A poultry farm for sale in Eure-et-Loir sits in a department far better known for its wheat than for its livestock, where poultry keeping grew as a second enterprise able to steady the income of an arable business. You will find contract broiler houses, laying units whose table eggs travel to the Paris market close by, and a few farmhouse flocks of chicken, guinea fowl or duck sold straight to consumers. Behind each property stands a farmer arranging a handover, a rural agency or a notary's office, and every listing states the built area, the production system and the commitment in force. The same work covers all the poultry farms for sale across France.
This page goes past the catalogue: farmland values in the department, the districts where units change hands, how to read the buildings offered, and the controls the sector places on any buyer. If you are setting up rather than expanding, our white paper « Créer une exploitation agricole » (in French) covers the whole route, from the agricultural qualification to the funding package.
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 Eure-et-Loir (28) stood at €8,300/ha in 2025, with an average of €8,647/ha across 213 sales; 80% of transactions fall between €6,000 and €12,000/ha, against a national median of €5,307/ha.
The SAFER benchmark of land values (2025 figures) puts vacant land and pasture at €10,030/ha (+0.3% year on year, +35.7% over ten years), against a national average of €6,460/ha; land already let sells around 17% lower.
The worth of a local unit, though, lies elsewhere than in the acreage. It rests on the usable length and insulation of the house, the ventilation and heating, the feed silos, the biosecurity entry room and lorry access for collection, but equally on whatever secures the batches: an integration contract in force, membership of a producer group, or a customer list built through short supply chains. An egg-packing room, a cutting room or a farm shop is appraised in its own right, as goodwill. To place an asking price, open our land price observatory and test your figures with our financial calculators.
The local stock mixes standard houses built away from the farmyard, a few label rouge buildings with a grass range, and laying units on the floor or in aviaries. Inspection starts with the frame, the roof and the insulation, then moves to ventilation, heating, the control system, the silos and the feed auger. The floor, the drains and the entry room say a great deal about how strictly the down-time between batches was observed. A broiler farm recently brought up to standard, fitted with a heat exchanger or heat recovery, sells appreciably above an older structure whose return to service will mean heavy work.
Management weighs as much as masonry. A unit whose batches follow one another without interruption, with technical results documented over several crops, reassures both buyer and lender. Ask for energy bills, the record of veterinary interventions and a full list of the equipment included. Where the property comes with a dwelling house, Beauce arable land and a barn, separate the production tool, the home and the land from the first visit: the three are not judged against the same references.
The Beauce plain around Voves, Janville and Auneau remains cereal country: livestock units are scarce, land is tightly held, and the few houses on the market appear as a diversification within an arable business. The west draws a different picture altogether. The Perche and Faux-Perche, towards Nogent-le-Rotrou, Authon-du-Perche and La Loupe, keep their hedged fields, smaller holdings and a livestock tradition that makes a takeover more attainable. To the north, the Thymerais and the Drouais, from Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais to Dreux, combine crops with indoor units, while the Dunois around Châteaudun and the Eure valley complete the picture.
Nearness to the Paris region shapes many projects: farms selling eggs and farmhouse poultry direct find a dense customer base and steady markets here. That same proximity pushes land values up in the north-east of the department. First-time entrants therefore look more readily towards the Perche and the southern Dunois, where the balance between land prices and available buildings is at its most workable.
A poultry unit falls under the French classified installations regime: depending on flock size it requires a declaration, a registration or a full authorisation, and any change of operator must be notified to the prefecture. Ask for the order currently in force, since an old text can carry requirements that have become burdensome. Then examine the biosecurity plan, the one-way working routes, the fencing of ranges and the avian influenza precautions, along with the measured distance to neighbouring dwellings, which governs any future extension far more reliably than a verbal assurance.
The department is classified as a nitrate vulnerable zone, so the manure spreading plan and storage capacity deserve close attention, particularly above the Beauce aquifer. Much of the land is rented: the rural lease continues with the new farmer, subject to the landlord's agreement, and the transaction passes through the structures control, the French authorisation regime for taking over farmland, and SAFER's pre-emption right. Insist on three valuations, one for the houses, one for the equipment and one for the fields, instead of a single headline figure.
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