The EE braggers thread!!!

[rosewolf22002]

I am near San Antonio and I am going to sell a dozen for 3 and and dozen and half for 4.50. I have a friend that pays 5.50 for a dozen so she is dying for my hens to start laying. We got our first yesterday!

 

[annabell254]

for farm fresh eggs that are free ranged I think the going rate is 4-8$ a dozen...and no not everyone wants to pay double...but there are enough that feel a fresh, free range, egg is MORE than worth it

I have a line of people waiting for mine to start

so I'm already making a list of new breeds for next year hehe...I also have a organic fruit farm that hopefully will start producing fruit for sale in a few more years as well...right now I have over 300 tree's, bushes and vines everything from kiwi and grapes to apples and cherries to persimmons, gogi berries, figs and olives! I have over 20 different species in all so far and should have fruit year round ....eventually...as I am only on year 2 right now and it will be year 4-5 before the majority starts bearing...for profit, anyways ...plenty of time to get my chicken count up hehe

 

[canesisters]

WOW! $4-8/doz???
I'm not expecting my girls to even think about laying till late Aug but I've been asking around to see if there is an interest in fresh eggs at work and such. Lots of folks are looking - but just about everyone expects to pay no more than $1.50/doz...

 

[qball53]

WOW! $4-8/doz???
I'm not expecting my girls to even think about laying till late Aug but I've been asking around to see if there is an interest in fresh eggs at work and such. Lots of folks are looking - but just about everyone expects to pay no more than $1.50/doz...

Don't let 'em go that cheap! Heck eat more eggs you know they are good for dinner too, LOL. feed 'em to your dogs and cats even back to your chickens and you are still ahead of the $1.50 they are offering. Take a look in your local store at the price of eggs. Ours is selling "free range" eggs at $4/dz. Then search out the difference in nutrition between free range, grass fed chickens and cage raised massed produced eggs. That should be an eye opener for most folks maybe even you.

 

[Simmonsfunnyfrm]

If you have concerns about selling your eggs at 4 bucks a dozen and whether people will pay that much, you could always give them the first dozen for free. Now they're hooked.

 

[OldChurchEggery1]

WOW! $4-8/doz???
I'm not expecting my girls to even think about laying till late Aug but I've been asking around to see if there is an interest in fresh eggs at work and such. Lots of folks are looking - but just about everyone expects to pay no more than $1.50/doz...

Yeah, I'm in VA too and eggs are a hard sell once you get around $2 a dozen... Then again, I'll see eggs at Food Lion that just say "Natural" with brown shells and the stores can somehow sell them for $3.50 a dozen. It's a real crapshoot.

 

[Chicken Frenzie]

I sell my eggs for $3.00, since the one's at the store at about $6.00......


I can't wait to see what color eggs my new EE will lay.. . hopefully blue..

 

[Summer98]

Maybe I will try $4 a dozen. After all, the colorful EE eggs are special.

 

[canesisters]

I sell my eggs for $3.00, since the one's at the store at about $6.00......


I can't wait to see what color eggs my new EE will lay.. . hopefully blue..

I've got a couple more months before I get to see what color Candy is going to lay. I was told that she hatched from a green egg.
I was on another thread trying to find out if she was a she or not and someone told me that an EE with a single comb will lay brown eggs... and I'm not real clear what that means - exactly. They were talking about 'rows of peas' in the comb, and that 3 peas means a boy and a single pea means a girl... I was so glad to have her picture 'declared' girl that I didn't really question it any farther.

I had an idea about the egg cost. Since I'm in a truck scale house, and almost all of my potential customers are truck drivers, I'm starting to play with the idea of egg sandwiches instead of (or in addition to) eggs by the dozen. People don't blink at $2-3 for a nice hot breakfast sandwich ... At 2 eggs per english muffin, that would work out to around $15/doz.

 

[Simmonsfunnyfrm]

I've got a couple more months before I get to see what color Candy is going to lay. I was told that she hatched from a green egg.
I was on another thread trying to find out if she was a she or not and someone told me that an EE with a single comb will lay brown eggs... and I'm not real clear what that means - exactly. They were talking about 'rows of peas' in the comb, and that 3 peas means a boy and a single pea means a girl... I was so glad to have her picture 'declared' girl that I didn't really question it any farther.

I had an idea about the egg cost. Since I'm in a truck scale house, and almost all of my potential customers are truck drivers, I'm starting to play with the idea of egg sandwiches instead of (or in addition to) eggs by the dozen. People don't blink at $2-3 for a nice hot breakfast sandwich ... At 2 eggs per english muffin, that would work out to around $15/doz.

That's borderline genius right there.