How much do you sell your eggs for?

We sell at 3 farm markets each week from June - Oct. NYS Dept. of Ag & Markets (circular # 854) require that we provide cartons with specific warnings, nutritional info, etc. And our contact information, not another producer's carton. We purchase from www.eggcartons.com This can add an additional approx. 25-35¢ to each dozen. Majority of customers bring these back to me and we will reuse.

Yes, inspectors have come to the market and checked. The eggs must also be in a cooler with a thermometer.

We sell for $3 per dozen, mixed colors & sizes (mostly Lg & Xlg.) and reduce price by 25¢ and 50¢ if we seem to have too many. We sometimes sell 18 small eggs for the same price as a dozen large.

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I just sell out of a spare fridge on our front porch. I'm in on a dirt road and the local "town" has a population of maybe 300-400. I just raised my price to $1.50 per dozen the first of the year.

I do supply the cartons but I have several people that supply them...ie give me their used ones. I also collect them from anywhere I can find them. Right now I probably have a years worth even if no one returns them!

For a long time I couldn't hardly give them away but it seems in the winter I'm one of the few that have chickens that are still laying. Hopefully some of these customers will stay with me.

$2.00/dz. here in the UP. I use egg cartons from neighbors, friends, and customers I have been given as much as $4.00/dz. at times~people are VERY happy to get our free-range eggs. At times it's hard to keep up with demand. I need to check into getting more hens...

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We sell them for $2 a dozen and we bought cartons for that purpose. Here in Ky you can sell up to 60 dozen a week without any special permit or anything, however, you have to use new cartons. We bake alot too so we always have used cartons to give away. We buy eggs for $1 when our chickens aren't laying - like now - it's stinking cold here!

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I sell for 2.00 a dozen and get way to many free cartons! I only have 28 hens so I do not sell a ton of eggs. My co-workers ask me to bring them eggs every week and I have a couple neighbors as well as our horse boarders that buy. I have one gal that comes from the Chicago area to buy mine for 2.00 and then sells to her "friends" in Chicago for 4.00! Around here they run 2.00 with almost everybody so I am comfortable with that price and usually have more requests than i can provide for.

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Seriously, I am COMPLETELY dressed!

Just keep moving...just keep moving!

Western Washington, small town of about 8,500. I purchase free range chicken eggs, mixed speices for $3.00 per dozen. Customers give back the cartons and the seller reuses them.

$3.00 a dozen in the Gainesville, FL area, a university town of about 180,000 or thereabouts. I have a small store account in a little town south of here of under a thousand. Face to face sales I sell in used cartons. The store account I use new cartons.

I've had more demand than I can supply for this last year or so.

My current egg supplier sells extra large browns with shells so thick an egg can bounce off the floor without shattering for $2 a dozen and we recycle old store cartons we all saved up while they were building up their flock.

Best part is the way they feed them and only medicate when required ,every carton tends to have one or two double yolks in it.

I been getting eggs from them at a rate of 5 dozen a month for three years now and only got one balut so far.

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Our chickens are free ranged except when the garden is first planted. They also eat from the garden. I get 3 dollars a dozen selling from home or selling to the natural food store. I just found out I can't sell to the health food store any more unless we have cartons stamped with our farm name! So will be selling to family and friends this year. The store was re-selling my eggs for almost 5 dollars a dozen! I only sell large and extra large eggs in the cartons. The rest we use.

$5 a doz, I supply cartons. Small town.
I figure you need to charge more than factory farm eggs because the eggs are of higher quality, feed costs are higher, more labour etc.

$1.50? Is your feed really cheap or are you simply unloading eggs from pet chickens?

You can get a self inking stamp made for under $20 from Office Depot or any other graphics store.

$3.50 a dozen and our customers return the cartons to us. We sell in 2 larger population areas.

Very small town of 600 and I sell for $1.50 a dozen. My customers make sure to give me back the cartons.

What we don't use ,we give to a couple people I work with .

They give me the washed shells back, along with food scraps.

Guess if I get more than 5 dozen/week, I'll look different at it.

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Roger

Interesting the things that stay the same and the things that are different geographically. Seems most folks have loyal customers who only want to buy from you. Prices vary significantly.....Around my place you price them above $1.50 and you'll quickly be out of business. I counted the signs on the way home- you drive past 15 egg sellers on my 21mi commute. All are $1.00-1.50. Back when we had extras to sell, we could barely unload them all at $1.50/dz. We provided the carton (recycled from the buyers).

I don't have chickens buy I buy the big brown eggs for 150.00 and return her cartons.

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2 1/2 years ago, DH was selling his eggs at 1.50 dozen. When we got married, I told him he was nuts, and raised the price to 2.00 dzn. Took quite a while to bring in customers at that price. We fed over a hundred dozen to the pigs that summer.
Just at the beginning of this winter, I raised the price to 2.50. We lost every customer we had that lived within the township. Now the only people that come are people from the nearby city that think 2.50 for free-range eggs is a steal. Doesn't matter though. Can't keep them in the fridge right now. If I raised the price, I would be out of business. Also I currently have about 5000 cartons. I only use used ones people bring.

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My friends in Hawaii get $6 per doz for their organic eggs. They also get $2 per lb for their tomatoes and cukes. They sell at a weekly farmers market. Don't know the size of the community.

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Sell? I wish. During the egg scare I got $2. I supplied the used carton. Occasionally the lady across the street will pay $3 +/-. She's got a hair salon and some of her customers want our eggs.

We have about 12 hens and pullets. Hubby doesn't know it but I plan to put some eggs under the first broody this spring.

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