Anybody getting $4 / doz. for eggs?

[mama24]

I pay $3.50 for a dozen when my hens don't lay enough (like this month, egg demand was MUCH higher than supply due to the holiday.) Free range eggs in the grocery store go for about $4 I think (I don't buy them. If I have to buy eggs at the grocery store, I'll buy the $1 white eggs. Free range is a marketing ploy, doesn't mean they actually treat their chickens any better.) I paid $4/dz in IN before we moved here to NC 2 years ago.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

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That's what I would do and in fact it's what I'm about to do. With the way feed has gone up these last seven months come the first of June I'm going to $3.25 a dozen then come the first of September to $3.50. Feed goes up any more I'll be at $4.00 by the end of the year.

 

[Merryment]

We get $4.25/dz here in Tulsa at the local farmer's markets. I've been getting $3 selling to friends but contemplate upping the price since feed has gone up 20%. I agree - try it incrementally, or do an informal poll with your customers.

I make a 2x4" label with a picture of the chickens to one side, and an explanation of how the eggs the customer is buying pays for the chicken feed ("and that ain't scratch!" as the note reads) - it's a note from the 'girls', and I put their names at the bottom (I only have 6). The customers have really responded well to it. I believe a well-informed customer who knows you, and perhaps your birds, personally responds well to these sorts of adjustments. Let them know that these aren't battery hens pooping out 'cheap' eggs. Explain the difference. Telll them the story of your chickens, where they live, how they live. This gives them a personal stake in the food they choose to eat. Don't fib.

You can only suck it up so long before you are working for free and the girls aren't even getting their feed paid for.

Keep us posted on how it goes.

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

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Excellent advice. I also agree with another post that location is a large factor. Around here I can by large brown free range eggs for less than $2 from the Amish. Also so many peoples budgets are getting hit hard with high gas prices that I would think real hard before an extreme jump in prices.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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I agree. In my area, $4.00 a dozen is WAY too much. It all depends on the area that you live.

 

[LarryPQ]

I get $4 a doz, but can charge more if I need it. The farmer's market 1/4 mile away from my house is $6 a dozen.

 

[schellie69]

I am charging $2.50 a dozen with your own egg carton $3.00 without since egg cartons cost 49 cents here. I do okay I can break even on the feed. that is all I am looking for. Once I get on a farm I will be selling hatching eggs from the breeds I want to raise.

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

We do get $4 a dozen, and since I have added flax seed (for omega3 fatty acids), we could charge more. We live in a resort town on the Oregon coast, populated (full time) by a lot of locavores and people committed to eating fresh, local produce.
The last time I priced brown eggs at the store, they were also around $4 a dozen.
My husband is a marketing manager for a grocery store chain here, and he has warned the price of eggs (and everything else) is going wayyyy up over the next year.
I have increased the size of my flock this spring, and am hoping they will mature in time to subvert a molting egg-drought over the fall.
I have decided not to sell eggs any more for a while, to make sure my family (nuclear and extended) will be able to afford fresh eggs, no matter what the economy does.
Best of luck with your egg sales!

Brightest Blessings

 

[patman75]

Last year the farmer I buy my organic feed from sells his Organic, free range, pasture raised eggs for $4.00 a dozen. He sells them at a farmers market that is in a wealthy/rich city.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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I wish that I could sell my eggs for $4.00 per dozen.