why can't I sell eggs?

[mons02035]

I have the same problem here in Maine. Everyone has chickens and walmart sells them for 1.50 a dozen. I only have 5 girls and I did only buy them to feed my family but they are in their first year and I'm getting on average about 140 eggs a month which is way more than we eat so my wife has been giving away some at work and some are paying her 2.00 a dozen (not bad for hand delivered eggs), which buys her breakfast at McDonalds

. My problem is that I don't want the eggs to go to waste. I hate wasting food....... And right now I have 4 dozen in my fridge.......

 

[ChickyLaura]

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hunter, what do YOU think your eggs taste like? Do they taste good to you? I'm just curious that you said something about taste in one of your messages. Do you feed them onion or garlic scraps?

I was nervous to eat my first "real" egg from one of my chickens. So I cooked it up, and took a tiny bite, and then I realized how delicious it was. I like the idea someone wrote about giving away some eggs as sort of a trial to people, then telling them what you charge per dozen.

I sell mine at work, but people keep forgetting to take them out of the refrigerator in the break room!

I took in 3 dozen this morning, and saw someone left 2 dozen in the refrigerator from last Friday. So now there's 5 dozen eggs in there! I think I'm going to start "marketing" my eggs to other wards in the hospital, since my hens lay between 8-12 eggs a day. My best friend is my only competition there - and her eggs are organic! Mine aren't, but I say "My eggs aren't organic, but I feed my hens a high quality feed." It seems to work pretty good for me so far.

Good luck, I wish I could help you more!

what do you have to feed chickens for the eggs to be considered organic??

My friend buys organic feed, and hers have free range on her land. I priced organic feed but it was literally twice the price of Purina Layena. I just can't afford the price of organic feed, as much as I'd like to. I believe the name of the organic feed sold around here is called Nature's Balance, or something along those lines.

 

[hunterblu123]

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hunter, what do YOU think your eggs taste like? Do they taste good to you? I'm just curious that you said something about taste in one of your messages. Do you feed them onion or garlic scraps?

I was nervous to eat my first "real" egg from one of my chickens. So I cooked it up, and took a tiny bite, and then I realized how delicious it was. I like the idea someone wrote about giving away some eggs as sort of a trial to people, then telling them what you charge per dozen.

I sell mine at work, but people keep forgetting to take them out of the refrigerator in the break room!

I took in 3 dozen this morning, and saw someone left 2 dozen in the refrigerator from last Friday. So now there's 5 dozen eggs in there! I think I'm going to start "marketing" my eggs to other wards in the hospital, since my hens lay between 8-12 eggs a day. My best friend is my only competition there - and her eggs are organic! Mine aren't, but I say "My eggs aren't organic, but I feed my hens a high quality feed." It seems to work pretty good for me so far.

Good luck, I wish I could help you more!

I like the taste I do think people around me are so use to the store egg taste that mine are way different, everyone @ my work love them and I have a client that come's in every 2 weeks with her dogs (I work for a vet) and take 2 dozen eggs home. No I don't feed onion or garlic to them. They do free range so maybe it's more of a game taste to some?

 

[happycountryhens]

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Remind me not to drink chocolate milk at your house.

 

[bethandjoeync]

I have had people ask me if babies were in the eggs, I reply "no, it's just a regular egg", and they reply "but your chicken laid it and you have roosters, doesn't it have a baby chick inside it?" I kindly reply (with a little annoyance in my voice) "the only way a chick would start to develope inside the egg is if the conditions are perfect, and my house is no sauna/steamroom. so no, there is no chick inside this egg, and you don't have to worry about that either." but they say they still won't eat my eggs. oh well, some people will accept that eggs only come from the store.

if only they knew the conditions those chickens were in, then they may give it a second thought.

growing up in the city I really didn't understand or care, where my food came from (we didn't have a lot, so what we did have..I was happy to eat). but I have the advantage to teach my kids where eggs come from, vegetables come from, and how everything works together to feed us! my kid made a whole presentation in his 3rd grade class and explained to all the kids about composting and what goes in it, and what you can use it for. his teacher bragged on him so much, because most of the kids didn't know what it was or what it is for. they were talking about recycling and lowering how much trash they throw away and he started talking about all the stuff we put in the compost. I felt very proud that I am raising a more self sufficient generation. I was never taught these things as a child but learning them and teaching them to my kids are great!

if you can explain to people, that don't understand, you care for your chickens and they naturally lay eggs where they please (which is hopefully in a nest or at least somewhere you can find them!), they may think twice bfore buying regular cheap store eggs.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40236758/ns/us_news-environment/
here is a link to some things that happen at the "egg farms" where you get cheap store eggs, you can feel free to pass it along

 

[Avalon1984]

For what its worth, I have started to seperate my customers. Some want eggs to eat, some to incubate. Since I don't have one pure breed but a mix of many, I sell my fertilized eggs fairly cheap to people who just want to incubate and try it first before buying expensive fertilized purebred eggs. I can usually count on them calling whenever I could use somebody buying a dozen from me. I also try and get my eat-egg customers on a regular schedule so that I can preplan, i.e. every Friday I have somebody stop by to get 5dz. I work at a job in renewable industry and the people here are more aware of environmental concerns so my eggs sell like hotcakes but I know where you are coming from. Keep trying CL a few times and see if you can't get started with one happy customer. Word of mouth does go around. Good luck!!!