How much do you sell your eggs for?

[duckinnut]

When I first started I was selling for $3 but now at $4 and could sell @ $5. Went to $4 when the cost of feed rose significantly a few years back, went from buying feed at a local feed store 150 pounds to a mill. You buy a thousand pounds or more the cost goes down dramatically. At around $10 for a fifty pound bag versus a feed store$16/17 a bag really boosts the bottom line. The beauty of buying at this mill you can mix and match feed to get to a thousand pounds. Goat, horse, dairy or beef, rabbit, layer or meat feed. Anyway $4/5 is the going rate around here, some sell for $3 but feel they are losing money more so come winter. I keep any money from egg sales in a separate account used for just them. Feed, coop upgrades, equipment replacement and of course new chicks. The only money I recoup is for fuel doing chicken things. Funny how I always make less than the limit for having to report to IRS.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Yes thanks why I started this thread I feel I am loosing money and I serous I'll think I am so I might raise the price up to 2.50 a dozen maybe three. Idk

 

[rosemarythyme]

I pay $7-8 a dozen to get eggs from a local farm (which is part of the reason why I wanted to get chickens) so I'd be super happy to get them for only $2. Even at that price they sell like hotcakes and there have been plenty of times that the stand runs out - if you don't make it there within an hour after it opens, good luck getting any eggs!

 

[Robin Lawson]

We sell ours $7 for 2 dozen and can't keep up with demand. (Only have 12 layers.) We're in Northern California.

 

[speckledmthrhen]

We live in B.C., close to Vancouver, and sell our eggs for .50 each. We deliver eggs within a week of being laid, but usually day olds. Free range and / or organic eggs go for between 6.00 & 9.00 a dozen if you buy them at the store here.

 

[roundbaby]

DOWN HERE IN GA. THEY SELL FOR $2-3 . I SELL MY RHODE ISLAND LARGE BROWN EGGS FOR $2.00/DOZ. WE DON'T DO FREE RANGING OR ORGANIC EGGS HERE-THAT SOUNDS TOO MUCH LIKE CITY-FOLK YABBER. GROW THEM IN A PEN WHERE THE HAWKS AND CRITTERS WON'T GET THEM ESPECIALLY SLOW MOVING CHICKENS.
NOW I DO HAVE GAME ROOSTERS AND HENS THAT RUN LOOSE AND SCRATCH UP THE YARD AND ROOST IN HOLLY BUSH TREES AT NIGHT. THEY ARE VERY FAST AND ALERT AND LAY BEFORE WINTER IN THE BRUSHPILES AND BARNS. ITS LIKE WHAT GRANDMA HAD 50 YEARS AGO. MAY IT SIMPLE AND THEY WILL COME-CUSTOMERS THAT IS!!

 

[Alvarezabe]

I sell mine for $2.00 a dozen but they are the Brown ones.

 

[maruadventurer]

One has to 'market'. I am not suggesting upselling, or hard sell or other tricks. Give customers the facts and then just let them decide.

* 'Store' eggs are discounted by the big box outlets as a loss leader to go with the higher profit sausage and OJ. Your customer has to realize you sell a premium 'bright' product. Sell them 6 for .50c one time and tell him to compare your product to the big box eggs side by side. Yours will look better in the pan.

* There are NO laws about how old an egg can be held on the shelf. So long as it is held at the proper temps and off the floor its ok.
It is quite possible for a box of eggs to be 2 months old before it reaches the customer. Your eggs on the other hand are no more than 2 days old right?? That should matter to a customer.

* NonGMO. It might not matter to you but if it does and you use nonGMO feeds that is a selling point. The avant garde customer will pay extra for it. (They have to the feed costs are higher.)

* Done right let the customer see the flock the eggs come from. Many customers do care that their product comes from an environment that is conducive to delivery of a good product. (Think why Macroni Grill has an open kitchen. There is a reason.)

I sell my eggs for $3/dz. I don't use nonGMO certified feeds and if they ask I tell them so. I have had customers use the 'WallyWorld sells them for .99c/dz." I tell the customer, bully for them. I tell the customer my eggs are worth $3 and give them the one time .50c offer. Some become converts afterwards some never return. I can sell most of the eggs at my price generally any time of the year except peak summer laying when the girls are really coming on.

Every market area is different that's a given. But you are better off holding to your price. If you sell you eggs for .50c/dz they will always expect that price.

Hope it helps.

 

[Tazbeaux]

My customers here in Southern Louisiana know they are getting a premium product and are happy to pay $3 per dozen, which is almost enough to cover my feed costs. I have only 14 hens laying, so I usually have more demand than I have eggs.

 

[robbiebobbie]

Hi Roada Red! First look to see what the grocery stores around you are selling their organic/free range eggs for. You are not comparing the price of regular supermarket eggs. You are looking at their free range egg prices. Then go around and see what the local farms are selling their eggs for. Look for eggs for sale signs and then compare them all. Then sell your eggs accordingly. Another thing to consider: I was selling my eggs for $2.75 or $2.50 (It's been a while & I can't remember which) along a well traveled main road. I had several return customers. This was 25 minutes from my home. I was doing well and making money with my eggs. My boss was nice enough to let me sell my eggs from work and use their refridgerator. I was then layed off and now am selling my eggs from my home. I put a sign out for the same price and got no customers. I live on a back township road, so I decided to check what the local stores are selling their eggs for and checked around my area as to what other chicken raisers were selling their eggs for. I then lowered my price to $2.00. I am now getting return customers, but I still do not make any money at that price. Now I must decide if I want to raise my chickens for customers and ourselves or just slim my flock and raise them for my family only. So if you were actually selling them at $2.00, I would not lower my price if I were you. Do your homework and give it some time for people to see your signs. In my opinion, I would not lower my eggs beyond $2.00. But you have to go by what your area sells them for. Good Luck and let me know how you make out.