Bi> (...)  If I begin selling them at the produce stand, I'll probably ask 
Bi> $1.25 or $1.50.  After all, they *are organic, free-range eggs!
JB> Free-range??  I don't get it?  But it does sound like a 'green' name 
JB> :)
CS> Grin, means the chickens arent full of antibiotics and are let loose
CS> in the  yard vice being kept in a hatchery type thing all the time.
(...)
    Great answer Carol, probably does a better job than I did in a previous 
response, although the antibiotic part speaks more to the qualifying the eggs 
(or chickens) as organic rather than free range.  Free range only refers to 
the method of containment and even chickens that are kept in a coop,as long 
as they aren't individually penned, are technically "free-range."
CS> Personally, I'm used to getting 'free range' chicken eggs from farmers
CS> direct,  and paying *less* than normal non-free range egg prices at the
CS> stores but if he can sell them for more than store cost, more power to 
CS> him!
    The price one can charge for the eggs is very dependent on whom one is 
selling them to and where.  When I'm selling eggs to my neighbors, I only ask 
$1.00 a dozen.  That's comparable to the price they pay for the much older 
white eggs in the store.  There's just too much competition in the area and 
they really know too much about the subject for me to charge more.
    When I'm selling eggs to people I work with, I ask $1.20 a dozen (works 
out to 10 cents an egg) but offer a 20 cent discount if they give me an empty 
carton in return.  That works out to the same $1.00 a dozen, but helps me 
keep up my stock of cartons, something I have not found a source for locally 
yet.
    Anywhere else, I ask $1.25 a dozen.  I base this on a local organic 
chicken farmer (about 20 miles from where I live) who has contracts with the 
two largest local supermarket chains to sell his eggs through their stores.  
His eggs retail for $1.50 a dozen and people pay it.  The big differences 
between him and me is that I''m selling direct to the public and he has over 
4000 chickens.  Otherwise, our product is the same and I point out to people 
that if they wanted to get the same thing in the store, they'd have to pay 
more.  I think that's fair.
        Byrd Mann
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