Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => Chicken Chat => Topic started by: nuzuki on May 24, 2013, 10:04
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I just wondered, im pretty new to selling eggs. I charge £1 for half a dozen which I reckon is far too cheap. I wondered if anyone has sat down and worked out the cost of feed vs the cost of an egg they sell. We get a bag of layers pellets (20kg) for inbetween £8-9 which lasts 2 weeks and sell our eggs £1 for 6 which works out 15p an egg. So they eat around 50ps worth of feed a day and I get £1 worth of eggs presently which isn't bad but still doesnt pay for ongoing repairs and worming stuff etc etc. So I was thinking about charging more for our eggs but want to remain competitive. So would you regard £1 for 6 eggs as cheap? Or should I push it upto £1.50?
Thanks
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I sell mine to close neighbours for 10p per egg which I know is over cheap but they are good neighbours. Relatives I give them to but some insist on paying £1 per 6 which is around 17p per egg. I sell my quail eggs for £1.20 per dozen which includes a plastic quail egg box which costs me around 20p.
You just need to find out what other sellers in your area charge for the same product. Have a look for farm signs selling eggs near you. ;)
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I sell my hens eggs for £1 per half dozen which I think is quite reasonable as I am not trying to make a profit.
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£0.00 i give mine away :ohmy:
A while ago i had idiot written on my forehead that only certain people can see. I didnt feel that i could ask them for money as they were our left overs so to speak.
Unfortunately one of the people we were giving them away to felt the need to abuse our generosity so i wont be doing it anymore.
All of the people we have given them to never once offered anything, not even a cabbage or a bag of apples for the chickens, but they were quite happy to ask if i could give them more and more and more for their friends, neighbours, relatives.
My own fault for doing it in the first place.
I have reduced the number of my laying hens and will be having a couple of Silkies and Wyandottes. I'm not expecting many eggs from those as they will probably spend most of their time being broody.
Any excess eggs from now on will be boiled, mashed and given to our aviary birds or i shall freeze them ready for winter.
Free range eggs around these parts are £2.50 - £3.00 per dozen not sure how much for 6.
I sell my excess quail eggs as hatching eggs this time of year at auction and they can fetch anywhere between £1 - £5.00 a dozen. My children share the money as they collect the eggs and help look after them.
I dont think £1.20 for 6 hens eggs is unreasonable but see what others in your area are selling for.
Cant you get your feed any cheaper than that?
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I actually used to give mine away but it was the people who I was giving them to who insisted on paying as they said that they did not feel that they could ask for eggs if I would not take the money - an entirely different experience from yours Splash.
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It depends on how many I have, sometimes its a swap for a cabbage, cauliflower, never been offered apples though
The wife takes them into work, I dont see or know what she gets, but she buys the mash/pellets, she also keeps the squirels and wild birds supplied with food
But I think £1.00-£1-20 is a fair price, but depends on size, and what others are selling theirs at
(for some reason, mine seem to be laying monster eggs, double yolks, been doing it for a long time now)
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::)i get my eggs from my neighbour . because of the rise in feed he has put his price up to 2£-50p .hope this helps.
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A pound for six and our feed has gone up in the past year from 6.60 to 9.40 :ohmy:
Once this lot have gone I aint having pets anymore. The kids have been told.
Two rabbits left, one cat and eight chooks.
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I have regular customers, 3 OAP's in the village who i sell to every week for £1 doz delivered . :wub: Some weeks they take 5 doz, others weeks only 3doz. :) I pick out all large eggs for them. Think I've charge £1 for the last 4 years :wub: I know :blush:
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We pay £2.00/dozen from friends which I think is more than reasonable and they occasionally throw in half a dozen duck eggs for nothing. We've just been able to help them out with some cucumber plants, as a gift. :)
When we had our chickens we used to enjoy giving eggs to family and friends from time to time and people would tend to offer money (never accepted) or perhaps a swap of some of their produce that we might not have. It was and I imagine still is, very easy to spot the freeloaders as they would tend to be the ones who'd appear from the background if you were giving eggs and say something like "oh yes eggs, I'll have some of they're going begging..". No chance! :D
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Chap from our allotments delivers them to me for £1.70 doz. Mind you I've asked him how come they are all stamped now,he says they have to be. Do you stamp yours? They used to have a 3 UK followed by a farm number on them that meant they were from caged birds,but his aren't caged. Now they have a 1UK followed by the farm number.
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Do eggs that you get from hens and sell on have to be stamped /
Only ones I have ever seen stamped have been from a supermarket, the farm whee I got my eggs from (before mine started laying) never had stamps of anny kind on them
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I used to sell at my old work for £1.50 for 6 a few years ago! :blink: I don't have a surplus anymore though
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I use all mine ....... breakfast , sandwhiches , lunches , tea , baking , boiling , snacking , freezing , etc
I have 8 bantam hens so slightly smaller eggs
is there a thread on here for exchanging eggy receipe ideas ?
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You can freeze eggs ? never thought of that (we dont have enough to do that though)
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is there a thread on here for exchanging eggy receipe ideas ?
You will be able to find egg recipes on the recipe pages:
http://www.allotment-garden.org/recipe/
There are lots of egg recipes on the cooking board within the forum too:
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?board=2.0
just search that board or add your own there any time. :)
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I have regular customers, 3 OAP's in the village who i sell to every week for £1 doz delivered . :wub: Some weeks they take 5 doz, others weeks only 3doz. :) I pick out all large eggs for them. Think I've charge £1 for the last 4 years :wub: I know :blush:
I do similar here. I sell the eggs for £1 per 1/2 doz. I deliver them to customers in the town (on foot). I also sell a lot on the school run each day. I only take pre orders as other local sellers have had their honesty boxes stolen from, I don't want to risk that.
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Thats a bit nasty, nicking the honesty boxes
I guess thats why some ask for the money to be put in the letter box (but I daresay some dont put the right money in there, a shame things have got to this level
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I sell my spares in half dozens at £1.50 mixed or £1.60 for enormous ones.
People keep harrasing me for my spares so I thought the price might put them off and leave some for us. But no, they keep coming back for more. Especially the blue shelled eggs.
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Mine have proved to be too popular now, got people waiting for them :)
I had 5 in a box, a little boy asked me if she would be long in laying an egg ? I said he had better ask her ?
He did, never got a reply though, 2 hours later he got his egg
I think I am going to need more hens >:(
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We have 11 hens and while I am pleased to sell the surplus there are an old couple who treat us a bit like Trashco delivery and tell us in rather a demanding way that they want a dozen large eggs. Which gets up my nose rather. They don't like waiting their turn either.
I sometimes end up giving them the eggs I keep for us. I must get a bit tougher I think.
All the other neighbours are really nice and always ask if we have some eggs to spare, so they go first now.
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We have 11 hens and while I am pleased to sell the surplus there are an old couple who treat us a bit like Trashco delivery and tell us in rather a demanding way that they want a dozen large eggs. Which gets up my nose rather. They don't like waiting their turn either.
I sometimes end up giving them the eggs I keep for us. I must get a bit tougher I think.
All the other neighbours are really nice and always ask if we have some eggs to spare, so they go first now.
Sorry I wouldnt tolerate that, even the kids who knock for their Mum's always say please and Thank you, they dont demand eggs, ( I dont think they actually knew where eggs came from until I showed them a hen sitting on a couple, they wewre amazed when I got them and told them to see if there was any more there, seeing their faces is quite funny) :)
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Oh, I love seeing the kids faces when they first help to collect the eggs.
There I was telling a friends little lad about collecting eggs from the chickens and he said, 'NO, eggs come from Tesco'.
So we went down to the hens and proved it to him.
As for the demanding couple, they are neighbours of my aged parents, so it is a bit difficult, but this weekend I put the foot down after mum asked for the second time in as many days, for their eggs.
I told her to tell them that they would have to wait as I had a lot of cake orders coming through! Will probably keep them waiting for a bit longer to make the point.
Everyone else is really nice and comes to collect their own eggs from the door.
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I let the kids collect their own now, but as they like petting them, its not very quick (and they are bringing over bits of bread or a few weed seeds for them)
Its even better when they find 2 under a hen :)
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Thanks for the replies. £1 for half dozen seems reasonable then though due to popularity I guess I could get away with £1.50 per half dozen. I did make a really nice eggs for sale sign which says £2 a dozen but it hasnt gone up yet as all the neighbours and locals are buying all the eggs just by word of mouth.
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I buy mine from a free range farm, 30 large at a time for £5-£6. All double yolkers last time, never had that before!
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I buy mine from a free range farm, 30 large at a time for £5-£6. All double yolkers last time, never had that before!
It is usually new hens that lay the double yolkers and they don't generally send them to supermarkets as they are classed as non standard. ;)
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Ahh that might also be why they haven't got any XL eggs at the moment, fresh batch of chickens.
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When I first started keeping chickens last year I used to give the neighbours the spare eggs. There are only 6 houses in the village so I tried to do it on a 'rota' basis. Then one of them wanted some when it wasn't their 'turn' so I gave them 6 of my own and they insisted on paying. It is a farming community so they all know how much feed etc costs. Now all of them insist on paying so I charge £1 for 6. I also sell them at the gate, usually about 2 doz a week, and the dustbin man always buys 6!!! I have an old roof slate as a sign and a jam jar for the money and leave them to get on with it. Ive never had a problem. just an hour ago someone knocked on the door and asked if I had any, they are on holiday in a cottage nearby & it is a 10 mile drive into town, so I sold them 6 of mine. When he asked how much and I said a pound he insisted on giving me £2 as he said it had saved him the journey!!!!
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Hi there,
I sell my chicken eggs to colleagues and friends for £1 for 6.
However my daughter sells her quail eggs for £1.50 per dozen, so for the school hols I am selling the chicken eggs at the gate also for £1.50 for 6. It just makes things simple and as demand is good, we are getting more requests than eggs! ! !
Our eggs are mixed colours including blue and dark brown and in Tescos the other week a box of 6 of either was £2 so still cheaper than the shops!
We very rarely eat our own eggs as they get sold too quick. I wanted a couple the other day, went to the fridge and my OH had sold them!!!
Debbie
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I keep my bantam eggs for us, others are for hatching and my neighbour buys most of the excess large fowl and quail eggs. I sell them at 10p per egg, she is a very good neighbour.
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Any ideas to price of ducks eggs per 6!!
Ta
Debbie
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I have a friend who buys my duck eggs and she insists on paying £2 per half dozen - but that is because she says that she saw them in a market for that price and mine are much nicer. I would have been happy with £1.50. :)
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We charge the neighbours £1.25 per half dozen. I worked out this covers the cost of the feed.
Saying that I have just gone to get some eggs for brekky and there's none here! The kids must of sold them yesterday when I was out...bet I don't see that money :lol: :lol:
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Not a help, as we are in Spain! We sell our eggs for 2.20€ a dozen, so about the same as the eggs you are all selling. We are just as bad, we sell the eggs to regular customers and then end up buying from the supermarket for ourselves. We have started now to keep the smaller eggs, and eat them, they are too small to sell anyway. We have 27 hens, of which at least 10 are old girls, so really need culling- one of our customers wants any hens we kill!! Except, we can´t do the deed, I am always pleased that an old girl dies of natural causes :lol:
Once the weather cools down, towards the end of September we will be buying new point of lay hens, so we need to get rid of the old girls.
We give eggs to friends and our neighbour, the rest have to pay! I have seen free-range eggs being sold for 2.50€ a dozen at the bars close by us, but we will stick to 2.20€ unless the feed prices go up again.
Our eggs are cheaper than the supermarket free-range ones
Pamela
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I sell mine for £1 for half dozen to neighbours & to my customers at work. It helps pay for their food etc.
Not looking to make a profit from it & my customers love them.
Most of them get used at home though.
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Can you sell eggs even if there is a cockerel running with the hens? Or are people fussy?
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Can you sell eggs even if there is a cockerel running with the hens? Or are people fussy?
Some people would not like it and vegetarians might avoid fertile eggs.
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How would they know ?
I have a cockerel, I dont know which hen he 'trod'
They all look the same to me
As far as I am concerned, eggs is eggs
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I think I am right in saying when an egg is cracked open you can tell if it has been fertilised. I'm sure someone will be along to agree/disagree & or show/ describe how you can see.
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How would they know ?
I have a cockerel, I dont know which hen he 'trod'
They all look the same to me
As far as I am concerned, eggs is eggs
It is possible for an egg laid 3 weeks after mating to be fertile. If you are selling them and were asked it is best to say there is a chance that they could be fertile.
I think I am right in saying when an egg is cracked open you can tell if it has been fertilised. I'm sure someone will be along to agree/disagree & or show/ describe how you can see.
That is right, I have never tried to identify a fertile egg but it is possible. There is some information with photos HERE (http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2013/01/facts-and-myths-about-fertile-eggs.html) for anyone who might be interested.
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If an egg is fertile upto 3 weeks, how come eggs that are supposed to be 'fresh' on e*** and ferile never hatch out ?
even though the seller insists on 100% fertility
I have never tried to hatch any of my 'fertile eggs even though I have seen the cockerel tred a particlar hen
I suppose at some point I have eaten a fertile egg, but before I got the cockerel the ewggs still tasted the same
Tim (who is a vegetarian) cant taste any difference either (and he gets a dozen every wek from me and he knows I have a cockerel
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Thank you for that link ANHBUC - really interesting. :)
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If an egg is fertile upto 3 weeks, how come eggs that are supposed to be 'fresh' on e*** and ferile never hatch out ?
even though the seller insists on 100% fertility
I have never tried to hatch any of my 'fertile eggs even though I have seen the cockerel tred a particlar hen
I suppose at some point I have eaten a fertile egg, but before I got the cockerel the ewggs still tasted the same
Tim (who is a vegetarian) cant taste any difference either (and he gets a dozen every wek from me and he knows I have a cockerel
I was saying that for up to three weeks after a cockerel has mated with a hen she can still produce a fertile egg from that mating.
Fertile eggs are better being set earlier rather than later but I have had success with older eggs. I think it is a combination of bad fertility, possibly interbreeding and of course the gentle rough handling/temperature changes during delivery that cause problems. People have asked me to post quail eggs and I have to say I don't but if they want to take the risk they are quite welcome. I have not had any takers yet! :lol:
I think it is down to the individual if they want to eat fertile eggs or not, as long as they have a choice then it is up to them. I have never noticed any difference either. :)
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Thank you for that link ANHBUC - really interesting. :)
You are more than welcome Springy. :)
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Can't see any reason for a veggie to object to a fertile egg even if they could tell ! But a Vegan possibly ;)
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Can't see any reason for a veggie to object to a fertile egg even if they could tell ! But a Vegan possibly ;)
You are right there, but I have had a vegetarian ask the question so I think it depends on the individual.
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Thank god for this forum!! One of the lads up on the plot gave me a half dozen eggs last night and warned me that they might be fertile. I hid them at home because I was afraid my daughter might try to use them and find a baby chick inside them. I am afraid I am a city girl and while I had a grandmother who was an avid gardener I have never had any contact with poultry or livestock so I haven't a clue ::) I can stop panicking now and get them out of the back of the press and put them in the egg bowl.
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When my husband was a little boy, his mum cracked an egg open and a dead chick fell out.
Poor lad was never the same after that and he is the most fussy of eaters and can barely look at a supermarket chicken let alone one i've dealt with.
They lived somewhere very rural and got the eggs from a neighbour. Obviously not so fresh after all.