I am fairly new to selling eggs and I need advice.

[midget_farms]

our local walmart sells organic free range eggs for $3.50 per dozen. I sell mine for $3.00 & cant keep up (especially in winter).

When you increase your layers consider breeds that lay well. black australorps hold the world record for most eggs in a year (364). & they are good dual purpose birds not just eggers.

The only way to really make any money on eggs is to write off the cost of the coop the first year. & free range as much as you can because every bug they eat is feed they dont.

I hardly use any feed in the summer. All my costs are at this time of year - when they don't produce as much

 

[HEChicken]

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Wow. Around here, the "free range" eggs at the supermarket go for $4.50/doz. The organic are even higher.

 

[spartacus_63]

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Wow. Around here, the "free range" eggs at the supermarket go for $4.50/doz. The organic are even higher.

Free Range and Organic are more here to, but you can get Farm Fresh, which is basically brown commercial eggs.

 

[Fred's Hens]

You kind of have to make a philosophical decision. There are many approaches. Sell the very best, largest eggs you have, at a premium price because you know they are a quality product. Or, just sell at no profit margins and just eek out your cost.
There are finer points to this, but essentially, that's the conundrum.

I've decided to sell a great product, at competitive pricing, (2.50-3.00). That's about the top range of pricing around here. So, if I am going to sell, I am not going to gouge, but have to make a small profit. Period. Or, I'd get out of the selling end of it all together.

I've decided if all I want is a few hens for eggs for myself and for "gifting" of family and friends, I'd just reduce the flock size and be happy and I would be happy, if I ever choose that option.

 

[Cass]

OP,
You are greatly undervaluing your eggs. Brown eggs in the store are over 2 bucks a dozen. (easily...I don't buy brown eggs, I buy white and love it when they are on SALE for 1.69 a dozen)
Raise your prices immediately, because feed is only going to go up and you will have to buy the feed before you can sell the eggs it produces. Are you factoring in the time it takes to tend the chickens in your price? How about the extra treats and scratch and oyster shell? Water? Do you pay for your water? If not you probably pay for the electricity to pump it from the well.
Not to meantion how you are possibly ticking off anyone else in your area that sells eggs....word will get around. Someday you may need the assistance of those other egg producers, don't want them to ticked to lend a hand or advice.

HEChicken,
I LOVE you idea of discount for bringing the carton back. I am filing that in my "good chicken idea" file , in case I ever find myself selling my blue eggs. (WAY in the future, the eggs to hatch my chicks haven't even been laid yet....Anticipated arrival of pullets is mid-April)

 

[Pinky]

When my hens are laying I sell them for $2.00 a dozen. I want to charge more but I don't want to scare the customers away.

 

[8ROYALS]

I sell mine for $3 a dozen. $10 if you get 4 dozen. That is the going rate here from $2.50-4.00 I should have enough hens laying this spring to start selling again to more than just neighbors, family and friends. I do have family members that buy one bag of feed a month for 18 eggs a week. So that is a trade off and barter I do, because they buy other feed on credit each month for their horses, cattle and goats. But they do not have chickens. Plus if feed goes up you are still only out 18 eggs. If you get like 4-5 family members to do this, then you could not have a feed bill (depending on the amount of chickens you have). The winter is alot harder to fill those orders, but you and everyone else already knows that...

 

[Happy Chooks]

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You could always raise your prices on your new customers and keep the existing customers at $2.00.

 

[BWSY]

A high end grocery store here sells "organic" free range brown eggs for $5.00. I sell them for $4.00/12 and nobody complains about the price. Sometimes they give me $5.00. I also gift them to my other customers....the ones that I do service work for to get them hooked!

 

[justtoni44]

I get $3.00 a dozen.but also donate to our local food bank.
It works out.I just need to cover food costs.....
Also barter some........My Chiropracter accepts eggs as a partial payment...........
A neighbor accepted eggs for disbuding and castrating our kid goats.................
We supply our daughter,(raising three kids on her own)
Free to our elderly neighbor............Her smile worth at least $6.00 a dozen
Good Lord..........no wonder I'm broke LOL.....
I just love the whole thing...
To borrow my friends slogan.
Buy high..sell low.......

It's the Corbett way..( name of our city)