Price of quail eggs

[lagpmgdsls]

my local health food store sells a dozen for 10 bucks!

 

[NancyDz]

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Our farmer market sells a dozen for $3 and Duck eggs are $6 a dozen... it's whatever the market will bear in any given area.

 

[rachel]

This still just blows me away, $10?? I sell my organic chicken eggs for $5/dz, organic duck for $7/dz (I see non-organic going for the same price, I think I'm the only one that bothers with organic feed, I think a lot of folks just assume it's organic because it's at the farmers market and the produce is all or nearly all organic) and I usually just throw in a few quail eggs just for fun, for free. I just want to clarify that we're all talking about the same tiny tan speckled things that the little Coturnix birds lay once a day??

I had planned on doing my next round of quail organically as well using organic chick starter with organic hard boiled eggs and bugs as supplements until they are ready for the organic lay. What do you feed your organic quail Munchies? Who's buying these, is it primarily any particular nationality? Rich people?
I've seen one lady with quail eggs at our farmer's market, come to think of it I think they were around $6 each, but I never saw her sell any (not to say that she didn't, but I don't think they were flying off the shelf).

 

[Munchies]

We have used several types of feeds, as we often have to go with what we can actually get. We have are own burr mill, to grind large whole grains such as corn, soybean, etc. We often start with chicken feeds and supplement. We also use Pines wheat grass powder and barley grass powder and Redmonds clay(similar to DE).

Customers are white, sustainable-living types, middle class

 

[AK_Button_Mama]

here is alaska I have two types of customers. there are those that have never had these eggs and thinkits a novelty. which I think that is what it is for me. then there are the asian folks (mostly philippino) who miss home. I sell a dozen for 3 dollars and often times I deliver them too (but only if I have to go by the place they are at while in town).

I have one guy who told me when he was a kid they would go out in the rice feilds and look for the nest, then rob the eggs, run home and boil them up to eat them! he said when he boils them now it just reminds him he isnt that old after all!!! he can still boil the quails eggs. funny! cute little fella and SWEET as could be!

any way market sets the price if I could get more I would but I feel like I am stealing from people. I charge what the local asian store charges. most of the ppl I sell to are military/family friends.

my hatching eggs are sold for 6 dollars a dozen. (unless I want to get rid of them fast them I sell as eating eggs to the pppl I just refered to!-or I eat them myself)

I have not tried the farmers markets for sellign the eggs thought that sounds like a GRAND idea!

 

[kingmt]

Interesting thread. I don't think I could charge over $3 a dozen even if the market would support it. It would depend on my cost to demand what I charge. I believe in a far price but I normally give more away then I sell.

 

[citalk2much]

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I will have to look into this I pay a mint for chicken and chick food and can't get the game bird.

 

[justpete]

Wow more replies and discussion on this topic than I expected.
Thank you all.

I'm still not sure how much to charge.
I have a friend checking the price at an Asian market.

They cost me about $0.08 each in feed. That doesn't include replacement birds.

Over the weekend I sold my first live quail at $3.00 each.



Peter

 

[Boyd]

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You set the price?

I know I paid more than that for started quail

 

[Munchies]

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When you figure your cost to sell your eggs for eating, do you include the following:

Feed for hen for one day.
Cost of department of agriculture testing and/or health department inspections
Cost of cleaning eggs
Cost of cartons/flats
Transportation or shipping

We are selling at farmers market which charges a fee to setup, so we also include in our cost per egg sold.

Not to mention the cost of keeping the eggs refrigerated once collected. (we just count as overhead.)