How much for eggs?

[SurferchickinSB]

Wow $4/doz i wanna live near you. I try to sell mine $2/doz and people throw a fit and say well I can get eggs for a buck at the store. Lol oh grumps. I'd say your right in the ballpark. You may get yourself a little extra business if you're are a bit cheaper than everywhere else.

I would tell those grumps that organic eggs always sell for a lot more! Also if they ever saw how most commercial eggs are produced, they would probably never want to eat a egg again! Really cheap eggs and meats usually come from suffering, filth and misery for the animals.

 

[bobbi-j]

How much to sell your eggs for? As previously stated, whatever the market allows. Where I work, two other people are selling eggs for $1.50/dozen. They can't get rid of all of them. I could come in and undercut them at $1.00/dozen, but I won't. I give them away to family and friends when I have excess.

 

[BrendaJune]

Here in rural Nevada it is $3.00 a dozen. A lot of people keep their own chickens.

 

[gtaus]

I live in northern Minnesota where you can buy white eggs at the store for less than a dollar a dozen. My wife prefers brown eggs and will pay about $2.50 a dozen, again at a big box store. I am looking forward to getting my first day old chicks the end of the month but don't expect any eggs until fall, and maybe not until next spring. I am planning on carrying about 6-8 hens, so I don't expect too many eggs, but the extras will go to family, if they want. Also, have been looking at hydrated lime preserving of eggs so we might be able to bank excess eggs during the laying season and just let the hens rest over winter. From what I understand, they pretty much stop laying on their own when it gets so cold in the winter. I don't expect to sell any eggs given the low price of store eggs in my area.

 

[bobbi-j]

I live in northern Minnesota where you can buy white eggs at the store for less than a dollar a dozen. My wife prefers brown eggs and will pay about $2.50 a dozen, again at a big box store. I am looking forward to getting my first day old chicks the end of the month but don't expect any eggs until fall, and maybe not until next spring. I am planning on carrying about 6-8 hens, so I don't expect too many eggs, but the extras will go to family, if they want. Also, have been looking at hydrated lime preserving of eggs so we might be able to bank excess eggs during the laying season and just let the hens rest over winter. From what I understand, they pretty much stop laying on their own when it gets so cold in the winter. I don't expect to sell any eggs given the low price of store eggs in my area.

First year pullets may lay through the winter. Mine did stop for a bit, but started picking up again in late January, early February. They stop because of the amount of daylight hours, not necessarily because of the cold. (Although the two do go hand in hand.)

 

[gtaus]

First year pullets may lay through the winter. Mine did stop for a bit, but started picking up again in late January, early February. They stop because of the amount of daylight hours, not necessarily because of the cold. (Although the two do go hand in hand.)

Well, I hope to see some eggs before the dead of winter. I have not made my mind up yet to provide additional lighting or not for the winter to encourage the hens to continue to lay if they have started. I will have electricity in the coop for the waterer, so I could provide extra light if desired.

But getting eggs is just a bonus for me having chickens. At $1.00 per dozen at the store, I don't want to stress out my hens to lay if they naturally stop.

 

[bobbi-j]

Well, I hope to see some eggs before the dead of winter. I have not made my mind up yet to provide additional lighting or not for the winter to encourage the hens to continue to lay if they have started. I will have electricity in the coop for the waterer, so I could provide extra light if desired.

But getting eggs is just a bonus for me having chickens. At $1.00 per dozen at the store, I don't want to stress out my hens to lay if they naturally stop.

I have done it both ways - light in the winter, and no light in the winter. I haven't noticed any adverse effects on my hens, but I also don't keep them long term.

 

[SurferchickinSB]

Well, I hope to see some eggs before the dead of winter. I have not made my mind up yet to provide additional lighting or not for the winter to encourage the hens to continue to lay if they have started. I will have electricity in the coop for the waterer, so I could provide extra light if desired.

But getting eggs is just a bonus for me having chickens. At $1.00 per dozen at the store, I don't want to stress out my hens to lay if they naturally stop.

I think when they are molting they usually don’t lay eggs regardless of the lighting situation. I had three of mine go through an early molt at only seven months and they didn’t lay eggs for one and a half to two months. The rest of mine the five others laid all through the winter and I don’t put an extra light. Mine are pets and I really don’t need tons and tons of eggs! I just like their beautiful feathers and the way they look in my backyard. I wormed them all when the three were going through molt. This year when they all go through molt I think I will worm them because you can’t eat it while you are doing this procedure and they’re not laying eggs anyhow.I live in California, so I guess it also depends on where you live as far as how much light you’ll be getting. Where I live they lay through the winter.

 

[WELDON99]

I live in deep East Texas on the Texas/Louisiana border. It's a rural area so lots of people have chickens. It's also a tourist area as we live on Toledo Bend Lake. I sell my eggs for $2.50 to $3.00 per dozen. Depends on the quantity that you buy. They are a mixed lot of eggs. Some white, some dark, some Bantam. I hope to start selling some duck eggs in the future and they will be more expensive. I'm just trying to make enough to pay for feed. What started out as pets for my wife, has turned into 45 chickens and 7 ducks! I did put up a sign on the highway for fresh yard eggs and sales are better.