why can't I sell eggs?

[hunterblu123]

I can't sell my eggs but 2 -4 dozen a week

I have a sign out front and some people did stop by and got some but have never returned or have told me I like them BUT my wife or husband does not. What's up with that? I'm selling them for $2.25.

 

[LittleMoon]

Have you tried posting a flyer about your eggs on a feed store bulletin board or something? That may help.

 

[ThinkingChickens]

Can you sign up to sell at a weekly farmer's market? Sometimes a few chicken raisers get together so that each only serves one day and sells eggs for everyone. I know I buy cage free or free range organic eggs now and we pay $3.25 a dozen so there are buyers out there. Ooh, what about advertising on Craigslist or asking the local coffee shop if they'd like a local supplier. Our coffee shop supports local chicken raisers.

 

[hunterblu123]

I did Craigslist no go

. I have a flyer @ my work and that is were my sales are coming from but I'm getting 2 dozen eggs a day from my chickens. I will post flyer up in places.

 

[NanaLantana]

Make up a beautiful flyer, with some happy chicken cartoon, and make sure your wording is going to grab attention - talk about the health benefit of 'natural' eggs, etc. Look at some other advertising that catches your attention, and try to mimic that - This is how you 'sell' things! You have to be eggscited about it before the customers will be! Show passion for your product!

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Market yourself. All I can say...freash eggs are going for a mint right now in the markets. Have you seen the commercial free range near maran dark eggs? Going for 3.75.

It's all about your marketing and no worries, just feed what you don't sell back to your chickens. Keep what your price is firm and 2.25 is not at all a preimium price. If $3 for freash this week and free range time eggs a dozen is not a standard right now it will be begged for by 2012 when battery cages are banned for ever. See what your big markets are doing. They are softening the blow with so called premium and gov sanctioned organic. You are freash and know your input to chicken, let alone it's playtime hours

 

[GarlicEater]

Most people are paying attention only to price and getting eggs by the flat at CostCo or at Wal-mart.

You need to find the upscale crowd, coffee shops are a good start.

 

[crazygoatlady915]

Try Omega-3 eggs, to people who know what they are; farm fresh+ Omega-3's=

and $$

 

[BHep]

Where I live..... A very rural area, I have had to drop my price to $1 a dz. Stinks but I sell all my extras and have met some really nice folks.

 

[silkiechicken]

It's all about the marketing and where you live. When I was in middle till high school, I advertised around school and toting the entrepreneurial good student sales pitch, had more buyers than I had eggs. Grew up and had to move my sales mantra to "fence free, free range" and targeted professors/community in down town Seattle, U district before the chicken thing got huge in the city. Neither of those methods would work at the prices I was getting then, now that I live in a tiny college town in Oregon. It's possible if you really can't sell them, that your market for free range eggs isn't large enough where you live, people have their own birds, or can't afford the luxury of good eggs.