How much do you guys charge for eggs?

[KlaHaYa Gardens]

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Wow! When I was a kid our eggs were $2 dozen and we had more buyers than we had eggs. I have grown children now . . .

 

[montverdechick]

I just sell to friends and co-workers. Charge $3.00 a dozen and make enough in a month to pay for the feed for my 16 hens and my four chicks...and have a little left over. So, we basically get free eggs and also make a small profit.

 

[SassyKat6181]

$3 here in Massachusetts.

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

I figured that it takes about $1.20 worth of feed to make a dozen eggs. Since they eat approx. 4 lbs of feed per dozen, and a 50-lb bag of feed here is $15/bag, that comes to about $0.30/lb x 4 pounds = $1.20. I would not charge less than $3 per dozen, especially if they are from free-range chickens or are fed organic feed.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Fred's Hens :

What the local market bears. In a poorer, rural area, with lots of competition? Not much. An upscale urban area and the west coast seem to fetch the higher prices.

This is true. Local market rules.

I am going to $3.25 a dozen for my store account with my next delivery and come the first delivery in September will go to $3.50. I want to move on up for $4.00 in quarter increments, but I'm waiting to see what feed does over the summer before trying to go higher than $3.50.​

 

[3goodeggs]

Mr. Hagan is just up the highway from us a bit, I charge $3.00. and that is for the ones that register at ''Leveling device" on the egg scale. (some where above extra large)
I suppose I could charge more, but I lost so many customers when I got a rooster (he hasn't even figured it out yet

) that I am happy to get three. They are fresh and large and everything else is expensive... they should be $3.50.

I just know that for fifty cents they'd rather eat store bought.

 

[kimntep]

$2/doz for smalls, $3/doz for large or jumbos..no quantity discount! My ladies work hard for my money and so do I!

 

[sweeterdeeter42]

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People dont want to buy eggs if you have a rooster?

Is it because they see the white spot on the yolk? One of the only signs I have seen on the side of the road for eggs also had a sign above it saying "chicks for sale." So they obviously have a rooster. If it was anywhere near where I live, I would go ask them how their business is, but it was in a town we were just passing through on our journeys this weekend. I have an EE rooster, but he is in a separate area right now. Was planning on letting him loose with them in a couple weeks, so I can incubate the EE eggs and the Marans eggs.


ETA: What breeds of chickens do you guys have that lay jumbo eggs? None of my chickens except the Leghorn lays a larger than average egg.

 

[ralleia]

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It's the legal requirements that compel me to *give* my eggs away. Based on the care my chickens get and how wonderful their eggs are, $5 a carton would be appropriate, but only a true health nut is going to recognize the value.

If I sold my eggs, I would have to get a license, and then would be required to clean, sort, and whatever other handling requirements come with it. I read the legal code a few years back and promptly decided that I wanted NOTHING to do with it.

Food in general, to include eggs is SO CHEAP in the store. Most Americans want cheap food, not good food, and they are NOT going to pay you what the eggs are worth. Eat 'em yourself, give them to a few friends who appreciate it, or feed 'em back to the chickens.

If you sell them for $2/dozen (or the like) you are undercutting yourself. There's little so infuriating as hearing the argument that $2 is too expensive because the supermarket sells 'em for cheaper. Then GO TO THE SUPERMARKET, IDIOT!

Harumph.

 

[ralleia]

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I suspect they're paranoid about breaking an egg and having a partially-developed embryo with blood and veins fall out. That's the main thing . But if one is dutiful about egg collection, and only collects eggs from the nest boxes, that should never be an issue.

They might also think that the blood spots are a sign of a fertile egg. I don't know, but those far more experienced say that the spots are not from that at all.

Among the health nut "live food" community, some actually PREFER fertile eggs, believing them to be superior in healthful attributes. I don't know enough to have an opinion.

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I don't know which of mine lay the jumbo eggs--I suppose it might be the Plymouth Rocks or the RIRs. All I know for sure is those are the ones I try to eat myself because they don't want to fit in the egg cartons for "large" eggs!

Here's a handy-dandy chart I like to check: http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html

According to it the Deleware eggs are among the biggest, and Rocks and RIRs are above average.