Searching for a poultry farm for sale in Côte-d'Or means looking at an arable and beef department where poultry takes two forms: table-bird units run alongside a cereal rotation, and farmhouse holdings, often free range, geared to direct selling and the markets of Dijon. The listings gathered here are passed on by farmers handing over, by rural agencies and by notaries; they state the built area, the type of production, the equipment and the land attached. They complete the wider set of poultry farms for sale in France.
This page assembles what listings leave out: farmland prices in the department, the areas where sales are concentrated, the condition of the buildings to verify and the regulatory checks specific to poultry. If you are preparing to set up, our white paper « Créer une exploitation agricole » (in French) covers the whole route, from the agricultural qualification to financing.
Land remains the largest item when buying a poultry farm. According to sales recorded by the French tax administration (DVF, vineyards excluded), the median price of agricultural land in Côte-d'Or (21) stood at €3,065/ha in 2025, with an average of €3,183/ha across 170 sales; 80% of transactions fall between €1,942 and €4,620/ha, against a national median of €5,307/ha.
The SAFER benchmark of land values (2025 figures) puts vacant land and pasture at €2,870/ha (-5.9% year on year, -3.0% over ten years), against a national average of €6,460/ha; land already let sells around 17% lower.
Beyond hectares, a buyer here values the livestock building and its year of construction, the ventilation and heating, the silos and feed line, the litter storage capacity and the manure that can be spread on the rotation. The birds on site, the integration contract or membership of a producer group, and, for short-circuit farms, the workshop and customer base all weigh in. To place the asking price, consult our land price observatory and our financial calculators.
A poultry building on the market in this department may be an enclosed standard house, a label rouge unit with a grass range, a floor-laying room or, less often, an aviary. Buyers check the frame, insulation and ventilation, whether natural or forced, the heating system, the floor and the biosecurity entry room, the silos and the feed auger. They also look at the washing area, water management, access for delivery and collection lorries, and the free ground around the building, which determines the scope for any later enlargement.
The outlet matters as much as the fabric. A unit under contract with a production organisation passes on a technical and commercial framework whose remaining term and takeover conditions must be read; a farm selling direct passes on a customer base, a cutting room and a health approval that has to be transferred. Where the listing covers a whole farmstead with dwelling house and land, ask for a clear split between the production tool, the housing and the land.
The Val de Saône and the eastern plain, around Genlis, Auxonne and Saint-Jean-de-Losne, hold arable holdings where a poultry unit completes the rotation; land there is sought after and priced accordingly. The Auxois, around Semur-en-Auxois and Vitteaux, is hedgerow cattle country with more mixed farms and small free-range units. To the north, the Châtillonnais combines cereal plateaux and woodland, with larger holdings and more affordable land.
The vineyard slope from Dijon to Beaune and Nuits-Saint-Georges releases virtually no farmland outside vines, and values there bear no relation to a livestock project. The west and north of the department, by contrast, offer more available buildings away from the urban centres. Proximity to the Dijon conurbation remains a leading commercial asset for a poultry holding on the market aimed at direct sales or local markets.
Depending on flock size, the holding is subject to declaration, registration or authorisation as a classified installation, and the change of operator is notified to the prefecture. The buyer reads the applicable order, checks the manure spreading plan, the storage capacity and whether the farm lies in a nitrate vulnerable zone, common in the plain. The biosecurity plan, the sanitary void between batches and the avian influenza measures complete the health checks to run before making an offer.
The land deserves the same care: rented parcels remain under a rural lease, which continues with the incoming farmer subject to the landlord's agreement, and the deal passes through the structures control, the French authorisation regime for taking over farmland, and SAFER's pre-emption right. Check the distance to dwellings, which governs any extension, and the condition of the access tracks. Valuing buildings, equipment and land separately remains the best protection against an overall price that is hard to justify to a lender.
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