Do you sell your eggs for eating?

[bobwhitechicks]

I don't but my friend does. she washes them in a bowl with room temperature water. she takes them out of the coop at least four times a day!! she has a lot of eggs and chickens.

 

[magichen]

i sell a dozen 3.50 euro

 

[clairebear]

Yes. I have too many hens not to sell some of them. The plastic cartons are washable and re-usable as much as I despise plastic. lol

I prefer the recycled paper cartons since they seem to cushion the egg better but they aren't washable and therefore don't have the longevity of plastic. I get $5/dozen and sell only the largest eggs and keep the small eggs to eat myself. Definitely depends on the market in your area. If I sold them for any less it would be at a loss and I simply can't justify that.

Once my ducks are laying consistently I'll be selling their eggs as well. They're great in baked goods.

 

[shmccarthy]

What's a good place to get cartons by the way? Tractor supply charges 49 cents and I know I can get them a better price somewhere.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

I don't but my friend does. she washes them in a bowl with room temperature water. she takes them out of the coop at least four times a day!! she has a lot of eggs and chickens.

Room temperature water is the wrong way to go. You must wash eggs in water that's at least 20 degrees hotter than the egg. That's because eggs are porous, so if you wash in water colder or the same temp. than the egg, you actually can force bacteria and dirt into the egg. If you wash in hotter water, air comes out of the egg and forces dirt and bacteria out.
For reference: http://www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/live/g1724/build/g1724.pdf

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

What's a good place to get cartons by the way? Tractor supply charges 49 cents and I know I can get them a better price somewhere.

The price you pay totally depends on how many you buy. By far the best price I've found is from Meyer Hatchery (https://www.meyerhatchery.com/) but that's only if you go and pick them up. Otherwise, shipping just about kills you. The second best place I've found is Zellwin Farms (www.zellwin.com).

I only buy new, unmarked cartons because we sell to a grocery co-op and Ohio has strict labeling laws. Also, mis-print cartons, etc., would never sell well on the store shelf. The store stocks several brands of eggs besides ours, but ours are the most expensive, so the cartons have to look attractive and professional or no one would give them more than a passing glance. As it is, the store sells out of our eggs within two days of our delivering them, and would take three times as many as we produce, so the new, blank cartons are a good investment for us.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

We're currently selling about thirty dozen a week and will likely go to thirty five dozen or so come the fall.

I don't wash my eggs with anything but warm running water the day they are gathered. They are then dried and promptly refrigerated. Cartons depends on the customer. My store account gets new cartons, everyone else gets used. Eggs in new cartons are $3.25. Eggs in used are just $3.00.

Here's a photo of the way we pack our eggs:

And one of a typical order of eggs ready to be labeled and delivered.

 

[SarahInAlaska]

Up here "farm fresh" (meaning fresh from about a dozen back yards, lol) eggs sell for anywhere from $4-$10 a dozen. The $10 person is crazy though and probably won't get many buyers as most stick in the $4-$6 range. Mine sell for $3.50 and that let's me break even because I mostly sell to friends. Strangers pay $4, $6 for a batch if "jumbo" eggs.

 

[cmom]

I wash my eggs with warm running water too and refrigerate. I sell my eggs for $2.50 a dozen. I was selling my eggs for $3.00 a dozen but my feed bill went down a bit and someone gave me around 700 new cartons.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

Up here "farm fresh" (meaning fresh from about a dozen back yards, lol) eggs sell for anywhere from $4-$10 a dozen. The $10 person is crazy though and probably won't get many buyers as most stick in the $4-$6 range. Mine sell for $3.50 and that let's me break even because I mostly sell to friends. Strangers pay $4, $6 for a batch if "jumbo" eggs.

Want to know something frustrating? Here in Ohio, I am not allowed to label my eggs "farm fresh" or "fresh from the farm." Those words are reserved for the big layer companies.