Cacklefruit - How much would you pay?!

[Barmaid]

I'm getting horribly loused out with eggs. My girls are cracking them out at a rate of 3 per day and I've been so busy lately, I've not been cooking every day. I am going to start selling the freshly laid ones because otherwise I am just going to end up with a huge pile.

Sainsburys sell 1/2 doz free range eggs for £1.89.
Their barn eggs are 89p.

These are free range (very spoilt) chooks and the eggs are delicious.

What do you think for 1/2 doz? £1? £1.50?

[vodkancoke]

I buy mine from M&S and pay £2.29 for 6. I think £1.50 is a good price xx

[Polly1958]

£1.50 sounds a good price to me.

[AB Editor]

£1 is a bargain, and a nice round number which no one has to faff about with. If the goal is to shift them but also making it worth your time boxing them then this seems like the perfect price.

[ummmm]

£2

Very lucky to get free range eggs under £2 here.

Your chucks are laying so much because you fed them chicken!! :-) x

[ummmm]

Or was it eggs you fed them??

[237SJ]

I wouldn`t pay £1.50. People who sell off their eggs don`t have the overheads so tend to sell them cheaper. Aldi 6 large free range eggs are 99p. It depends where you live though. Round here (SW London) people would pay £1.50. In the S West (where I come from) farms and the market sell them for £1.

[snags]

If you have a lot of them I'd go with a quid to get rid of them. £1.50 isn't enough of a saving imo.

[Davethedog]

Anything below market price would be good.

Just make sure you don't need an EU directive to sell 'em else someone will dob you in.

Good luck and rich pickings.

[mccfluff]

i used to pay 60p, i'd happily pay £1. i get a dozen free range for £2.50 so wouldn't pay £1.50

[rowanwitch]

go for £1.50 and see... I'd buy them if you were near me you can't beat a really fresh egg...well you can but oh you know what I mean

[Barmaid]

lol, it was crushed eggshells ummm. You bake them in the oven and then crush them in with their feed and it helps give them calcium. They did eat a frog the other day though!

Thanks, some good ideas there. We are in the city in quite an affluent area and there is no-one round here selling any garden produce. We also get a lot of footfall past the door. I have so much spare (eggs, plants, veg) that I thought rather than just giving it away (and all my family and friends are egg bound now), I might at least offset some of the production costs. I'll let my stepson organise it when he is here, he'll love that.

[Barmaid]

Now I've just got to get himself off his bottom to get down to the shop to buy the egg boxes seeing as I have just sorted them.

[craft1948]

If it's posh they'll want them in egg boxes...................

[mccfluff]

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[China Doll]

<<< Saw title and had to google cackle fruit before opening the thread!

I never heard eggs described as that! I'd do half a dozen for a £1 if I just wanted rid of them. Or is there an old peoples home or something locally? They might appreciate a basket of free eggs if you have enough and feel like doing it :c)

[Barmaid]

A quid it is!

[ummmm]

I'd pay much more knowing the actual day they were laid.

I'd happily pay £2 +

[rowanwitch]

Also known as Cluckberries or Quackberries depending on what laid them

[Barmaid]

I did 2 dozen at the local over 60s club last week!

When the girls first started laying, only 2 bothered. No 3 came into lay in September. I was using ALL their eggs. Then knowing they would go off lay in Novemberish for a couple of months, I started stock piling them. Guess what, they went off lay for 2 piggin days.

[snags]

Don't know if this is a good deal:

http://www.ebay.co.uk...y&hash=item58840fc1dd