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.
Etymon