How much do you sell your eggs for?

Home raised eggs locally are $1.50 a dozen, but I'm fortunate to have a friend who sells mine in his specialty store in Ann Arbor.

Last year I was getting $4.00, but I'm going to go to $5 this year.

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another buck-fifty here. we have hetorite (sp??) colonies here and if its says 'colony', its thought of as pure, so i cannot sell for more than the local store does. i was paying 2 a doz before my hens started laying, but when i could buy them in town for half, i did. also, sometimes messing around with a private seller when i was just at the store wasn't worth it. i sooo love having my own!

not liking dark yolks or not eating your own eggs? crazy! its like the dairy family i knew who refused their own milk, preferred the store milk. huh??? kinda made me wonder what was wrong with their cows??!

Agree!! I see them on our local CL from $1.00 - $2.50.. Personally they are worth more than that to us as pig feed..

In my rural area they go for $1.50. People raved about my eggs but you can pick them up cheaply from Amish sellers everywhere. Times are tough and although most people prefer eggs from free range hens they aren't willing to pay extra for them. Occasionally my friend's mom would take my eggs to a metro area to sell them and charged $3.00. Those were the only times that the eggs paid for the upkeep of the flock. Finally after many years I stopped keeping hens. People supplied me with plenty of cartons for re-use.
Miss those chickens but I can't afford to keep loosing money on a hobby.

Renee

Do any of you sell duck or goose eggs? Quail eggs?



Thanks for the replies!

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Our local supermarket has a "sale" on large eggs. The selling price is $4.49 after 50 cents off. There is a limit of 4. So the regular price is $4.99 for sometimes stale eggs. I don't buy those eggs.

For years I have been buying my eggs from one of the last egg farmers in the county. I buy one dozen large eggs for cooking and one dozen "monsters". The "monsters" are almost all double yoke eggs. I get both "farm fresh" for $4.50. The "monsters" are sometimes so large they put them in flats held together with plastic bands.

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East Central Indiana; no close really large city. Get $1.50 at the farm and $2.00 at the Farmers' Market, May to October. Cartons are usually returned and the people at church bring me all of theirs. I do mark my cartons with one of our labels. We, also, need to sell out of a cooler but, so far, there have been no restrictions on cartons or requirements to candle them. Most of my customers buy because they want eggs with a traceable history.

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We sell to a larger city. $4 per dozen for chicken eggs & $5.50 for duck eggs. We supply cartons & customers return the cartons that are marked with their names to use again. We sell from the farm- I know other farmers selling at markets who sell for $5 and up per dozen.

$2 a dozen $2.50 for 18. I have a few standard customers plus I sell at our local club. This is a low income state and many do sell here. But most feed purina too which I do not since mine free range. I sell ours of out county thats where the club is and hubbies work. We are in a small town and I know of some trying to sell at farms market for $3 a dozen. They rarly get it.

Almost forgot. We saved our egg cartons which were 18 for a year. I use them and I bought dozen cartons. many clients return catons to be reused.

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I just raised my price to 3.00 a dozen. I just came to the conclusion that I would rather give them away to my close friends (who greatly appreciate the time and effort I put into raising my girls), use them up myself, or cook them and feed them to my dogs instead of selling them to people who just want "cheap" eggs (and have no appreaction.) But I only keep about a dozen layers, and a few pets. I also have Khaki Campbell ducks and white chinese geese, and use and sell thier eggs too.

£2.60 per dozen - on a busy road just outside a small town. I've only just started selling them and after a few weeks when we were having to eat way too many eggs, they're now selling like hotcakes!

If any of you would be willing to barter your hatching quail eggs i am seeking JUMBO coturnix quail hatching eggs

We are just outside of Seattle so large area, our eggs are sold in a 6 pack, we supply the carton. We sell them for $2.00 a 6 pack or obviously $4.00 a dozen. We probably get about 20% of our cartons back.

We get a more because we sell the point that they are Free Range, they are also on Organic Feed with no GMO's and no Soy. In our area people are crazy for those buzz words. In fact I am considering upping the price to $3.00 a 6 pack and $5.00 a dozen. We shall see.

It is amazing to see the differences in prices though.

Tracy in WA

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Funny when I am hatching I cant eat eggs!

Whoa old thread!

But it may be interesting to see if people are selling their eggs for more now that the price of eggs in the store are going up.

I sell mine for 1.50 to my neighbor, whose girlfriend lives in chicago and drives back and forth often so she sells them down there (about 5 hours away) I don't know how much she sells them for but if I did I am sure I would laugh I figure it's a pretty fair price since he will take all I can give him and he supplies the cartons.

Around here they are going for 3 or 3.50 (northeast PA). I dont sell mine, as I tend to use what the girls give me (I have 13 hens). Its the only significant protein I can grow here beside a few turkeys and the old chickens. I have quiche in the fridge now. Its a good way to make a tasty meal from eggs and use up meat or veg scraps

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$2.00 a dozen but my wife is thinking of raising to $3.00 in the next year, because all food prices keep going up. people save their cartons for us to sell them in. I saw comments that said one couldn't make a profit at $2 a dozen, the facts, feed for a dozen chickens is about $30 a month, 12 chickens lay close to a dozen a day so in 15 to 20 days the feed is paid for. Now since spring is here and the chickens wander all over searching for bugs, the feed bill is about cut in half and since we only were looking for free eggs we are doing pretty well. I do note that these prices are for western New York state and will vary depending on location.

$4.50 a dozen in the big city market. We do ask for our cartons back and give a 10 cents discount when they bring them back.

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We are still selling at $2/dozen, thought about raising prices this year but everything we don't use sells so we didn't rock the boat. Customers save cartons, friends and family save cartons. It's not a "for profit" operation, our flock provides eggs for several households of family and we sell the extras to cheapen up our own.

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