Egg prices

[s98330q]

Just checking to see what everyone is seeing for egg prices. We sell ours all day long and still take reservations at $4.5/dozen.

 

[nuthatched]

$2.50
I should raise my prices but I just want to break even on feedbills.

 

[Ebony Rose]

Recently paid $2.40 a dozen for "mixed flock" fertile chicken eggs from a neighbor. Bought 2 dozen of them. Of the 24 eggs, 2 are green and the rest range from light to medium-dark brown. All of the eggs are large to extra large. There was no guarantee of fertility, however she free ranges her birds and had an impressive flock with several roosters and hens (I figured the likelihood was high for them to be fertile).
Store bought eggs (from mega-farming operation here in Panama) sells eggs slightly smaller, all brown, for $1.80 a dozen (price controlled, meant for human consumption not for incubating so those come with no guarantee that they'd be fertile).

 

[aart]

Just checking to see what everyone is seeing for egg prices. We sell ours all day long and still take reservations at $4.5/dozen.

Egg pricing has much to do with location, and also the 'marketing savvy' of the seller.

Where in this world are you located @s98330q ?
Climate, and time of year, is almost always a factor.
Please add your general geographical location to your profile.
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[CluckerFamily]

I’m in Wisconsin and I sell my eggs for $2 a dozen. It just pays for the feed bills.

 

[ToniaM]

We just started selling and are getting $3 a dozen and $5 for 18. They are all different colors from dark brown to green with a couple smaller bantam eggs also. This is in Louisiana.

 

[ShannonsChimkens]

1.5 hour drive north east of Seattle. I sell mine for $5 per dozen for eating. $10 for hatching, rare breed mixes. Other half wants them to be fed organic, so they are listed as organic fed.

One thing I do not understand.... the eating eggs take more prep work, as in rinsing and storing in the fridge, than the hatching eggs. This time of year they can get muddy from muddy feet. Drier time of year there’s no rinsing. The hatching eggs sit in the coop and get turned once per day if I remember. But I had mine listed for $5 per dozen and some locals pretty much asked that I mark mine up, due to them selling barnyard mixes for $20 per dozen

 

[LaFleche]

selling barnyard mixes for $20 per dozen

That's ridiculous, but each to their own.

Here in Germany I could get 4 Euro or more for each of my organic La Flèche or Black Copper Marans hatching eggs, but I will sell them for only 2 Euro per hatching egg to people I think suited and find likeable.

For me a hatching egg is perfectly clean, no porous or otherwise rough or irregular shells, normal size and appropriate weight for the breed, and from hens at least 2 years or older sired by a rooster of different lineage, so no blood relations between them.
All breeding stock bred according to the SOP, perfectly healthy, recently dewormed and vaccinated against Newcastle disease.
The eggs will be stored in a cool and well ventilated room with temperatures between 8-12C, turned twice daily, not older than 7 days.

 

[ShannonsChimkens]

Yeah, I don’t quite understand it. For $10 per dozen I do still pick out the best eggs for hatching.

What is Euro in US currency? Guess I could go look it up.

 

[s98330q]

Egg pricing has much to do with location, and also the 'marketing savvy' of the seller.

Where in this world are you located @s98330q ?
Climate, and time of year, is almost always a factor.
Please add your general geographical location to your profile.
It's easy to do, and then it's always there!
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