how much do you charge for your eggs?

[offgridhermit]

Welcome to the Snowflake area. I live 30 miles north of Saint Johns. I don't think you will have any problems selling your eggs for $3 a dozen.
As for when you will start getting eggs I think it might depend on the breed. My white leghorns were the first to start laying, then the buff Orphingtons, then the brahma, and the polish didn't start laying till all the other breeds had been laying for several weeks.
I have 7 hens that I bought last April as chicks. I was getting 6-7 eggs a day but some are still molting and I have one brooding now on other hen's eggs, (I'm anxious to see what happens in 3 weeks with the brooding hen and the eggs), I'm still getting 5-6 eggs a day.

 

[boyswillbeboys]

Wow, I'm surprised at these prices, on the first page was $2, which is what people charge here, and the grocery store eggs. My MIL pays $2.50 a dozen at the market. We live in Western Canada.

I don't have my chickens or possession of my land yet, but she is going to go in on the chickens and feed with us for a share of eggs and meat.

 

[mtnviewfarms]

I get five dollars per dozen for my 'multi-colored' dozen -- Welsummer, Black Australorp, BR and EE eggs - they are free range and farm fresh. The eggs are so gorgeous that people actually ask me 'are they real'?

Several other vendors at the farmers mkts where I sell offer their brown eggs for as little as two dollars per dozen so I don't sell that many at $5 but if I can't get that which dosen't even cover my feed costs - let alone my time and effort then I'd just as soon make quiches, lemon curd, etc.
and give extras to the food bank.

 

[PacasNChicks]

yep ... I'd consider anywhere north of St Johns, the middle of nowhere! Thanks for the welcome! I've heard that every town has a Farmers Market on Sat mornings so I will probly bring all the extra eggs into town to sell. If all goes well with the babies I bought, I'll be bringing the 12 chicks up to Snowflake and they should be laying BY October. I hear it's not really cold up there til around Thanksgiving so they will have a chance to adjust! I want to get 3 geese also and I've heard the eggs can be sold for $1 per egg ... I hear the Geese make good " guard dogs " and if I'm lucky, the lady who is selling the house is leaving behind a nice round fencing which would be perfect for them!
have a good weekend
KC

 

[LoveChickens123]

i sell mine for $2 a dozen.
Some I sell for $1 a dozen because they were my friends but yeah mostly 2

 

[kuntrygirl]

My chicken eggs are $3.00 a dozen and my duck eggs are $5.00 a dozen.

 

[Abeall]

$2.50 per Dozen

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[chicken pickin]

I also sell my chicken eggs for $3 a dozen. Last year was my first year selling eggs and I sold them for $2 a dozen, I quickly realized it wasn't close to helping cover my feed cost and was becoming not worth it to me to sell eggs so cheap and also left with not nearly enough eggs for my family to eat. After that experience I got more chickens(more eggs) and raised the price to $3. I almost think I could have easily charged $4 a dozen for my pretty rainbow eggs as most people respond with "Really?! Only $3". But honestly more chickens and the dollar increase to $3/doz has worked out perfect for my family. Enough money to buy feed and enough eggs for us to eat whenever we feel like it.

Oh and duck eggs I plan to sell for $5/doz.

And Turkey eggs so far I don't sell(I incubate and LOVE to eat these)

 

[kuntrygirl]

I also sell my chicken eggs for $3 a dozen. Last year was my first year selling eggs and I sold them for $2 a dozen, I quickly realized it wasn't close to helping cover my feed cost and was becoming not worth it to me to sell eggs so cheap and also left with not nearly enough eggs for my family to eat. After that experience I got more chickens(more eggs) and raised the price to $3. I almost think I could have easily charged $4 a dozen for my pretty rainbow eggs as most people respond with "Really?! Only $3".  But honestly more chickens and the dollar increase to $3/doz has worked out perfect for my family. Enough money to buy feed and enough eggs for us to eat whenever we feel like it.

Oh and duck eggs I plan to sell for $5/doz.

And Turkey eggs so far I don't sell(I incubate and LOVE to eat these)

Yes, you have to keep up and charge enough to help out with the feed. For some reason people expect to get eggs for little of nothing.

And Turkey eggs are my favorite eggs. I love them. I didn't get a chance to eat any this year because I incubated and sold all of the eggs that the girls layed.

 

[duckinnut]

Selling mine at at $4 dozen and can't keep any in the house. Also have 2 customers that pay $5 for the guarantee of a dozen a week.To complicate matters I lost 4 girls to predators and the new batch of 8 are a ways off and now heat and humidity.

While at $4 I am making a good profit when the girls are rolling but come winter time the picture isn't so rosy. It becomes a losing affair but you take the lean with the fat. Free egg boxes and buying food in bulk helps.