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  • From: bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Chicken Egg Prices
  • Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 16:32:51 -0800 (PST)

You and MEN are on different coasts. Did you mail them the eggs? :-)

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--- On Sun, 1/4/09, Karen L. Black <karen AT plamondon.com> wrote:

> From: Karen L. Black <karen AT plamondon.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] Chicken Egg Prices
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 5:23 PM
> I charge $5 retail, $3.60 wholesale for Extra Large eggs (we
> sell ungraded,
> Large, Extra Large and Jumbo), which cost me about $2 (not
> counting labor).
> Last year, we didn't start enough pullets to keep
> production steady, and
> we've been chronically short. I'm designing an
> improved rat-proof brooder
> shed for the chicks to eliminate the problems we've
> had.
>
> We've made it a policy to charge no less than the most
> expensive eggs in the
> store because, frankly, our eggs are that much better.
> Norton Creek Farm was
> one of the participants in the Mother Earth News free-range
> egg test.
>
> Karen Black
> Norton Creek Farm
> Blodgett, OR
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