What price do you charge for eggs?

[annmarie]

$2.50 a dozen for my organic, free range eggs (at least mostly free-range). It's a steal compared to the grocery stores. It does pay for the feed though, at the moment, since they're not eating as much with the warm weather and good grazing. In the fall I plan on raising the price to $2.75 or even $3.00 if I can get up the nerve to tell people $3.00, assuming the price of feed stays high.

 

[ravenfeathers]

i don't eat eggs, so i never really thought about the price of them. a trip to my local grocery last week took care of that. $6/doz for organic cage-free, $5/doz for conventional cage-free, $5/doz for omega-3, $3/doz for factory eggs. good grief!

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

I sell mine for $3.00 a dozen.

 

[ninjapoodles]

Arkansas has among the lowest cost-of-living averages of any state, but even here, at Wal*Mart, of all places, I bought "organic, free-range" brown eggs the other day for $3.69 for a dozen. I just can't imagine people not being able to sell eggs for at least $3.50 right now!

 

[Sunny Side Up]

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Do you mean will they start to develop under those conditions?

My answer is NO. The microscopic fertilized cell in an egg will not begin to develop unless it is incubated at a certain constant tempature in an incubater or under a broody hen. It will not begin to develop before the end of even a really hot day, or under a succession of hens laying in the same nest box.

Fertilized eggs can stay viable for up to a week or so unrefrigerated, and even for several days in the refrigerator. So if someone wanted to try to hatch them they might have success with the eggs you gather.

Otherwise, if you are diligent to collect your hens' eggs every day and refrigerate them, you & your customers should have no worry about finding developing chicks inside them. Any tiny blood or meat spots can also be found in non-fertile eggs, as a natural part of the egg-making process. Those things are not evidence of rooster involvement or growing chicks.

You should let your customers know that they're getting fertile eggs. Many folks don't care, others think they're even healthier than unfertilized eggs. But some folks have issues about ending anything's life for their consumption, even pre-embryonic chickens, and would be upset if they weren't told.

 

[goldnchocolate]

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Me too!!

Everyone gave me egg cartons. My hens are old now and aren't really laying anymore but I recently bought 4- 1 year old hens and I needed egg cartons so I went to look for my old stash of egg cartons and sure enough--I still had a bunch of them.

I really only sell to friends, family and a couple of regular egg customers who stayed with me thoughout the years so I was never concerned with buying new cartons especially since they were only paying $1.00 doz. Now with my new chicks that should be laying by this fall I think my prices will be a bit higher

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[kinnip]

Wild! The going rate around here for farm-fresh brown eggs at the farmers' market is $4 a doz! $3.99 for grocery store brown eggs. I'm charging at least as much when mine start coming. Move on over to GA folks, we're living high on the hog!