To sell or not to sell...that is the egg question.

Well I think doing the market thing is probably safer than hanging the sign in front of the house. I mean you could argue you sold the eggs to her and what she did with them after that was her own business. Assuming you were ever questioned about it.

I believe every state is different regarding the sale of produce.

I pass several signs saying fresh eggs on my way to and from work everyday...but I don't sell mine. I give them away. It would be nice to sell them to re-coop the cost of feed but like you I "think" about it. I worry some sue happy person will have a complaint and where will I be then.

Mostly I give to friends or neighbors....my only requirement is you don't return my carton , you don't get anymore eggs. Some I feed back to the hens and we eat a lot more eggs than we use to.

Julie

P.S. hope you feel better soon !!

 

"Thinking Ahead Farm Fresh eggs"

 

Every state is probably different on the laws of selling eggs. In Washington you can sell them out of your home if private parties come to your home and pick them up. If you deliver or sell them to be resold you have to have an egg handlers license and all the bunk that goes along with it.

I would check with your local Dept of Ag on it. Another thing, if you are going to sell for only $2.00 per dozen I would not go to the expense of labeling or buying brand new cartons, it can get expensive. If she wants a collect date on them use a marker.

If you were to sit down and figure it out, I bet you would find that you would be losing you b_tt at $2.00.

 

Someone on here mentioned donating extras to the local food pantry. I haven't looked into it yet. Seems like what I don't put in the bator get eaten around here.

 

Mudhen,

First let me say I loved reading your post and it made me smile. I hope I'm one of those
enablers.

We have extras too. Right now I think we have 6 dozen in the fridge. We give them
away. My wife works at a hospital and brings several dozen a week to work with her.
The people she works with are a diverse group of women, some very ethnic, some
health nuts, etc... The result for us has been baked goods, salsa, and probably the
best, appreciation. Can I make an extra $10 a week, sure. I just don't care. These
are my babies. We give them love and they give us eggs.

Don

 

Shoot, Id sell them if I were you. My local organic produce market cant wait for me to have some hens so I can sell him eggs...he can't keep enough of them, they sell like crazy. He asked me the other day if I had hens yet; he needed 10 dozen eggs. If it buys feed for the chickens, its good enough for me.

People sell eggs all the time at the local flea markets, too. They always sell out.

 

I plan to let my daughter sell them at our beach club in the summertime and she also sells them to her teacher in the winter. $2.50/dozen. Our food coop would take them also if we had more.

I guess people could sue you for something (I don't know what). I know our eggs don't have samonella, the kids have eaten them raw in brownie batter.

We don't get a lot from the eggs but even the thought of a pet giving something, anything back (excepting of course all the love and furballs that we always get) is great.

 

I would sell them. If you don't want to sell them, contact a local food kitchen. You can probably work out something with them where you give them free eggs, they give you a reciept for a tax write off and you get some money off your taxes and you have done a great thing in helping those in need. Either way, it is better than letting eggs go to waste.