Price of quail eggs

[justpete]

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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.)

The $0.08 is feed only nothing else. There are many other things to add into the price as Munchies states.

I have not yet set a price. This is very interesting reading others thought on the topic.


Peter

 

[Smiles-N-Sunshine]

BUMP to see if anyone wants to share what they're getting for eggs recently?

I'm thinking of asking $3 for 10 quail eggs at the farmers market. I currently get $3/doz for chicken eggs and $4/doz for duck eggs.

Also, has anyone tried selling those specialty quail egg cutters? Probably a long shot, but thought I'd ask . . . .

Thanks!

Bryan

 

[aprophet]

$3 /dozen is what I am selling for too I do not have chickens just seramas LOL

 

[Robo]

I sell my quail eggs for $3 a dozen. I have a lot of customers. I had a resteraunt call me a couple of months ago. They wanted 10 dozen every other day. I don't have that many quail yet. Right now I am getting close to eighty. By next spring I plan to have 150 - 200 hens. There is a pretty good market in my area.

 

[Rozzie]

I'd imagine I could get $6 here for non-organic or more for organic eggs (substantially more). I have never seen them for sale ANYWHERE here, though there may be a few places you can get them. We have a substantial number of Asian immigrants in our area who would be a primary market, plus a lot of (how shall we say it nicely) uh, rich folks with money to burn...I could get $10 a dozen out of them if they were organic. However, they would be the "party" crowd wanting an occasional dozen to make teeny novelty eggs for party food.

I will just keep eating all mine, though. Chicken eggs make me sick; quail eggs don't make me ill. So, my eggs are for my table (plus I know what the birds are eating and where they have been!)

 

[Smiles-N-Sunshine]

Cool! Thanks, y'all!

So $3 for ten sounds like its in the ballpark, and if they're flying off the shelves I'll know I can probably get more for them. Plus a 25 cent deposit on those expensive egg cartons!

 

[judithkorff]

Great thread! I'm just now working up a cost/benefit analysis to see if quail would be profitable to add to my farm. I've been approached by a friend who does farm markets and she has been looking for a source of quail eggs for upscale restaurants in the city who are begging for them. If I could get $5-6/dz for organic eggs on a regular basis, I think it would be worth my getting into them. I'll have her check to see what the buyers are willing to pay and the amount of eggs they'd be willing to commit to buying weekly. This thread gives me some talking points.

 

[angperk]

A couple of months back I paid $1/egg for Coturnix, fertile. None hatched. We paid $15 for a pair and $15 more just yesterday for two more hens. We're going to try incubating the ones we're getting now as soon as the chicks are out of the brooder, they're taking up the incubator space. I don't know that there is a market for them in my area but if not my family will enjoy them.

 

[Kjordanov]

I sold a dozen and a half eggs (chicken) for $7. Lol sorry had to share! But it was a family friend who insisted so it isn't a regular thing here.

 

[Dingos Mom]

Dave. Got it all together,there is alot tossed in extras at no cost.