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How much do you sell eggs for?

26 replies

redwino · 10/04/2008 19:39

Have a glut of eggs at the moment so thought I might sell some but don't know how much to charge. They are part-time free range hens and Black Rocks so the eggs are quite large. How much do others charge?

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Roskva · 10/04/2008 22:00

I pay £1.10 for half a dozen large free range eggs from a local farmer, or £1.20 for extra large

ChasingSquirrels · 10/04/2008 22:01

I pay £1.40 for a dozen, probably medium.

FuriousGeorge · 10/04/2008 22:03

Round our way they are 1.40 for a dozen free range-as opposed to over £2.00 in the supermarket.

TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 10/04/2008 22:10

I occasionally sell mine for £1.00 per half-dozen. They're medium sized, organic and technically free-range (very large pen) but it's not as FR as I'd like.

Much cheaper than Waitrose.

scottishmummy · 10/04/2008 22:14

i am fortunate enough to have a colleague who gives us all frebies i give egg boxes = good deal

Callisto · 11/04/2008 08:50

Just bear in mind that you can only sell eggs if they have a lion stamp - available through DEFRA I assume - which afaik you can only get if you salmonella test your eggs. So don't put signs out advertising that you're selling them as you could be fined.

MehgaLegs · 11/04/2008 08:52

Really Callisto? There are loads around here.

Bum, better come up with another way of getting rid of my glut.

TrinityTheProgressingRhino · 11/04/2008 08:54

you can still sell them juust do it through word of mouth

I dont think anyone does what callisto is saying when they have chickens in the garden
people love fr home grown eggs and will buy them

MehgaLegs · 11/04/2008 08:59

Am just reading an article about farm gate sales. Will link in a minute.

MehgaLegs · 11/04/2008 09:07

farm gate sales

I think the jist is; don't wash them, don't grade them but give a best before date.

As long as you are selling directly to the end consumer and not marketing your eggs you can sell any surplus from your "farm" gate.

Have I understood that correctly?

Callisto · 11/04/2008 12:17

That would make sense.

sitdownpleasegeorge · 11/04/2008 12:37

Oh and beware of getting caught by the tax man for "undeclared taxable income".

Kathyis6incheshigh · 11/04/2008 12:45

Can I butt in and ask - as a non-chicken keeper - if I were to buy eggs from someone selling their surplus eggs as you are planning to do, how fresh would they be likely to be? Would this be a way to get eggs that are much fresher than those in supermarket/corner shop?

bumbley · 11/04/2008 13:11

I can never keep up with the amount of eggs we get. I often make a batch of meringues which will keep for a special occasion. I also give our surplus eggs to friends and neighbours etc. always good if you ever need a favour from somebody especially those that might look after the chickens if we are away for a weekend! They are always much fresher than supermarket eggs even if they are part of a 'glut'.

TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 11/04/2008 18:43

kathy - I rarely sell/give away eggs that are over a week old. A farm shop with it's own hens will be selling eggs as fresh as same day and probably not more than a week (unless business is slow).

This afternoon a visiting friend has taken 6 eggs home that her DS collected from the nest - so that would be very fresh indeed!

And when I say 'sell', mine get sold at school or pre-school by request!

aefondkiss · 11/04/2008 20:31

just asked dh you def don't need a lion stamp, it is a quality assurance scheme, and if you are selling direct to customer it is not needed.

we put the date on our eggs with pencil, just today's date not the month, so today we had 4 eggs with 11 written on, really helps to know which eggs are oldest.

we don't sell eggs because we are happy to give them away, but we only get 28 eggs a week.

Kathyis6incheshigh · 11/04/2008 21:14

It does sound like a Good Plan to try to get them locally then.
Thank you

We have people across the road from us who keep chickens.... they don't have a sign up but maybe I should chat to them over the fence one day and ask if they ever have any spare to sell!

Loshad · 11/04/2008 21:27

We don't sell ours, though I do give plenty away, but other good things for a glut of eggs are - freeze them, 2 in a yoghurt pot, just gently whisked - fine for cakes and yorkshire puddings in the depths of winter when they are barely laying, homemade pasta, DH makes ours and uses a dozen eggs with a kilo of flour (so very nutritious for the dss' as well) and homemade icecream - yummy.

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redwino · 12/04/2008 16:00

Homemade pasta is a good idea. Hadn't thought of that one. Hope to make some icecream too in the summer when I have lots of strawberries from the garden. Also just seen a great recipe for a tortilla that needs 6 eggs.
Won't be selling any this week as managed to give away a dozen today.

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ska · 14/04/2008 15:29

spag carbonara is our standby and also quiche. we freeze egg whites too. hiomemade pasta uses 1 egg per 10g flour so thats 5 for one meal (we are a family of 5 greedy people). i kind of sell by request to neighbours when we have lots but generally give them away and then ask them to look after the hens when we go away!

GentleOtter · 14/04/2008 20:15

Here are Tesco (spit) prices from yesterday.
Organic 6 large : £1.98
6 v large.£2.28
12 small £3.69 (gasp)
Non organic 6 £1.88
" " 12 £2.45 (free range)
and 6 small from battery chickens -88p....

GentleOtter · 14/04/2008 20:17

I might add that I got followed by a store detective after doing that.

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redwino · 14/04/2008 20:44

Is it a crime to write down prices now Otter?

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GentleOtter · 15/04/2008 10:45

I think they were suspicious as I never bought anything but only went in to see how much their eggs were. Plus, I was a bit scruffy ergo obviously planning shoving a frozen chicken down my trousers in their eyes.

Kathyis6incheshigh · 15/04/2008 10:51

at the Tesco prices.
No wonder they followed you - if I was charging that much I wouldn't want anyone to know about it, either.