A Sample Plan to submit for selling eggs to a natural food store

[MobyQuail]

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[FeatheredObsessions]

Sounds like you are doing wonderful!

 

[aprophet]

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a lot of us are the same way, being a semi retired pirate ain't easy

 

[Fat Daddy]

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a lot of us are the same way, being a semi retired pirate ain't easy

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You hit that one right on the head... Some days they just ain't no "under the radar"... Bill

 

[scatteredeggs]

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i hope to do the same thing!

 

[FeatheredObsessions]

There is a definate marked if you can get your foot in the door.

 

[Wifezilla]

"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don't push me, and I won't push you. Dong le ma?" - Malcomb Reynolds, Serenity

 

[aprophet]

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I should have this tattooed somewhere on me

its funny but the inner city take out places will buy almost all I can get the girls to lay . I kept thinking I would ship eggs one day but the locals can keep you rather busy

 

[PatS]

I don't know if it is polite to ask, but I will anyway. Can you give us a hint as to how much you get in the various markets?

 

[kahlertm]

a lot of us are the same way, being a semi retired pirate ain't easy

Hey guys! Haven't been around in a while and I thought I'd check in on the subject.

So selling at the Farmers market is completely safe and legal in Colorado. Don't you worry. This is per local, AND State Health Dept. In a LOT of states Coturnix Japanese or the Common European Coturnix (all the same...COTURNIX QUAIL) fall under a list called unregulated game (goldfish, beta fish, parakeets etc.) BUT MAKE SURE AND LOOK UP YOUR STATE WILDLIFE CODE. Google unregulated game and your state's name or call the local office.
Please remember to wash and rinse in bleach solution as I stated...the longer that the bacteria in their feces on the egg sets on the eggshell pores, the easier it is to permeate and reproduce in the egg....I was talking yesterday to someone who was still so worried about keeping the bloom on the egg. Yes the bloom is great. But if you're selling to a restaurant or market whether it be farmers or store, your customer is going to be eating that egg within 3 to 5 weeks or should. I mark mine to expire in 4 weeks. JJ once stated that due to the size of these little eggs, they can dehydrate faster. Another thing.. Since Coturnix Quail eggs don't USUALLY fall under Dept of AG and USUALLY fall to Health Dept inspection, we aren't required to candle them. Make sure and float those eggs. Sometimes they look fine, but have a microscopic scratch from the hens that lets air in. I tell my customers to float them too. Not that they will be rotten, but so they hard boil and consume them quicker after a pop open and check. That fresh and floating, must have been a glitch in the layer or a scratch or tiny crack.

I learned yesterday speaking with my feed representatives in Fort Collins, Colo. That the USDA does not generally aggressively if at all seek out and investigate claims of organic in farmers market and small farming. Be honest. If it is "natural raised" that is fair to state...given a base of chow or feed mix, and other seeds, your organic produce, such as apples, greens, meal worms. You may even call them "wild fed" if you are using a "natural wild bird feed mix combined with a gamebird feed base *for the nutrition that some of the non GMO formulas DO NOT PROVIDE (B12 available in bone, blood, liver or meat meal..they can't run it thru the mill without having to shut the whole darn thing down and clean it and start up production again to keep their certification. I feel bad for the feed maker there) Some research I have done for me and YOU for the last 6 months, cause you know I am YOU!!!

For your egg customers who have health complaints and believe that Quail Eggs are part of the cure who claim "you can not claim organic unless you are GMO free"...Legally not true. Ethically...I'll leave it up to you. If you make under $5K a month on your produce, and you feed a balanced diet including a gamebird ration also balanced with organic fruits, seeds (called natural as they are differently regulated) meal worms grown on say organic carrots or apples, you MAY state Organic or Natural, or if using a great deal of wild bird seed mix Wild fed.

This is a discovery of mine in the last 48 hours. I need to confirm it , but if some of us work together on checking it, we may find a contradiction. So watch for one. I will contact the head offices and make sure.

So Farmer's market sellers....You are hereby non pirate!!! At least in Colorado....and I'll bet in most states. Just wash those eggs as per what I have stated OR ask your customer if they want them rinsed as some still cling to the bloom protecting them...some I have believe the city water as "tainted"...Okaaaaay...purchase and consume at your own risk and I document that I sold a batch to a the customer that day refusing the washed process.


I just wanted to check in and say hello and give you an update. I have been investigating ORGANIC, GMO FREE, Meat Meal supplements, and going back to a simple gamebird ration with free choice wild bird seed "all natural" (very grey area and not my fault mind you). I want my birds to thrive...so that they do produce the eggs they can and still feel good. I don't want my birds to be starving to death and slowly dying for a Vegan or non GMO political health agenda. I will keep one line going and begin another and see how the "Wild Fed" eggs go. Read your labels folks. Call the maker of your feed and check the corn and soy if it is in there and you can ask if it is non GMO if you want..

Good luck out there my fellow eating egg sellers. Non GMO feed and having to find a meat meal, hard boil 18 organic eggs, crumble in natural flax seed mix and oystershell, is a LOT OF WORK. Those eggs are getting marked up from $6. to near $8. Feed is that high in $ and labor to get the obligate insectivore need met OR THEY'll feather peck, then canibalize due to starvation....well that costs money folks. It can be done if you have the drive for your customers. Otherwise my other covey is gonna be called Wild fed. I AM ALLOWED. Check to see if you are with the regional office or rep of your food maker. NOT THE FEED STORE PERSON.....The REP or the NUTRITIONIST OF THE COMPANY.

Happy selling. By the way. Restaurant eggs get me .40 per egg. and I told you what I'm going to set store eggs at. Enjoy and don't work to hard my peeps!

Thanks for the info Tonya.

I have sold some through the farmer's market, but haven't taken it to the store level. I kinda like being off the gooberment radar