FarmerJamie - A new beginning

[BarredBuff]

Nice picture.

 

[FarmerJamie]

Okay, my little side business has reached the tipping point. My egg demand is now outstripped my supply. One of my newer customers - my supply was a dozen short Wednesday and he had to wait until today. When he paid me, he paid for 10 dozen in advance, wants to make sure he gets his dozen per week.

Three other folks approached me this week about "is it true you sell really fresh eggs?"
for the business, the profit is allowing me to pay for their feed and stock up on feed for my meaties next month. for what am I getting myself into?

....and throw on top of this that Meyer (near this area) keeps advertising weekly specials on BR and RIR pullets. what to do, what to do.

 

[Wannabefree]

Okay, my little side business has reached the tipping point. My egg demand is now outstripped my supply. One of my newer customers - my supply was a dozen short Wednesday and he had to wait until today. When he paid me, he paid for 10 dozen in advance, wants to make sure he gets his dozen per week.

Three other folks approached me this week about "is it true you sell really fresh eggs?"
for the business, the profit is allowing me to pay for their feed and stock up on feed for my meaties next month. for what am I getting myself into?

....and throw on top of this that Meyer (near this area) keeps advertising weekly specials on BR and RIR pullets. what to do, what to do.

You need to buy some more layers bro! Wish I had your "problem" I sell a few though

 

[FarmerJamie]

You need to buy some more layers bro! Wish I had your "problem" I sell a few though

I might need to think about raising my prices. The last three times I sold someone multiples dozens, they handed me the "next higher" denomination bill and said "keep the change".

I have a growing number of buyers who hail from India.

I may be onto something here. :

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

You need to buy some more layers bro! Wish I had your "problem" I sell a few though

I might need to think about raising my prices. The last three times I sold someone multiples dozens, they handed me the "next higher" denomination bill and said "keep the change".

I have a growing number of buyers who hail from India.

I may be onto something here. :

Get those new layers started right away!
I am lucky to get $4 a dozen in our rural area, but if DH brings them to work, he can get $5.
Supposedly comparable eggs in the store are at $5.

 

[freemotion]

Do I remember that you are charging $2 per dozen? If so.....Here is a for you! Look in your local grocery store and see what the premium eggs go for. If your hens actually get outside in the sunshine and scamper around on green grass, be sure to go UP from the premium price. If I ever get enough eggs again it will be $4 here. Last year it was $3 and one person wanted to always be on the top of the list and she paid me $4. There was always a waiting list. If prices keep going up, it will be $5, and if buyers disappear, we will eat more eggs....and so will our pigs.

You have to consider the cost of the chicks, the cost of feed from day one, your labor, your fencing and coop, real estate, electricity, etc. The cost of replacement birds, and feeding them through the winter and through the molt. That is not done in commercial settings, so educate your customers!

MEN has some great info on the nutrition of real eggs, too. I also educated my customers on what the ridiculous words on grocery store egg cartons really mean.....organic, free-range, cage-free, vegetarian, etc. What a crock of ......er.......doo-doo!

 

[Wifezilla]

I can get $4/dozen for duck eggs. For my next batch of recruits I need to figure out which of the girls are laying the bright white fat monster eggs and keep their babies. The other eggs I get are narrow, more yellowish and have splotchy blooms. Still perfectly tasty eggs, but just not as commercially "pretty".

 

[FarmerJamie]

Do I remember that you are charging $2 per dozen? If so.....Here is a for you! Look in your local grocery store and see what the premium eggs go for. If your hens actually get outside in the sunshine and scamper around on green grass, be sure to go UP from the premium price. If I ever get enough eggs again it will be $4 here. Last year it was $3 and one person wanted to always be on the top of the list and she paid me $4. There was always a waiting list. If prices keep going up, it will be $5, and if buyers disappear, we will eat more eggs....and so will our pigs.

You have to consider the cost of the chicks, the cost of feed from day one, your labor, your fencing and coop, real estate, electricity, etc. The cost of replacement birds, and feeding them through the winter and through the molt. That is not done in commercial settings, so educate your customers!

MEN has some great info on the nutrition of real eggs, too. I also educated my customers on what the ridiculous words on grocery store egg cartons really mean.....organic, free-range, cage-free, vegetarian, etc. What a crock of ......er.......doo-doo!

Yeah, Free, thanks for the I needed it.

Education, oh yeah, got that covered - cute pictures in my office of the girls dustbathing in the flower garden, picking through the garden, and generally being cute around the property. My "sales pitch" includes the terminology discussion.

I'm on vacation next week, so maybe a little research is in order. I can talk about the rise in feed prices, etc. MEN is great, I have a printout of the summary of the added benefit of eggs like mine over commercial eggs hanging on my file cabinet next to my stuff from BYC.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Do I remember that you are charging $2 per dozen? If so.....Here is a for you! Look in your local grocery store and see what the premium eggs go for. If your hens actually get outside in the sunshine and scamper around on green grass, be sure to go UP from the premium price. If I ever get enough eggs again it will be $4 here. Last year it was $3 and one person wanted to always be on the top of the list and she paid me $4. There was always a waiting list. If prices keep going up, it will be $5, and if buyers disappear, we will eat more eggs....and so will our pigs.

You have to consider the cost of the chicks, the cost of feed from day one, your labor, your fencing and coop, real estate, electricity, etc. The cost of replacement birds, and feeding them through the winter and through the molt. That is not done in commercial settings, so educate your customers!

MEN has some great info on the nutrition of real eggs, too. I also educated my customers on what the ridiculous words on grocery store egg cartons really mean.....organic, free-range, cage-free, vegetarian, etc. What a crock of ......er.......doo-doo!

Yeah, Free, thanks for the I needed it.

Education, oh yeah, got that covered - cute pictures in my office of the girls dustbathing in the flower garden, picking through the garden, and generally being cute around the property. My "sales pitch" includes the terminology discussion.

I'm on vacation next week, so maybe a little research is in order. I can talk about the rise in feed prices, etc. MEN is great, I have a printout of the summary of the added benefit of eggs like mine over commercial eggs hanging on my file cabinet next to my stuff from BYC.

Feed price discussion will always sway the customer towards sticking with you.

 

[FarmerJamie]

Do I remember that you are charging $2 per dozen? If so.....Here is a for you! Look in your local grocery store and see what the premium eggs go for. If your hens actually get outside in the sunshine and scamper around on green grass, be sure to go UP from the premium price. If I ever get enough eggs again it will be $4 here. Last year it was $3 and one person wanted to always be on the top of the list and she paid me $4. There was always a waiting list. If prices keep going up, it will be $5, and if buyers disappear, we will eat more eggs....and so will our pigs.

You have to consider the cost of the chicks, the cost of feed from day one, your labor, your fencing and coop, real estate, electricity, etc. The cost of replacement birds, and feeding them through the winter and through the molt. That is not done in commercial settings, so educate your customers!

MEN has some great info on the nutrition of real eggs, too. I also educated my customers on what the ridiculous words on grocery store egg cartons really mean.....organic, free-range, cage-free, vegetarian, etc. What a crock of ......er.......doo-doo!

Yeah, Free, thanks for the I needed it.

Education, oh yeah, got that covered - cute pictures in my office of the girls dustbathing in the flower garden, picking through the garden, and generally being cute around the property. My "sales pitch" includes the terminology discussion.

I'm on vacation next week, so maybe a little research is in order. I can talk about the rise in feed prices, etc. MEN is great, I have a printout of the summary of the added benefit of eggs like mine over commercial eggs hanging on my file cabinet next to my stuff from BYC.

Feed price discussion will always sway the customer towards sticking with you.

Want to know something, BB. Your comment got me reminiscing about my late grandfather who was a master of having a dedicated customer base, no matter what he was selling, made money, but was never greedy about it. Just wanted to say thanks for this.