How much do you charge for eggs?

[KelliV]

Counted Sorrow - Roos are Roosters (usually used to refer to young roosters)

I live in FL and I sell my eggs for $3.00/dozen if people bring me at least 1 recycled carton per dozen. Without the cartons, I charge $3.25/dozen. Free range brown eggs are $3.99/dozen in the stores here. I'm lucky that I have a clients that appreciates fresh eggs from happy chickens! Generally, they all return cartons to me as well, which saves on my costs!

 

[Countedsorrow]

Aha! Thanks KelliV!

I thought there where a few too many Kangaroo keepers on here

 

[A.T. Hagan]

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Ouch. And for organic at that.

Still, I suppose you must be making a profit on them to stay in business.

I sell mine for $3.00 a dozen except for one whole sale customers who gets them at $2.50 and retails them at $3.75. That's pretty much all the traffic will bear in the Gainesville, Fl area.

If I had to treat this as a real business I still wouldn't be making any money.

.....Alan.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

A.T. Hagan :

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Ouch. And for organic at that.

Still, I suppose you must be making a profit on them to stay in business.

That's not too bad. That is a fixed price for the year. The extent of my work is caring for the hens and bulk packing the eggs and putting them in the cooler. The co-op sends out a truck once a week to pick them up and take them to egg processing plant. I don't sanitize, grade, or pack the eggs in cartons, I don't market them, nor transport them to the stores.​

 

[captainmoose]

I was selling them for $2.50 a dozen but people keep telling me that they pay a lot more for Egglands Best so I raised the price to $3.00. Nobody complained.

 

[Bridget399]

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I'm about 45 minutes from Pittsburgh and mine go for $2/ dz, too.

 

[technodoll]

I just sold 5 dozen to 3 different people, $5 a dozen - people go crazy for fresh farm eggs around here

 

[pixie74943]

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you make me lol... You should know that Kangaroos are only for us Aussies.. How else would we get to work/school

 

[Jen4]

2.00 a dozen here, man I wish I could sell ours for 5.00!

But atleast they are helping pay for the feed..............

 

[ace6175]

We are finally ready to start selling eggs, hoping to get between $3 & $4 a dozen....we live in the suburbs and supposed "free-range" eggs go for about $4 in the store. I do have friends looking for a local source of free range.
Seems like our expenses aren't too bad - a 50 lb bag of feed lasts a month (costs $15) because we let them range a large section of the yard, and we use dried grass clippings for bedding (it's free!), we stored 15 bags over the summer. The oyster shell is more expensive, but does seem to last a long time. We only have 9 hens.
Of course, we'll spend more on feed in the winter, but so far, not too bad.