Selling chicken eggs

[Leghornmomma]

Curious to see what everyone is charging for their eggs?? I have 4 leg horns and 6 sapphire gem chickens .. I recently started selling my eggs for $2.50 a dozen and they are going like hot cakes! I'm certainly not complaining about that! Lol our store is selling them for $4.95 a dozen... and I think that is expensive! .. what are you charging if you sell them ??

 

[Debbie292d]

It all depends upon the market for them at the particular location, but I certainly would raise that to $3 or $3.50. You can always go back down later when egg prices drop, but don't know when that'll happen as bird flu is rampant.

Besides, homegrown eggs taste so much better than store bought!

 

[Leghornmomma]

It all depends upon the market for them at the particular location, but I certainly would raise that to $3 or $3.50. You can always go back down later when egg prices drop, but don't know when that'll happen as bird flu is rampant.

Besides, homegrown eggs taste so much better than store bought!

Thanks for the reply! I was thinking about at least going up to $3.00. And you are absolutely right! Fresh eggs are definitely better

 

[nuthatched]

What do people charge around you? You should be charging more, you're not a big corporation with feed subsidies and your eggs are better.

 

[WingItRanch]

I agree with @nuthatched. If you can get a dozen at the store near you for $4.95, you should be charging at least $5. Fresh eggs from healthy chickens should sell fine at that price. I sell mine for $5 and no one has batted an eye. It probably helps that I'm the only farm girl with a bunch of city folk. Plus I've got a variety of egg colors.

Might be hard to jump your prices that much in one go, though. Your customers may be disappointed if you've been selling them for so much cheaper and they got used to the lower price.

 

[tlcmurphy]

I agree with @nuthatched. If you can get a dozen at the store near you for $4.95, you should be charging at least $5. Fresh eggs from healthy chickens should sell fine at that price. I sell mine for $5 and no one has batted an eye. It probably helps that I'm the only farm girl with a bunch of city folk. Plus I've got a variety of egg colors.

Might be hard to jump your prices that much in one go, though. Your customers may be disappointed if you've been selling them for so much cheaper and they got used to the lower price.

I agree.
I suspect your clients know you are selling your eggs too cheaply, they sell eggs for $5-6/dozen here.
I’d start raising your price by $1 per dozen until you eventually get to $5.