[joyfull]

Annies price is per dozen 

[timtheenchanteruk]

Does anyone else in your area sell eggs privately like yourself ... check your competitors £1.50 per half dozen isn,t bad but its a big jump from your usual price .. like the earlier comments I,d raise the price to £1.20/£1.30 to keep your cutomers on side and still ,make a little for yourself towards feed costs , I,m in the North near Leeds and layers pellets here are £6.75 for a 20kg bag... how much are they in Oxfordshire??

Id go for the 1.20 for a couple of months, then add a bit more if needed.

andy and deb, I'm on the outskirts of leeds, near the airport where do you get your pellets, the cheapest I have found is 8.95, Ill travel a couple of miles for £2...

morrisons near sell "freerange" at 1.20 1/2doz Ive already got interest for my eggs, and they only started laying this week!!

[Fisherman]

I  can't see the point in selling them at a loss unless you are just looking to subsidise a hobby. Checked costs out at the local supermarket yesterday (as you do) and costs ranged from£1.40 - £2.00 per half dozen. From what I see on the news corn / feed is just going to increase dramatically over the next few moths. £1.50 per dozen may be cheap! Perhaps a little note explaining would help! I would gladly pay up to £2.00 for true free range eggs.

[jobson336]

hi,
i only sell mine for £1.50 a dozen, which i know is really cheap. i get about 2 1/2 dozen eggs a day or 17 dozen a week. i sell them all easily and would rather this than have mountains of eggs sitting around waiting to be sold. What i make on the eggs covers my food costs over the week so thats fine with me.
if the price of food keeps going up which im sure it will i will put the price upto £1.80 a dozen which im sure people will understand.

why dont you put a note out explaining that prices may have to go up and if you were to raise the price would people still pay?
 

[andy and deb]

Hi timtheenchanteruk I get the feed from selby , there is a store in the livestock auctioneers near selby carpets , they do layers pellets , mash and a corn and grit mix and they are all priced at 6.75 for a 20kg sack...bargain http://www.selbymart.co.uk/

[Newbiechicken keeper]

Im in Oxford and I get all my Chicken needs catered for at Acorn Nurseries in Stadhampton,  a 20KG bag of layers pellets is £7, and they sell huge bags of bedding also for the same price.  Its a small family run poultry farm and nursery and they are so friendly.

[Alison_T]

Gosh, I'm really selling myself short - I sell half a dozen for 75p...no wonder they go like hot cakes!

[VickyW]

I buy my eggs from a farm a couple of miles from me and happily will pay £1.25 for 6, I take empty boxes back too, though now I' stocking up for my own eggs. I think £2 is a bit much but maybe I'm tight 

[GrannieAnnie]

Annies price is per dozen 

OOOPS! Sorry missed that bit out!    £1.80 per Dozen!  

[Raven81]

I just went to the shop and was absolutely shocked to find 6 eggs for £1.77!!!!  Before getting my hens I just got them with my shopping and didn't pay a lot of attention to the price!!! I wonder how much I pay for other things!

[VickyW]

I worked out today that my ladies won't be at POL till Oct, so I'll be buying till then 

[Indiana]

I have been selling mine for £1 and most of my customers seem to think they are too cheap!

And I'm not sure about what some supermarkets call 'free range' I would like to see how their hens are kept. There must be thousands of them to make it viable to sell free range in a supermarket for £1.
Also where are they coming from? and who has inspected them?

[Dominic]

And I'm not sure about what some supermarkets call 'free range' I would like to see how their hens are kept. There must be thousands of them to make it viable to sell free range in a supermarket for £1.
Also where are they coming from? and who has inspected them?

Free Range is free range.
Also, I've never seen free range for £1 for 6.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businessclub/8200758/Glenrath-Farms-puts-all-its-1.4m-eggs-into-two-baskets.html#

Interesting piece on a Free Range farm.

[whiskywill]

[Free Range is free range.

Not entirely true.

My hens have access to the whole world as the garden gate is always open and they often take  a walk down the lane. Free range rules only require that they have access to the outside and permit up to 12 hens per square metre. Hardly free range.

[joyfull]

the ruling is at least one acre of field for every 400 hens:-

http://www.theranger.co.uk/ranging.asp