How many Eggs did you Sell today?

[Boo-Boo's Mama]

DH sold 2 dozen to one of his co-workers yesterday morning before they left work...he did good...sent 10 dozen with him and he sold all but one.

I have 8 dozen in the frig right now...by the time he goes back to work on Sunday evening I will probably have 10 dozen again!

 

[mxpres]

12 dozen to one customer,almost cleaned me out

 

[mxpres]

three dozen today. got another customer wanting three dozen and my ladies are slacking up bad in this cold windy weather around lenoir this week

 

[Ohhhdear]

Sold 5 dozen last week. My mother in law takes a cooler with 3-4 dozen every week to her Bible study, and peddles them for me. So does my daughter in law. I let them charge what they want (usually $3/doz) as long as I get $2.50/doz.

Couple funny stories;

1. Last week my mother in law sold a dozen to a friend at the Bible study. She opened them to check (like everybody does to see if they're broken or ok) and asked if the "new dozen eggs = 10 eggs"! Of course my mother in law was horribly embarrassed and gave them to her for $2, then came home to tell me all about it (at length!). My husband and I just stood in the doorway, also horribly embarrassed, and apologized that it had happened.
Now my habit is to wash, weigh and date all the eggs, then put them in a carton with a rubber band on it. All my kids know not to mess with a carton of eggs with a rubber band on it, which is my signal that that dozen eggs is ready to sell.
Later that afternoon DH told me he was the guilty party. He wanted a couple eggs for breakfast and just grabbed two from a banded carton, put the rubber band back on and left them in the fridge drawer with the rest of the eggs to be sold. *sigh* So I grabbed a banded carton thinking all 12 eggs were inside, not thinking to check them myself. (DH knows better now

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2. Last Friday a lady came to the door to buy eggs. She'd called me, using the phone number on the sticker I put on every carton. She was really surprised that she recognized me! We'd sat beside each other at a sock knitting class at the local yarn shop just two weeks earlier. Plus, she lives just half a mile down the road in a newish subdivision. She's coming over this week to work on a short-row heel problem she's having with the toe-up sock pattern we learned. Small world, indeed!

 

[buzymom13]

2 more dozen today to a new customer! Chickies are paying for their own feed now...plus eggs for the family! I'm happy! :O)

 

[gingerpeach22]

I took in three dozen to the feed store & got $4.00 in credit apiece. The lady behind the counter said someone asked for my chicken's eggs by name. That makes me feel really good, but I have no idea why they would ask for mine. It may be my label or that the carton is new. Who knows. 11 eggs from 11 hens today - they are so enthusiastic their first fall!

 

[oldtimeway]

God bless your pea pickin hearts!!! Or should I say, egg pickin hearts? Some of the finest people in the world keep chickens. It warms my heart to see so many excited over "selling eggs". It's kind of like finding that first pullet egg of the year, isn't it. You can have a flock in the hundreds but it's that first egg that excites you!

We measured our eggs by cases sold rather than dozens, but it's still exciting to sell them. (By case, incidentally, a case is 30 dozen, not these little 15 dozen half case things you see around now.) When a new customer calls and orders a case, I have to inform them of that, because they get upset with me when I show up with an actual case

Selling eggs has been my life!!!! I started at age nine or ten and sold eggs to every little old lady in town. I delivered on Saturday afternoons. I got milk and cookies at just about every house. Funny I didn't grow fat then instead of forty some years later. Anyway, in those days, all the eggs that weren't peddled door to door were sold to a breaker through the local creamery. Chickens put me through college. The funny thing is I could sell a dozen eggs for forty or fifty cents door to door. The breaker price was usually between five and ten dollars a case. Oyster shells were fifty cents a bag and the local grocery stores even stocked them. Corn was a dollar or less a dozen.

We sold eggs for fifty cents a dozen to our customers as recently as five years ago, getting a buck now but the oyster shell is twelve bucks a bag! At that rate of inflation for the feed, we should be getting twelve bucks a dozen for eggs!

There's no longer a breaker to sell eggs to so one has to generate business by being licensed to sell to stores and nursing homes.

A flock of 250 chickens put me through college. Can you believe that? In those days there was money to be made, even at twenty cents a dozen. We raised over a half dozen children and eggs haven't put any of them through school. However, it did provide them with work experience. We had them weighing eggs at about five or six. They have picked eggs since they were big enough to go to the hen house and with five to seven hundred chickens,, there were plenty of eggs to pick. We always wash ours from the time we bring them down the basement (That's where our egg processing room is.) We use the old style egg washers that wash a basket full at a time. Once they're dry, the kids sort them out by weight and put them on flats. Then, I later candle them and case them according to grade and stick them in the egg cooler. (You can build a dandy homemade egg cooler in your basement if you have enough chickens that you need one)

We've met lots of wonderful people. Usually we've delivered as we're about ten miles from town and no one wants to drive out here, especially when we live in an area where competition is stiff and keeps the price low. We have our "egg run" which takes us to several larger towns within a fifty mile radius. Here we sell to convenience stores, ethnic markets, ethnic restaraunts and nursing homes. Again, I've met lots of wonderful people from all over the world!

We're no longer making money at it & our family has grown so we're slowly backing out of the egg business as you can't drive that far anymore with gas like it is. Lucky the people who live in a higher populated area and get these HUGE prices for your eggs, but then, I guess if one's only selling a few dozen you need a better price. Too, I wouldn't trade places to have to live in a highly populated area if I really had to. We only have about four thousand people in our county.

We can sit back and think about the folks we've met and what the egg money did for us in the past. It paid many a bill. It bought nearly all the furniture in our house from the living room to the kitchen, my wife's Pfaff sewing machine, the antique mantle clock on the piano, you name it. It was a wonderful business, but times have changed. We live in an area where people want cheap eggs from the grocery store and they don't care how the poor birds were raised.

My sister is fortunate enough to live about 12 miles from a town with our state university. There are a bunch of "Yuppie" professors in that town who are willing to pay a premium for "free range" eggs. They also prefer colored, so she packs them with a few of every color in each dozen. She sells them to the local grocery store at about a buck and a half a dozen. Of course she has the investment of the new carton; but the store easily takes all the eggs from 250 birds but if she gets more birds, then she's stuck with extra eggs and like I said, we don't have a breaker anymore to take the excess.

Well, I've rambled but it's been fund to reminisce.

Keep selling those eggs!

Old Time Way

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Thanks for sharing.

 

[kuntrygirl]

1 dozen to my organic customer.

 

[forrestacres]

One dozen for $3 to my best friend.