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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: vfr400boy on November 19, 2017, 12:10:04 pm

Title: Best place to buy egg boxes
Post by: vfr400boy on November 19, 2017, 12:10:04 pm
My 4 year old daughter has started selling our eggs to family members and friends, but we are fast running out of boxes, where is the best place to buy them from ? Thanks
Title: Re: Best place to buy egg boxes
Post by: Perris on November 19, 2017, 04:33:29 pm
I'd be interested in any advice on this too; been looking around online and the variety is quite confusing. But it's nice to see that recycled plastic is an option, though I've yet to find prices for them...
Title: Re: Best place to buy egg boxes
Post by: nimbusllama on November 20, 2017, 08:22:58 am
I bought a load of new basic grey cardboard ones on Ebay some years ago  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Best place to buy egg boxes
Post by: DavidandCollette on November 20, 2017, 10:08:17 am
Try Flyte so Fancy
Title: Re: Best place to buy egg boxes
Post by: Anke on November 20, 2017, 03:20:32 pm

Your local agri merchant can probably get a big stack four you, they last for ages.... also many of ur customers bring their empty boxes back to us, so get recycled a few times.


Could you not put a paper slip inside the box (or stuck to the outside) to ask customers to return the empty boxes...
Title: Re: Best place to buy egg boxes
Post by: chrismahon on November 21, 2017, 08:54:37 am
I put an advert in the local village post office asking people to save their egg boxes and phone me to collect them when they had enough. Worked very well and we never ran out of boxes, in fact we had too many.
Title: Re: Best place to buy egg boxes
Post by: raindogs on November 22, 2017, 10:40:44 am
I've bought them in Mole Valley Farmers and Flyte so Fancy - both good.
Title: Re: Best place to buy egg boxes
Post by: farmers wife on November 28, 2017, 09:12:29 pm
Flyte of fancy is good value but only works out if you buy a good few due to postage.  Make sure you price in the boxes though. Selling at £1 isn't going to cover all costs.
Title: Re: Best place to buy egg boxes
Post by: vfr400boy on November 30, 2017, 06:52:23 am
Thanks for the replys, I think they is a mole shop were my cousin lives , she dose only charge a pound for 6 ( makes the maths easier for her )