The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: lokismum on March 17, 2013, 12:00:43 pm
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hi all
dose any of you sell your goose and duck eggs to eat
if so do you sell at the gate
and how much do you charge
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Hi - we sell duck and chicken eggs at the gate for the same price. 1.5 € a half dozen.
Free range chicken eggs sold in a supermarket go for 1.5 - 2.0 € a half dozen.
We also sell 11 different designs of our egg holders at the road side ( also available to everyone on here - see TAS market place forum).
(http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XgSzwH_pGUk/UUNl_GDzZkI/AAAAAAAADSo/IXYcDpmP0zs/s140-p-o-k/5.JPG)
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brill do you need a licence to sell from road side or stamps
i know you don't from the gate
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Not here we don't ( Limousin, France).
You do not see too much over the gate sales in these parts as the locals all keep their own poultry and rabbits and have very large veg patches. All our sales are to townies who visit neighbours ( home helps, postman, doctor and the odd walker).
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No you dont as long as you dont grade the eggs
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sell at work - £1.50 a half doz chicken eggs, £1 an egg goose eggs
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The lad who brews beer near us tells me that his daughter lives in London and if ( and it is rare) she see goose eggs she pays £2 each. She can not sell enough of them in her cafe. Maybe an outlet on Borough market may want to buy Goose Eggs OR what about forming a TAS co-op :excited:
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We sell duck eggs at the end of the road at £1.80 per 1/2 doz and sometimes hens too at £1.75
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think i better put my prices up,, i charge £1half doz :huff:
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taz, I charge £1 for half dozen chickens eggs also
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Do you monitor your costs? I think £1 sounds low - it's a lot less than the supermarkets charge, especially for similar quality eggs and I imagine they cost you more than that....having said that, I'd have to charge a huge amount to cover my costs so far but they're getting better with every egg laid!
H
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When ours lay we charge £2.50 a dozen but they are on strike at the moment ! we buy duck eggs at £1.50 a half dozen localy
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We sell our chicken and duck eggs at our dog agility club - chicken eggs £1 per 1/2 dozen and duck eggs (very large) 50p each.
I checked out the price of eggs in Sainsburys last week - 95p for 6 'value' eggs so I figure the price we are charging is very good, especially considering how tasty they are.
Donna
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thankyou for the info
how many do you sell per week 1/2 boxes that is
from gate trying to work out how many i might need
do you get lots of return customers
sorry for all the questions
trying to do my home work really well
never know i might get a pat on the head
"THE OH WILL LET ME HAVE DUCKS AND CHICKENS "
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We are settling out now at about 4 dozen per week average at dog agility club. My hubby is a gardener and is customers have started to get wise and ask for eggs too. :thumbsup: We haven't started our gate sales this year as we won't have enough at the moment!
With regards to price - there is a house along the road from us that sells for 80p 1/2 dozen and they go for £1.20 1/2 dozen at our local farmers market so I figure our price is about right. Obviously, where you are in the country will affect prices.
Donna
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£2.40p a dozen for hen eggs and £3.00 for duck eggs. It depends on the area where you live and in our case, that the local numb nuts are selling their for £2.00 because they aren't to cute on complicated numbers. :idea:
I'm definately making money on the ducks, ours lay way more eggs than the best hybrid hens, but at £2.40p I'm almost certainly losing on the hens eggs.
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We keep all our egg money separate and it buys both our chicken and pig food. Therefore I think I must be making a profit overall as I still have the pigs to sell!!
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I ask for 1.30 hens and 1.70 duck eggs feed contribution. Ducks' more because the hungry gap/winter break is a few months longer than with the hens. I find that shops or stalls at fairs are charging about that much more for them, too. This year there will be no profit as the birds are over 100£ in the red. Last year we had a few expensive problems, which all go in the bird "accounts" ;) :&>
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With regards to price - there is a house along the road from us that sells for 80p 1/2 dozen and they go for £1.20 1/2 dozen at our local farmers market so I figure our price is about right.
Wow! That is really cheap. That's less than the battery, churned out supermarket eggs. I just can't work out how they could cover their costs of feed, bedding and routine meds on that price. Because wherever you live in the country, you've still got to at least cover your costs, otherwise you're paying for other people to eat (or maybe they're just kind hearted, generous people).
I've decided to go with £1.30/ half dozen chicken eggs (despite two others in the village charging £1 - again I just think that's too cheap when the supermarkets charge at least £1.50 for free range, organic which is effectively what we have and given that currently I'm still making a loss at that price) and £1.50 for half a dozen duck eggs. If I ever sell goose eggs, they'll be £1 a piece.
H
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If we move onto a more commercial footing I expect we will increase the price. At the moment we have livestock to gain experience as we are hoping to get a tenanted farm - we have also had ex-batt chickens for about 7 years as pets that happen to also give us eggs.
However, we are only selling to friends at the moment so we have to do no advertising, we never have any leftover and we can re-use boxes as they return them to us so our costs are low. Obviously all these things will change if we get the farm. Plus, I wouldn't want to publicly put them out at a low price as that would be unfair to the farmers market.
Donna