[GrannieAnnie]

lol Rachel, Pennydog loves eggs too, but she would never just take them!  Just sits there when I collect them with that pleading look in her eyes!

We've brought our sign in now as we too have specific customers.  One family have 4-6 dozen a week, their parents have 2 dozen and now her neighbour after tasting our eggs New Year's morning, threw their shop eggs away and said they tasted horrible, and are now going to have at least a dozen a week.  Then I have 3 or 4 people who have half a dozen occasionally.

So I don't need the sign at the moment! lol

[CluckyChicken]

As you are in Essex, I would say charge at least £2 a dozen.  You can get the egg boxes from Ebay, or Ascott's sell them at not a bad price.  Sellng at your house or garden is fine, but you are not supposed to use old egg boxes, unless the buyer brings her own egg box to put the eggs in.

If no one is selling them, they should go very well Clucky!!!

Thanks Grannie, I don't think I've ever seen eggs for sale outside peoples houses... My aunt gave me egg boxes for Christmas, and I think they are from Ascotts, so I'm ready!  We get through about 6 eggs a week, and at the moment have 36 in old egg boxes, and we dont want them to go bad!  I'm going to have a big cake-making day today   Can I advertise my eggs as Free-range?  Or just 'eggs from the garden'?

Thanks

[joyfull]

how big is their run area or your garden and is it still mainly covered in vegetation?

[GrannieAnnie]

Joy's right Clucky!  My eggs technically aren't free range as the hens are in runs, with no vegetation left.  Mud doesn't count!  So really they shouldn't be fenced in at all, and the majority of the ground has to have green stuff growing on it.

My sign just says 'Fresh Eggs from our own hens'

[CluckyChicken]

They have the garden when we are home so after school- but in the winter obviously not so much.  Out every night in summer, but are on bark where they are in their coop.  But 'eggs from the garden' sounds good to me! 

[rhysdad]

We're in Kent and POL's down here cost in the region of £12/14 or so. Expensive but i think you'd soon be paid back in eggs. We take the view that producing your own food doesn't always have lowest cost as the main priority. I'd rather have more expensive but much better quality food i'd produced myself....

BTW we use these:

Non GM and Hexane free to boot!!

http://www.animalfeedstore.com/Small-Holder-Range/Natural-Free-Range-Layers-Pellets.aspx

Around £8 or so.....

[Knight Family]

Thats cheap our local place has put small holders pellets up to £10.30!! I'll be driving to get Garvo again I think....

[Craig69]

I paid £8 for each bird (Lohamm Browns) last year & i get their food from MVF at under £8 a 20kg sack

[Aidy]

I have just checked Sarah's site, looks like she has put her prices up, the blackrocks are now £12 pol.
I agree Joy, they are a cracking bird, super hardy and look superb in the sun, really tame and easy going.