average prices everyone charges for their eggs and egg color?

[BigPeep]

Free range, organic eggs sell at the health food store for $5/doz and at the farmer's markets for $4 to $5. The $4 price is for non organic. I have an egg CSA where I charge $20 for six eggs a week for 8 weeks so that is $5/doz. I will do a one year subscription for $100. That's for a half dozen each week. I have only heritage breeds of chickens as well.

Some people sell for less. I know of one lady who delivers for $3/doz but that would be cheap based on the above.

To call the eggs "organic" you have to feed the chickents organic feed from the second day of life. This will cost you about $26/50 lb bag retail or $15 wholesale, which is about double the cost of regular feed. If they are free ranging, your property also has to be free of chemical applications although it doesn't have to be certified.

I pay absolutely no attention to what the regular grocery stores are charging. It is a different product. If people don't want to pay my prices I tell them to go to the Jewel. I have no problem selling everything I can produce.

 

[chickenshagg]

I live in a urban area but there is a farm up the road and they are selling their eggs for $3.50 a DZ.
I thought that was a bit much but they always seem to run out of eggs and they have alot of chickens. I asked how many they have and was told with the broilers and the layers they have around 400 birds. They are all free range!

 

[jrabbit]

Free Range backyard eggs are COMPLETELY different from grocery store eggs. I cannot believe that people are unwilling to pay you $2 a dozen!! I absolutely would not hesitate to charge more than $3 a dozen, probably even $4. Any less than that, you are totally giving away your work for free. I know that it's not THAT much work to raise chickens, but they do cost money (feed, hay) and they do take labor (cleaning out the coop, making sure they have fresh clean water, making sure they are safe at night, getting eggs, making sure your yard is clean and safe).

Personally, we haven't had enough to sell, so we give 6 here and there as a thank you (to the housekeeper, the vet, the handyman, the neighbor). The chicken-sitter gets to keep any eggs on her watch.

When you undervalue the eggs, you are undervaluing YOURSELF. As a mother, I'm all too familiar with the concept of my job not being valued. So, even if I charged $4 a dozen, I'm only giving a $2 tip to my friends! And, they are surely worth more than that? My friends think the eggs are like gold and totally appreciate the gesture of 6 FREE eggs.

We don't call our free-range backyard eggs organic because they do not eat organic feed. If it were not twice as expensive we would, but I feel better knowing they are getting the bulk of their diet from the organic bugs in my yard and the half-organic food scraps they get to eat.

CHARGE MORE MONEY!! Give them free 6 every once in awhile. But please do NOT short-change the value of your eggs.

--janis

 

[fordmommy]

Mine aren't laying yet, but the neighbor charges $2.00 a doz.

 

[Tonopah Pati]

I will charge $3.00 a Doz. for mine. Most around here sell for $4.00, some will pay you for returned cartons,or you can discount the eggs. Im sticking with $3.00.

 

[briteday]

I charge $2 per dozen with delivery. However, most of our egg customers are people at work and such, we're going there anyway. The local rancher's cafe (right next door to vet's office where DD works) will buy any extras for $2/doz also and they get $2.50 for them from their customers. Same at the feed store. I find that people who are charging $3 per dozen end up on Craigslist repeatedly which tells me that they aren't able to sell as many eggs as they would like to. We really don't have enough of famers markets to make it feasible to sell at the few we have. And they are not close to home, on odd days at odd times...not convenient.

Despite the cleaning, watering, hauling feed and bedding...our egg sales buy all of the chickens' food, bedding, etc and gives our teenage daughter a little bit for gas each month as well.

We currently have 14 egglayers (not counting the silkies because I keep those for our own use) and average 10-12 eggs per day.

 

[daryl]

Im going to ask for 2.75 when I have eggs.already have several buyers...Im on week 13

 

[cmom]

I just dropped my price from $3.00/doz to $2.00/doz.

 

[Akane]

Just drove by the feed store in town and they are advertising all the free range farm fresh eggs they get at $1.25/dozen. The farmer's market doesn't sell them much higher. You probably won't find them over $2/dozen. That's why I hardly bother. Usually I give my extras away free in exchange for cartons. You can't sell eggs for much here. There is far too much surplus with all the small farms.

CHARGE MORE MONEY!! Give them free 6 every once in awhile. But please do NOT short-change the value of your eggs.

You can't just charge more and expect to get it in many places. That's not how things work. It all depends on supply and demand. If your in an area with a high supply of farm eggs and a low demand for organic or higher quality foods then you just plain aren't going to sell them at a high price. No matter what you do. It comes down to either taking a cut or selling nothing. If I charged $3 or $4 a dozen I simply would not sell any eggs. People would go elsewhere. If you read through the first page of this thread you'll see the same from other people saying they weren't selling their eggs so they dropped the price. There are always people ranting and complaining that eggs should be worth a certain amount but what an egg is worth depends on what the customers are willing to pay not what you think it should be worth.​

 

[mstricer]

$3.00 dozen Really, I live in northeastern Ohio in the heart of Amish community and even they sell their eggs of a buck 50. I planned on selling mine at the farmers market auction where i can get a better price for them. I really dont think I could get 3.00$ a dozen around here. Ive bought free ranged chicken eggs at the store 2.79 and thought that was expensive. I quess its all in were you live