Frozen chicken bones wholesale price — $16.00 / case
quoted August 31, 2026
Frozen chicken bones are quoted at $16.00 / case in the week of August 31, 2026. That is the lowest wholesale quote we recorded that week from the single New York distributor we track — not a market average, and not an official terminal quotation. The quote covers one case. The supplier publishes no weight for it, so we never restate it per pound.
Price history
11 weekly quotes over 3M · lowest wholesale price observed, per case
Over the last 12 months
The price has not moved once in our 47 weekly quotes: frozen chicken bones have been quoted at $16.00 / case every week since September 8, 2025.
- Low
- $16.00
- High
- $16.00
- Average
- $16.00
- Quotes
- 47
About Frozen chicken bones
Chicken bones are a stock input, and they are the cheapest line in the whole poultry programme by a wide margin — which is the point. A kitchen making its own stock buys frozen bones because they are a by-product of someone else's butchery, they hold indefinitely at temperature, and their quality question is entirely different from that of a meat cut: what matters is the ratio of joint and back to residual meat, since collagen is what makes stock set. Nothing else on this list is bought for what it does after eight hours in water.
Buying notes
Ask what is actually in the case — backs and necks give a richer, better-setting stock than frames alone, and the two are often sold under the same description. Since this is the item a kitchen roasts from frozen anyway, there is no handling penalty in buying it frozen, which is why it is worth carrying even in a kitchen that buys all its other poultry fresh.
Frequently asked questions about Frozen chicken bones
How much do frozen chicken bones cost wholesale in New York?
Frozen chicken bones are quoted at $16.00 / case in the week of August 31, 2026, the lowest wholesale quote we recorded that week. The quote covers one case. The supplier publishes no weight for it, so we never restate it per pound.
Are these the official Hunts Point prices?
No. $16.00 / case is the lowest of 47 weekly quotes we recorded from one distributor serving New York. The USDA publishes the official New York terminal market quotations; we link to them from our methodology page.