How much do you sell your eggs for?

Just so everyone knows... this thread was bumped. I started it 3 1/2 years ago, so most of these prices are NOT current!



That being said... if you posted on here back in 2011, are you still selling for the same prices????

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Same here. We cut back on Hens if we have extra Eggs just give them away.

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$4.50 a dozen, all day long. One of the bennies of living on the outskirts of a major metropolitan area like Phoenix is that people will pay decent money for eggs. But its not much of a money maker still. Feed here is outrageous.

Ack and I really do know to check dates before commenting. Sorry about that folks.
Tracy in WA

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I give my neighbor 2 bucks for a dozen eggs, his are fresh farm eggs. Maybe someday I will get my own chickens however, for now it is nice to have a neighbor that supplies me.

We are rural. We have 300 to 500 hens at any time but their primary job is organic pest control. We get tens of thousands of eggs but it isn't worth selling them at this time because I can't get enough money for eggs to make it worth my time.

Instead we feed the eggs to our pigs. Our pigs are pastured. The chickens are pastured. No commercial feed / bought grain for either. This means the eggs are an organic feed for our pigs. We get the most leverage by cooking the eggs (doubles the available protein and solves the biotin antagonist issue) and then concentrating the eggs towards the smaller pigs (piglets, weaners, shoats and growers).

In the winter there are no insects for the chickens so we feed pigs to the chickens (weekly butchering scraps). Life is a cycle. Taste good.

Cheers,

-Walter

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I had ducks. I added up all the costs, raising ducklings up to laying, feed, over-wintering, all the expenses except the shelter and fencing. I figured the eggs cost me $4 a dozen to produce. I had to buy cartons because duck eggs won't fit into a chicken egg carton.

Nobody wants to pay $4.50 for a dozen duck eggs, so what my family didn't eat, I fed to my dogs.

The $4 an hour didn't include anything for my time or labor. It costs too much to raise eggs and the public doesn't want to pay what it costs t raise them. So I keep my poultry levels done to the point that my own family can eat what the birds produce.

I am not willing to subsidize the cost of great food for total strangers. If they won't pay what it costs to raise it, they are welcome to buy at the supermarket.

Incidentally, the cost of feed has doubled since I last had ducks. So those eggs would cost more than $4 a dozen now.

In MA, my friend gets $3.50 a dozen.
In PA, they go for $3.00.

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$4.75 a dozen for X large, $4.25 dozen for large, $3.75 for mediums and when I have them I sell pullet eggs for $2.00 dozen.

I sell them at a farmers market 1 hour from D.C. You can get more if you're willing to travel over to a D.C. market.

I sell duck eggs for $6 a dozen.

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I'm quoting myself from page 1. We still sell at $3 per dozen. A few times this spring we had several dozen that I donated to Meals on Wheels. They were happy

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