Current egg pricing

[aafairchild]

Farmers market in austin, tx has been getting $6 do for over a year. The AI has affected the supply here now and most stores have purchase limits. Market price mas go up if the shortage gets worse.

 

[nab58]

I sell my excess eggs for$3 dz in CT. I think they're about $2 in the store.

 

[keiferlou]

$4.98 in our local store here in Oklahoma and that's for the regular caged eggs. They just keep going up.

 

[aart]

Egg prices cited need to be specified with the marketing terms attached to them...big differences, so don't compare apples to oranges, so to speak.

Someone posted a pic of a notice from a Michigan grocery store about egg prices going up, don't know the details tho, so won't quote numbers here...can't remember where I saw it or would link it but I do remember that it was in Colon MI. I haven't seen that where I shop, but haven't been shopping in weeks.

I priced my eggs about 18 months ago according to what other similarly raised chickens go for around here and to cover my feed/supply costs. Some thought them a little high at $3.50, but when I explained what the marketing terms on egg cartons really mean to some folks who had been buying those, they are happy to support me and my fresher eggs from freer chickens.

But I have a very small market of just a half dozen customers who are also friends and acquaintances, it would be different if I was trying to sell to the general public.

Some folks have asked if I will raise my prices because of AI, but no I won't....unless feed prices go up, because that is what my price is based on. My goal was to cover the cost of feed and supplies, and the eggs I eat, with the eggs sales and I have been successful there. I can't afford pet chickens who don't pay for their feed. Sales always cover feed and sometimes other supplies as well. They don't really cover feeding new layers up to point of lay tho, but I do get some meat from harvesting old layers and young extra cockerels.....and that has value beyond the cost of grocery chicken.

Folks who sell low from backyard flocks do a disservice, IMO, to those who are making ends meet.

 

[Red-Stars-in-RI]

I was surprised to see mass produced eggs at Walmart here in RI over $2.50/dozen.

I don't sell many since I mostly give the ones we don't eat to friends and family, but I can't see selling for less than $3, maybe even $4, here.

 

[eviemethugh]

Folks who sell low from backyard flocks do a disservice, IMO, to those who are making ends meet.

Yeah, everyone who is saying they would "never" pay more than like $2....well I would never pay less than $4. Eggs that cost less than that were usually raised in deplorable conditions, and if I met someone who was selling backyard eggs for $2.50 I would kind of assume the chickens were eating cheap cat food and wallowing in their own feces. I am NOT saying that is true, but I shopped in many grocery stores for eggs every week, and when you have your own egg layers you don't and you forget what the market looks like. If something is priced low I assume there is a reason. Not a good "kindness of your heart reason" a grocery store reason.
At our farmers market AA eggs are usually $5 and up. The only eggs I see lower than that are small bantam sized eggs (and we are talking like $4 or $3.50)

 

[Percheron chick]

Gone are the $.99 cartons of eggs. There as so many different offerings in my stores, organic, free range, fertile, gluten free diet, brown. .. They range in price from $2 on sale up to $6+. I price mine at $4 and that's on the low side in my market but I only sell to friends and family. It needs to pay for feed and not cost me. Simple math. If your feed is $15/50# and each hen eats 4 oz that's $.08 per hen per day. For 12 eggs that's $.96 not accounting for anything else. Over the year we can only count on about 200 eggs so she is only operating at 50%. Now it's costing me $1.92 to feed her for those 12 eggs. Just to feed her.

 

[jk47]

Here in south CA egg prices are 4.00 for cage free 3.00 somthing for conventional and 5.00 for free range organic
I sell for 4.00 and raised my price to 4.50
And I still sell out every week