Egg cost per dozen calculator
What does a dozen eggs cost me to produce?
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Cost per dozen
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- Dozens laid in the period
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- Total cost for the period
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- Feed cost per dozen
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- Your time, at your wage
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- Profit per dozen at your price (negative is a loss)
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- Eggs at your price, for the period
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- Profit for the period (negative is a loss)
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The lay rate is the share of your hens that lays on an average day across the whole period, so it already takes in days off lay and hens that die. Your own egg records are the best source.
Rules for selling eggs, such as grading, labeling and keeping them cold, depend on where you sell. This calculator works out costs only.
Cost per dozen
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- Feed cost per dozen
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- Profit per dozen at your price (negative is a loss)
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This counts feed and any other cost per dozen you enter. Birds, housing and your time are only in the flock mode.
Rules for selling eggs, such as grading, labeling and keeping them cold, depend on where you sell. This calculator works out costs only.
Enter your numbers to see the result.
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How this is worked out
The cost of a dozen eggs is everything the flock cost you over a period divided by the dozens it laid in that period. The dozens are the hens times the laying days times the lay rate (the share of hens that lays on an average day, as a percent ÷ 100), divided by 12. The costs are the feed, the chicks or pullets, the share of housing and equipment you put on this period, bedding, cartons, electricity and anything else, plus your own hours times your hourly wage if you enter both. Each figure is rounded to the cent once, where it is shown. Your profit per dozen is your price less that rounded cost per dozen. The quick mode multiplies the feed a dozen eggs takes by the feed price per pound or kilogram, then adds any other cost per dozen you enter.
A worked example
Example numbers only; use your own. University of Maryland Extension's budget for 10 hens over 895 laying days at a 70 percent lay rate gives 10 × 895 × 0.70 ÷ 12 = 522.08 dozen. Its costs come to 1,759.00: 754.00 of feed, 60.00 for chicks, 675.00 for housing and equipment and 270.00 for bedding, cartons and electricity. So a dozen costs 1,759.00 ÷ 522.08 = 3.37, of which feed is 1.44. Sold at 6.00 a dozen, that is 2.63 a dozen, or 1,373.50 over the period. In the quick mode, 4.5 lb of feed per dozen at 0.30 a pound is 1.35 a dozen.
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