Acquiring a poultry farm for sale in Bas-Rhin means entering one of the tightest land markets in France, backed by a well-rooted tradition of farmhouse poultry: capons and geese for year-end tables, free-range table birds raised under label rouge or organic rules, and flocks of laying hens delivering eggs to shops and to the markets of Strasbourg and Haguenau. Farmers handing over, agencies specialising in rural property and notaries feed this page, setting out buildings, equipment and production system. These properties sit among our poultry farms for sale across France.
Here you will find what it takes to judge a listing: land values in Bas-Rhin, the districts where holdings change hands, how to appraise an existing building and the regulatory framework that applies to livestock farming. If setting up is still ahead of you, our white paper « Créer une exploitation agricole » (in French) presents every stage, from permits to funding.
Land remains the largest item when buying a poultry farm. Land transaction data does not cover this department (Alsace-Moselle land register), so the figures below are those of the Grand Est region. According to sales recorded by the French tax administration (DVF, vineyards excluded), the median price of agricultural land in the region stood at €5,611/ha in 2025, with an average of €7,490/ha across 1,233 sales; 80% of transactions fall between €3,151 and €14,830/ha, against a national median of €5,307/ha.
The SAFER benchmark of land values (2025 figures) puts vacant land and pasture at €6,470/ha (-2.4% year on year, -5.5% over ten years), against a national average of €6,460/ha; land already let sells around 17% lower.
On this market, buildings and goodwill often weigh more than hectares. Buyers look at the poultry building, its insulation and ventilation, the heating, the silos and feed line, the egg packing room, the cold store, any on-farm slaughter facility and the fencing of the range. An established customer base, market pitches and membership of a collective farm shop add to that value, as does a contract with a production organisation. Set these benchmarks against our land price observatory and our financial calculators.
What comes up here combines mid-sized houses with a grass range, enclosed finishing buildings, laying rooms on the floor or in aviaries and, on farms selling direct, integrated slaughter and cutting facilities. Inspection covers the frame and roof, insulation, fan-driven or natural ventilation, heating, the state of the floor, the biosecurity entry room, the washing area and water management. Silo capacity, access for deliveries and collection, and the free ground around the building also count, the latter being scarce in a department where built-up land runs almost without a break.
On an egg farm, equipment is valued piece by piece: nest boxes, grader, plucker, cold room, farm-gate sales counter. The flock is judged on its stage and veterinary follow-up. Some units work with a producer group, others live on direct sales and hand on a steady customer base along with approvals to be taken over. Where the dwelling house, outbuildings and land are sold together with the production tool, breaking down the price becomes essential: in this department, residential property carries a great deal of the total value.
The Kochersberg, at the gates of Strasbourg, and the Ried from Erstein to Benfeld are intensive cropping country where land reaches high levels and poultry units come in as a second enterprise. The Outre-Forêt and northern Alsace, around Wissembourg and Soultz-sous-Forêts, keep more affordable mixed holdings. To the west, the Alsace Bossue towards Sarre-Union and Drulingen, and the Pays de Hanau, offer more grassland, smaller structures and prices far less strained than on the plain.
The Vosges foothills, from Molsheim to Obernai and Barr, are given over to vineyards, which leave little room for a livestock project. Everywhere, competition from housing and infrastructure shrinks the ground available and lengthens the search. A broiler farm will keep more room to develop in the western districts of the department, where neighbours are fewer.
Depending on flock size, the unit falls under declaration, registration or authorisation as a classified installation, and a change of operator is notified to the prefecture; the order in force deserves close reading. The most sensitive point is the neighbourhood: in a department this populous, distances to dwellings and the management of odour and noise govern both daily operation and any enlargement. Add the biosecurity plan, the empty period between batches and the housing duties that apply during avian influenza episodes, the Rhine valley being a major migration corridor.
Protection of the Alsace aquifer brings strict rules on spreading and storing effluent, with much of the plain classified as a nitrate vulnerable zone: check the spreading plan and the storage actually in place. A holding that slaughters or packs must pass on its health approval without interruption. On rented parcels, the rural lease continues with the new farmer subject to the landlord's agreement, and the deal goes through the structures control, the French authorisation regime for taking over farmland, and through SAFER.
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