egg cartons

People from my church know that I have chickens and they bring me 20 cartons at a time in hopes that I'll bring them a dozen eggs. Same goes for the people at work and my mother in laws..both of them. If I only had as many chickens to fill up all of the egg cartons that people give me!

One thing you could do would be to advertise that you want cartons on your local freecycle.

or....

www.eggcartons.com

 

I've been asking everyone I know to save cartons for months now so I have a nice stack going - but I'm STILL waiting for eggs....

 

You know, I actually bought egg cartons from eggcartons.com, with free shipping they were cheap enough, but now I'm wondering why. So many people are saving egg cartons for me I never touch them. I use only what have been saved for me. Once people know you'll use them even those who don't buy eggs from you will probably save them for you!

 

I get everyone to save the cartons for me, and when I have enough to sell eggs, I'll be asking people to save the carton I give them for the next time they want eggs.

Edit: actually I've never thrown out an egg carton because before I got chickens myself I would save them for my mum who also has chickens.

 

http://www.meyerhatchery.com/ Ther are tons of things on that web site.

 

If your selling to friends and family, I would have them save the egg cartons. Acquaintances I would give eggs to in new cartons (easily obtained from hatchery sites). Many of these have blank labels that you can fill in with your name, phone number, address etc so that they can remember where they got such wonderful eggs! You can give a "discount" of 25 cents a carton if they bring them back for you to reuse for them. (You can add this amount to the original price of the eggs...this way you're never out money for the cartons) I have 15 chickens that I am anxiously awaiting that first egg from...I long to have this problem

 

Where I work there is an employee relations committee, and they ask for donations of egg cartons, and sell them on Ebay, as fund raising. This is a great fund raiser! BUT, that means, I don't ask for egg cartons at work! I just can't do it! So, I suppose I will have to go online and buy some.

Which kind are better, foam, plastic, or cardboard?

 

I prefer paper, with the holes that show the eggs.

 

My local Purina feed store has them...check yours.