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| JA_MORAN |
 Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 11:38 pm |
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have about 500 hens laying brown free-range eggs in Elfrida, Arizona
(about 80 miles southeast of Tucson or aobut 200 miles southeast of Phoenix.
Need to know where I can market the eggs I am getting. I wrote letters
to about 20 grocery stores, produce markets, and general stores, no one
has responded yet.
We gather the eggs several times a day, wash the eggs, put them in plain
white styrofoam cartons and referigerate. In addition to chicken eggs,
we also have turkeys, guineas, peacocks, and geese too.
JOHN john@analon.com (plain text e-mail only as I use elm or tin to read
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| Jill |
| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 2:58 am |
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JA_MORAN wrote:
Quote: have about 500 hens laying brown free-range eggs in Elfrida, Arizona
(about 80 miles southeast of Tucson or aobut 200 miles southeast of
Phoenix.
Need to know where I can market the eggs I am getting. I wrote letters
to about 20 grocery stores, produce markets, and general stores, no
one has responded yet.
That is not surprising as they will get eggs delivered with other groceries
and to have a single supplier is more unwanted paperwork and hassle,
especially from an unproven source.
Talk to your ag extension and food safety folks to ensure that you are
dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's in the legality departments.
Find your local farmers markets, health food stores, and places where food
that has a provenance is more appreciated.
It begs the question as to why you ahve 500 birds but have done no market
research before establishing the flock to see how you are going to sell the
produce.
Washing eggs and refridgerating them in some places is not allowed for
selling eggs. You need to double check everything that is required for the
dating, storage, transport and sale of fresh eggs in your state.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=farmers+market+arizona
would be a good start.
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regards
Jill Bowis
Pure bred utility chickens and ducks
Housing; Equipment, Books, Videos, Gifts
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine nursery
Working Holidays in Scotland
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| 0tterbot |
| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 6:00 am |
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"JA_MORAN" <jamoran@analon.com> wrote in message
news:d-GdnfJq_9RSxqDbnZ2dnUVZ_sSmnZ2d@sedona.net...
Quote: have about 500 hens laying brown free-range eggs in Elfrida, Arizona
(about 80 miles southeast of Tucson or aobut 200 miles southeast of
Phoenix.
Need to know where I can market the eggs I am getting. I wrote letters to
about 20 grocery stores, produce markets, and general stores, no one has
responded yet.
We gather the eggs several times a day, wash the eggs, put them in plain
white styrofoam cartons and referigerate. In addition to chicken eggs, we
also have turkeys, guineas, peacocks, and geese too.
JOHN john@analon.com (plain text e-mail only as I use elm or tin to read
mail on the UNIX machine)
beyond the frankly astonishing fact that you have 500(!) hens & nowhere to
sell the eggs (should you not have thought this through _first_?!), i would
like to point out that i wouldn't buy eggs in styrofoam packaging; various
people wouldn't. perhaps this is a problem. surely also, the egg cartons
couldn't remain plain - do you not have legal requirements to display
minimum weight, use-by date, farm of origin/company, etc? i sell my eggs,
but not in such a way that that information needs to be given - but when i
do, it will be.
also, legal requirements vary, but eggs are better unwashed if at all
possible.
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| JA_MORAN |
| Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 6:05 am |
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I have been taking my eggs to work and selling them there. I had a
waiting list on my white board for the fresh free-range brown eggs.
Since I have more demand than I could supply, naturally, I got more
birds. Now, I hav over 500 birds and am gettig new birds all the time
I am growing at a nice controlled rate but am at the point where I need
one or more additional places to sell the eggs now. have checked into
the USDA and state agricultural requirements and no problems here. I
won't be impacted until I produce a lot more eggs...
many of the big comercial egg producers started out just like this.. a
small family farm operation that grew into what it is today
JOHN
0tterbot wrote:
Quote: "JA_MORAN" <jamoran@analon.com> wrote in message
news:d-GdnfJq_9RSxqDbnZ2dnUVZ_sSmnZ2d@sedona.net...
have about 500 hens laying brown free-range eggs in Elfrida, Arizona
(about 80 miles southeast of Tucson or aobut 200 miles southeast of
Phoenix.
Need to know where I can market the eggs I am getting. I wrote letters to
about 20 grocery stores, produce markets, and general stores, no one has
responded yet.
We gather the eggs several times a day, wash the eggs, put them in plain
white styrofoam cartons and referigerate. In addition to chicken eggs, we
also have turkeys, guineas, peacocks, and geese too.
JOHN john@analon.com (plain text e-mail only as I use elm or tin to read
mail on the UNIX machine)
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