Texas

[galanie]

What are the laws in Texas about selling eggs?  Thanks.

I think I read that they have to be in unmarked cartons (no grade on the carton). The buyer has to come to your farm too. 
My husband would know for sure. 

The carton is supposed to state "ungraded." Yes, buyer comes to you to buy them. It's fine to sell a LOT of eggs that way per year and never have to have any sort of licensing or approval. Forgot how many exactly but it's in the thousands of dozens.

 

[Jessica Lynn]

How was everyone's weekend?

We had a busy, busy weekend. We finally got around to school shopping! My husband started working on a new coop and my daughters saw to it that he had plenty of help! I started sewing new curtains for the kitchen and also worked on the girl's quilts for this winter. Soon it will be time to start working on Halloween costumes, if the girls can decide what they want to dress up as this year! I got two apple pies baked and tried out one of the Monster Cookie recipes which everyone LOVED!
Today I need to make potato salad and fried chicken for dinner tonight. I think I will start on it early since it's going to be a very hot day!

 

[Jessica Lynn]

The carton is supposed to state "ungraded." Yes, buyer comes to you to buy them. It's fine to sell a LOT of eggs that way per year and never have to have any sort of licensing or approval. Forgot how many exactly but it's in the thousands of dozens.

Is it true that you can't reuse old cartons from the grocery?

 

[jajeanpierre]

The carton is supposed to state "ungraded." Yes, buyer comes to you to buy them. It's fine to sell a LOT of eggs that way per year and never have to have any sort of licensing or approval. Forgot how many exactly but it's in the thousands of dozens.

Can I deliver them or do they always have to come to my house?

And while we're on the subject of selling eggs, how do you wash them?

Thanks

 

[tcmstalcup]

I don't wash my eggs to sell but my customers know why. I don't know the laws about selling eggs but I sell so few I doubt anyone cares too much.

 

[back2simplelife]

The ppl we buy eggs from (ours aren't laying) charge $3 a dozen and we have the option to have her wash them or not

 

[back2simplelife]

Question for all of you who have mixed ages in your flock... what do you feed them?

 

[wlhtx]

Not trying to disrupt the flow of conversation, but we had a fun surprise this morning and I thought I would share.

I went out the backdoor to let the juveniles out of their pen for the day, and our 6 geese were making a ton of racket down by the pond. I look out and there is DOUBLE the number of geese that should be there! We have 6 wild visitors hanging out for the day I guess. Super cool!

Our 6 Africans on the right, the wild 6 (Canadians???) on the left out by the kids' trampoline:

Just the wild 6, hanging out just past the sweet gum tree that is only about 15 feet off our back porch:

 

[Burns06]

What kind of birds do you have...i think we might need a multiplr choice here

We have 2 golden sex links that are about 18 weeks. I know at least 1 of them is laying. She has layed 3 eggs all of which are a nice consistent brown. We have 2 barred rocks at about 16-17 weeks old. And 2 Easter Eggers at around 16-17 weeks old. My wife saw a barred rock coming out of the coop shortly before the egg was found but it had also been a few hours since the kids had checked the coop. So, unless I have Easter eggers that don't lay blue/green, I guess your choices are either barred rock or golden sex link.

Thanks for all the replies. I spoke with all the girls last night and thanked them for the eggs, but I did ask that they all make better choices with their color selections...we'll see how that goes.

 

[jesirose]

I don't believe there's anything that states the buyer has to come to your farm.

The rules are the eggs must come from your own flock, as in you own the birds, and they must be sold ungraded in clean cartons. They are supposed to be washed and stored at cool temperatures.

http://law.onecle.com/texas/agriculture/chapter132.html
http://law.onecle.com/texas/agriculture/132.002.00.html

I also believe if you want to not have to get a license you should sell unsized.

http://info.sos.state.tx.us/pls/pub...loc=&p_ploc=&pg=1&p_tac=&ti=4&pt=1&ch=15&rl=2

"(b) Exemptions. This section does not apply to:

(1) producers of eggs who sell only the production of their own flocks without claiming any egg grade or size and without engaging in any previously defined egg marketing activity which would cause them to lose their identity as a producer, except that these producers are required to identify their eggs as "Produced by (producer's name)" and give their address;"


So to be on the safe side I would sell only ungraded AND unsized, and label the carton. I can't find the code that details washing/storing, it may not apply since the other code doesn't apply. However after a while of casually selling unwashed eggs I switched to washing/fridge storage, only because our chickens started getting their eggs really dirty. When we start back up again I will have to review the law and decide if we want to try to do unwashed, because I prefer it.