average prices everyone charges for their eggs and egg color?

[daryl]

there is a big organic farm 10 miles from me they sell there free range brown organic eggs for $4 per doz. heck our local walmart sells organic for $3.25 Im not going to have any problem selling for $2.75. and if they complain well too bad.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Here we're lucky to get $1 a dozen for them. Everyone seems to have chickens.

 

[mbleily]

Sometimes you have to seek out your oun niche in the egg selling world. I live in a rural farm area. Lots of people have egg and sell them.

But I starting going to a hot spring to take exercises in the pool and asked if I could bring my eggs so sell to the others in the group. The lady that owned it was happy for me to do it and she buys all that I have left after the others have bought.

So I found my niche. It did take a while to do it but it can be done. You just need to keep yourself open to the opportunity that might arise.

 

[Akane]

To be organic your chickens have to be treated as organic and meet all the requirements from the 2nd day of life according to the USDA.

§ 205.236 Origin of livestock.
(a) Livestock products that are to be sold, labeled, or represented as organic must be from livestock under
continuous organic management from the last third of gestation or hatching: Except, That, (1) Poultry. Poultry or
edible poultry products must be from poultry that has been under continuous organic management beginning no
later than the second day of life;

That allows people to buy day old chicks from hatcheries and other sources but still raise them organic and produce organic eggs and I believe meat.

Also see http://www.mosesorganic.org/attachments/productioninfo/fsegg.html​

 

[BigPeep]

Mstrbstephens: Technically, if you were feeding your chicks non organic feed for the first 7 weeks the later eggs aren't organic under USDA rules as I understand it. However. you can call them "natural" or something.

The organic egg person at our farmer's market sells her eggs for $5/doz and is sold out every week. She is not even certified organic but she uses organic feed. We are in a suburban fringe area so there are lots of farms out a bit but very few are selling eggs. Mostly they just raise corn and beans. We didn't even have anyone selling eggs at the farmer's market until the last couple of years. Now there is just one person doing that at each local market at best.

I have 12 subscribers for my egg CSA who pay $20 for six eggs per week for 8 weeks and can then renew for another 8. It took me one week to fill the CSA.

 

[mendogurl]

I saw eggs for 6.75 a dozen. Actually bought them out of curiosity.

 

[mendogurl]

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I bought the 6.75 a dozen at the Ferry Plaza Marketplace in SF. Eggs are pricey in NoCal !!

 

[fowler_chick]

every one and the frogs has chickens around here...right now i'm getting mine from my husbands co worker untill my are ready to lay...her husband sell there eggs for $1.25 a doz

 

[pinkchick]

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Ditto!

I sell my eggs for $3 a dozen and at the farmers market they sell for $5. I do sell some for $2.25 a dozen but that is the my elderly customers that are low income. I didn't start out selling them at $3 but several of my customers refused to pay anything less than $3 because they said that they can't get eggs this fresh from the store and they weren't going to pay $5 for a dozen at the farmers market, however, I do sell my 18 packs for $5.

 

[BigPeep]

If you are feeding organic feed, it will cost you about $30/yr per hen if you are able to buy it wholesale. If you factor in the cost of the chicks from a hatchery, constrution costs for coops, and heat and light for coops in winter, you are probably up to about $40.

Assuming a dual purpose breed lays no more than 300 eggs per year, if you get only 20 cents per egg ($2.40/doz) you will only gross $60 per hen per year or a profit of only $20 per bird. If you have 100 laying hens, you will make $2000 for the entire year.

If you are spending at least 2 hrs per day feeding, watering, cleaning and collecting and selling the eggs, you are working about 700 hours per year. Divided into $2000 profit and your hourly pay is about $3/hr. That's assuming you are not sitting at a farmers market for six hours twice a week to sell the eggs.

Do you really want to work for less than half the Minimum Wage?