The leading poultry department in Occitanie, Gers sees a steady flow of handovers each year, and a poultry farm for sale in Gers may mean buildings for quality-label birds raised on range, units rearing ducks before finishing or rooms used for finishing them, standard houses under contract, or a unit of laying hens completing a mixed arable holding. The files come from farmers passing on their tool, from rural agencies across the south-west and from notarial offices, with covered area, type of range and the cooperative or producer group the unit belongs to. They complete the national selection of poultry farms for sale.
On a market this well organised, reading a listing calls for benchmarks. This page gathers the level of land values in Gers, the districts where units are concentrated, the technical items to check on a chicken farm and the regulatory verifications to carry out before committing. For anyone building a setting-up project, our white paper « Créer une exploitation agricole » (in French) details the approach, from professional 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 Gers (32) stood at €6,897/ha in 2025, with an average of €6,763/ha across 248 sales; 80% of transactions fall between €4,063 and €9,500/ha, against a national median of €5,307/ha.
The SAFER benchmark of land values (2025 figures) puts vacant land and pasture at €7,100/ha (-2.1% year on year, +6.4% over ten years), against a national average of €6,460/ha; land already let sells around 17% lower.
On a holding here, value is concentrated in the buildings and the outlet. Under scrutiny come the covered area and its insulation, the ventilation and its controls, the heating, the silos, the entry room and how easily the house washes down between batches, but also the extent and shade of the range, without which quality-label specifications cannot be met. Add the standing held within a cooperative, the distance to an abattoir and the compliance of any finishing room. The land price observatory and our financial calculators put it in perspective.
The stock of buildings here stands out for its variety. Alongside modest farm houses, generously fitted with pop-holes and backed by a wooded range, stand longer standard houses, mobile huts used outdoors and, a local speciality, waterfowl units: buildings for rearing ducks before finishing, and finishing rooms subject to precise requirements on layout and animal welfare. On a house as on a finishing room, examine the frame, the insulation, the ventilation system, the heat source, the silo capacity, the condition of the slab and the compliance of the biosecurity entry room before making any offer.
Value then depends on the link downstream. Many units work with a cooperative or producer group that supplies the birds and the feed and collects the batches: ask how long the agreement still runs, on what terms it transfers and what the organisation's policy is before making an offer. Holdings that slaughter, process and sell on the markets change hands with their processing room, their approval and their customers, all to be valued separately. Where the property includes a Gascon farmhouse, outbuildings and land, ask for a detailed breakdown of the price.
Poultry production runs through almost the whole department, with shades of difference. The Lomagne, around Lectoure, Fleurance and Saint-Clar, and the Savès, towards Samatan and Lombez, combine arable crops with poultry and waterfowl. The Ténarèze, from Condom to Valence-sur-Baïse, and the Bas-Armagnac around Eauze and Nogaro mix vines, cereals and poultry units. The Astarac and the Auch country, more rolling, carry mid-sized holdings often run as mixed farming with cattle or sheep. Towards the southern hills, fields become more fragmented and holdings offered with a dwelling come up for sale more frequently.
That density is an asset for a buyer: downstream facilities on the doorstep, feed available, local know-how and an established technical network. It has a flip side, since a well-equipped unit running free-range poultry or table birds quickly finds a taker among neighbouring farmers. Starting the search early and being ready to visit in several districts of the department markedly improves the odds of concluding.
Avian influenza prevention shapes how units are run throughout south-west France, and Gers was directly affected by the successive episodes. The biosecurity plan must be written, applied and current: entry room, dedicated clothing, separation of clean and dirty movements, fencing and management of the ranges, controlled deliveries and the capacity to house birds when that is imposed. Confirm too that sanitary break periods are observed, and look at the health history of the site, since a unit that has been through a cull carries restart conditions a buyer needs to know about before signing.
Then comes the administrative framework: declaration, registration or authorisation according to flock size under the classified installations regime, notice of the change of operator to the prefecture, and the applicable order and inspection reports to request. Effluent calls for sufficient storage capacity and a spreading plan consistent with the land available. On the land itself, the rural lease continues with the buyer subject to the landlord's agreement, and the sale remains subject to the structures control and to SAFER's pre-emption right.
The Gers listings gathered here are placed by private vendors, by agencies specialising in rural property and by notaries. Adjust the criteria for area, budget and production, from a standalone broiler farm to a complete egg farm with land and a dwelling, then create an alert to follow new sales. The search can equally be widened to every poultry farm for sale in Occitanie.
