Duck eggs cost me about $4 a dozen to produce, and I am very careful about costs. If I can't sell them for more than they cost to produce, they get fed to the dogs.
Rule of thumb, humanely raised duck eggs sell for approximately twice what humanely raised chicken eggs sell for. The home raised eggs at the farmer's market sell for $4 a dozen, and I get $4 for a 1/2 dozen duck eggs. Which actually is not twice the price because they are at least 50% bigger. These eggs are in no way comparable to factory raised supermarket eggs, so it doesn't matter what the sale price of eggs is at the market.
I get somewhere between $1 and $10 for one egg for hatching eggs, but my birds are top quality, not hatchery or backyard birds. I suspect it might be difficult to sell hatching eggs from hatchery quality birds because the live guarantee chicks from the hatchery are so cheap and no problems about hatch rate, and they can be purchased sexed.
Rule of thumb, humanely raised duck eggs sell for approximately twice what humanely raised chicken eggs sell for. The home raised eggs at the farmer's market sell for $4 a dozen, and I get $4 for a 1/2 dozen duck eggs. Which actually is not twice the price because they are at least 50% bigger. These eggs are in no way comparable to factory raised supermarket eggs, so it doesn't matter what the sale price of eggs is at the market.
I get somewhere between $1 and $10 for one egg for hatching eggs, but my birds are top quality, not hatchery or backyard birds. I suspect it might be difficult to sell hatching eggs from hatchery quality birds because the live guarantee chicks from the hatchery are so cheap and no problems about hatch rate, and they can be purchased sexed.
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