how much do you charge for your eggs?

[lisahaschickens]

FYI, I have been on this thread before and encouraged people to get more for their eggs! People will pay! I know it partly depends on your location and how you've raised your eggs, but I just thought I'd update and let everyone know that the Portland Farmers' Market started up again last weekend and all the organic, free-range people were getting $7/doz for their eggs! Non-organic but local, and often free-range was fetching $5-$6/doz. And every vendor always sells out in the first half of the market!

People want great eggs and are willing to pay for the difference between store-bought caged-hen eggs and great, homegrown ones. You can get more than $1-$2/doz. $3-$5 would be easy to get in most places, I think, and you're still giving them a bargain!!! GO for it!

 

[DaveMN]

I will charge more when the economy picks up but for now am content to just break even.
it is more a hobby for me and a way of helping others for now. they do like my eggs and all of them sell other than those i use for barter (homemade cinnamon rolls, finnish flat bread, wild blueberry pie) so i know i will have customers when things get better.

We don't have yuppies here or even a farmers market which would affect the price of the eggs.

 

[Zoey]

I charge $4.00 a dozen for fertile chicken eggs
And $6.00 a dozen for fertile Muscovy duck eggs.

But people will pay up to $6.00 chicken eggs and $12.00 for the duck ones.

 

[jmstanley]

I used to sell eggs to lady my wife used to clean house for . she gave me $15 for a doz. she said the were well worth it. she had not had any eggs like that sence she left cuba 30 years ago

 

[ozark hen]

Quote:
God Bless you! Yes, these are hard times and what goes around comes around.
We are one of the ones laid off right now, but before we were jobless and now- we still give eggs away or if they insist on paying, for very little. We all need to help each other right now. There are places where money and jobs are doing well and they deserve to get their high prices but for the rest of us, keep on helping our fellow mankind who need a bit of help right now.

 

[krkyoldhag]

With my first hens I did try to sell the eggs..but people would come by and say oh I need a dozen ..and never pay...(neighbors)

So when they stopped laying I started buying from a lady for $2.50 a dozen because I love farm eggs. She got to where she was always sold out when I would stop by.

So I have just bought 65 chicks from breeder and am going to attempt to sell eggs again.

And the price is going to be $2.75 because I am being very careful to raise them with organic feed...no hormones..
and it costs more.

If neighbors won't buy not giving them away. Will set up on the square every week and sell there..

Funny thing...I told one woman that I was going to be selling eggs from these chickens and she said..oh well I don't eat a dozen a month...and I didn't say anything but wondered...what was she doing with the couple dozen a week she used to get from me?

I have to figure it up how much the feed is ...that's all I really want to recoup from selling the eggs...So far I have $175 invested in the chickens themselves plus the $300 to built the new pen and the feed costs...so eggs not cheap to produce..

But have to say...to me its worth it. The alternative was to give up eggs..can't abide the store bought eggs.

 

[krkyoldhag]

Davemn you so right. I would never hesitate to give eggs to anyone having financial problems.

I remember in the 50's my mother furnished eggs to all the neighbors. And sometimes to bake a cake she had to wait til a chicken layed an egg or two...for herself b/c she had given away all we had..

Times were hard back then...for lots of people. And I am afraid its going to be again.

I was raised in hard times...and I worry that the younger ones won't know how to begin to manage with little money.

 

[newbie coops]

I charge $2.50/dz for both fertile and unfertile eggs. People are happy to pay it, and if someone has really discriminating tastes, they'll pay more for eggs from free-ranged, cage-free, or organically and humanely bred chickens.

 

[BlackBart]

In my area, free range goes anywhere from $3.50 to 4.50 and organic is much more, up to $6 if they are classed as heart smart-omega 3 eggs.
You see some egg stands with $3.00 eggs but those are penned birds and usually high egg production type birds, so they are a little bit better than store bought eggs.

I use my eggs as a barter system. If my neighbor drops off wood shavings, I give him eggs etc..

 

[hawtchick]

we sell our jumbos for $2.00
extra large $1.50