Selling free range eggs? How much do you charge?

libra10

moanymoany wrote: »

I was doing a little search for hen houses and found this site. They are the cheapest I've seen and look okay. I was searching how to build one on Wikihow!

http://www.henhouseworld.co.uk/ch101n.htm

My OH is keen on starting keeping hens and has looked at chicken coops at henhouseworld. They are in Chorley, quite near to us.

Does anyone know whether their hen coops are of reasonable quality?

I have a very good friend who has been giving me 6/8 free range eggs every week, and I realise how lucky we are. They taste really delicious.

Confuzzled

GraciesGran wrote: »

I pay £1.00 for half a dozen - worth every penny.

free range eggs are 99p for half dozen at lidl if that gives you any help, if people are happy to pay that at a place where they expect things to be cheaper than i can't imagine them refusing to pay use 1.80 for twice as many eggs especially when they are so fresh!

btw i too would happily pay that price if i could find someone close enough for me to walk to or get the bus too that sold eggs that way. when i lived on skye our neighbour sold eggs from ducks and rare breed hens with the good old honesty payment box and everything and those were the best eggs i'd ever had

Confuzzled

moo2moo wrote: »

I ask for donations towards the cost of chicken feed and the empty boxes returning. People are generally happier with this than a set charge especially as the eggs vary in size from bantams to double yolkers.

I generally get £1 per 1/2 dozen, the occasional jar of home made jam or marmalade and I swap for fresh veg with a lady with a very productive garden.

i love the sound of that sort of trading, what a wonderful thing to barter so readily. so many people are afraid to ask to do things like that but as you've demonstrated it can be very beneficial to all parties involved, good on you! :T

hornetgirl

I pay my friend £1 for 6, which I think is extremely reasonable. They used to be 75p but went up due to the price of their feed. No-one minded the increase - they're so much fresher and tastier than supermarket eggs.

Sunny_Donny

I pay 60p per half dozen.
The lady who sells them doesn't want any more than that.
Happy to buy them, but dependant upon weather as to how many they lay!!

soba

declutterqueen wrote: »

Whats the going rate these days??
I have 14 chickens at the moment get 5 a day sometimes more,
How many hens have you got and how many eggs??

We've got 4 chickens and we're averaging 3 eggs a day. We sell them to friends for £1 for half a doz which goes towards their feed but we do swap eggs for other stuff or favours. Hoping to get enough in the summer to swap for veg down at the local allotments. Yum!

camelot1001

I ask for £1 for half a dozen to go towards the feed. People at work are happy to pay this, the eggs are large and fresh and they usually save the egg boxes for me!!

cooking-mama

I think £1 for 6 free range eggs is very cheap(no pun intended),my vege' delivery man sells 6 organic freerange eggs for £1.50.
I bought 18 large free range eggs from costco for £2.79

Lotus-eater

Confuzzled wrote: »

free range eggs are 99p for half dozen at lidl

Yeah but..... there's free range and there's free range. Free range from a large supermarket, from a large producer, is completely different from free range from a small backyard producer.
The backyard producers chicken should have a much more varied diet, with more grass in it. The eggs should be much better.
Worth more, I'd say.

JETTYBLAKE

I sell mine for £1 per half dozen. People go mad for them at that price!!! Our hens have the run of our 2-acre garden (and even wander into the house if we are not looking!!!). The yolks are dark orange and taste delicious!!! I cannot recommend enough to people the joys of having your own hens. We have 60 free ranging now and they are a delight to have around. I am about to put 20 eggs into the incubator. It is magical to see them hatch then grow up. Our children love it!!! I am thinking of hatching leghorn chickens which lay white eggs but someone told me not to because even though their eggs are huge (almost as big as duck eggs!!!) people don't like white eggs. I would welcome any feedback on that from people on here. Obviously the nutritional value of white eggs is as good as brown but do people really not like white eggs for some reason?!!! Very Best Wishes Juliette