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[Cyber Chook]

Hi, it's nice to give friends their gift boxes of eggs, but soon I'm going to start selling them to people. With four out of five chooks laying now, I'm getting quite a lot of eggs. Isn't it lovely?! I thought I might donate something to charity from the sales.

 

 

I feel it's rude not to say "thank you ladies" when I take their eggs

 

Also does anyone else feel a bit of a thief and hide them from their girls when you collect them?

 

Anyway, I'm interested to hear how much those Omleteers who sell their eggs generally charge for half a dozen free-range, organic eggs?

 

Caroline

[Snowy]

A word of caution about calling them organic and free range. Crazy I know, but in order to be free range they have to be out of a run all day, so if you leave them in a run until lunchtime and then let them roam the garden, technically they are not free range. The same with organic. If they free range and your garden soil has not been certified by the organic soil association, they are not organic, even if you feed them organic pellets.

 

I call mine Extra Fresh Eggs from Happy Garden Hens. That seems to cover everything And I charge £1.20 for 6.

[Cyber Chook]

I like that! I was intending to call them something like organic-ish, free-rangish eggs, but yours is a much nicer-sounding description

 

I know what you mean. I used to sell apples from an orchard that had never had any sprays etc, only horse manure etc, and it was the same principle then. I was warned about calling them organic, because there has to be something like a 5-mile radius around you where no sprays or chemicals have been used on the soil. I just put "No sprays or chemicals used" on the box... helps us understand why organic food is that much more expensive, doesn't it.

 

I was thinking around that price, £1.20. I thought £1 seemed a bit cheap, but wondered if people would be prepared to pay more, so that's really useful to hear, thanks Snowy Howells.

 

Caroline

 

Caroline