Somebody sent me this. I don't know who the woman is, but she says her eggs cost $87 each. I've run the numbers on mine, and I'm at about $9 per dozen with organic, soy-free feed. Maybe she's counting the cost of dry cleaning the fancy dress she wears to collect eggs. Or feeding her chickens filet and caviar. Or making sh** up to get attention.
Backyard egg producers, what's your cost?
I know eggs have come back down since the lockdown. We give the girl at the hardware store $5.00 a dozen for fresh free range eggs. I think they are worth that to us.
Perhaps she's attributing all overhead costs to her eggs, much the way some spouses I've heard of might attribute the costs of equipment to each pound of venison harvested, rendering it the most expensive meat on the planet. I suppose it's one way of looking at things; however, I buy eggs from the Amish farm down the road for less than $5 / dozen, so it appears she's doing something wrong. Maybe she is raising chickens on a small lot where she has to buy all her feed and can't let the chickens go out and scratch around (which makes for the best eggs, in my experience).
My co-op sells eggs from a local backyard farmer. Jumbo white in 20ct flat are $8, jumbo brown in 20ct flat are $12. They are in open flats, I take my fridge basket in and move to it, leave the flats for him to use again.
RecTeq RT-700 Pellet pooper
Weber Genesis 1000 LX gasser w/Grill Grates
Smokehouse Little Chief II Electric smoker
Thermapen ONE
MK4 Thermapen
ThermoPop
IR Gun
2 Channel Smoke Alarm
Green Mountain Grills Wood Fired Pizza Oven(use it on the RT-700)
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Besides the fancy dress, diamond studs and a new fence, I'm a guessing she also bought a new Mercedes SUV for when the chickens want to go out for ice cream.
Maybe accurate for first year price, cost of the birds, coops and fencing and whatever else.
You make a good point - I still scratch my head at her $87, but then again if she bought a fancy coop, etc.
My calculation of $9/dozen is actually high because it was done after 1 year of egg laying, and included the cost of the coop (DIY using a lot of scrap, but some cost) and other startup costs, plus feed for the first 6 months that they weren't laying. I bought 10 birds by mail (no local hatchery) for $80 including shipping, then after 6 months sold 4 of them for $100 so no cost there. I'm almost 4 years in, so if I forget startup costs and just count ongoing cost, I'm under $6/doz with premium organic, soy-free feed (due to family member with food sensitivities).
I'm gonna assume she paid someone to do everything at that cost, but she coulda just bought overly fancy stuff that isn't better than a home made coup and assembled it herself too.
If you count in the initial cost of building a coop, and proper fencing so the chickens have plenty of room to browse about, and feed, the initial cost probably would be a little high, although that cost should lower as you get more eggs (ROI). If you have a breed of chicken, like a Plymouth Rock, that only lays about 200 eggs per year versus a Rhode Island Red that can lay up to 300 a year that could also increase the cost per egg. We feed our chickens a minimal amount of scratch, some laying pellets, and their own egg shells.
Masseuses and personal trainers for chickens donβt come cheap. And if she employees a therapist to help her hens with egg separation issues $87 an egg is a downright value.. π
I have no idea what our eggs cost and it does not matter to me. I know what they eat and know the condition of their living space and thats enough for me.
It is like my pellet cooker. I got it because there isn't any good bbq around here. I am not getting free bbq from it. So far, I have eaten 4 $250 meals. π
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