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12:44 pm
January 24, 2010
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I have a small flock of chickens that produces more than my family can use. I'd like to sell them at my farmers market, but I have a pricing dilemma. The other vendors only charge $1 a dozen for their farm eggs. The grocery store charges $1.29 for white eggs and $4 for brown/organic eggs. It costs me $1.80 to produce a dozen eggs so I really don't understand how those vendors can charge so little; I guess it's a hobby for them and not a livelihood. Any suggestions on what I can do as I'd like to sell mine for at least $2 a dozen to break even.
12:52 pm
November 9, 2010
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More chickens, more eggs, lower price. I would pay 2$ a dozen and not think about it if I had to buy eggs.
1:00 pm
February 10, 2009
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I have several ideas myself…
I've had people walk away from my door when they hear that I charge more than someone else, that's they're choice. sometimes, I have to scramble up a dozen eggs that get older than I want to sell them and feed them back to the hens. At least one of those $1 a dozen people used me as well as the cost of feed and supplies as an excuse to raise their prices to match mine!
Still, here's what I do.
I stick to my guns about the price, but then I also find people and places where my eggs are appreciated. A friend who works where they'll be appreciated more takes orders at her workplace and she delivers them for me, for her trouble she gets her eggs for free! (she'd likely get them for free anyway LOL)
If you have a sign at your driveway for 'eggs for sale' modify it a bit to make them sound better! "Farm Fresh Eggs" or "Fresh Eggs from Happy Hens" or whatever. Have a little fun with it! People react to that, or else all those advertising companies would be out of business!
I think the people who charge so little are just in a rut about it and haven't noticed the rise in cost of the feed. Chicken feed isn't all that 'cheep' any more!
1:10 pm
January 21, 2011
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You are also selling safe eggs. You can't put a price on that.
1:10 pm
February 8, 2009
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I donate 2 bucks a dozen towards a chicken feed fund in return for fresh eggs, without hesitation 
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1:17 pm
February 8, 2009
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Of course I don't know what eggs are selling for in stores in the States, but here store eggs are selling for 1.89 p/dz for small eggs and prices go up from there.
I sell my eggs for 2 dollar a dz, deliver in town, but only when I have to go there anyway, I don't make a drive out.
The eggs I sell are bigger than the store eggs, fresher and taste a whole lot better, so if people don't want to pay the 2 dollar…I don't care.
It might take a little time to get your regulars and that is all you need.
I have 2 families who pay me 2.50 because they think I'm to cheap, I take it and I'm not going to argue over that.
If I have to sell for less then 2 dollar I rather make more breakfast stacker and burritos, instead of selling.
Between the food you buy, quality of eggs and the work you put in, 2 dollar is minimum price, I think.
1:32 pm
January 17, 2011
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Good grief! I was charging $1 a dz. back nearly 30 yrs. ago! Prices have gone WAY up since then! I think $2 is still cheap!
2:14 pm
January 24, 2010
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MaryB said:
You are also selling safe eggs. You can't put a price on that.
That's a great selling point, especially since I live only 10 miles from one of the factory farms that recalled all those bad eggs.
I also like the point that perhaps the other sellers are in a rut and will bring their prices up. One is a doctor's wife who doesn't need the money, just sells for fun. The other is an older lady who may not notice the current price of eggs.
I always advertise "free delivery" in town, since I have to pick up my daughter from work every day it's not an extra trip anyway.
2:49 pm
May 5, 2010
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$2 a dozen would be wonderful in my neck of the woods! … average price at the low end is $3.50 for free-range eggs off the farm. High end is about $5 and you are entertained by the farmer rattling off all the names of his "girls" from glamor hen-pics at the farmer's market, while wearing old-style button tab shirt, suspenders and high crown hat (Amish-looking and, no, he isn't). I'm sure he's waxing a few marketing skills there and sells out of eggs every week as well as piles of his produce. Of course, I'm living in a predominantly suburban area with rural patches between … the bedroom communities here anticipate a price attached to their entertainment.
3:11 pm
November 18, 2008
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We sell a few and get requests for more than we have. Nobody complains about our $2 a dozen, even when store eggs are $1. A while back, there was a discussion around the blog/forum where farm fresh eggs in big cities were selling for $5 and$6 a dozen—-
11:05 pm
January 24, 2010
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I did an informal poll of my facebook friends and was a bit disheartened to hear how many of them buy or sell eggs at $1 a dozen. I'm setting my price at $2 a dozen and I guess if they don't sell we'll eat them. Scrambled eggs, quiche, egg casserole, hard boiled eggs, omelettes, egg salad, deviled eggs, egg sandwiches, eggs benedict………we love our eggs!
11:41 pm
February 8, 2009
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good for you
12:49 am
September 20, 2010
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People charge $4.00 dollars a dozen for organic eggs here!!! so glad I have my girls and don't need to buy eggs.
8:11 am
February 27, 2011
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I think the chickens should be offended for only $1/doz. 
(I've been waiting forever to use that icon ☺)
8:32 am
January 21, 2011
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You picked a good way to use it! lol 
2:59 pm
July 24, 2010
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Store brand grade A large eggs were $1.15/dz at my neighborhood grocery just now. Craigslist has a person with free range eggs not far from here selling them for $2.50/dz. If I can find a way to meet up with that person, I will gladly pay the extra for better eggs. The one I just bought have the palest yolks and thinnest shells of any I have ever seen. Wonder if they came from healthy hens, much less happy hens?
3:43 pm
February 22, 2010
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Rural areas around here usually get 1.25 to 1.50 but closer to the city 2.00 and over. A friend who has a catering/table scaping business in Johnson county Kansas told my son she would pay OVER 2.00 a dozen for all the farm fresh eggs he could get her. My son said he would rather just sell to people around here. The dilevery would have killed him… over 70 miles away
4:19 pm
January 2, 2011
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I'm with Ruthmarie…$2.00 a dozen would be a bargain for free-range farm fresh eggs. The free-range eggs around here at our local farmer's market are $5-6 per dozen. You can get them for just over $2.00 a dozen for eggs from a small, local chicken farmer…but they aren't "free range". Admittedly, I am in the city…our farmer's market is under a freeway, so we will always pay more for fresh, good quality products.
I say hold your ground…$2.00 a dozen is a great price!
4:28 pm
November 22, 2009
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What I purchase at the grocery store that is marked LARGE are around $1.15-$1.29 per doz. They are really what I would consider a SMALL-MEDIUM egg. To get a nice LARGE egg I have to pay close to $2.00, so I guess it depends on what you or the customer considers LARGE eggs.
4:34 pm
February 10, 2009
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Egg size is decided by the weight. here's a decent site for information. I don't bother sizing mine, customers get what they get, but I sometimes have trouble closing the lid on an Extra-Large carton!
http://www.sizes.com/food/chic…..n_eggs.htm
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