the price of eggs and where to sell

COOLTRIKERCHICK

lostinrates wrote: »

IIRC selling eggs anywhere other than as gate sales requires other things. e.g. I think salmonella vaccs become requisite (not sure on that though) and you need to get a producer number (free, but essential). Eggs need to be given a best before date, and you cannot sell to caterers/food producers. You need to sell them in new boxes too, not reused ones.

I thought the producers no etc was if you were selling them on to a shop to retail?

bertiebots

jollymummy wrote: »

oooo I'm jealous Whereabouts are you? I'd pop a sign at the end of the drive. When I can get to our local farmers market there is a couple of old boys theat sell free range eggs for around £1.60 per dozen, they are lovely (the eggs and the old boys I'd much rather buy from individuals than supermarkets. Good luck.

Be aware that some "lovely old boys" sell caged eggs as free range (with the production code washed off ) Yes it is illegal ,but it happens a lot. All eggs produced on farms have to be graded and stamped with a code (a laser printer marks each egg as it is graded). Each producer has there own unique product number and this must be displayed on all eggs sold .If you are buying eggs at a market and they have no code they could be from anywhere...even imports which dont have the same strict salmonela testing etc, not to mention bird welfare.

So it is better to buy at source and you are far more likely to get genuine free range eggs from a farm gate seller!;)Who btw dont need to adhere to the law regarding codes.
Working on a poultry farm for 4 years made me a bit of an egg geek ...sorry!:o:rotfl:

Edit: of course I am not saying that the people you buy your eggs from are dishonest, btw.

lostinrates

bertiebots wrote: »

So it is better to buy at source and you are far more likely to get genuine free range eggs from a farm gate seller!;)Who btw dont need to adhere to the law regarding codes.
Working on a poultry farm for 4 years made me a bit of an egg geek ...sorry!:o:rotfl:

Thanks for that. I know for farm gate sales we need to nothing else. I think the problem is some of us don't get enough trade as gate sales....and need to step up a gear

bertiebots

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I thought the producers no etc was if you were selling them on to a shop to retail?

Sorry its me again:o All eggs sold away from where they are produced need to be traceable. Thats what the product number is for. So anyone selling eggs (away from the "gate") has to have one by law. Info is in the link I posted;)

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Hi,

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

at the moment i am wasting soooooooooo many eggs its a sin.

don't be a sinner. , you must have neighbours or friends who would take them for nothing, rather than you wasting them.

jollymummy

bertibots I bow to your egg geek knowledge still nice old fellas though.

ScratchandSniff-->[X]

I go with 60p for half dozen to friends and neighbours, £1 to anyone else.

Another option if they are breeds rather than hybrids and have a cockerel mounting them is to sell them as hatching eggs. You can do this at the poultry section of an agricultural auction, at some poultry shows, or by mail order (you'll need the proper polystyrene mailing boxes for the latter).

BTW, if folk are looking for egg and other info on the DEFRA site, it might have moved recently.

To be honest, there's not much money to be made in selling eggs. You're better waiting for chickens to feature on gardening programs and then selling the hens as the price goes through the roof.

No point in wasting eggs though. There are ways of freezing them, or you can pickle them, or bake with the older ones.

TravellingAbuela

We have a caravan in North Yorkshire and always buy our eggs from a farm near the site. The chickens have the run of three fields (with a public footpath running through) so we "meet" the chucks personally! The cost is £1.80 a dozen and I consider that cheap-at-half-the-price for genuine free range eggs. And they really are the best eggs we have ever tasted!

Jack's_mummy

A mum at my son's school does a great trade in eggs from their hens. She charges £1 for 6. And we return the egg boxes to her for the next lot.

ginvzt

We have half a dozen (6) eggs delivered every Tuesday (chicken) and we pay £1.50. They are large eggs.

But this morning they look like shop eggs (I know as I have bought the same box before!!!)