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Etymon
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United States
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 Posted - 14 March 2009 : 20:06:08
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Doing some market research here ...
Our hens give us 10-15 eggs a day. We have about 24 hens that lay brown eggs. One other hen lays a white egg. We feed our chickens corn chops (also called cracked corn), oats, table scraps, and whatever insects and bugs they can find. We do not feed our hens soy since it is an allergen for our family. For those who don't know, soy is commonly used because it has a high protein count which helps to increase egg production.
The store sells eggs for $3.19/dozen (Brand: "Clearly Organic"; Type: Grade A Extra Large Brown Organic Eggs; Slogan: "Fed From Nature"; Description: "Eggs are laid by free-range hens that have access to the outdoors"). We are selling ours for $2.00/dozen. For our neighbors we deliver free. The size of our eggs vary. A few are small while a few are larger than our normal large. Once in a while, the white egg is a double yoker.
What do you think is a fair price for our eggs? Here is picture of them with a size comparison in the image at the bottom: eggs (Note: our large egg (on the left) in the image is what we call our large egg. We should probably do some comparisons between some more vendors sometime.)
Thanks for the help everyone. 
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Edited by - Etymon on 14 March 2009 20:11:43 |
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HuwR
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 15 March 2009 : 02:39:58
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abviously a lot cheaper for you than they are here
free range organic from local farmshops are about £4.00 a dozen
at the supermarkets, they are slightly cheaper maybe about £3.50/dozen.
prices in GBP, but they vary greatly
personally I prefer smaller eggs as you tend to get a higher yolk to white ratio than with larger eggs |
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Etymon
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United States
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Posted - 15 March 2009 : 05:03:47
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Thanks Huw for the input!
I think the prices where I live are a little low because this is farming community. Our town is lucky to have three stop lights. The town nearest me has one stop light. We're very rural. Folks here have a lot of beef cattle, but there are a lot of small animal farmers as well. I guess prices in the city would be more, but I don't know for sure. That's why I was asking. Our eggs vary in size too.
I was asking my wife if we should separate the small from the large and charge a different price. That's what kind of started my question to you all. She figures if the price is low enough that we should not have to bother with sorting sizes since they average out to be larger than store-bought eggs anyway. |
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Classicmotorcycling
Development Team Leader
Australia
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Posted - 15 March 2009 : 05:36:03
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I have a co-worker who sells free range eggs to the staff. She only charges us $AUD3.50 per dozen and that is a fair price here, so I would go the $USD2.00 with out the need to sort the sizes out and concider this to be a very low price.
HuwR, £4.00 a dozen, wow.. That is about 2.5 times what I pay. They know how to sting you in the UK.  |
Cheers,
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Etymon
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United States
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Posted - 15 March 2009 : 06:00:56
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OK. So what we have here is:
$2.00 (USD-USD)
$2.30 (AUD to USD)
$5.58 (GBD to USD)
Do the prices of eggs go down in the spring and summer when there are more eggs available?
Am I not charging enough?
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HuwR
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 15 March 2009 : 09:04:21
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| the UK is just expensive, ok, I live in a city, but oxfordshire is fairly rural, I drive past 3 farm shops on my way home from work which is why I know how much the eggs are, I see the chickens that lay the eggs I buy every day, so know they have a good life. |
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