More customers than eggs

[Kansaseq]

Put up a weekly ad on CL, post pics of your eggs and girls, out on pasture preferably.

Word of mouth at hubby's work, notice up at the gas station, feed store, etc.

 

[jojo54]

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What is the best way you find to sell eggs? I would like to start selling some but I don't know the best way...How do you advertise it? Craigslist, sign outside????

Some word of mouth, several posters on local bulletin boards, people who call because someone they knew got eggs from us. (I put a label with my name and phone number on each egg carton.)
It really was too easy,

 

[kelidei]

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I think, from what I have read here, the biggest factor is location. We live in an area that is just outside Chicago suburbia. We also border some pretty wealthy areas. IOW's we aren't too far away from "civilization" and people here are mega health and eco conscious. They don't even blink at the thought of spending $4.00 a dozen for my eggs. NOW--- compare that to this--- we just went to visit my husband's family they live in a rural area north of Green Bay in Wisconsin. They think the flatlanders down here are absolutely insane for paying so much for "farm" eggs. If we lived up there I couldn't even give them away most likely--- Around that area everyone is friends with someone who has chickens.

 

[darbysmom]

Good suggestions, all.

Thanks! Any more ideas on this subject?
What about best layers?

I've been looking a leghorns and orphingtons. . .

 

[Lensters]

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I work with the three major pastured/free range egg producers here in Western Oregon and they all use RIRs or Red or Black Sexlinks from RIR roosters. In Portland these eggs sell for $5/dozen. Here in the Corvallis area down to Eugene they sell for $4/dozen. Of course this is only packaged up nice at the food co-ops or at the health food stores. Out here at the farms they sell for $3/dozen.

Also you will notice the boom/bust cycle constantly. A week ago I had 16 dozen eggs sitting in my fridge, today I have one dozen and need to collect today's eggs for a lady that wants three dozen this evening. We'll have to see if I have that many from the breeds whose eggs aren't already spoken for as hatching eggs.

 

[kelidei]

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Australorps--- I have one pullet of three who is laying and I get an egg from her just about everyday. She's even in moult and she still produces--- orpingtons, RIR's and EE's I really love my Australorps ---can't wait for the others to start laying. I also wanted cold hardy breeds--- don't know if that's a concern for you too. Do you want dual purpose or strictly layers? If it's just layers then the RIR's, Leghorns and sex links are probably the best. JMO...

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

We got lucky with ours. I met a local BYC'er who lives in my same city at the time when she was just getting chickens and we'd had ours for almost a year. As coincidence would have it, a lady at her work quit selling eggs, so we just slid right in and took over. We average anywhere from 3-6 dozen per week in orders. Our best layers are the sex links, barred rocks, and RIR's. Forget the buff orpingtons. They are nice birds but not predictable layers when you need them. We collect and I drop off to her each week and she delivers them at work.

We started into ducks and had a ton of eggs. The regular chicken egg customers prefer to stick to their chicken eggs, so I had to resort to putting an ad on Craig's List. It definitely paid off and we are selling upwards of 10 dozen duck eggs a week. I had a customer drive an hour each way today to pick up 4 dozen.

Best advice I can give you is to advertise however you can. A sign in the yard works good but only if you're home (which I am not). Craig's List is amazing as is word of mouth. I only have one neighbor who buys two dozen maybe once a month, if that. If you can post a sign at your local feedstore, that helps too. It takes a while to get established, but patience pays off.

 

[Slywoody]

Every time before i go to town ( once or twice a week), i call folks i know along the way and stop and deliver. If i do have eggs left when i get there, this one gal at the Cenex station will buy whatever i have left. I've never came home with eggs. When i first started selling eggs, i just called everybody i know and asked at all the stores in town. You ask enough people and you will sell all your eggs.

 

[Atlchick]

I've got the same "problem". I didn't do anything except post a sign beside my mailbox. I live in an area that isn't considered 'rural' anymore, but we have several acres and can keep chickens. We have mostly 'yuppies' (is that word even USED anymore???) living in our neighborhoods, but fresh eggs seem to hit a chord with them. Either it's the 'in" green thing to do, or they have memories of their parents/grandparents raving about fresh eggs. For whatever reason, I can't keep enough eggs. I sold 13 dozen this week, the last two dozen just 10 minutes ago. I'm out of eggs until tomorrow! In our area, the going rate is $2./dozen . . . I usually make enough per week to buy my feed. Not always, mind you, buy just often enough to offset the cost of my addiction!

 

[PandoraTaylor]

we have a small local store that buys all the eggs I have for sale.

So I don't need to advertise.