It takes a full year to hatch them and then wait for them to become soldiers since they are only aggressive in the spring. Ain'tnobodygottimeforthat-meme.gif

Ikr my husband and I pass a house that sells their fresh eggs for $3 a dz when we visit his parents. I always stop and buy two!

Most people are clueless about the actual costs of eggs. In my area I'm pretty sure most of them think eggs are mass produced in a factory even though cows outnumber people on an average block and they should know how eggs are made but they are too busy avoiding education at every opportunity because that is the will of Daddy Leader. I'm only half joking.

If they wanted to go buy a commercial goose egg that's how it works. Geese eggs are rare. They take a lot of investment in time to produce. If you can't recoup the costs then you can't sell as selling requires time and time is money if you believe that labor should be compensated.

Eggs go to waste. There is no way we can eat them as fast as they come. It's not really even a factor of price. We could list them as free and even though the stores are sold out we'd still not get rid of them. Selling eggs is similar to the worst parts of Facebook marketplace. People say they will come and don't. They show up and the eggs aren't good enough because you don't feed them the same exact feed they would if they had chickens. They can only buy if there are at least five dozen available. The eggs aren't white, or blue, or green, or whatever their kink is.

Egg buyers are the most picky people on earth. We did get lucky last year with one couple that would always take whatever we had. But we don't actually set a price. We live in poverty. We let anyone that shows up pay whatever they want. These people covered our feed costs but that was about it.