How much do you charge per dozen? And location

[Bonnieboo]

I'd love to sell my eggs but at the moment I can't guarantee a regular supply as I only have one laying at the moment. Other times I have five! Never mind, my friends are always grateful when I can spare a dozen.

 

[Bestofsmall]

As I mentioned a few days ago I just accept donations for our eggs $3.00 a doz if they want to donate. Well today sis took 2 doz to work for 2 of the ladies who got some last time & one of them gave her $20.00 said it was for next 3 cartons! Sis said no $3.00 lady insisted on $5 & also gave her a 10lb. Bag of organic scratch for the girls which ladies Husband sent! I was totally surprised & thrilled! Of course we thanked her. What a couple they are.

 

[ASHLEYINAK]

$8 a dozen in Eagle River, AK... or anything someone wants to trade me! I've traded a dozen eggs for tomato starts, homemade apple butter, a fillet of sockeye salmon, someone shoveling the snow from my driveway for me, and so much more!

 

[knurse1]

I am finally getting lots of eggs again and will be selling them locally in the neighborhood. I feed non gmo feeds, and I have a large yard for my chickens fenced in. Not exactly “free range” but close enough for me. I’m wondering how much to charge per dozen this year. Egg prices are crazy but that doesn’t mean I want to price gouge too. This varies with location so please share with me your locations and price per dozen! Thanks!

I generally charge 5 to $6 ,dozen. my eggs are organic.

 

[Sally PB]

$8 a dozen in Eagle River, AK... or anything someone wants to trade me! I've traded a dozen eggs for tomato starts, homemade apple butter, a fillet of sockeye salmon, someone shoveling the snow from my driveway for me, and so much more!

I love bartering!

The "cheap eggs" in the store are back down to $3.29. A few weeks ago, they were $5.09. There were a lot more eggs in the case too.

 

[Jerhanner]

They seem to be going around $4/dz around here in NY's Capital District. I'm not saying this to be preachy or holier than thou, but I donate all mine to the local church food pantry - I'd rather have some poor kid have scrambled eggs for breakfast than try to make back a fraction of my costs. But as in all things, you do you.

 

[CKfarm22]

They seem to be going around $4/dz around here in NY's Capital District. I'm not saying this to be preachy or holier than thou, but I donate all mine to the local church food pantry - I'd rather have some poor kid have scrambled eggs for breakfast than try to make back a fraction of my costs. But as in all things, you do you.

Hey, there’s nothing wrong with helping out. What goes around comes around, as I like to say

 

[TesoroSena]

We sell 2 dollars a dozen to our Nabors, but 4 dollars to anyone else. Also, we require them to give back the cartons, which they all seem happy to do.

 

[PrairieBluebellMama]

I totally feel for you guys! In that situation at the farmer's market I'd probably have done the same thing. I've avoided getting white egg layers myself so far for this exact reason - they look just like supermarket eggs and don't have the exotic appeal of colored eggs (although I might get just one soon to help my blue eggs color show better by contrast in the egg carton). Nothing beats the white leghorn in egg size or egg production, but I can't point to those white eggs and say "look at my specialty niche product that you should pay a specialty price for".

The ISA browns' eggs are prolific and sell well, but I'm still looking for blue and green layers that have the egg size and lay rate of the white leghorns. Hoover's hatchery starlight green eggers and prairie bluebell eggers are close, but not quite all I'm looking for.

It's hard to support production of a quality product when your customer base doesn't understand or support your pricing.

I have prairie bluebells and they just started laying. I would say they are supermarket size for normal eggs. They are beautiful though. Each hen lays a different shade of blue and they were very popular with my community. Everyone wants them faster than they can lay them lol

 

[Judy Todd]

I understand where you're coming from, and I respect that. You should do what works for you.

But I have a concern. My problem is, when people sell eggs for a low price (a price that does not reflect the work and supplies and food purchased to keep the chickens healthy and produce the eggs, and especially when they post super low prices on public forums like Craigslist), those of us who are relying on egg sales to support our chickens (pay for feed and other supplies, not to mention the work to clean the eggs and prepare them for market) can't get a decent price for our eggs and can't afford to continue to participate in our hobby because those who are doing it for fun are undercutting the market.

Consumers have an incorrect idea of what eggs should actually cost because grocery store eggs are (were) generally so cheap - the hens are raised and lay in circumstances that would make many of us shudder, but the consumers only see the dollar amount and don't think too much about the care of the animals involved. Farmers markets have helped to combat this somewhat - around here they charge double the grocery store price for farm fresh eggs from well managed healthy chickens, giving consumers the idea that farm eggs are more of a specialty item (consumers don't see the high prices farmers pay to participate in the farmers markets).

But then you have people who post "farm fresh eggs" on Craigslist for under the grocery store price. Are they trying to drive the rest of us out of owning chickens? Are they too lazy to set up a proper distribution system, and just want to unload lots of month old eggs on the market all at once? I question the health and management of the chickens that are producing those low priced eggs, because where are they getting the money to feed them if not from egg sales? Sure, you can just have them forage, or mainly forage, but unless that's carefully managed, their health may degrade over time from lack of the proper nourishment, and they'll die sooner than they would have if given proper nourishment. I don't want my chickens to live that way, but when folks undercut the market, they are making it much harder for me to give my chickens their best life and for the rest of us to be able to afford to do what we love.

Thank you for that intelligent comment. Fortunately, my regular customers, neighbors, told me I should raise the price, because they noticed feed had goneup. I feel my eggs compare to freerange, organic at grocery store, which cost $8 to $9 a doz. I charge 5 0r 6 with return carton, important as my cartons are stamped with the name of my farm.