How much do you sell your eggs for?

[chris]

£1/6 eggs £1.50/12 here

Dunno why, just do - think someone offered us £1 for 6 so it just stuck


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[greenishfing]

I must be so lucky. A guy on my allotments sells me them for £1-20 per dozen (all sizes) and so fresh with sticky uppy yolks. Can't abide flat yolks.

[Snadger]

£1/6 eggs £1.50/12 here

Dunno why, just do - think someone offered us £1 for 6 so it just stuck


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Same here...........

[Glutton4...]

I still sell mine at £1 for 6. It is too cheap, but it pays for their food. My 'customers' return the boxes, and any new ones, so I get a wide variety of boxes, which helps me determine my customer type. The boxes range from the bright yellow 'Happy' ones, to Waitr0se or M&S, through to the cheaper supermarkets, and right down to the cheapest that come in the nasty clear plastic cartons.

From this, I have deduced that about a third of them go to people who buy on quality/taste/freshness, a third on the fact that they're cheaper than the shops, and the remainder because they happen to be passing.

[Greenleaves]

I don't have any hens but pay £1.60 for six from a lady two plots up....happy to do so as I know they have good lives and she has overheads to meet.

For me is it is all about the welfare as much as the taste plus its an outlet for my slugs!

[kathyd]

I think it depends on your market really - I live near to a big chicken farm where people buy trays of eggs for next to nothing, so I'd never get away with charging a lot for mine. Plus if I have too many eggs, I'd rather give them away than waste them! So I give them to friends, and a couple of people have now 'insisted' on paying me so they feel they can ask for more - I charge a massive 1 euro a dozen! But it means no wasted eggs, and I have an excuse for keeping more chooks than I really need . But if you're doing it 'commercially', go for whatever your local market will take! If people thought they were over-priced they wouldn't buy them, so if they're selling it's a fair price .

[Scarlet]

I freeze most of my surplus eggs for winter use or take them to friends as gifts etc although I do have a few friends that like to have my eggs on a regular basis. These, as Kathy has said prefer to pay for them so that they can have them weekly. Going rate here is £1.20 per half dozen. My old neighbour who insists on paying likes his eggs very fresh, he pays 20p per egg and buys two at a time just before his lunch!

[The Nichols']

£1 for six here whenever we have spares. We have a few regular customers and it pays for their food effectively giving us free eggs.

[Ja9]

Scarlet how do you freeze your eggs and are they only used for baking afterwards? I found it really annoying and odd when even my hybrids stopped laying in the depths of winter and I had to buy eggs! Hadn't for 3 years.bless they are fine now and I would be interested in having some in reserve this year.

[Scarlet]

I only use them for baking although I froze so many last year I gave the frozen ones away just before spring when trying to spring clean my freezer and a good friend used them for scrambled eggs and omelettes ...she thought they were fine!
I beat them up and add a pinch of salt or sugar (label up salt and sugar) store in small freezer bags in 2, 4 or 6 to a bag. I use for all Cakes brownies, christmas cakes and puddings, yorkshires etc. The eggs themselves seem a bit thicker/ not so wet but the end product doesn't seem to suffer.

[Ja9]

Thank you scarlet, I shall try that