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Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9891
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 11 10:09 am Post subject: that's it
I'm putting the price of my eggs up. a quid for 6 is such and easy number to deal with - but.. studying the figures.. and convinced feed prices are only going to go up.. 1.20 for 6 now. spose everyone else is already charging 1.50?

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 11 10:13 am Post subject:
�1.20 here, 80p for bantam, �1.50 for duck. Lots of people round and about have gone to �1.40. I am going to go to �1.40 for hen eggs in the autumn, pullets �1 then gradually phase them out as the birds get bigger. I paid �50 for feed yesterday

SandraR

Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 2346
Location: Devon

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 11 10:39 am Post subject:
Still only a �1 here but I think next time I have a lull and then start to sell again I'll go to �1.20.

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 11 10:42 am Post subject:
I charge �1.10 at the gate, and sell (as a registered packing station) �1 to the local shop who sell them at �1.55. I charge �1.20 for duck eggs.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9891
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 11 10:42 am Post subject:
well my girls have slowed down, (which in itself makes each egg cost more to make) so i figure if it puts people off.. we can cope with the egg mountain

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 11 11:10 am Post subject:
I put mine up to �1.25 a few weeks ago

alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 12918
Location: North Devon

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 11 6:03 pm Post subject:
We are �1.30 for 6 chicken, and �1.60 for 6 duck eggs.

fuglysuck

Joined: 10 Mar 2011
Posts: 123
Location: Nr Lichfield, Staffordshire

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 11 6:30 am Post subject:
If you sell such fresh eggs, people will pay a premium amount anyway... it is only us who feel bad for charging in the first place.

Rosemary Judy

Joined: 08 Aug 2005
Posts: 1215
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 11 7:18 am Post subject:
�1.50 from my back gate, for half a dozen hens eggs

Millymollymandy

Joined: 23 Sep 2005
Posts: 187
Location: Brittany, France

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 11 11:29 am Post subject:

Well given you pay up to �2.50 for 6 organic eggs in a supermarket I don't know why you can't charge a lot more than you are for real free range eggs (the organic bit is less important I'd have thought than happy properly free ranging hens).

If I can sell any I still charge �1 for 6 which is what I was charging 6 years ago which was cheaper than the cheapest 'free range' supermarket ones even then. But mostly I just am happy to give them away (ditto duck eggs) cos otherwise they just go in the bin!

kirstyfern

Joined: 03 Jan 2010
Posts: 1574
Location: Great Dunmow, Essex

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 11 2:16 pm Post subject:

Millymollymandy wrote:

BIN ?!?!
Hard boil and feed back to the hens

I charge �1 at the gate for the small eggs, �1.50 for large eggs delivered / collected while I'm there and Ian takes some large eggs to work but will only charge �1.30 even though I told him they had gone up

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35090
Location: Devon

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 11 4:24 pm Post subject:

fuglysuck wrote:

If you sell such fresh eggs, people will pay a premium amount anyway... it is only us who feel bad for charging in the first place.

Why on Earth would you feel bad for charging?

Millymollymandy

Joined: 23 Sep 2005
Posts: 187
Location: Brittany, France

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 11 5:49 am Post subject:

kirstyfern wrote:

BIN ?!?!
Hard boil and feed back to the hens

Haven't got the time for that!

Don't really care about chucking eggs, as they are a byproduct of the hens/ducks which I like having as birds, not for what they produce particularly. But the byproducts are good (eggs and poo).

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9891
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 11 12:34 pm Post subject:
well, i had a flurry of sales today - even sold eggs that haven't been laid yet no complaints at price. 2 said i should make it 1.50 for easy change.....

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