[DavidandCollette]

£1 per half dozen in my village in north lincolnshire, £1.20 at Lincoln Farmers Market

[farmers wife]

SE Wales (not foodie at all) Organic (pasture raised in spring summer) £2 for 6, £3.80 for 12 , £8.50 for a tray.  I have done my sums in depth and costed in replacements, meds, vet visit, boxes, labels, man hours, bedding, food, straw, disinfect, specialist clean etc.  Anyone selling under £1.50 is lucky is break even at £1 thats too cheap.  Good non organic supermarket eggs are selling around £2 so I am surprised people can afford for sell for £1.


I have no problems selling at all I deliver on a Friday morning very local I leave the eggs by the front door. Customers are weekly and are happy with my prices. I could if I tried double my hens but sadly with mysco in flock I am now stuck with my existing flock.

[farmers wife]

£1 per half dozen in my village in north lincolnshire, £1.20 at Lincoln Farmers Market

I cant work out the costings - Doesnt a table at a farmers market cost £20?  so you'd need to sell a 16.5 boxes before you make any money plus a wage to stand at a stall all day (£35)?  I worked it out that selling a low value product doesnt work unless you have huge volumes.  This is why I can deliver locally in 3hrs costing about £5 fuel plus I can do a shop and do errands enroute.


Have you costed this fully and worked out the feed costs per week?  £1 for 6 to me is below production what margins are you working at?

[madchickenlady]

£1.00 per half dozen, I also sell my duck eggs at same price as we get so many per day and only live in a small village. Suffolk

[Backinwellies]

Direct £1.20    but they sell like hot cakes in community shop for £1.55 (shop takes %).  . Duck eggs sell easily at £1.80 a half dozen.      Am in rural Carmarthenshire.    Lots of people sell for £1 round here which is too cheap .

[DavidandCollette]

FW -its a group stall for organic produce. We all sell whatever we have spare and also provide leaflets and info on organic growing

[twizzel]

Anyone selling under £1.50 is lucky is break even at £1 thats too cheap.  Good non organic supermarket eggs are selling around £2 so I am surprised people can afford for sell for £1.

I have my hens because I enjoy keeping them, the eggs help to pay for their feed. At the moment they are going through a bag of layers every 10 days at £7 per bag. That's 18 hens and 3 cockerels- it's mixed with rolled barley which is grown on the farm for the cows. Not everyone has the same costings?

[BrimwoodFarm]

I'm in Essex and charge £1.50 per half dozen, and then £2 for 12 quail eggs. There's a lot of cheapo shops around us (Morrisons/Aldi/Lidl etc) but still get people happy to buy fresh eggs for that price.

[farmers wife]

FW -its a group stall for organic produce. We all sell whatever we have spare and also provide leaflets and info on organic growing

Thats great and thumbs up to organic however that is still hideously too low by organic standards - Riverford £2.40 for 6.  Surely if there is more money to be made then you should I cant understand why smallholders/back yarders think profit is wrong. No one else supplies food to break even and no one goes to work for free.  I cant think of any other hobby or interest where someone sells something to just cover the materials. 


If someone is next to a stall trying to make a living then someone is selling for the love of it - it is unfair and keeping food artificially low is the reason why the public think food is cheap.

[Dans]

I cant think of any other hobby or interest where someone sells something to just cover the materials. 

Some crafters do just that. They enjoy the process of knitting for example. The finished item is a by product and they sell it for enough to cover materials. You'll be hard pressed to find people willing to pay a knitter an hourly wage for a jumper.

Dans

[DavidandCollette]

FW- i dont think that profit is wrong, far from it. However currently they are my markets consequently they are the prices. I certainly could not get more than £1 for 6 where i live. That is the standad price around here

[madchickenlady]

I do think that in a rural area like mine where many people keep hens, there is no point in hiking the prices, people will just go else where and I will be giving eggs away. Much better to get some return than none.

[phewitt1234]

Hello,

How many box's of eggs do people sell each week from free range honest box at the gate?

Thanks

[ellied]

£1.50 for half dozen mixed sizes/colours - Fife.  Local farm sells for £1.20, organic farm shop up the road is over £2 and ordinary shop prices from £1 or less at Aldi/Lidl to £2.20 Co-op.  My customers prefer my eggs to supermarket offerings but most will go elsewhere if I charge more than I do.  Except one customer insists on leaving £2, I don't argue..

[DavidandCollette]

Ellied. I have a customer like that@