egg cartons

[Mac in Wisco]

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That's pretty much the reason we started buying cartons from eggcartons.com. We sell jumbo and super jumbo eggs and they wouldn't fit in any of the used cartons that folks were dropping off. The jumbo pulp cartons from eggcartons.com are big enough to hold super jumbo eggs.

 

[boxleyjoe]

I buy blank flat top recycled egg cartons and had a large stamp made for the label. The egg cartons I ordered from eggcartons.com had disappointed me because they had a website pugged on the back of the lids . I ordered my second batch from eggboxes.com and got some nicer looking completely blank cartons. I highly recommend eggboxes.com.

Joe

 

[TheSawyerFlock]

For those of you who have an arrangement with someone to save their cartons in exchange for eggs, what is your trade ratio? I was thinking 2 cartons/egg, but just wondering what others are doing.

Thanks!

 

[kuntrygirl]

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I guess that you could price how much cartons cost and how much your eggs cost and trade for the same amount if not a little less because the cartons aren't brand new? You don't want to give away more eggs than you get back as far as cartons.

 

[OldGuy43]

Texas Agriculture Code - Chapter 132 Eggs

§ 132.002. LIMITATION OF CHAPTER. This chapter does not
apply to a person selling only eggs that are produced by the
person's own flock and for which the person does not claim a grade.

Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1314, ch. 388, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.

 

[MommyMagpie]

We just use cartons people give us. Don't sort them by size or color either, folks get them in the order they were laid, according to their spot on the waiting list (yes, we have a waiting list. We only eat/use every 6th dozen for ourselves, the rest are mostly sold before they are even laid). The cartons don't close but people seem to not mind that at all.

 

[moodlymoo]

The moment I made a simple little post on facebook about getting chicks I had cartons coming out my ears. My attic is already full of cartons but my neighbor keeps giving me 18ct cartons and asks me to hold them for her. Hmmmmmm I know I said I would give you eggs but whats next a flat lol. I do plan on buying some new plastic cartons for first time customer and offer a .25 discount if they return them. I like to see my eggs through the cartons. I also love the 12ct 3x4 and the 6ct round cartons

 

[off-grid hen]

I am giving eggs to my mother, my grandmother, my mother-in-law, and maybe a neighbor or 2. I bought a few of these because I know I'll get them back. If people want eggs, they have to return them! My hens just started laying a few weeks ago, so the eggs aren't too big yet, but I tried a jumbo egg from the store and there's still a little more room to go taller.

http://www.locknlockplace.com/servlet/-strse-383/Lock-&-Lock-Egg/Detail

 

[woodmort]

There is something about egg cartons, coffee cans and cat litter pails--people just don't throw them away. I take eggs to the local food bank and was running low on cartons--I asked the guy in charge to ask people to return them, next thing he announced in church that he need cartons and I was buried in them. In addition, if I wanted more there is a gal at the garbage transfer station that collects them--she has close to 1000 and all you have to do it ask.

 

[Fred's Hens]

People FLOOD us with egg cartons, to be honest. The difficulty is getting the right mix at the right time of year, but that's another story.
Hate having to buy plastic pots or plastic buckets when there are so many that should be available for free. The guy at the township re-cycling-transfer station keeps stacks of litter buckets, potting pots, etc. Why is it so satisfying to re-use stuff like that?