Prices of eggs where you live?
 

Reading another post got me wondering--what price do you charge for youe eggs where you live?
I have a hard time selling my large brown eggs, organically fed, free-range hens, for $1.00 a dozen.I've only sold 10 dozen since I started, and prob have 15 dozen in ref. now.

I get $2 a dozen for my eggs.

You're lucky if you can get 1.25 a dozen here. With eggs at the grocery store selling for 1.00 a dozen and most folks not caring a whit about organic anything around here, it's hard to sell them any higher. Oh, I could probably do it, I'd just sell a lot fewer eggs then I do now.

geez i'd buy from you guys any day, at the store i pay 2.05 a doz...in everystore here....

1.25 homegrown...YUMMY......

I charge $1 a dozen, myself. We don't have many customers because city folk don't like to eat fertile eggs...so blame it on ignorance.

I do have a few people here at the college that are clamouring for free range organic eggs...I'll never turn my nose up at an educated liberal!...I resemble that remark!

I sell mine for $1.50 & I can't keep enough here. Will be ordering more chicks come spring so I will have more layers later this year.

I'd buy from you if you were close. When we have to buy eggs, we pay anywhere from $1.00-$2.00 a dozen for good farm eggs. Right now we are paying $1.39 a dozen and they are very good eggs.

I buy eggs 2.75/36

WE GET $2.00 to $3.00 per dozen depending on where we take them.
Our regular customers pay $2.00 and pick up at our farm. We do take some to a nearby farmers market and sell them for $3.00

Double your price and see if they sell better.......... Not kidding.

eggs ? much
 

Howdy
Large brown eggs are selling for $1.73 in our local grocery store. We are selling our large eggs for $1.25 and our JUmbo eggs for $1.50. It costs us about $2.53 cents a day to feed our layers.
We could probably get more for our eggs if we had one guarenteed buyer but I want to turn the eggs over quickly so we sell a bit cheaper in the winter. We are getting about 84 eggs a day now from our 100 hens. So far this week we sold 3 dozen yesterday, 4 dozen so far today, I have an order for 8 dozen to be picked up tomorrow. A lady ordered 15 dozen for Friday and I took 8 dozen pullet eggs to the local food pantry. The remainder will go to a local farmers market that pays us $1.25 a dozen. Oh I forgot to mention most of our eggs are the JUmbo size now.
This is a great hobby. I won't get rich at it but it keeps me out of trouble. Hope the USDA doesn't ruin it for us!
Linda

I was wanting to find a way to sell my eggs so I went to my chiropracter's office-he is a "natural" Doctor and offered the gal in there a free dozen of my farm-fresh eggs- she got so happy that she almost burst into tears! I didn't know she had been reading up on the benefits of farm eggs over store-bought and she was paying the $2.99 in the store for the free range eggs! So, now all the people in the office buy them from me which is nice-I take one lump 5 dozen eggs in each week to one place. They were paying $1 a dozen but I asked them if they would want me to add some flaxseed to their feed for an additional .50 a dozen and they said "Oh, YES!" Ok! Fine with me! :) :)

I easily get $2 per dozen, and I sell about 8 dozen a week. I've never had anyone tell me $2 sounded like too much. Oftentimes folks tell me I don't charge enough, and two of my regular customers force me to take $3, because around here if you bought these eggs in the supermarket they are $3.59!! I love my customers! I'm with Jeff ~ double your price and see what happens!

Herself sells most our eggs to a heallth food co-op: $1.80 for large, and $1.50 for mediums. They tag another $.75 on the dozen.

We sell at least 20 dozen a week but sometimes up to 30 dozen per week. We don't really make anything much but it's entertaining, and my famly has all of the free eggs they want.

I USE to be able to buy brown freerange eggs locally for a buck...not anymore..i'll check to see what they are now, but i'm guessing more like 2...@ the grocery store you pay atleast 2 bucks.

I wish i had egg laying chickens :( I do have some cockatiels?

maybe those who don't have it on their "location" area should tell us where they are from too??

$1.00 a dozen here... but I haven't marketed a bit...

Ceresone, sure wish you lived near me, I would LOVE to have some good eggs. Rita in TN

In Maryland, we sell for $2 a dozen, will probably go up to $2.50 - that's free-range fresh brown eggs, not organic. We could probably ask $3 as the grocery and health food store free-range eggs sell for over $3 dozen. We have 40 laying hens and cannot even nearly keep up with demand. Oh - we don't advertise either. All word of mouth.

We're in southeast Ohio and my friend sells her eggs for $1.25/doz. She said she will be upping her price to $1.50/doz. because of the cost of feed. I'm getting 15 laying hens from her and I will charge at least $1.50.

I sell mine for $1 a dozen. I have one lady who buys 5 dozen at a time, about every 2 weeks.

Selling eggs
 

The key in selling is to understand your market. For those of you who live in a very rural area where there are alot of farm fresh eggs, it might benefit you to store up a month's worth of eggs and investigate a local farmers market or take out an ad in largest towns newspaper for people to take subscriptions for farm fresh eggs. If everyone has farm fresh eggs by you, work to develop customers that want farm fresh eggs, buy the locals and mark up the cost of them (i.e. buy them from down the street for $1 and sell them for $2-2.50 a dozen). The point is to have the customers in hand and deliever good quality eggs.

You will never make any money competing against the stores as they are delievering substandard eggs (poorly fed) cheaply. If people are only seeking it on price (I can buy them at the walmart for $.90 a dozen) bid them a good day as they don't see the value (they don't see the difference in prime rib vs. an Arby's roast beef..its all the same to them). Just my .02 worth

Organic range free $3.95 a dozen. I am not sure what they charge for antibiotic ridden eggs .This is why we eat very few :rolleyes:

hmm i sell my brown organic free range eggs for 2 bucks a dozen, the same egg at walmart is 3.60 per dozen. so i guess if folks want plain old old white eggs they can get them for a buck a doz if they want!

At the whole food co-op they were selling them(organic) for $4.50 a dozen!! I need more hens...I have only 4 girls right now and averaging 1 egg per day!!

$3.60 per dozen for generic brand cage eggs, 60g.
Almost double that for organic, free-range eggs, same size.

They are becoming very much a luxury for me!

egg prices
 

I sell my eggs for $2.50/ dozen. I have had some price resistence with the ignorant crowd, but that's not who I'm marketing to! One person asked, "Are you price competitive?" and I responded, "I'm quality competitive. You can by "eggs" for .89/ dozen at the grocery store, but that's not the same eggs that I'm selling." One thing I've noticed again and again is that, as organic/ natural farmers, WE must truly value the products we have for sale. If I sold my eggs for $1.00/ dozen I would be more than giving them away. In fact, I'd be subsidizing my customers food budgets! It costs me around $1.25-$1.50 per dozen just to produce, clean and package my eggs, so my selling price reflects that. I do always give the first dozen to every new customer for free, as a way of introducing them to the difference that it my eggs. I have had more than 1 person tell me that they are the BEST eggs that they've ever eaten. I love my chickens and tend to them very carefully and it shows in the eggs they produce. One idea I've implemented recently is my new "egg card". It's like a frequent buyer coffee card. For $25.00 up front, my customers can buy a card worth 10 dozen eggs, with the 11th dozen being free. Essentially this works out to $2.25/ dozen. I even paid the graffic artist who designed the cards in egg card tender (I owed her $75.00 and paid her with 3 egg cards!) This is my homegrown CSA since the money upfront goes into my feed and maintenance costs :happy:

I see in your signature that you have 7 kids? that's awsome

:( I only get $1/dozen. I've only got two paying customers, an older couple in my church that buys regularly and my husband's boss, who buys semi-regularly. Of course, my chickens aren't free range. I do have a very large pen for them, but don't dare let them out because of neighborhood dogs.

The problem I've had is that I run into a lot of people with an aversion to brown eggs. Why? :shrug: You offer brown eggs and they shudder. :rolleyes:

Denise

I plan on getting my chickens in the Spring, but for now we're buying our nice brown eggs for 75 cents/doz., delivered to my husband's office each week. It's a great deal! I probably would save a lot of money by just continuing to buy from this supplier, but I really want some chickens, and I think it will be a great learning experience for the kids, too.


Trudy Powell
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I ask, and get, $1.75 a dozen for our gorgeous, large, farm fresh brown eggs.
Some people think that is a steal, others think it is just right.
Large store eggs (which are smaller than ours and obviously not as fresh and tasty) go for anywhere from $1.75 (on sale) to over $2.00 a dozen...

I have no trouble selling them, I can't keep up with the demand, in fact.

My girls are self-supporting! :happy:

Unless there is a glut of eggs on the local market, never sell your eggs for less than the grocery store, especially organic. People are quite willing to pay the grocery store price - they WILL pay the same for more for fresh versions of the same. It's all about the marketing.

Ours are not just free-range brown eggs, they are FRESH, LOCAL, laid the past couple days free-range brown eggs. Customers love that.

i think you are right about us underpricing our eggs! i never looked at it as being much better than store bought eggs but they really are. So come spring i am gonna raise my prices, maybe even cover feed costs.

The following is an excerpt from a thread in this forum from a couple of weeks ago. It is my favorite all time discussion regarding farmers, products and marketing/pricing. Anyone that really wants to use black ink in their egg-selling or any ag-related venture should read the thread and take to heart the excellent information and advice offered in it....

Some farmers (ok most folks that farm) think that their market is the general population - not so for small producers that are willing to 'go the extra mile' to bring superior products to the marketplace. Tapping the 'niche' markets is part of the formula. When I first started considering farming as an occupation, I was pretty skeptical about the industry in gereral - the traditional picture was certainly not pretty. So I began to do some research and seek out folks that were actually making money at producing food. What I found out is what I knew from my corporate background - find out what motivates people to spend money and satisfy that motivation whether it's a product or service, tangible or intangible. If the motivation is real and sustaining and you can reach that market with your [genuinely legitimate] product or service, you win so long as you can compete with the other folks doing the same. Competition takes place on basically three levels - quality, service and price and pretty much in that order for low-volume producers. Let Wal Mart and Kmart compete on a price level - my customers typically do not shop at Wal Mart. Start by identifying and profiling your customer and then educate them. Don't waste your time of effort trying to convince someone [that is willing to drive an extra 15 miles, tolerate gridlocked traffic, manuver through crowded stores filled with obnoxious customers and insensitive clerks, stand in line for 20 minutes to exchange some of their hard-earned money for inferior products in order to save $1.50 on the purchase of a shirt or pair of shoes] that your eggs are worth $3 per dozen. OK - off the soap box..

Here's some marketing freebies - my book with the complete list will be finished in about 3 years LOL

My customers are motivated by:

Animal rights - they either were aware or I made them aware of the evils and hazards of raising our food on factory farms in confinement facilities.

Health consciousness - they want healthier, more wholesome, unadulterated food.

Community consciousness - they want to support the local producers and economy

Comeraderie - they like me...

Connection to their heritage - they remember eating grandma's eggs and chickens and the flavor of the milk from grandpa's cows

Entertainment - they like being able to see the chickens running around pecking and scratching and their children being able to pet the goats and pigs.

Honor and trust - they like being able to stop at the roadside produce stand and get tomatoes and cucumbers and be trusted to deposit the appropriate amount of money in the coffee can

Make a list of the reasons that you can market your product or service for the price that YOU feel it is worth and the type of folks that you can market them to. Hope this helps someone.

Predators took my 50 layers down to a surviving 3 over the past 2 winters.... free range means fee meals to those pesky owls, falcons and eagles, not to mention the coyotes and foxes here in Central idaho....

When i was gitin 3-4 dozen a day we were hunting people to give those eggs to, and freezing some up for use later after a bit.... once we got a few folks to start eating our eggs, we could ask a buck and a quqarter for them even though in the store they were less for awhile... once fgoks get turned on to a Oragnge yolk egg those store bought carboard tasting yellow yolks just cant do it anymore.....

To git into the production of eggs i would not have less than 400 - 600 layers cause then the store will sell them for me.... and to make it profitable it may take more than that... but buying bulk feed from a grain farmer a person can cut costs consideralby, and stay away from giving the hens speed mixed in the "laying mash".....

Tis a hard row to hoe raising eggs for sale, the 50 was a test group to see what could be achieved on a small scale.... when my birds started laying at 4.5 months [i took exceptional care of them] i was really ready for sales.... and scrambled <--- no pun intended to get a few customers.... relatives which didnt have layers were fr=irst cause giving away was expedient and non-uniform eggs were of course the only ones we were getting, once the pullets figured out it was ok to lay daily uniform eggs [had some an extra large egg carton would not close on for several months] it was pretty easy once folks knew we had them... but hard to come out on top more than just the cost of feed on such a small scale..... winter time sees frozen eggs and free range means some chickens lay in tall grass to hide their eggs from sale [stumble on a nest and the smell hits you as you hear the crunch of an old shell] I raised red sex links which are cross bred for laying of brown eggs.... and a person can stew tehm up if the varmits dont eat them first beter than a leghorn or other layer only type breed.....

maybe another attempt at it this year with a few less.

William

Brown eggs are so expensive in the store here. Go figure. There's a lady in Conore who sells hers for $1/dozen, theres a guy in Bedias who sells his for $1.50/dozen. I sell mine for $2.00/dozen and keep my bators full 24/7. I enjoy hatching the eggs as much as eating or selling them. (Must not being doing too awfully bad. I traded chicks I hatched out for a goat!!!)

It's propbably just that they grew up with white eggs. People fear what they arent used to. I know that I grew up with green and pink eggs so when we got brown eggs layers it was a shock at first to me too. I wasnt used to the darker yellow the yokes were, but then I got hungary for scrambled eggs and got over it. Too bad we cant make up a batch of Salsa Eggs for customers to try. YUMMMMMM grin.

OK..I'm sold that people with pay a premium..up to $4.00 or more a dozen. But there isn't any way I'm paying that much..I've been considering raising a few chickens..and now after this thread..I am prepared to buy some chickens this spring and raise them myself.

I would like to know a few things if somebody is willing to take the time to explain.
First..What is "free-range"
Second..Does it matter what kind of food the chicken eats?
Third..Is there really a difference in taste?
Fourth..What is the difference in nutritional value?

Surprisingly enough, the ones I've met that are most adamant against brown eggs are people that grew up in the country, on farms, with chickens! I would have thought they would have been the first to snatch up fresh brown eggs, but nooooo.......! I occasionally give our church secretary a dozen eggs. She's always tickled to get them, especially if I include a green egg or two from our Aruacauna. Her husband refuses to touch the eggs, so she buys storebought white eggs for him and eats my eggs herself!

Denise :rolleyes:
pondering the strangeness of people.....................

Salsa eggs? Recipe, please!

Denise

Giggle. Thats so WEIRD!!! (about the guy not touching the eggs) giggle. But everyone's got their hangups I guess. grin.

Oh my gosh .....salsa eggs are SO good. You just break your eggs into a blender, then pour in your fav salsa (I actully put too much in.....about half eggs half salsa, but youre only supposed to put in about a 1/4) then put in about two handfulls of shreaded cheese (or not.....depends on what all youve got inthe fridge) and blend and then fry. Yummmmmmm (giggle shiver....grin. Its my fav!!!)