how much do you charge for your eggs?

[lahowardjr]

The brown eggs sell here for $2.28 at "wally-world". I'm just starting a customer base but I don't have enough hens/eggs to justify going to the farmer's market. They charge $15.00 for a booth for a few hours on the weekends. I'm sure I could sell on the roadway like others do for potatoes and watermelons but I'm not that motivated.

 

[Chickens R Us]

Here in Upper Michigan I sell my eggs for $2.00 a dozen and $3.00 for 18 ct. some of my co-workers like the 18 ct. I ask them to save the cartons so I don't have to raise my prices $.50 that's how much they cost at the local TSC. A couple of others sell their eggs at work for $2.00 a dozen also going rate around here.

 

[fried green eggs]

If you have to buy egg cartons they are on sale at TSC for 29 cent right now. I bought 140 a couple weeks ago when I had a coupon which got an additional 10% off the sale price. I get $3.00 a dozen if they buy every week and return the cartons to us. We have many people that give us their grocery store cartons so we have lots of them. I put one of our labels over the stores name and reuse the cartons but, I have a couple places that buy lots but they have to have new cartons that I'm sure we will not ever get back.

I just figuring out exactly what each egg cost us and if we could only get $ 2.00 a dozen - I would be cutting down the size of our flock and only keep enough hens for our family to stay supplied. I figured in feed cost, electric for heaters for waterers, heat lamps and cost to run them when it was so bitter cold here. I need to be $1.50 per dozen just to cover feed bill.

Hoping I can get $4.00 a dozen at the local Farmers Market.

 

[swede-murphy]

I have been selling mine to a local small specialty grocery store for $2.60/dozen (they sell them for 3.99!). I charge some others the same, but it is so much easier to bring a bunch of eggs to one place rather than to deliver all over town. I still give a lot away to friends, but then they give me stuff, too. This is a hobby for me, so any money we get I put in a jar to spend on something neat, like a night out on the town. Some people are willing to pay EXTRA for fresh, free-range eggs.

 

[offgridhermit]

I didn't know what to charge when the guy that delivers our water wanted to buy some eggs from me. I had him suggest a price and he paid me $3 a dozen. They were mixed white and brown eggs.

 

[Heat]

I currently get $3/dozen for our eggs. They are free range and organically fed... I have co-workers who sell their organic eggs for $4-5/dozen.

I find that selling mine at $3/dozen I can cover the cost of their feed.

 

[hapeli]

How to price my eggs has been a huge headache for me. For one, I had been paying between $5-$7 for organic, free range eggs prior to getting my own chickens, and I didn't even blink. I was just thrilled to find them. When my chickens first began laying, the eggs were teeny tiny, so I charged $3 for a dozen because you really needed to use two eggs to get one. I had two hard-core customers at this point, and as the eggs became bigger, I kept thinking, hmmm, I should charge more, but I HATED the thought, and kept selling them for $3. Most of the time I would assure myself that it was fine, I wasn't in it for the money.

Then my sister, who was lower on the totem pole of customer because she lives further away and so someone else always got them first, started giving me $5 a dozen, so that I would hold them for her. And of course I did! I get between 9-12 eggs a day, and I really only have three regular "customers," one being my sister and then two other friends, who always take 2-4 dozen a week, but they don't want to pay $5! So I said fine, but I am actively seeking other customers, and THEY will take priority to you guys, who I have always provided as many eggs as they wanted, even limiting my own supply from time to time to meet their demands. Ridiculous that we have to have egg wars, but when I was out in the coop today, cleaning it, chasing down chicks in order to clean their winter-dirty butts, and watching them frolic in the grass that at last has no snow on it, I thought to myself WHY would I second guess the pricing of SUPERIOR eggs? My customers (friends!) know me, they know I am feeding them 100 percent organic, soy-free non-GMO food, that they are free-ranging on grass that has never seen any chemicals or fertilizer, ever, and that when I say they are fresh, I mean they just popped out of their little chutes fresh!

My new scheme to find new customers (friends!) has been to bring eggs to them in any way I can. Last night I went to dinner at a friend's house and brought them some eggs. They do not eat organic, so when I told them that I was selling them for $5, you could see that they thought I was nuts. (I did not charge them for the gifted eggs!) This morning I received a call that, after eating them for breakfast, they could clearly see that they were incomparable to the eggs they have been eating their whole lives, and they would like at least one dozen a week, for five dollars!

What is ironic is that my two cheapo friends DO buy organic, DO know the cost of their counterparts on the grocery store, but are trying to get away with it because they are friends. Hey, they aren't out there cleaning the coop!

I live in N.H.

 

[Rowdie]

50c an egg, buy ten get two free. So that's $5 a doz. I'm in Tampa, Fl more or less. I have to get my gals laying more eggs as I know I'm losing customers. I tell people the eggs are 5/doz and that's a deal because I should be selling them for six. "Local Farmers markets are asking 6." Yes there's the lady selling some right up the street for 3.50 but hers are not free range. It's 5/doz, that's a deal. I've not had the first person say no. In fact they are forming a cue.

I give the people the straight skinny. The feed is "organic" and "vegetarian" but our chickens sure as heck aren't vegetarians. They crush every possible animal protein source they can manage. We give them treats every day. The apples and strawberries and blue berries may not be marketing organic. They get some stuff right from our trees, Lowquats and Mulberries most recently. We don't spray anything on those.

The marketing points I push are Free Range, Fresh, Free Range, local, and free range. You'll notice the difference as soon as you crack one open. The ranging means they eat a lot of grasses which in turn leads to a rather astonishing orange yolk. The freshness will show up in a very perky yolk. I don't push the angle but I think it comes out. These hens are pets. They are treated as such. They eat out of our hand. They come running at a call. They have names. They are as happy and content as we can make them.

Instead of lowering price I'd try to market more.

Our ladies are work hard to produce each and every egg. Respect the Hen, .50 cents and egg or 5/doz is more than fair.

Don't get stuck comparing your eggs to the things in the store. They are not the same.

Anyway, it's $5/doz and I'd sooner raise it to 6 before lowering it. You see the price of gas lately?

 

[Rowdie]

I charge $5.00 but I only use soy-free organic feed and my chickens free range. I sell all I have, and have a waiting list!

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Where about do you live?

 

[PacasNChicks]

I'll be movin to Snowflake soon and I'm hoping to sell my chickie eggs for $3 per dozen to cover the cost of the food ... nice to know you are getting that much, gives me hope! How many hens do you have and how many a week are they laying? My babies are maybe 6 weeks old and I calculated that by Oct, they will be laying! Can't wait!!! thanks for ANY info