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

[awesomefowl]

When I have an extra dozen, I sell them at church for $2.50 doz., which is expensive for here as many people have chickens in dairy farming country. However, if I lived about an hour north, near Ithaca NY, I could probably get a lot there.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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[new chick 203]

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Same here. Where we live it's just within the commuting range of NYC so land is high, chicken feed is high thus free range eggs are high. Generally, $5-6, but I have seen $8.

 

[kelidei]

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That's true... but the cost of everything is so expensive here that even 5.00/dozen is barely a break even point... so even though some of us may get more we spend more... I think we are all in the same boat... we do it because we love it and not for the money.

 

[kelidei]

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WOW! You guys are soooo lucky.

Not really kuntrygirl.... what I pay for feed and bedding here probably makes my "profit" about the same as yours... ZERO...

 

[TigerLilly]

I currently sell mine for $2 per dozen (lg & xlrg), but after checking out the demand I'm thinking of raising to $4 per dozen. At the very least, I could get $3.50.
Anyone sell jumbo-sized double-yokers? Got a hen that lays those fairly regularly; thinking about selling them for $3.00 / 1/2 doz.

 

[cybercat]

It is all about LOCATION. CA has high prices NYC same. Big cities with out alot of country near by will be simular. State with alot of country and lots of small properties will be lower. Income also plays a big part. High income state or cities or ares can ask more. I live in low imcome state I get $2 a dozen some have triede to sell at $3 and have not done so well. I could do it since I am free ranging but I do not. My feed cost is real low only winter and chick feed for spring.

 

[Davaroo]

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That's true... but the cost of everything is so expensive here that even 5.00/dozen is barely a break even point... so even though some of us may get more we spend more... I think we are all in the same boat... we do it because we love it and not for the money.

I hear ya - its tough all over. The question was really about what it might take to get a high price for eggs - what we would see as something greater than "store price."
Making money, i.e., a profit, on eggs has always been borderline. That is nothing new. It is a low margin business at heart, and those who do, make any significant profit usually have a special market or produce on a large scale.

 

[Cindy in PA]

Haven't sold to anyone but family for a long time. Everyone on Craigslist sell them for $1-$2 and the grocery store sells white eggs for $1.99 and brown for $2.13 last I looked. I know people that sell for $3.50, but they sell other farm stuff too. Haven't even tried to sell lately, but I'm getting a dozen a day, so I'll give it another shot. I could send them to Phila. with someone I know, but I wouldn't get the price they are charging. Can't even find anyone who needs them to give them to, too many rules. I have been using them, but it's getting tougher.

 

[silkiechicken]

Sure I can sell a dozen eggs for $4 bucks... but a bag of standard layer is 14 bucks. Slap the word organic on the bag and it'll be 24 for 50lbs.