Eggs US – Price – Chart

I’ve got a flock, not counting infrastructure my costs are tied directly to feed. I source local non-gmo and herbicide free grains. My cost is about $3/doz. It’s unusual to be so close to a farm that produces the variety of grain at that level of quality.

A local farm that produces on a large scale and sources grain from the same farm charges $8/doz. Seems totally fair, if not a little too cheap.

Are you counting your labor and coops as free?

Almost nobody has the space/time/money/skills to do this.

yeah that’s my point.

I think that is exaggerating things. Whether the trade off for eggs to build/effort exists is arguable, but there are ways to build hoop-coops quite affordably and easily. Most people with a backyard could accommodate one and anyone remotely competent could build one in a day.