Selling my eggs

[Mikesquail]

Hey peeps hope your well...so I've started to advertise my eggs on the marketplace on Facebook.. after several attempts of being declined due to selling live animals????
Sales are well already and I now have these cute x6 egg boxes to distribute the eggs in..
All being well it takes off locally and word gets around..
Anybody have any advice help links etc welcome to leave stay safe have fun

 

[Aapomp831]

I have the best luck with my local Nextdoor app and Craigslist

 

[Mikesquail]

I have the best luck with my local Nextdoor app and Craigslist

I've just downloaded my local next-door app. Is Craigslist US only

 

[Nabiki]

Nextdoor and craigslist are about it. My egg sales have dropped dramatically since Facespace decided to ban egg sales. I'm not sure where you're located, but you might want to see if there are any permits required for selling eggs. In California you need an egg handler's permit.

 

[FloorCandy]

I’ve found selling chicks is way easier than selling eggs. I literally run 2 incubators constantly, one can hold about 50, the other about 110, and I can’t hatch them fast enough. I haven’t turned off the brinsea since I got it like 2-3 months ago, and it has halfway paid for itself already. I consider the small bator to be working to pay for feed and chips and once the big one pays for itself, I’ll be actually profiting lol.

(it will be quite a while before I’m really in the black, I think I spent close to $1200 on housing, lighting, and startup supplies last year haha but new year, new budget right?)

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

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(it will be quite a while before I’m really in the black, I think I spent close to $1200 on housing, lighting, and startup supplies last year haha but new year, new budget right?)

I try not to think about how much I've spent on building supplies -- and self-owned construction disasters.

 

[FloorCandy]

I try not to think about how much I've spent on building supplies -- and self-owned construction disasters.

It also gets crazy when you add up the little costs, feeders, scissors, nutridrench, zip ties, masking tape, fly strips, etc. luckily, I use the bin cages I had made for our hamsters, as brooders, but I still bought a red bulb and a heat plate...the list goes on and on, and when it was just $7 here and $5 there I tend to forget about it, but this has been a pricey venture for sure, and I’ve done most in the cheapest diy manner I could come up with (except for the pricey incubator my husband bought me for an early Christmas gift I almost choked when I hit the buy button on that).

We just bought a nice 3D printer that does plastics and metal, as a joint birthday gift to each other, so among other things like mini figures and stuff, I can make my own cheap Quail crap like the made in china parakeet waterers, and maybe door latches and other small things.

 

[MomFoldingLaundry]

Hey peeps hope your well...so I've started to advertise my eggs on the marketplace on Facebook.. after several attempts of being declined due to selling live animals????
Sales are well already and I now have these cute x6 egg boxes to distribute the eggs in..
All being well it takes off locally and word gets around..
Anybody have any advice help links etc welcome to leave stay safe have fun

I’ve decided to sell eggs as well, and I went straight to places I thought would sell them for me. Turned out I only needed one contact, because the place I spoke to will be able to sell far more than I’m able to give them.

Your mileage may vary on this, but you could contact a local health food store, farm co-op or juice bar and see if they want to sell them for you. Your price per dozen will be lower, but you‘d only be dealing with one or two buyers instead of dozens.

(I’m not a people person. I’m an animal person. So the fewer people I have to deal with, the way happier I am. )

 

[MomFoldingLaundry]

I try not to think about how much I've spent on building supplies -- and self-owned construction disasters.

I did the math on this amazing coop I found on craigslist, and realized that even paying a few kids to help me move it, I spent less than I would have on supplies To build it new.

Now, I’ve resigned to just buy all my coops second hand and re-enforce them around the base with chicken fencing.

 

[FloorCandy]

I did the math on this amazing coop I found on craigslist, and realized that even paying a few kids to help me move it, I spent less than I would have on supplies To build it new.

Now, I’ve resigned to just buy all my coops second hand and re-enforce them around the base with chicken fencing.

That’s lovely, but I try to keep a low profile, I have crazy neighbors who apparently make the rules in town. Even though my quail aren’t illegal, I don’t draw attention to them, because these jerks take pleasure in messing with other people. I literally saw the husband commit a hate crime, get arrested, and be home in less than 30 minutes. The victim told me he saw the mayor at the precinct, and next thing you know, the guys free to go. I worry they’ll poison my dogs or make a noise complaint for my quail, just because it’s what they like to do. I hide my pens under the deck and on the side of the house not visible to them. Birds? What birds? That’s a pile of junk with a tarp over it... if I could, I’d build a huge walk in like yours.