Looking for a poultry farm for sale in Pyrénées-Atlantiques means looking at a department where fattened duck holds a central place: force-feeding rooms, grower units and broiler houses all lean on the maize grown along the gave valleys. Farm-reared chickens, guinea fowl and small batches of laying hens supplying local markets complete the picture. Farmers approaching a handover, rural property agencies and notaries entrust these holdings to us with the covered area, the production system and the marketing organisation attached to the unit. Together they feed the countrywide picture of poultry farms for sale.
Beyond the listing, this page gives you land values across Béarn and the Basque Country, the plains and valleys where handovers come up, the parts of the buildings worth a surveyor's eye and the checks the sector imposes. Setting up takes long preparation: our white paper « Créer une exploitation agricole » (in French) sets out the stages, from legal structure to funding.
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 Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64) stood at €7,931/ha in 2025, with an average of €8,512/ha across 90 sales; 80% of transactions fall between €5,000 and €11,950/ha, against a national median of €5,307/ha.
The SAFER benchmark of land values (2025 figures) puts vacant land and pasture at €7,880/ha (-2.5% year on year, -1.6% over ten years), against a national average of €6,460/ha; land already let sells around 17% lower.
Hectares never sum up what a poultry business is worth. Look at the force-feeding room and its compliance, the outdoor pens and range, ventilation and heating, silos and feed lines, and whether collection lorries can reach the yard. Membership of a South-West geographical indication counts too, along with the regularity of placements and, on a farm that processes on site, the workshop, its health approval and the customer base built up at market. Set the asking price in context with our land price observatory, then test the takeover plan in our financial calculators.
Local stock ranges from conventional broiler houses to grower units opening onto grass pens and force-feeding rooms fitted with group pens. Anyone buying a poultry building examines the frame, the insulation, static or fan ventilation, the heating system, the condition of the slab and of the biosecurity entry room, silo capacity and how easily the house washes down. A recent building, or one brought up to standard, sells well above an older shed whose takeover implies structural work. Usable width, orientation, the quality of the water supply and how the surroundings hold up in wet weather also feed into the asking price.
Many units work under contract with a production organisation that supplies ducklings or chicks, delivers feed and collects the batches: the remaining term and the takeover conditions should be checked before any offer. Farms that have kept their own cannery, their direct-sales round and their customers carry goodwill separate from the bricks and mortar. Where a holding is offered with the dwelling house and maize land, ask for an item-by-item breakdown rather than a single global figure.
The plains of the gave de Pau and the gave d'Oloron, around Orthez, Artix and Nay, hold most of the units backed by maize growing, on medium-sized family holdings. Towards Saint-Palais, Hasparren and Basse-Navarre, poultry sits alongside sheep farming and is run on a more farmhouse scale geared to processing. The Aspe, Ossau and Barétous valleys offer few purpose-built houses and fragmented parcels. Along the coast and on the edges of Bayonne and Pau, competition from housing tightens the supply of land and firms up values.
Distance to the abattoirs, hatcheries and feed mills of south-west France remains a real criterion: it governs haulage costs and access to placements. An egg farm rarely comes up here, most of the offer being broilers and waterfowl. Inland Béarn, away from the most sought-after roads, offers the best balance between land prices, availability of buildings and proximity to the operators.
Poultry units fall under the French classified installations regime: depending on flock size the holding is subject to declaration, registration or authorisation, and any change of operator must be notified to the prefecture. Read the order in force, since an old one may carry requirements that have become restrictive for an extension project. The buyer also checks the biosecurity plan, how the empty period between batches is organised, effluent storage capacity and the manure spreading plan. In south-west France, avian influenza prevention closely governs ranges, fencing and the periods when birds must be housed, which bears directly on how waterfowl are managed.
Part of the land is often rented: the rural lease continues with the buyer, subject to the landlord's agreement, and the deal goes through the structures control, the French authorisation regime for taking over farmland, as well as SAFER's pre-emption right. Have the land, the buildings and the machinery valued separately rather than accepting one round sum. A buyer seeking setting-up support must hold the agricultural professional qualification and file the application before signature, which means agreeing the timetable with the seller.
Behind each property stands a farmer arranging a handover, a specialist rural agency or a local notarial office. Narrow by covered area, by budget or by production, switch on an alert to follow new listings, and open the search to every poultry farm for sale in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
