How do you make a profit selling eating eggs?

[2 Beauts]

I do not make any profit, I just don't lose as much$$. : )

Leighmay...... you need to tell your Dad, that the coop and the fencing are capital expenses and are not counted toward the profit and loss statement! ; )

 

[Cindiloohoo]

You can sell the eggs and make a bit of profit as you are doing. If you really want to help with bills, raise some for meat and cut grocery costs. People often forget that each bird has a monetary value too. If you have a roo, you grow your replacement pullets and keep the extra roos for meat. There isn't a lot of cash flowing but the benefits are there....in chicken meat rather than dollars. There are ways to profit and even gain. If there weren't chickens would not be so commercialised. I'm not saying do it the way the industry does, but take the better aspects of backyard raising, and apply the business model to it. You can sell more than just eggs. You can sell composted manure, or raise your own produce in it. Sell feathers, or use them yourself. Certain kinds are marketable to fly tiers. Use the bedding as fertilizer and mulch if it's still pretty clean when you remove it. Lots of ways, you just have to look at all angles. Look for a way to buy feed in bulk, that'll raise your profit margin on egg sales. Don't WASTE ANYTHING...that's the key to turning a profit.

 

[sonew123]

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awesome Cindiloohoo!!!! I bet I could do some more of that to get extra $ but DH wont let me sell "his" manure!

 

[ChickyLaura]

OK so you're not getting rich selling eggs. But geez, you have your own business! Seriously, add it to your resume. Don't be all fancy pants about it, but think of all the planning you're doing. Then you have to go out and find customers for your product (eggs). You're taking care of your business interests (your chickens), etc. You have to manage your chickens health, etc.

My hat is off to you! Keep up the good work!

 

[deerman]

Well those are not the two best breed for eating eggs. Hard to make much on egg for eating, those number you posted would be good for laying breeds.

Now, the two breed you have would be great to sell hatching eggs or chicks. Then you could make a little more money.

http://eggbid.com/listings/details/index.cfm?itemnum=1270630009

 

[patandchickens]

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Yeah, there's your problem.

The way to make money on selling eggs is a) have invested nothing, or near-nothing, in building facilities; b) keep only very productive individuals of very productive breeds (generally sexlinks or leghorns, although a few particular lines of other breeds may be not too awful bad either -- but not Americaunas or Marans); and c) cull individuals as soon as their laying slows down at all.

On the bright side, if these are the breeds that you just WANT to keep for other reasons, yuou could regard egg sales not as "a means to make a profit" but as "a means to offset some, though not all, of the expenses of this hobby"

Good luck, have fun,

Pat

 

[deerman]

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Now if those number were what you would get. Thats 50% profit ,but you have more cost. Chickens and they would need replace yearly for best profit...

Take those number times 10 , then you see how big laying house make money....If you could make 17.00 profit for every 13.00 you spend, you need the market, but the how people make money is LARGE numbers.

Here is another way, I have 10 breeding age pumpkin hulsey game fowl , 8 hens laying..so far 7 eggs auction on ebay the least have been 25.00. so they sell for about 50.00 a dozen. You have a way to hatch them, be glad to sent you a few eggs to get you started...

link to show what they are selling for..

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190382734899&ssPageName=STRK:MESOX:IT

 

[Cindiloohoo]

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awesome Cindiloohoo!!!! I bet I could do some more of that to get extra $ but DH wont let me sell "his" manure!

We use ours in the garden and there has been an increase in production so....we're getting paid

If he uses it for fertilize, you can count on it as an increase.

 

[sonew123]

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awesome Cindiloohoo!!!! I bet I could do some more of that to get extra $ but DH wont let me sell "his" manure!

We use ours in the garden and there has been an increase in production so....we're getting paid

If he uses it for fertilize, you can count on it as an increase.

yup he does. We have a mini bobcat and he LOVES mixing it all up-we have 3 years worth-and he has them in different piles! goofball,,, pretty neat looking though-he even waters it!

 

[briteday]

You might also think about getting an appropriate breed of rooster so that you can sell fertile hatching eggs or chicks. Also, when we needed to replenish our flock this year, instead of going to the feed store, my daughter bought 100 chicks from a hatchery. She kept 15 birds and sold the rest. She made $100+ profit in one day. Also, you could sell your hatching eggs for way more than eating eggs, more profit. Depending on the breed you could make quite a bit on chicks or eggs.

My daughter started when she was 16 with 6 chickens. She sold the extra eggs and that payed for all of the feed. Now that she's in college we have increased the flock to 15 last year...she made weekly gas money after feed was bought. Now we are increasing to 25-30 birds this year...college books get expensive!

So just this Spring she made $100 from the hatchery chicks (and that also payed for her chicks that she's keeping), almost $100 from hatching eggs, and she brings in about $12/week from selling egs to eat. Her coop, after 4 years now doesn't need much, so it's all pure profit for her. Now going to pay tuition this way, but every little bit helps. Plan on getting a job to help with tuition. And bank every penny that comes your way.