Pet Peeve - "I want ONLY brown eggs"

[hollymh]

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My brown eggs DO have thicker shells than my Leghorn eggs. They all eat the same stuff too. I think it has to do with the breed. Marans are notorious for having really thick shells, and theirs are the thickest, but my Barred Rocks also lay thicker shells than my White Leghorn girls.

When I got eggs from the store we always got the more expensive brown (cage free I think they were) because I really did think they tasted better and they had thicker shells than your regular white eggs --- but with them they were a different company than the "plain WalMart white eggs" so I'm pretty sure it was a difference in their feed. With my own hens I know they all eat the same stuff. Nowadays I forget that other people buy eggs at the store - I haven't gone to that aisle in almost 2 years

I like the multi-colors in the carton. I think they're sooooo pretty! But I've never had any customers ask for certain colors or tell me that they tasted any different.
ETA: I wonder what they would think about THIS egg???
lol it came from one of my Barred Rocks - extra calcium deposits on the shell I think (and yes that's a dog hair in the pic

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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_...Y/9qp1PzdM1yU/s512/IMG00869-20110318-1252.jpg

So pretty!

 

[arabianequine]

I only want blue eggs.

 

[tx_vaquera]

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What's funny is that I can tell the difference in the eggs (especially the yolks) of my different girls. My BO lays eggs with great whites and nice but not exceptional yolks. The Welsummer eggs have huge, exceptionally rich yolks. My Light Brown Leghorn (when she's laying) has great yolks as well, but different from the Wellies, smaller, more compact but rich yolks. So yeah - I wonder if the different breeds forage differently - thus producing different tasting eggs.

You're probably right that your customers are idiots but I do think there's something different about the eggs produced by my various chickens, even though they have access to the same feed and the same forage.

ETA: Note that this is for eggs pulled out of the nest and cooked a short time later that same day. There are differences in the egg yolks and whites of my chickens - it's not a white egg/brown egg thing but there are breed differences.

My Ameraucana yolks are much lighter than my Marans, Barred and Orpingtons and the shells are thinner. I too have wondered about different breeds foraging differently as mine all get the same feed and free range.

 

[gmendoza]

Old Timers sales trick err umm technique for ellbell19 and Momagain1


Heres the story before the trick:

I was at the York farmers market selling my first batch of yeggs next to some older couple selling their eggs for 2.00 a dozen.I asked the lady why did she sell them for 2.00 a dozen.She said "they wont sell for any more,and my customers like the cheap price".

I thought this was all wrong.So I employed some old snake oil salesman techniques to find out how high I can go til they dont buy.

Its all in the eyes.

I told my first customer "my Yeggs are 3.00 adozen. His eyes widened, and asked why 3.00 a dozen? that seems high.He then went next to me and asked them what their egg prices were and she said 2.00 a dozen.He didnt flinch,came back to me and bought 2 dozen for 6.00.

How? Might seem odd,but I got his buying zenith,and curiosity as to why mine are 3,and not 5 feet from me hers were 2.

It was in the eyes.

If a potential customer bugs their eyes out or blinks or snaps their head back a little,that means that is their buying zenith,and they will buy at 3.00

It works about 80% of the time.

Also never ever ever lowball yourself! NEVER!! This is your product,your fruits of labor.Dont make teansy weansy profits just because someone says no.

And let the other person talk after you say the price.Dont say anything.Assume the sale.I always do.I get more experience,and funny laughs when I assume the sale.

So there are my most internal secrets.

3.00 doz chicken
4.00 doz duck
4.00 doz quail.

there are exceptions,like friends,family and such.But them I tell them to "RETURN YOUR EMPTIES!!"

 

[ChooksChick]

I absolutely agree- I am not going to undersell myself. I never sell for less than $3.25 a dozen unless it's someone who won't allow me to give them away, like my elderly neighbor.

I am donating 9 dozen to the farm to school lunch soon, but will charge $3.25 a dozen to all else.

If they don't like it, fine- but my time is worth something, and I am not afraid to demand it. I'm also positive my grass-fed range eggs (I only sell my backyard birds' eggs for eating, the rest are for hatching) are way better than the feed-fed birds' eggs the other folks have.