 at the fair, said Scott Gunderson, president of the Racine County Agricultural Society. Ryan, from Raymond, sold a chicken at auction last year for $350.

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Tagged as: Animals, Auctions, Chickens, Cornish Cross Roosters, County Fairs, Fairs, Livestock, Racine County Agricultural Society, Ron Bretl, Roosters, Ryan Goessl

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