Eggs are just not selling anymore **Update page 4**

[gogoalie]

One thing I do know, if you have a local gym, you can market your eggs to bodybuilders...they eat eggs up like CRAZY! I did weight lifting for a good three years & I would go through six eggs a day 7x's a week...which would equal 42 eggs a week! If you can find three fitness freaks at your local gym, you can sell them 126 eggs a week easily!

 

[mjdtexan]

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That is a good idea, make sure you let them know that you dont feed medicated feed, thats important to them. You dont feed medicated feed do you?

 

[gogoalie]

My first batch of food, for my pullets were medicated, my second batch of layer food, unmedicated...

 

[mjdtexan]

When mine were pullets I gave them medicated too, but like you now that they are adult girls I feed non medicated and promote that when sellling eggs

 

[NurseNettie]

There are no gyms within 200 miles of me

Great idea tho!!!

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[NurseNettie]

One restaurant 10 miles away- none others for 30 miles, all deal with 1 distributor of food in general- nobody considers other options

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[NurseNettie]

OK, I've been taking on so many extra shifts at work since missing a month in May for surgery,that I haven't been back here-- so if I missed any of your replies, I apologize. I have read them all just now, and want to thank you all for your input.

So... for right now, I have exactly 13 eggs in my house. Not dozen eggs, just eggs...... They are ones I just collected from my very disgruntled hens ( who hate to be bothered during the day when they're laying), so that we have a dozen if someone else shows up to buy them. A woman just left here wanting 5 dozen, and I only had 2.

What a difference a month makes!!!!!!! We didn't have nearly the business last year that we have right now. In the last 10 days, we have had more people here for eggs, every day, at all hours of the day. All buying 2 or more dozen. And many are local folks that I have either never seen here, or haven't been here since last summer. As it stands right now, I've got 2 "standing" orders at work that I won't be able to fill today, as usual, but will have to wait until Thursday when I go back to work.

A friend of mine , a half mile up the road, who isn't home during the day, and used to sell eggs before I moved here, said to me, only half jokingly yesterday, that maybe she should send some of hers down to me to sell ( she usually just sets them under a broody hen, or composts them, as most are pets, and she hasn't sold eggs because they're not home). I think I'm going to need to take her up on it!

I'm not sure why we've gotten so much business back, as well as new business, but I do know some of the signs up the road have come down, and some have lowered their prices more ( as I had to do). My regulars are still paying the old price, they won't pay less. The new customers pay the lower price, which is fine- I don't have a surplus anymore, and that was my goal. I had one person yesterday, who lives at the other end of "town" ( just the road-- 6 miles away) tell me he liked our eggs because he knew our hens were well cared for and the eggs were fresh, "not like other people's". Makes me wonder if some of the "new" sellers had old eggs, or sickly looking hens.

Anyhow-- for now, I"m good. I'm great even! I'm thrilled to have my eggs selling, ( and scrambling -no pun intended- to keep a few for me!!!). I've got to set aside a few in July to hatch for an August chicken swap-- but that'll have to be after this weekend- there are a LOT of folks going to be around for the 4th, so I imagine I'll be busy... I should go call my friend and let her know to start collecting her fresh eggs and get them down to me!

 

[FourPawz]

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There are high schools nearby? Wrestlers and football players come to mind.

 

[NurseNettie]

No wrestlers or football teams in this area. Hockey and basketball. The high school in the town closest to me ( 10 miles) graduated NINE seniors this year

6 were girls. I'm in a very, very , very rural area

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There are high schools nearby? Wrestlers and football players come to mind.