re: Please Don't Undercharge for Your eggs!

[Farmer Kitty]

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Your first post on this thread was very misleading.

Hmmm, sounds like this

I've invested in new shelter, feeders,waterers, and soon, fans, misting systems, and electricity/water out to the rotating pasture area, and the expense list goes on, and on, and on.

may have been due to a hurricane. No insurance that you

I plunged all my savings into buying an existing pastured egg producing business.

or did the savings go into buying it? Either way, it seems, you have been very misleading!

BTW-Have you guys noticed that ewesfullchicks hasn't posted to this thread since the original post?​

 

[picklespickles]

she's started a new thread you guys.........

 

[Farmer Kitty]

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Found it-- https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1585768#p1585768

 

[NYREDS]

It sounds to me as if the OP started out with a poorly conceived business plan & is now surprised that it didn't work out.
First of all there's no way anyone is going to make anything like a living from 200 hens.
Then there's the notion of "carrying" hens through a non productive period. That's all well & good with pets or a backyard flock but in what's supposed to be an egg business it makes no sense at all.
Lastly, while there are some people willing to pay high prices for so-call organic &/or free range eggs the average American consumer still wants the best bang for their buck & that's supermarket eggs. You can establish a nitch market & do ok but Walmart is still going to sell a lot of eggs.
For what it's worth, unlike many who post opinions about caged layer operations I have actually visited a couple. Were the chickens merrily scratching around in the sunshine, no but they were clean, well fed & appeared healthy. If you stop & think about it does it make sense for a farmer to not keep their livestock healthy & well nourished when you know that, in this case, a sickly poorly fed bird won't produce eggs?

 

[grullablue]

Don't know how my post got posted here...just following this post, deleting my post because it had nothing to do with this topic!

 

[kwynn's birds Alaska]

eggs aren't too cheap in alaska. My neighbor was thrilled that i was raising chickens and asked if i was going to sell eggs. I asked her what she would pay, since I had no idea...and she said $3.25. She knows that the $$ from the eggs go to my $ can, where i use it to buy more feed. The eggs more or less support my chicken habit...I don't have a huge cash flow or anything. This summer I should be getting a lot more, and was hoping to stock up on feed for the next winter. I say More Power to the ones who do sell healthy, yummy eggs, for what ever price

 

[WalkingWolf]

I also down the road once I have my full setup to sell balut, we have a market here for them and they go for $.75 a egg. That is $9.00 a dozen. I plan on using bantam eggs for picked eggs. The commercial pickled eggs are not very good. My wife picked up a jar of 50 pickled eggs for me and I have been feeding them to the birds they are awful. The store bought eggs are too big for pickled eggs. A quart jar of good pickled eggs goes for at least $10.00. I can get 8 small eggs in a quart but only 6 large. I should be able to get 10 bantam in a jar.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

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Looks like the OP has received more enough responses on this topic and likely doesn't feel the need to post anything further.

On that note, let's end the discussion here.