Eggs & Egg Prices

[Mousefield]

so what is the difference between brown and white eggs?

None except for the color of the shell.

 

[nybirdman]

One reason for the price jump is.........the price of feed.......specificlay corn,or at least that what my supplier tells me.All that ethanol that they are makeing,ect.I raise 1000-1500 pheasant per year and feed is my biggest liability.I hatch and raise all my own....throw away 3000-4000 eggs per year.Can't even give them away...no-body wants to bother because they are so small.I don't like to waste but when my incubators are full(1400 eggs) the hens just keep on laying:average 125 per day.

 

[Bird]

so what is the difference between brown and white eggs?

The breed, or color, of the chicken that laid it.:laughing: My parents moved to Baltimore, MD, when I was a baby and lived awile in an apartment. Mother always loved to tell a story about the eggs. She said a man came around periodically with a push cart with vegetables and eggs. And when one of the tenants saw him, she would knock of the others' doors to tell them. Mother said one day a neighbor knocked on her door, told her, "The vegetable cart is out there and he's got a good price on eggs today, but make him let you pick out your own because he's got some that are so old they've turned brown."

Brown eggs cost more in the grocery store now, but when I was a kid no one considered one to be superior to the other. My dad had a slight preference for white leghorns for laying hens, but some years we had some Rhode Island Red and sometimes some Domineckers. So we usually had white eggs, but sometimes brown.

 

[Bird]

One of the kids at a farm down the road raises chickens for one of his 4H projects. He sells cleaned candled eggs for $1.00 a dozen I periodically give the kid a few bucks & tell him to put me on his list for the appropriate number. They're clean, candled & every size & color you can imagine. It's fun to see this 10 year old business man with his notepad & pencil. Such a good kid.

And I'd say you're getting a real bargain. As I said in the first post, when the "jumbo" eggs went to $1.84 a dozen and they had the "large" eggs for $0.99 a dozen, I bought some of the "large" ones. But now the "large" ones are $1.64 a dozen, so I'll pay the extra 20 cents for the "jumbos".

 

[Bird]

I raise 1000-1500 pheasant per year and feed is my biggest liability.

Can we assume you have a market where they're released for hunters? Or do you have a market for them for meat? I remember, many years ago, when my granddad decided to raise some pheasants and some quail. I think he did it for a couple of years before he quit. I remember him saying that he'd heard what a great delicacy pheasants were and he thought they were very close to chicken and no better than chicken, but he said it cost twice as much to raise one to meat size and then you had half as much meat, so he couldn't see paying 4 times as much as it cost for chicken.:laughing:

 

[milkman]

None except for the color of the shell.

Now you've done it, this will turn out like the R1 vs R4 thread.
The brown ones are better and more healthy than the wimpy white ones.:thumbsup:

 

[bp fick]

I have noticed feed prices creep up over the last 6 months. 50lbs of quality layer feed is now $13.

 

[NSBound]

Now you've done it, this will turn out like the R1 vs R4 thread.
The brown ones are better and more healthy than the wimpy white ones.:thumbsup:

You should taste these eggs - they taste like blueberries!

 

[deputy11]

The taste of the egg doesn't depend so much on the color of the shell but rather on how happy the hen was that layed it. I always look for the eggs from our hens that have a smile on their lips.:laughing:

 

[nybirdman]

Bird
I own a hunting preserve................