Are you able to buy farm fresh eggs where you live? How much are they charging?

I buy eggs directly from the farmer for $2 a dozen. They are simultaneously the best and the cheapest eggs I have ever had.

Do they do mail order?

Even factoring in postage costs, it might be well worth it for me because one local farm around here is charging $9.00 per dozen.

I mean, are they 24 carat gold-plated or something?

I don’t think he would send them by mail. I usually have to bring my own cartons. But yeah, $9 seems like way too much.

I think it’s about $6 US per dozen at the nearby farmers market. I’m not sure, I am happy to buy eggs at the grocery store.

Maybe I’ll go tomorrow and see, they opened last week for the season.

Grocery store eggs sell for $1.79 to about $5.00, depending on the store and the buzzwords. Whole Foods probably charges more but I don’t care what they do.

I was only half kidding about the mail order :) and I’m still searching for other, more reasonable sources around here.

Near me they are £1 ($1.50 usd) for 6. Cheaper than the village shop but more expensive than the supermarket

On my way to town there was a sign they had eggs for $1.50 a dozen. I didn’t buy any because I’m getting them given to me free faster than I use them.
I’ve paid as much as $2.50, but that was because it was a 4-H project for some kids.

I sell mine at an average market price of about $2.25 USD wholesale when supply is stable, but I usually do even better if I trade for goods I don’t produce on the farm. I have help that I pay partially in eggs equivalent to a $1.00 a dozen. This gives them the choice of taking the eggs home at a discount or converting them into cash at about 100% profit at the market..

I have a friend who operates his own small egg farm and sells a dozen for $5. The eggs themselves aren’t much larger than from the supermarket but the yolks are huge and bright yellow-orange. I buy them only occasionally, not because of the price, but because
while other friends who buy them swear they’re the best eggs ever, frankly I can’t tell much difference.

I don’t remember your location, @Buttonstc.

In my experience fresh-from-the-chicken eggs can be good for 6 months if properly stored. You wouldn’t have to ship too many for it to become profitable.
If eggs were $2 a dozen, and could ship for an average of $1 a dozen….

Depends on where I go. Up here at the lake house in WI at local farms they are $2.50 per dozen. Back home outside of Chicago they can be $2.00— $3.50 per dz.

Not “cooped” up! HAHAHAHAHAHA! Was that deliberate? That took some pluck! Hope no one gets their feathers ruffled at me for making a joke in General.

Hah! You guys need to live near me, I have eggs coming out of my ears, can’t give them away! Living rural everyone keeps hens. We have 8 hens that lay, on average 6–8 eggs a day, two female geese that are laying now and the new place I am at right now, house/ranch sitting, and moving here in a few weeks have 21 hens.

We have enough eggs between these two properties to feed a small army. haha
All extremely healthy and happy free ranging hens that spend their days wandering over acres and acres of land.

Yep, here where I am in the CA. hills fresh, free range, organic eggs go for $5 a dozen.

@Buttonstc $9.00 a dozen is really high but, I guess it is supply and demand for fresh, quality eggs. Also you have to factor in the production cost, even our small flock we feed a pricey, organic feed loaded with grains and calcium and high quality protein. The cheap commercial chicken feeds are nasty, ground up feathers and all sorts of disgusting additives. Quality feed and free ranging for plants and insects make for healthy birds.

@Coloma eewwww. Out your ears? No wonder you can’t give them away, I wouldn’t want them either! They aren’t the usual orifice out of which eggs are known to drop! ;-)

I saw duck eggs at the a World market this week and I think they were around $3 each. I did not partake.

BTW, anyone ever used canned quail eggs? For….? I nearly bought a can of those.

@ibstubro Apparently Quail are the preppers dream bird. Small, easy to raise, eat much less than chickens and their meat and eggs are very nutritious. I had no idea but saw a guy talking about Quail raising for doomsday purposes. haha

$5/dozen for chick and quail eggs at the farmers market today.

Canned quail eggs are cheap. Under $2.50 a can, I’m sure. A steal if you’ve ever tried to peel hard boiled quail eggs!

I could, but I don’t. I buy the local farm eggs at my organic grocery store with all the other stuff. I know where they come from – I’ve even been inside the chicken’s enclosure. Going out of my way to buy them at the source would be a hassle, though.

I had a giant, duck sized hen egg a few weeks ago that was a triple yolker. I have seen plenty of double yolked eggs but never a triple. The hen that laid it is affectionately called ” Stupie” because she is not the brightest hen in the yard but a prolific layer. haha

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@longgone

Lucky you. I wish I were so fortunate.

@ibstubro

I’m in Michigan about midway between Flint and Detroit, so about 45–60 mins. Northwest of Detroit.

There’s plenty of farmland in Michigan so I don’t know why this place is charging so much.

I’ve since come across a few others but none below $5 per dozen or so. I’m still trying to see which one is closest to me.

Oddly enough, this convinced me to buy a can of quail eggs, next opportunity I have.
I like gamey taste, and I can pickle them easily enough.

I have driven home from Detroit in a day, @Buttonstc.
A really, really long, stress filled day where I never shut the engine of the car off, but nonetheless, a day.

The problem is that the home-growers don’t have enough volume to advertise.

We have this deal with the local farmer, he provides us with fresh eggs & in return the butler polishes his nuts…on his tractor that is

Someone told me today that they’re paying the outlandish price of $3.00 a dozen, but the eggs they get are all different colors. The grandkids get a kick out of that. :-)

I would too.

Being on the farm we raise our laying hens and sell the brown
farm fresh eggs. The food we supply our laying hens with
is made by us on our farm. We do not trust the coop because
they use so many fillers etc. Our chicken feed does NOT have
any soy in it and it makes the eggs taste wonderful. Because of
that we get $5.00 a dozen at the farmer’s market and our eggs
fly off the shelf! Soy messes with your estrogen and is an inflammatory.
Of course our hens are on pasture the entire day then we put them
up to roost at night to keep the predators away.

@MooCows

Oh how I wish you lived around the corner from me :)

@MooCows What causes some eggs to smell and taste fishy? We can buy eggs at the neighbourhood shop that come from a local farmer that are like this.

Many people don’t realize that eggs have what is called a “bloom” on them.
A invisible covering that keeps other scents out and protects the eggs.
That is why I only “spot” clean our eggs and never submerge them in
any liquid. If you keep your laying boxes clean with shavings the eggs
are hardly ever dirty. I think the fishy smell might be because the bloom
of the egg has been disturbed and the eggs are taking in outer scents.

@MooCows Yes, the bloom keeps them fresh much longer and if you have to wash them only use warm water as cold water will cause the pores in the shell to contract and absorb bacteria.

Thanks @MooCows. After reading several internet posts, it sounds like the fishy smell/taste comes from an Omega-3 enriched diet, which also makes the yolks a darker orange.

The “bloom” of an egg is interesting. I hadn’t heard of it before.

I didn’t know eggs had a “bloom” either. I’ve heard people highly criticized for not washing their farm eggs.

The bloom ( an invisible sealant ) keeps eggs fresh at room temp. 55 degrees or so for weeks. Europeans do not refrigerate their eggs, they leave them out to be used over a couple week period. We often leave out eggs on the counter and use them over a week or so period.

@Coloma we keep eggs in a dish with a lid shaped like a chicken!

@Buttonstc I’m very grateful for that store. Seeing how chickens are kept on a farm that’s as organic as they come was actually not a great experience, and it has made me reluctant to eat anything that’s made with non-organic eggs.

Well, here in the States, our eggs are only good for a couple of weeks, and only if properly sanitized, then stored in a proper carton under refrigeration.
We’re not barbarians. ~ ~

We can get farm-fresh eggs at a few places here in Toronto. Farmers markets (in-season), home delivery, hipster organic shops, and a couple of Mennonite stores. The price ranges from $4 – $8 Canadian / dozen. Oddly (?), home delivery is the cheapest option. Actually it’s sort of semi-home delivery. The eggs get delivered to a neighbour’s home and you walk over and pick them up there.