Eggs 4 profit

[Beekissed]

I turn a good profit on a flock of 30 chickens, even in my rural area, even giving lots of eggs away. I charge $2 a doz. when everyone else is asking $1 or $1.50. My laying mash and other grains costs me about $20.00 a month, much less in spring and summer. I sell about 5-8 doz. a week in the good times, 1-2 in the slow. Considering the slow times only last about 3 months or so, this doesn't really concern me.

Sometimes I can't keep up with the demand and wish I had more chickens but then I think about feeding them all in the winter. I add more variety of feed in the winter that helps to cut costs on feed....BOSS, oats, rabbit feed, cracked corn, etc.

I also get to eat all my eggs without buying them and eat culled and extra offspring for free also.

 

[Kansaseq]

I'm happy to just make enough to cover feed costs. Honestly, I've made more money selling egg ornaments than fresh eggs. It pays to be crafty!

 

[Ken H]

I'm getting $2.00/dozen and can't keep em in stock They are selling as fast as my 7 hens can lay them. I think it has a lot to do with the sign I put out. The old sign just stated "Large Brown Eggs" with "Free Range" below that. In Sept., having had no responces, I added a "Foghorn Leghorn head to the sign and dropped the price to $2.00/dozen. After I added the 'Foghorn Leghorn' picture I started selling eggs. I believe that people are so used to signs on the side of roads that they don't really see them, so you have to get their attention. Here's the sign

 

[the simple life]

I make a good profit on my eggs, I have 50 layers right now and I sell my eggs for $5.00 dozen.
Even before the pullets started laying I was making around $100.00 per week.
I sell them locally if people call me but otherwise they all go to the farm and they are sold there for $5.00 dozen.
The farm doesn't mark them up they just want to be able to offer eggs to go with the CSA shares that people purchase.
I just show up and put them in the frig and then go get my envelope from the previous week, I don't have to deal with anyone or doing any selling.
I can't keep up with the demand, the farm will take all I can sell and they get 300 people a week in there picking up their CSA shares.

 

[bywaterdog]

.99 for 6
3.50 Dozen
4.50 for 18

My girls have a waiting list, no new customers. I am getting on avg. 14 a day, and the chicks can't keep up with the demand.

I do live in the heart of Yuppieville and that really helps, next year I'm {we}, are going up to $4.00 per doz. They pay for their food and are paying down the "note" on the coop.

 

[PandoraTaylor]

well I think until my pullets really get started I have enough of a customer base, the Feed Store (67 miles away) pays 3.25 a Dozen, and the local grocery pays 3.50, some local people call & pay 4.50. I sell about 9-12 doz a week and eat what I want. lol

however in the spring that will change a bit, I want to hatch chicks from my Light Brahmas! so there go 4 layers to hopefully be Broodys!

 

[Ariel301]

You can sell eggs from your backyard flock to restaurants/grocery stores? I didn't know that was legal. Does it require some sort of license? It seems like with all the other restrictions on selling your homegrown/homemade foods, that they would not allow this.

 

[sonew123]

I get 3$ a dozen-I work at a facility that others sell eggs at -one lady sells them for 1.50 a dozen for small white eggs- another sells them for 2$ a dozen for pooped up eggs-not kidding I "spied" in the cartons she had and they had poo all ver them at the very least "skid marks". I clean each egg and only sell the large /jumbo ones for 3$ a dozen. I have about 6 customers that buy everyweek. SO at 18$ a week that covers their food for all-I have 45 birds and 20+ laying hens right now-I sell other eggs for hatching and honestly after shipping and packaging only make 5$ a dozen-which Im ok with too-I do have a waiting list for chicks in the spring I sell those for 2.50 each Straight run or Ill raise them for people for up to 8 weeks for 12$ a bird-no matter what kind of bird it is. They can bring the roos back if I goofed on sex and get a deffinate hen-if its straight run though-sold AS IS! I cant believe people get 5$ a dozen wow thats great!!