Provincial
Egg flock permit
Up to 99 hens needs no permit; 100–399 hens needs a small-lot permit — you must be 19 or older, with free-range, free-run, organic or heritage production — and those eggs, graded or not, go only to the people who eat them; 400 or more needs quota. Ungraded eggs are sold from your farm or home, or at farmers’ markets. These rules cover chicken eggs only.
A change is coming
- Higher compensation for destroyed laying hens and broiler breeders — proposed, no date set; it may not happen. What changes
- Who issues it
- BC Egg Marketing Board
- Cost
- Small-lot permit $250 a year.
Who needs it
The rules behind this page
- Small Lot FarmsBC Egg Marketing Board · Page modified 2026-09-11
- Selling Ungraded EggsBC Egg Marketing Board · Page modified 2025-10-20
- Consolidated Order(Part II, s. 3(2))BC Egg Marketing Board · Updated May 15, 2026
- Egg Grading and Standards Regulation, B.C. Reg. 306/2016(ss. 2–3)Province of British Columbia (BC Laws) · Current to September 22, 2026