How much do you sell eggs for?

[Squirrelgirl88]

I read that you spend an average of $1.90 per dozen in feed and supplies. The eggs in the grocery are $2.00 so I sell mine for $2.50. I feel that is more than fair for large, brown, FRESH, free range eggs. And I deliver! Anyone that wants to pay less than that can eat the grocery store eggs. Since I'm the one with poop on my shoes and occasionally in my hair, I can justify that price!

 

[Baymule]

@Hangtown Farms I already looked your website over and drooled over the pictures! I have saved your website to my favorites. We are making plans to sell our home and move onto some property (then I can have a rooster) and you will be hearing from me!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

@Baymule sounds good.They would do great in Texas

 

[purplequeenvt]

When I do sell eggs, my chicken eggs go for $3/dozen and the duck eggs are $5/dozen. They are not organic, but they are free ranged. Right now I'm barely feeding any grain since they'd rather eat grass and bugs.

 

[trampledbygeese]

Interesting seeing how much everyone is selling their eggs for. Your food costs must be so much lower than here. I have great envy.

At the moment I'm selling mine at $4 for farmgate, and $3.50 wholesale. We only have 40 chickens (out of the 99 we are allowed before the egg marketing board gets involved), so we only sell to one shop and only what extra our regular farmgate customers don't buy.

Our price is a bit low for our area, as farm fresh eggs from the island go for anything between $5 to $8 a dozen in the stores and $4 to $6 for farmgate.

Many of the farm stands in our area put the price per dozen right on their sign. This is great because I can get an idea as to how much other farmers in our area are selling for. Most people fluxuate their prices to reflect supply and demand. So when supply is low and demand is high, like just before Christmas and Easter, you'll be hard pressed to find any local eggs for sale, and if you do, expect to pay at least $6 for a dozen, often much higher.

Personally, we don't alter our prices during the year because it's hard on us to remember, and it's hard on the customers to try to guess what the price will be this week. We don't have a farmstand and just sell word of mouth, order a few days ahead of time. This, in a lot of ways, is much nicer than having strangers hanging out on the farm, feeding the animals goodness knows what, leaving gates open, &c.

One of the things to note, is (that in our area - laws differ different places) the eggs being sold in the store MUST have the fancy egg wash thing, which kind of sucks because it reduces the shelf life by a couple of months. But then again, they sell out faster than we can supply them, so I'm not horribly worried. We also have to use only new cartons, fancy labeling requirements by law and so on and so forth. So not only is it more income to sell farmgate, it's also less expense.

 

[Prairie Farm Woman]

We sell our eggs mostly to friends and family for $2.50 a dozen. Then we eat a lot too. I freeze some in the scrambled form so that I have eggs for cooking during the winter months.

 

[happy acres]

I started out selling for $2.00 a dozen. But costs are going up so much, I'm having to go up to $3.00 per. I was actually losing money at the lower price. I'm going to try selling at the farmer's market.

 

[silver0202]

We first sold eggs at $5/dozen, but now raised the price to $6 for new customers and we cannot keep up with the demand. Hens are fed organic mash as well as organic sprouted fodder. We live in urban Los Angeles.

 

[happy acres]

The person who was buying at 2.00 per would not go up. So now I'm not selling any. The farmer's market would let me sell, but by the time I conformed to all the rules, I'd have to sell for 5.00 per. I just don't think I could sell for that much.

 

[mysunwolf]

Well, I have to weigh in. We're in rural VA and prices are cheap for everything, but we manage to do okay on eggs.

We sell our conventional eggs for $3/doz wholesale, $3.50/doz retail.
Conventional layer pellets are $24.50 for 100#, plus gas to and from the mill.

We sell our eggs from organic-fed hens for $5/doz wholesale, $5.50/doz retail.
Organic layer mash is $55.00 for 100#, plus gas to and from the delivery point.

Customers get retail prices at the Farmers Market, wholesale prices at the farm. We easily sell 4+ dozen per week of the eggs from organic-fed hens, but not sure how many dozen per week would saturate our small market. Most people around here are happy simply with non-GMO, or just backyard.

Just to be clear, no matter how free range mine are, they always seem to eat a ton of feed, even with kitchen scraps in the mix. Not exactly sure how the rest of y'alls hens "would prefer to eat grass and bugs." And I have had a variety of breeds and ages in a variety of different situations. Feed cost at the mill point has a lot to do with how much we sell our eggs for. Average hen eats 1.5 to 2lbs of feed per week, and that's not counting the feed it took to get her to point of lay. You build a chicken house at some point, unless it was already on property or you did it for free, and so paying the $ back on that with eggs takes away from beginning profits. There are more costs in eggs than most people realize.