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How many Eggs did you Sell today?
Why does it matter as long as they are paying the price you are asking? I have an older gentleman that stops by every Thursday for 50 dozen for his own egg route. I get my farm price, he marks them up, makes a little extra for delivery and everybody is happy.- Mac in Wisco
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- Forum: Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying
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How many Eggs did you Sell today?
Quote: Most folks won't go out of their way to buy eggs. Almost all of our sales from the farm are to folks that live within three miles of us. I originally had a sign in the yard a few summers ago. Once we had a good base of customers I took the sign down. I still pick up a new customer...- Mac in Wisco
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How many Eggs did you Sell today?
Quote: I have a sign along the road in front of the house. "Eggs 4 Sale" "Stop on in!" People just come up and knock on the door, or many stop in when they see me outside doing yard work. Most live within few miles of me. If I find out they are local I tell them in the future to just drive...- Mac in Wisco
- Post #163
- Forum: Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying
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How many Eggs did you Sell today?
Quote: We've just been at this 10 weeks so I will give you my take on it so far. Yes, it's fairly capital intense. The layer barn was here when we bought the place so it's just rolled up with our home mortgage and I don't have any large payments on it otherwise. The hens cost $17K and in...- Mac in Wisco
- Post #155
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How many Eggs did you Sell today?
Flakey, they are bedded on straw in a deep litter system, although I did shovel out a small portion of the barn yesterday because of a big water leak. Six inches of sloppy wet manure... It takes my wife and me about 2-3 hours in the morning to do chores around the barn and pack 2000 eggs...- Mac in Wisco
- Post #154
- Forum: Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying
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How many Eggs did you Sell today?
That's one week's worth, we are getting about 180 dozen a day of marketable eggs from 2500 hens right now. The truck comes every Wednesday to pick them up. Each of these racks holds 450 dozen and we just about fill three of them each week.- Mac in Wisco
- Post #145
- Forum: Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying
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How many Eggs did you Sell today?
1260 dozen @ $1.82/dz to Organic Valley this morning- Mac in Wisco
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- Forum: Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying