eggs

[countrybear47]

hi

 

[Illia]

$20 a dozen is CHEAP.

I pay $60 a dozen on Black Coppers, and $10 a chick is pretty over the roof. I usually pay $8 per chick if I ever get chicks. . .

The reason they're so expensive is quality. You really can't find something else with eggs and hopefully body type like that. . . Now of course there are indeed people who charge the average high price for crappy eggs (6 and below in my opinion) and crappy birds (mossy, blonde, squirrel tail, etc)

 

[sgtmom52]

I personally have no problem paying a higher price for quality eggs/birds. It is a good investment and is a bargain in the long run. Once you have good breeding stock you can produce your own eggs/chicks.

Heck ~ there are people who pay $5. or more a dozen for organic eggs ~ then EAT THEM!

 

[polish101]

To be realistic $20 a dozen is very fair! now the $60-500 range isnt!

jeremy

 

[Chicky Tocks]

It would definately vary from the quality of birds you have. I'd pay more for marans that lay consistent dark above 6 on the egg chart anyday! I plan to perfect what I have and some good lineage is my ticket. So yeah. I do not condone those who have a cull rate flock who sell their eggs as gold.

 

[ChickFila]

I paid $30 for a "half-dozen" black copper marans eggs, and those eggs were VERY dark. Breeder gave me 2 extras. All 8 eggs were developing, 6 were hatched, and all 6 chicks are healthy and beautiful. Rooster of these chicks is very beautiful and won many shows, I bought the eggs because I liked the rooster very much.
I think $20/dozen is a BARGAIN if the parents are great quality and lay very dark eggs.

 

[yotetrapper]

$20 is pretty cheap. But, I watched on auction on ebay of very dark marans eggs. They sold for $270 for a dozen or less. Now, thats not what the seller charged, but what the people were willing to pay for them sooooooo

 

[little_grey_bantam]

See, that's what people don't consider...

If you spend $500 on a vehicle... what type of vehicle do you think you're going to get?

Not a brand new 2010 BMW I would HIGHLY guess. Probably a car with engine issues and whatnot.
But hey, those people who spend all that money to produce a good quality item are just greedy and trying to make money, right?
They should be ashamed of themselves....

YES, there are crap out there sometimes that sellf or WAY too much sometimes...
I'd pay good money ANY DAY to get good quality stock birds...

Another comparison is that people will spend money on straight-run chicks, because the "pullets were too expensive" ($1 or so more expensive) but by the time you raise them up and get 1/2 roosters and 1/2 hens, you would need to pretty much GIVE away your roosters anyways...

You spend all that money to raise and feed them for nothing

Should have spent the extra buck to get what you wanted/needed/desired and you won't run into issues in the future. If you had spent that extra dollar, that extra $20 you spent on that chick would have meant you could have still kept it, because *gasp* it was a hen!

If you want cheap chicks, get 'em, but they'll more likely be crap. You'll get the "dark" eggs, but maybe not the scale 6-9 dark eggs as you would if you had just paid a little more money.
You get what YOU PAY for.

<--- said the person who has spent hundreds on her Marans... if not THOUSANDS on her poultry all together.
I'm sure others can vouge for me.

 

[kathyinmo]

That's nothing .... check this out ....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=330017&p=1

 

[drom]

You're frunny