eggs

randy1 · Jan 3, 2015

how much do you sell or pay for fresh large brown eggs? we sell them for $2.00 and go fast

DLMKA · Jan 3, 2015

(quoted from post at 05:27:31 01/03/15) how much do you sell or pay for fresh large brown eggs? we sell them for $2.00 and go fast

I've been getting $3/doz and don't have trouble getting rid of 2 dozen per day on average. Should be up to 4 doz/day in a few months. I could probably sell for $4/doz and probably would if I was sitting at farmers markets.

Logan in SE Texas · Jan 3, 2015

Retired school teacher, back door neighbor has a flock of laying hens. I gladly pay $2.00 a dozen and would not have a problem paying $3.00. The quality is so much better than store bought! We buy for ourselves and my M-I-L, anywhere from 6-10 dozen at a time. Since cold weather got here egg production is way down and we take whatever the hens produce. That has been about 2 dozen a week.

Jason1Pa · Jan 3, 2015

$2.00 here.

Traditional Farmer · Jan 3, 2015

Get some Black Australorps they will lay in cold weather when all the other hens quit

hd6gtom · Jan 3, 2015

saw a sign asking 4.00 per doz, central Iowa

Dean Olson · Jan 3, 2015

$4-5 dollars around outskirts of Houston.

In town the tree huggers are paying $7 at the farmers market. But you have to "label" them: organic,free range,cage free, non GMO, sustainable, grass fed, etc.

Texasmark1 · Jan 3, 2015

I buy commercial, brown, cage free, no harmone, upgraded feed, eggs for between $3.5 and $4. Eggs have an orange yoke, not yellow like run of the mill, and and are advertised to have increased levels of B vitamins due to the above. I love them, eat a lot and I am maintaining my cholesterol to levels that my doctor accepts.

Only one guy that I know of selling eggs privately and sometimes you see him at the farmer's market on a Saturday. Don't know what he gets.

Mark

Spook · Jan 3, 2015

(quoted from post at 03:27:31 01/03/15) how much do you sell or pay for fresh large brown eggs? we sell them for $2.00 and go fast

At $2 you are probably not covering the feed cost. Laying mash is about $30 per hundred around here. We used to sell eggs, but even at $4, I never felt we were covering the cost.

rrlund · Jan 3, 2015

Everybody and their brother tries to sell eggs around here for $1.50. The market is flooded. Some have given up.

RGMartin · Jan 3, 2015

Mash is $17/ 100 here, and the mill is making good money on it. If I could buy at $2 I wouldn't have any birds.

JayinNY · Jan 3, 2015

I get $2.50 a dozen here. I always had brown egg layers, but this year for something different, I got some white egg layers, I think there white leghorns, but the sign said they were tetra tints and amber links? So I'm not sure, all I know is the a few of the suckers have the habit of eating there eggs. Layer pellets here at the local feed mill are $22.00 a hundred pounds, and cracked corn is $8 for 50#, Really don't make much profit, but at least I have fresh eggs for myself, and my 3 year old daughter likes collecting the eggs and feeding the hens.

retired farmer · Jan 3, 2015

What do you do with ten dozen eggs?

David G · Jan 3, 2015

I bet they do, think they are charging 3-3.50 here.

What do others in your area sell for?

Don-Wi · Jan 3, 2015

My parents get 2.75 for a large dozen, $1.50 for medium and $3.00 for extra large. Actually a little less than what they are at the store. My parents on average move 6 dozen a day. Sometimes they don't even have any left for me so I gotta buy the ones at the store. For what it's worth I find Egglands Best taste better than the others I've bought.

Donovan from Wisconsin

old · Jan 3, 2015

I too get $2 a dozen for my eggs. I get around 6 a day some times more all year round

keh · Jan 3, 2015

The best solution for chickens eating their eggs is to convert them into chicken stew.

KEH

Dell (WA) · Jan 3, 2015

Jay........eating eggs is a sign yer commercial layer feed is deficient in calcium. Need more cracked and ground oyster shell. Corn has NO calcium. White leghorns lay smaller eggs than Rhode Is Reds which lay brown eggs. I giggle when I read "organic" this or that, minerals are minerals. But iff'n it makes them eco-nutts feel good to spend mucho dinnero, more power the farmer that tricks'em. BTW, white leghorns are actually grown fer BREAST meat, and white pin feathers are hard to see. The last chickens I had were left-overs from a fly-tying business. The hackles (chest feathers) make the fishing fly float and makes the trout jump fer joy. Dang, I sure miss that roosters crow .......Dell

old · Jan 3, 2015

My birds lay 3 color eggs. Brown, white and green. I take the egg shells and bake them then give them back to the chickens so as to help with what they need in there diet to have good thick shells

flying belgian · Jan 3, 2015

I get $3.00/doz. at my roadside stand. Golf course is my neighbor so in spring, summer and fall when they are open and the towns people have to drive right past my stand to go golfing, I really sell eggs. You see if she lets him take the afternoon off to play, he thinks it will smooth the waters a bit if he brings home some "farm fresh" eggs.
Found out they also have to be brown eggs. People will not pay 3.00 for white eggs when you can get them at Walmart for 1.99. They don't understand it is not the color of the shell that gives them the flavor but rather it is what they eat and the age of the egg.

Blue Jay · Jan 3, 2015

We buy for $1.50 from Amish neighbor, can't beat the taste.

Dachshund · Jan 3, 2015

Just bought 4 dozen this morning from an Amish neighbor. Paid $1.25 a dozen.....

MikeJM · Jan 3, 2015

We get 3.50 at the farm and 5 at farmers markets.

JayinNY · Jan 3, 2015

What does baking them do? I was think of throwing them in there coop after I crack them open, but was afraid it would entice them to keep eating there good eggs! Lol

old · Jan 3, 2015

First off these are eggs we have eaten. Baking the shells kill off bacteria so as not to cause a problem with health of the birds. By the way I got half a dozen eggs today

JayinNY · Jan 3, 2015

Thanks old!

old · Jan 3, 2015

Also saves on the cost of oyster shells

Cory Schmidt · Jan 3, 2015

Keep giving water ours did good last year but kept them watered

Mike (WA) · Jan 4, 2015

Commercial white eggs were $3.49 a dozen at Safeway the other day. Been thinking of getting some chickens for awhile, may have to just up and do it.

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