? for People getting $4.50-$5.00/Doz.

[Fred's Hens]

Wife sold 4 dozen today at a card game she goes to. Others told her, "Save A Lot has eggs on sale for .89 right now".
My wife dutifully encouraged them to absolutely buy some of those.

There's no point arguing or debating such a thing. It is what it is.

But I seriously, seriously doubt the big egg producer, no matter how mechanized, can make any money at that rate. With fuel costs, insurance costs and especially grain prices, it is impossible.

Again, those folks who buy .89 eggs simply are not our market and there are a whole lot more of those kinds of folks than there are those who will pay substantially more for a superior product. Yup, there is a glass ceiling on prices.

 

[silkiechicken]

Eggs are often sold by stores as a lost leader too, or how ever you call it. A commodity that many use all the time, that the store prices below their cost, to draw people in, so people buy things that cost more otherwise.

 

[Fred's Hens]

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Fully understand, but I've seen very low prices everywhere late. Prices are trending downward. It isn't merely the loss leader effect, not all of it. You are right. It's certainly done, but this seems to be widespread.

 

[Leah and peeps]

Hi,
We get $5.00 a dozen for our eggs, and $3.00 for half a dozen. Thing is we were offered that price and have just stuck with it. So i pretty much had no part in it.

 

[cybercat]

Fred's Hens :

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Fully understand, but I've seen very low prices everywhere late. Prices are trending downward. It isn't merely the loss leader effect, not all of it. You are right. It's certainly done, but this seems to be widespread.

Not to be rude but you need to take another look. Prices are not coming down at all. Look at gas and milk and feed all are up from last year. Egg prices in the store go up and down weekly. It all depends on what they sell. If they have back stock prices drop new shippment it goes back up.​

 

[AlbionWood]

Price support for homegrown eggs went up as the Salmonella debacle caught some people's attention. A small percentage of people are willing to pay more for food that has less risk of poisoning them.

We're not competing with supermarket eggs; those just aren't the same product. We all know the difference between fresh eggs from pastured chickens, and those from the factories. So do the people who are willing to pay 2x or 3x the supermarket price to get our eggs.

And as others have noted, there's a correlation between feed costs and egg prices. Most of us who are getting $4-$5/doz for their eggs are also paying $14 - $20 for a bag of feed.

 

[Fred's Hens]

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Also, not to be rude, but I was not speaking of gas, milk, feed, or "prices" generally, but egg prices specifically. Look again at the context of this thread. Over the past two weeks, I've seen eggs for .89 Large dozen at Save-A-Lot, .99 Large dozen at Meijer (a large chain in the upper midwest) and WalMart at 1.09 a dozen, large.

Consistently, around here, I've noticed a downward trending since last fall when prices were considerably higher. I still question, in the midst of rising costs, the profitability of such pricing.

 

[jettgirl24]

I just sold 3 dozen eggs for $5 each and they went like hotcakes at work, all gone in about 10 minutes with at least 15 more people asking to be on the list next time I've got some. I'm thinking I should've asked $6! I work at a certain very large tech company in the suburbs of Seattle... Combine the suburban location with tons of disposable income and apparently you've got a cash cow... Or chicken

Guess I better tell my BF to quit complaining about my incubator project considering the chickens just paid almost a month's worth of expenses with one week's work.

I didn't advertise in any special way... Mine aren't organic but like most of us I do give them a good quality feed plus veggies, pasta, and all kinds of treats. I told them that they have a spacious coop and run, plus they get to free range when I'm home to keep them safe. I posted it in an email to our For Sale email list along with a picture of my lovely eggs and my adorable girls running around the yard and my inbox practically blew up

I should note that I am fairly lucky in terms of my locale... If I were to buy feed at the one feed store in the city of Seattle where I live it would be $16+ a bag and shaving are $11 so the $5 a dozen wouldn't seem so great. Luckily I've got my horses out in the rural part of the county and pass by Del's three times a week where feed is $12 and shavings are $6. Gives me the best of both worlds... I can charge urban area prices for my eggs while only having to spend rural area prices on supplies.

 

[Talihofarms]

We are on the N. Il/Wis border.

We get 5.00 per doz. organic to customers who pick up.

Farmers Market 6.00 doz.

Restraunts buy BCM at 10.00 doz. Min. order 10 doz.

Farmers Market 14.00 doz BCM.

Duck eggs 7.00 doz.


We usually sell out before we get to the Farmers Markets, any eggs left sell very fast.

We are adding quail eggs this summer. All I need is to figure out what to sell them for.
Any help?


Best of Luck