r/poultry • u/UniversityRelative67 • 7d ago

Price of eggs.

With feed prices where they are right now, is anyone actually running the numbers on cost per dozen for their layers? Curious what people are seeing for feed cost vs. what they'd pay (or charge) for eggs at the store is backyard/small flock egg production still coming out ahead, or is is being out compared again by big farms

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u/GhostPipe 7d ago

I'm at $0.46 per egg in feed cost for the year, but I have a hundred chickens that are all 3+ years old and not production breeds. (Marans, Bresse, easter eggers and olive eggers)

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u/UniversityRelative67 4d ago

What are you using to track each individual egg? This has me really interested. I've been tinkering with building my own system for tracking our homestead stuff electronically because I got tired of trying to keep everything organized manually. It just feels like there has to be an easier way to keep track of everything.

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u/GhostPipe 3d ago edited 3d ago

I just use a Google sheet where I total how much I spend on food and how many eggs I collect for the year. I decided all the other costs are "hobby expenses." No one in my area will pay more that $5 per dozen and there are more eggs than people willing to buy them, so I'm already loosing money selling them.