How much do you sell your eggs for?

[Freya]

And do you supply the carton?


And are you in a smaller or larger area?

[duckidaho]

$3.00 a dozen to customers. $2.50 a dozen to the food co-op. Yes, I can get free cartons that people put in a recycling bin for that purpose. I live 10 miles from a town of 14,000. So not a big area. Good luck in your venture.

[Beeman]

Small area lucky to get $1.50 usually just give them away. Signs on bulletin boards for eggs $1 a dozen all around. When we didn't have any laying I bought from a local lady at $1.25 DZ she had a sign in her frt. yard, I was her only steady customer and she would call me.

[Belfrybat]

I no longer have chickens but when I did I tried to get $2.00 a dozen and I supplied the carton (used). Most of the time I didn't have customers as most folks around here sell for $1.00, which is what I'm paying now. Mine were pastured raised, instead of in a pen, but that made no difference as folks had no idea what I was talking about. Live in a town of 1100, and 10 miles away from two towns each of 6000. So very rural.

[mammabooh]

I get $3.00 a dozen and I supply the carton. I have one customer that works with my hubby that pays $5.00 for a dozen boiled eggs every week. He keeps them in the fridge at work and snacks on them. He also buys a loaf of homemade wheat bread and a container of homemade hummus from me every couple of weeks.

We live in a very rural area, but Hubby works an hour from here (all of my paying customers work with my husband) where people are used to paying much higher prices for things.

[Heritagefarm]

Originally Posted by Freya

And do you supply the carton?


And are you in a smaller or larger area?

Here's a goo peice of advice: sell your eggs for as high as customers are willing to pay. If they are willing to only pay $1.75, well, that's that. But if they want to pay $5.00, well, sell them!

[Oldcountryboy]

Right now I'm paying $2.00 a dozen for free range eggs. With the price of feed I would say the person I'm buying them from is probably not making much of a profit. She supplies the carton but I take all my cartons back to her to reuse, plus any store bought cartons I give to her. When I first started buying from her, I had several plastic sack full of empty egg cartons in storage that I just gave to her. She appreciated all the cartons and gave me my first two cartons of eggs free.

I don't sell eggs anymore but I can buy them around here for about $1.50 a dozen . We usually save the cartons & give them back to the seller . I live in a pretty rural area .

[Txsteader]

$1.50/doz, no carton. Brings in enough to pay for their feed + a little left over for supplies or treats.

[Kelly]

We live near a larger town (Chapel Hill) and get $3.50/dozen. A lot of times people will place $4.00 in the container (mayo jar) and not take change. I see they charge $4.75 at our local farmer's market. I have one neighbor that barters meat for eggs so we no longer have to worry about beef as she uses lots of eggs.

Both our customers and my work place save cartons for us. I asked our janitor at work if I could take the paper shavings home with me, and within a month I had enough shavings to bed our chickens for a year or more (I finally had to tell him, thanks but NO MORE!!!). I like to bring eggs to work to surprise people with a special treat when I have extras. I don't share any with our secretary as she has declined my gift "sorry, but orange egg yokes gross me out...I prefer the light yellow". (we actually had a house guest, 37 years old, who refused our eggs for breakfast because he thought that would be "nasty" being that fresh from a chicken). People!!!!

[dragonfly65]

I get $2.50/doz here in Texas. They sell for about $3.50 at the feed store and local butcher shop. I mostly sell to people at church - the pastor's wife pays for every month in advance. One couple didn't eat eggs and still won't unless they are mine. I make enough to pay for feed which is fine with me. As I see it, I get free range eggs for free since others are paying for their feed and I have the pleasure of having my birds as well.

Forgot to add I do provide the carton, but they are used from people giving me their empties.

[AnnieinBC]

$3 a dozen here and I can never have enough to meet the demand. I live way out in the boonies but bring most of my eggs into my little town once a week. They'll take all I can bring.

I supply the cartons, but they come from all the customers, lol...

I actually had a neighbor lady that kept chickens because she thought they were pretty but she wouldn't eat their eggs . She would go to the store & buy eggs .

[barnyardgal]

When i sell my eggs they go for 1.50 a dozen with the egg carton and i usually get my egg cartons back...no money to be made from having chickens in this small town area...i have chickens for the enjoyment of having them besides fresh eggs for my self..

[PrincessFerf]

I sell our eggs for $3.00 per dozen and I supply the carton. Our chickens free range as much as possible (as long as there's no snow on the ground).

I work in a larger city and I have a waiting list for eggs that goes out nearly a month. I have a lot of people who have a standing order with me for every week - 2 weeks. Mostly the people who buy from me do it because they don't support factory farming and they feel ours taste better.

Our $3.00 price is still lower than any other grocery store around here that sells free-range eggs.

The amount we sell helps pay for feed, etc. Its a little harder in the winter when we go through feed a lot faster, but in the summer it all evens out.

[blufford]

Originally Posted by mammabooh

I get $3.00 a dozen and I supply the carton. I have one customer that works with my hubby that pays $5.00 for a dozen boiled eggs every week. He keeps them in the fridge at work and snacks on them. He also buys a loaf of homemade wheat bread and a container of homemade hummus from me every couple of weeks.

We live in a very rural area, but Hubby works an hour from here (all of my paying customers work with my husband) where people are used to paying much higher prices for things.

Just the other day I thought I must be the laziest person in the world to buy already boiled eggs by the dozen from the Food Lion. I would think that the home chicken grower could do like you and almost double their money for a little prep time. Maybe then they could get ahead of their feed costs and make some profit.

[PrettyPaisley]

$4 but only when I have extra and that's not too often these days. I get the cartons back from people because I just sell to friends. The reason they are so much is because I feed them soy-free grain. Many don't care but those who do understand the price.

[houndlover]

$2.50, I get free cartons from my customers and friends, live in a small area surrounded by lots of other small areas.

[Marcia in MT]

$3.00, I supply the carton, but most give them back to use again. I reuse them as much as possible (until they're torn or dirty); but the county says I have to use new cartons . . .

Our chickens go into a tractor in the summer and a pen in the winter. We supplement layer feed with squash, pumpkins, and kitchen scraps.

We live right on the edge of a small city.

[littlebitfarm]

$2.50. Cartons are recycled by customers so I rarely need to buy any.

Kathie