How much do you charge for eggs?

[Luvs chickens]

I am selling mine for 4 dollars a dozen and 5 dollars a dozen for my EE colored eggs. No one has complained about the price and some people said they would have paid more.

 

[JimWWhite]

I've got nineteen Gold Comets and I get 17-19 eggs a day. I'll take in at least a dozen each day to work and my co-workers are lined up to pay $3.00/dz for them. Hey, it pays for the feed. It's not paid for the Taj Mahal of coops yet (see the Coop Design page) but these GC's are great layers. They range in age all under a year old right now. The 'Youngsters' as I call them are now about 24 weeks old and they're all laying. We're thinking of making it an even thirty or maybe thirty-six in the spring and then we'll quit for a while. My wife says she'll take them down to the Farmers' Market on Thursdays here in Statesville, NC and sell every one in an hour for $4.00/dz.

Brown organic eggs sell for over $4.00/dz here in the supermarkets.

Jim

 

[canada-goose]

I charge $2 for six eggs, $4 for a dozen.

 

[PeeperKeeper]

We sell a dozen of ungraded for $3 in the next county over, closer to larger towns. Here, around home we can barely get $1.50/doz. My cartons cost me .28/ea. The ones that I sell at the farmers' market have to be marked with all the appropriate labeling so I have to consider the price of labels and ink. But it is worth driving the extra miles to get the better price.

 

[kcsunshine]

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"Roos" are roosters. By the way - Welcome to BYC.

 

[kelidei]

I live just outside the northern suburbs of Chicago---- I get 4 dollars a dozen and they go fast. I've actually been making enough to cover a good part of their feed, litter and paper egg cartons. In Spring when my little girls start laying I might just break even!

 

[ace6175]

Kelidei,
How did you find folks to buy your eggs? I live in a suburb of Chicago (southwest), and I only have maybe 1 dozen a week to sell. I don't want to post on Craigslist, and I take a train to work, so I don't want to take them to work with me.

 

[Ariel301]

A related question about selling eggs from your backyard chickens...

I'm planning on starting a good sized flock of chickens in a few months, and selling some eggs and chicks on the side to help pay for keeping the chickens (and because I know we'll end up with more eggs than we can use!) There seems to be a good demand around here for homegrown eggs, especially the neat colored ones like Americaunas lay. I'm choosing hens based on getting a big variety of egg colors to offer.

Are there any legal issues to worry about with selling eggs? (in the United States or state of Arizona) I also raise goats and we can't legally sell their milk without being a licensed dairy farm and having to pasteurize the milk and all this other stuff...so we do 'goat shares' instead, where friends pay a monthly 'boarding fee' for a goat and in return get raw milk...also there's a lot of issues with selling homegrown vegetables and homemade baked goods (I saw on the news a while back that a lot of elementary schools no longer allow homemade treats for class parties!What next, not allowing kids to bring a homemade lunch in their lunch box? lol) These days, you can get in trouble for everything! I just want to know if there's any laws out there I need to be aware of.

Also, as to the mentioned issue of people buying the eggs at a couple of bucks for a dozen and then hatching them...if it bothers anyone, the easiest solution is to keep the roosters in their own enclosure. I've built a separate enclosure for mine as I do not eat fertile eggs for religious reasons. Although from past chicken keeping experience doing the same, I know that the roosters always seem to find a way out and into the hens' area!

 

[CarolynPerth]

Hi I'm enjoying this forum! I don't sell my eggs but I do give them away and plan to barter them in future. I think bartering can get you a better return if you have people in your area with other surplus goods you need.

They also do wonders for good will among neighbours

 

[michickenwrangler]

My neighbor and I both sell eggs at $1/doz which is pretty cheap. Our market for eggs tends to fluctuate. Some weeks we'll have to make two custard pies a week just to do stuff with the excess, other times, we have to tell people to wait. She has 10 laying hens, I have 6