Does anyone sell guinea eggs for food? Not hatching eggs...

[TexGardenGirl]

Just curious - I haven't seen anyone talk about it and I tried to search but didn't find anything. If this has been discussed please point me to the thread...
Some of our egg customers (my husband's co-workers, mainly) have expressed curiosity/interest in the guinea eggs. One of them has eaten them and wants some for baking, others are just curious so far. We'll probably give them a 1/2 dozen free as a trial, but I'd like to have a price to tell them what it will be if they want to buy more. Any ideas? We sell chicken eggs for $3.00 a dozen (their feed is not organic, but they are otherwise non-medicated and mostly free-range, very bright yolks). I think we could make a case that the guineas are almost totally free-range - they fly out of the very large pen at will and I almost never see them eating packaged feed. But they are smaller than chicken eggs so most people will eat more of them and therefore want to pay less for them. On the other hand the "exotic-ness" of being a guinea is probably worth something, right? Keets cost more than chicks at the hatcheries...

Any ideas?

 

[Lurkeygirl2011]

I have no experience in guineas really and only just started selling my chicken eggs so his is just a thought, but do you get as many guinea eggs as chicken eggs? Do they keep as long as chicken eggs. If they are more rare I would charge more for them. Also, if they are free-range I think you could charge more. Because they are a novelty, I might start out at $5 a dozen and reduce the price if there are no takers. It is always easier to cut prices than raise them...

 

[Balefire]

Guinea eggs are a deli and so I think that $ 5 would be a fair price for a dozend. There is no reason to go cheaper, because they are smaller. They are an other spezie bird. Quail eggs are much more expensiv and they are so much smaller

 

[PeepsCA]

I agree, Guinea eggs should be worth more than chicken eggs, just due to the rarity of them, then add in the fact that they are richer and that they are almost completely free range. I don't sell eggs for consumption, but $5-$6/dozen seems reasonable to me!

 

[TexGardenGirl]

Thanks for the replies, guys! I think we may try to go for $5. I'd still love to hear any more opinions if anyone has another perspective. Thanks!

 

[Taylor]

I try and hatch all the guinea eggs i can get, but when i run out of incubator room i sell them for $10 a dozen for hatching eggs, my fertility is 90% or higher and i have the lavendar guineas and they are more expensive than other breeds of guineas. I can't keep them at $10 a dozen! boy their good layers too, any extra eggs we have we eat them, you can pickle them, fry them, boil them, poach them, scramble them, almost anyway possible! they are delicious and i would rather eat them than chicken eggs, nice orange thick yolks!!!

 

[fishman65]

guineas lay eggs 6-7 months out of the year. A chicken lays most of the year. Guinea eggs are far more valueable than chicken eggs. Charge what ever the market will bear. start high then dicker with the buyers.