Selling eggs in GA? Or in general!

[Shezadandy]

The amount of time you will spend on everything chicken (feeding care cleaning and everything else) will in no way come back to you in terms of egg sales. And you may or may not be able to re-coop (hahhah) the feed bill in egg sales, never mind what resources you've already put into them (coop etc).

I got started in chickens originally because I needed to sell "x" dollars of food produced from my property to keep our property tax exemption in place, a 40% difference, which was a BIG deal. We've since moved where no such requirement exists, but are now slaves to our flock.

If you can look at it as egg sale revenue helping you with the feed bill for your pet chickens, then you're in the right spot. And of course pay close attention to the state regulations.

 

[raingarden]

The first step is to lock down a good market for the eggs. The second step is to do the economics analysis of it all. The third step is to buy some chickens.

We used to run out of friends to give them to before running out of eggs.

 

[rjmyooper]

The Lady I found locally for eggs, had 10 Dozen in Her refrigerator when I bought 3 dozen. I planned on giving away 1 dozen. Well she gave me a free dozen so then I had 4 dozen. All she had was 4 laying Hens and a roo.
She also had goat's milk which was totally awesome, however, She was Not licensed in the least bit.
I want Her to sell my Duck eggs and I'd sell her chicken eggs. I'm sure her chicken eggs will sell faster than my more expensive Duck eggs.

 

[amywmiller]

In Georgia you have to get an egg candling license to legally sell eggs. It’s a short class with a super easy test at the end and some hands on egg candling with a group.
Georgia dept of Ag

The main trouble is finding an available class, you will have to check the calendar. I had to travel from Savannah to Blue Ridge since that was the only class available last fall.

You only have to have a candling license if you sell to restaurants, grocery stores or bakeries.

 

[Cinnamon Roll]

You only have to have a candling license if you sell to restaurants, grocery stores or bakeries.

No, but I can see where you may have got that idea.

According to this UGA website:
To be sold, all chicken eggs must be evaluated by a certified grader and appropriately packaged and labeled in accordance with the Georgia Egg Law and Georgia Food Act. To sell eggs to a grocery store, bakery or restaurant, the Georgia Department of Agriculture (GDOA) must license the farmer’s candling facility. The no-cost, lifetime certificate is obtained by passing both written and hands-on candling examinations.


Talking about a separate facility license in the middle of the paragraph adds confusion. In either case a person has to have a license.

Just to clarify, from the Georgia Ag Dept:
Georgians who want to produce and offer for sale shell eggs must obtain an egg candling certificate in order to sell their eggs at retail to the end consumer. Each person who will act as a candler of eggs offered for sale must obtain certification.


To sell eggs to the end consumer, i.e. regular people, the eggs must be evaluated by a certified grader, which is a person with an Egg Candling license. To sell to restaurants, etc., the facilities also must be licensed.

In the class (3 years ago) we were told that to sell eggs from your own farm location, also called Farm Gate sales, you do not have to have a license. To sell off-farm, like I do when my husband takes eggs to his coworkers, I must have a candling license and the eggs must be graded and inspected. I haven’t called to see if this is still true as I always inspect and grade all my eggs anyway.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

No, but I can see where you may have got that idea.

According to this UGA website:
To be sold, all chicken eggs must be evaluated by a certified grader and appropriately packaged and labeled in accordance with the Georgia Egg Law and Georgia Food Act. To sell eggs to a grocery store, bakery or restaurant, the Georgia Department of Agriculture (GDOA) must license the farmer’s candling facility. The no-cost, lifetime certificate is obtained by passing both written and hands-on candling examinations.


Talking about a separate facility license in the middle of the paragraph adds confusion. In either case a person has to have a license.

Just to clarify, from the Georgia Ag Dept:
Georgians who want to produce and offer for sale shell eggs must obtain an egg candling certificate in order to sell their eggs at retail to the end consumer. Each person who will act as a candler of eggs offered for sale must obtain certification.


To sell eggs to the end consumer, i.e. regular people, the eggs must be evaluated by a certified grader, which is a person with an Egg Candling license. To sell to restaurants, etc., the facilities also must be licensed.

In the class (3 years ago) we were told that to sell eggs from your own farm location, also called Farm Gate sales, you do not have to have a license. To sell off-farm, like I do when my husband takes eggs to his coworkers, I must have a candling license and the eggs must be graded and inspected. I haven’t called to see if this is still true as I always inspect and grade all my eggs anyway.

This is consistent w/ the statutory scheme in many States, but certainly not all. Florida is similar, but the differences are significant.