Selling extra eggs

[winstonwobble]

1.50 a dozen mainly to friends so dont need to make a profit just a way of getting rid

[squibbs]

I sell mine for £1 at work and at the gate, I offered 10p back per box returned but they say they can't be bothered with that. Mine are a mix of blue cream legbar, brown and spotty welsumer and some other hybrid light brown layers. Looking in the supermarket the cheapest for free range eggs was about £1.60, and for the blue eggs in sainsbury's over £2 per half dozen.

My neighbour does get them for free - but she offers a chicken sitting service, bakes lovely cakes and has to listen to our cockerel occasionally.

You are supposed to put a use by date (we bend the rules a little and have a 'laid on' date and 'use within 28 days') and you shouldn't sell eggs within a week of the use by date.

[jessmorris]

I sell my teeny banty eggs at work for 50p/half dozen and I'm happy with that! A colleague sells her massive ex batts eggs for £1/half dozen so can't really ask any more. It easily covers their feed in the summer, til they go broody;-)
JM

[francesbean]

Any extras I have (only 3 hens so not too many spare) left out in a bowl and sold to neighbours for £1/ for 6 - they always go within an hour or two. It just about covers cost of pellets - but not treats. Since I've had my girls 2 more neighbours (out of 22) have started keeping hens and had another one round yesterday to look at my girls as they are getting some in a week or two - its definately catching - once they've tasted 'fresh' they never want to go back to shop bought.

francesbean

[Feather]

I would sell them at least the price of your local shop eggs, ie £1.50 or £1.75. You're doing people a favour by offering lovely fresh garden eggs, and I don't see why you should feel the need to undercut the shop. You casn always cut hte price in the very unlikely event that they don't go fast. My neighbour sells soem of his surplus eggs and people are always hanging around in their fron gardens, waiting for him to put them out, as demand greatly outweighs supply! He charges £1.50 for 6 also.

[petal]

Question, does selling eggs at your gate constitute running a business?