Do you sell your eggs for eating?

[WalkingOnSunshine]

If so, how much do you charge? What do you wash your eggs with?

I've been washing my eggs with oxine and I use fresh cartons bought from online(the misprint ones). We sell our eggs for $2.50 a dozen and I wonder if I'm under charging.

We only sell our extras and my husband brings them to his work to sell them. The eggs are sold as soon as he walks in the door since its first come first serve.

The nice thing about selling the eggs for eating is that it pays for our feed and extra grains(oats, wheat and sunflower seeds).

I just added more hens to my flock since the egg demand is so high.

Am I under charging my eggs? They are beautiful. Almost too pretty to eat.lol

You're undercharging if you're selling the eggs for less than they cost to produce. We sell for $3 wholesale, but it costs us $2.70 to produce a carton of eggs. Never sell your eggs for less than it costs to produce them--otherwise, you're basically paying other people to buy your eggs.

We sell eggs to single customers (retail) for $3.50 a dozen. We wash in a commercial enzyme egg wash.https://www.meyerhatchery.com/produ...plies&grd_prodone_filter=PRODUCT_ID = '94166'

 

[Mtn Laurel]

I'm not allowed to sell eggs in my area based on the ordinance that allows us to have chickens. However, I will gladly accept any donations towards the "Hen Fund" to keep them happy, healthy, and producing.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

I'm not allowed to sell eggs in my area based on the ordinance that allows us to have chickens. However, I will gladly accept any donations towards the "Hen Fund" to keep them happy, healthy, and producing.

You might try to get around the regulations the way people who sell raw milk get around them. Don't sell eggs--rent hens. People pay you to "rent" one of your hens, and of course they get to keep the eggs "their" hen produces. Sort of a CSA model.

 

[nova022]

If so, how much do you charge? What do you wash your eggs with?

I've been washing my eggs with oxine and I use fresh cartons bought from online(the misprint ones). We sell our eggs for $2.50 a dozen and I wonder if I'm under charging.

We only sell our extras and my husband brings them to his work to sell them. The eggs are sold as soon as he walks in the door since its first come first serve.

The nice thing about selling the eggs for eating is that it pays for our feed and extra grains(oats, wheat and sunflower seeds).

I just added more hens to my flock since the egg demand is so high.

Am I under charging my eggs? They are beautiful. Almost too pretty to eat.lol

I don't sell my eggs at all. I give each of my children a dozen a week, my single neighbor 6 to eight a week, my other neighbor a dozen now and then and my husband takes a dozen to his friend at work now and then. We eat the rest. The friends and neighbors always offer to pay, but I feel the eggs are just a bonus of having my pets. I don't charge for veggies from my garden because I garden for my enjoyment as well. I don't wash the eggs I give the kids or my one neighbor because they know about the bloom and so forth, but I do wash and refridgerate the others we give away. My neighbor does bring me a bag of feed once in a while which I think is really great!

 

[Nicole01]

I use to give all my eggs away for free. I don't charge the neighbors/family at all, but we have so many eggs leftover selling them felt like the best thing to do. I get over a dozen eggs daily. My chicken obsession has grown.. Plus I make most my foods from scratch, so I use quite a bit of eggs myself.

Plus I'm disabled after breaking my neck a few years back which leaves me homebound and in severe pain 24/7. I'm unable to work, garden, and many other things physically. I do not collect disability, so every penny helps. Although, I don't make much at all. Since the snow melted my hens have really cut back on their feed. I still sprout many grains for them and for ourselves.

The egg demand is so high at my husbands work that he's taking orders and they pay early.lol. He works for the city and there's no ordinance where we need a permit to sell the eggs.

If I lived on a farm and had the ability, I'd make a business out of this. There is such a high demand for fresh eggs. Most places charge 3.50-4.00 per carton.

I'm grateful I have chickens in the first place. They make my life better and they help me stay more mobile.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

You're undercharging if you're selling the eggs for less than they cost to produce. We sell for $3 wholesale, but it costs us $2.70 to produce a carton of eggs. Never sell your eggs for less than it costs to produce them--otherwise, you're basically paying other people to buy your eggs.

We sell eggs to single customers (retail) for $3.50 a dozen. We wash in a commercial enzyme egg wash.https://www.meyerhatchery.com/produ...plies&grd_prodone_filter=PRODUCT_ID = '94166'

Not to mention the cost of the cartons themselves.

 

[Nicole01]

I bought the cartons over 2 years ago. The price came out to be .25 per carton. Unfortunately prices have increased since then.:/

 

[Nicole01]

I'll look for a new product to wash my eggs. I really love the oxine! I use oxine for many uses.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

Not to mention the cost of the cartons themselves.

The cost of $2.70/dozen includes EVERYTHING, so it includes the cost of the cartons, too. I pay 30 - 40 cents per carton depending on where I get them. Mine aren't seconds, they're new blank cartons.

 

[Nicole01]

Quote: The cost of $2.70/dozen includes EVERYTHING, so it includes the cost of the cartons, too. I pay 30 - 40 cents per carton depending on where I get them. Mine aren't seconds, they're new blank cartons.

I buy misprint cartons. I thought about the blank ones, but misprint were cheaper. Plus, I bought the wrong size since I got them before my hens started laying eggs.lol