How do you make a profit selling eating eggs?

[sonew123]

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Wow-your DD is very responsible-I hope mine do that!

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

Free ranging a lot can cut down on your feed bill. Organic feed certainly costs more, but organic eggs can command a higher price. I feed mine organic, and can get $5/doz. I have a waiting list for my eggs. Of course the market dictates this a bit.

There is a fair foods market in town that charges $5 for brown and white eggs, and $6.50 for blue/green eggs. All pastured and organic of course.

You may be able to find a niche market by feeding a soy-free and corn-free diet. People with severe allergies to these foods can't eat "normal" eggs because some of the allergens are transferred to the egg. I know someone who gets $7/doz. for these.

But I agree, if you're going to do it on volume, you need sexlinks, or leghorns, or one of the prolific laying breeds. I try to put a blue and a chocolate egg in each dozen, but they lay half as often as the production hybrids.

 

[fowlmamma]

I Dont Set A Price For My Eggs I Tell The People To Pay Whatever They Feel Is Fair To Go Toward Feed Cost So 9 Times Out Of Ten I Get $5 Dollars A Dz And Im Really Happy With That . Target Town Folks They Will Pay For Free Range Eggs.

 

[justtoni44]

Hi, Like the person before me, I let them choose what they pay...and almost always they pay more than I would charge.
I am happy to cover food ect. we donate extra eggs to our local food bank and that is payment enough.
Eggs are such high protein and food banks are usually low on that.
We also do rainbow color cartons................real payment is to watch a kid see a blue or green egg.
What a kick.

 

[shay20]

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well put

we get $2.00 a dozen.
and we sell out as fast as we put them out. But i love the fact that a lot of peaple want our eggs instead of store bought eggs, i am proud of my girls for that.

 

[HOUSE OF ROCK A DOODLE]

Here is a few suggestions , first if you are able to let your chickens free range you will be amazed that they prefer to free range than to goto the grain feeder, second check with your neighbors the average household throws out 20 to 40 % of there produce that they buy and left over bread most people dont like the ends ? check with a local bakery to see if they would give you old breads, you'll be surprised how many people will call you with free food for your chickens

 

[TK Poultry]

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I'm excited I've even done that much!!! I didnt make a profit until last month, and I made $57. It took me 2 years to do that and I sell hatching eggs!!! I'm excited to break even!! Usually I'm in the red but not any more but things can go sour especially during the winter when my chickens just go on strike!!
I take them to open shows for the competition and the fun of meeting other chicken breeders. I only sell their eggs to pay for feed, and buy more chickens!!! Next year some of the $ will go in my gas tank when I get my license!!! But until then I'm just buying feed and more birds!

 

[rhoda_bruce]

I pasture mine and plant grass and gardens where they have cleaned up already.......one hand washes another kinda thing. Also I used to spend 13 or so on a bag of feed, but that got old fast. I get grain with a man that has connections at the grain elevators on the river. It costs me a road trip, but I buy 700LBs at a time for about 7.00/sack which weighs 70LBs each......70 bucks. If they have rice it cost me 5.00/sack. Not as much shipping I guess. That lasts me almost 2 months. Of course you have to have a large bin.

 

[Akane]

The money is in selling hatching eggs and chicks or pullets not eating eggs. The grocery store can do them for a whole heck of a lot cheaper than you and lots of people don't care if they make a profit selling eggs so there's too much competition there. Hatching eggs though generally sell at least $10/dozen online and buyers pay shipping. Chicks and pullets can be sold anywhere and most places can be sold for at least what you have in to them. I pay for feed by selling pullets. I like to hatch bantams and people don't like to buy straight run bantams so I wait until they are about 4weeks which is when I can tell most of my breeds and sell the extra pullets. The roosters cut down my costs by being dog food instead of buying as much kibble. My standards free range and hardly eat any feed at all. Some months the feeder does not go down. In the end I do nearly break even if you don't count the $800 spent on a bantam coop that my husband bought me as a wedding present. I don't bother to sell eating eggs anymore though. Whatever I don't hatch or sell for hatching I give away because it's not worth it.

 

[Penturner]

"How do yo make a Huge Profit?"

Some things are just not worth any amount of money.