I am from Indiana and have chickens and they are startining to lay rather well now. So I was wondering how much fresh country brown eggs sell for now. Thank You.

-- Denise Priest (Okie_Doky@hotmail.com), February 04, 2001

Answers

Hi Denise, we get a dollar a dozen around here.

-- Cindy (SE In) (atilrthehony_1@yahoo.com), February 04, 2001.

Ditto $1.00 .Have Hubby ask at work ,post a sign or 2 or put a sign in front of your house .

-- Patty {NY State} (fodfarms@slic.com), February 04, 2001.

Denise, when I lived in Florida, I got 1.25 a dozen, now in Arizona, I get 2.25 a dozen!! amazing ! Sissy

-- sissy sylvester-barth (jerreleene@hotmail.com), February 04, 2001.

Hi Denise, here in NY state (far from NY City) I get them from a fella who works with my sister, he charges a dollar a dozen. If I have to buy them at work (healthfood store) we charge $2.99 a dozen, certified organic, and $2.39 for not certified. Can't wait to have my own hens!

-- Cathy in NY (hrnofplnty@yahoo.com), February 04, 2001.

a buck a doz, and now youir friends/family have a place to get rid of egg cartons

-- Stan (sopal@net-port.com), February 04, 2001.

Seasonally, selling to a farm store with a yuppie clientele, we get $1.50 per dozen, packed in recycled cartons from the recycling center (free). They sell them for @ 2.25. I mark the cartons with a little note that says "Free Range Fertile Eggs from the Happy Hens of Cackleberry Farm". To the neighbors - a buck. GL!

-- Brad (homefixer@SacoRiver.net), February 04, 2001.

Oooo...I'm doing real good. I get $2 a dozen and they return the egg cartons.

-- Dee (gdgtur@goes.com), February 04, 2001.

Hi Denise I am with Dee, I get $2 a dz. Hee Hee. Karole

-- Karole (Biz3boymom@aol.com), February 04, 2001.

While I'm able to keep up with my few hens, there's a man that has a sign down at the co-op that he's selling his eggs for $0.75 a dozen here in Roane County, TN. Other folks tell me $1 / dozen is about right.

-- Eric in TN (eric_m_stone@yahoo.com), February 04, 2001.

I am in southern Indiana and I get $1.00 a doz. Your name sounds familar. Did you know a drummer from the band Loco-motion? (I was the sound man)

-- grant (organicgrange@yahoo.com), February 04, 2001.

One dollar and an empty egg carton. Fertile eggs not washed and put in fridge are one dollar and fifty cents and an egg carton. (I have to tip them back and forth each day to keep the yolks from sticking inside the shell, and 7 days old is tops for incubator eggs)

-- Cindy in Ky (solidrockranch@hotmail.com), February 05, 2001.

2.00 dz. For my neighbors, 1.00 dz.

-- Wendy@GraceAcres (wjl7@hotmail.com), February 05, 2001.

$1.00 a dozen, although I think if I asked it some would pay more. Seems strange to be selling my eggs for twice as much as I used to and paying less for my feed. I am not complaining mind you, it just is one of those rare events that I appreciate.!!!

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), February 05, 2001.

We've been getting $1.00 a dozen, but have decided to increase our price to $1.50 when our new hens start laying large eggs again. I'll probably keep the small eggs at $1.00 a dozen. We raise and sell them as organic, not "certified" and my customers bring their own egg cartons. I know we're selling them pretty cheap for around here (cent. wisc.), but it gets people coming to the house and then they usually buy some other produce when we have it available.

-- Rose Marie Wild (wintersongfarm@yahoo.com), February 05, 2001.

A buck-fifty here, and I could probably get $2 without complaint. I sell to my co-workers here at work and give a .10 discount for a return carton. I sometimes have people on my waiting list for 3 weeks! They're hooked! I don't claim 'organic' because they get commercial feed, but they also get produce tossed from the grocery store and leftovers, and all the bugs they can catch. dh in nm

-- debra in nm (dhaden@nmtr.unm.edu), February 05, 2001.

Good question. My little flock hasn't even started to lay eggs yet, but from a strictly financial perspective I figure I'd like to get $2.25-2.50/dozen. So, when people come to buy honey, firewood, etc and ask about eggs, that is the price I am telling them. No one has balked yet, especially when they see how my chickens are being raised. Most of them seem to be convinced that the eggs will be worth it, and since I only have a few hens and there won't be a huge surplus of eggs to sell, I already have a waiting list. At $2.50/doz they will still be cheaper than the health food store, and nobody seems to find that the eggs are not strictly organic. Time will tell of course, but I am optimistic.

-- Elizabeth (ekfla@aol.com), February 05, 2001.

I live in rural Oregon and many people around here have their own hens yet we still get 1.50 adoz. when we sell to the feed store and 1.00 to friends. I have 30 some buff orpingtons they lay large brown eggs and we have had enough extra to sell even in winter. They're a really good layer and broody too.

-- Pamela Scott (cavemtdexters@cavenet.comYour email address), February 08, 2001.

Years ago I was visiting an aunt and uncle with a summer cottage in Dorr County, WI. Plumbing water came straight out of Lake Michigan, so they drove to a natural spring coming out of a pipe a bit away (down hill from a cemetery, which I found a bit amusing). On the way back Aunt T. stopped at a house, went up to a refrigerator at the porch and came back with two cartons of eggs. Sellers worked on the honor system. Leave money in a box inside the frig. and put old egg cartons on top.

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), February 09, 2001.

Hi we sell our eggs for $2,00 a dozen. There Organic and Fertile Eggs.There free when we deliver them to our Food Pantry at our church. Our main income is from our chickens and ducks. Were in Upstate NY.

-- PRISCILLA (GP83196@aol.com), February 11, 2001.