Can I sell eggs in Saskatchewan?

Do I need a license to sell eggs in Saskatchewan?

Not a producer licence from Saskatchewan Egg Producers, with fewer than 300 hens. The Commercial Egg Marketing Plan Regulations exempt from the plan, and from holding a licence to produce or market eggs, "every producer who possesses, whether by ownership, lease or any other means, fewer than 300 hens". A hen there is a female domestic fowl that is producing eggs. The Ministry of Agriculture's page says the same in other words: production by non-commercial producers with small flocks is limited by provincial regulation, and the unregulated production allowed before quota rights are required is 299 laying hens. The board may also exempt other producers, and for research or market development.

At 300 hens or more the regulations turn the other way: no person other than an exempt producer may produce or market eggs unless licensed. The board states in the licence the production limit allotted, the most hens the producer may possess at one time and the production location, and a producer needs a separate licence for each location. A licensed producer must not possess more hens than the licence sets. The application takes the fees and criteria the board sets by order, which we did not read.

The sale is a separate rule, in the Food Safety Regulations, in the questions below. The regulations define a food facility as a public eating establishment, a milk plant, a processing facility or a slaughter plant, and require a licence for one. They list no egg farm or market stall in it. We did not find a source that says whether a producer selling eggs needs a food permit or licence of any kind beyond the rules in the questions below. Ask your public health inspector.

Source: The Commercial Egg Marketing Plan Regulations, A-15.21 Reg 2, ss. 2, 6, 27, 28, 29 and 48, Ministry of Agriculture: Poultry and The Food Safety Regulations, P-37.1 Reg 12, ss. 2(1) and 5.

How many eggs can I sell without a license in Saskatchewan?

The limit is in hens, not in eggs or dozens: a producer possessing fewer than 300 hens is exempt from the plan and from a licence, and 300 hens or more needs the board's licence with its production limit, which is a number of dozens of eggs a year with the hens needed to lay them. The Ministry of Agriculture's page gives the unregulated line as 299 laying hens.

No source we read puts a limit on dozens or eggs sold by an exempt producer, and none states a licence fee. Production limits, quota and fees are the board's business and outside what this directory is built for.

Source: The Commercial Egg Marketing Plan Regulations, A-15.21 Reg 2, ss. 2(o), 6(1), 29(2) and 46 and Ministry of Agriculture: Poultry.

Can I sell eggs at a farmers market in Saskatchewan?

Yes, on conditions. The Food Safety Regulations say a food distributor may sell whole eggs "directly to consumers at a farmer's market or public market or on the premises on which the eggs were produced", if the eggs and their packaging meet the producer's conditions in the questions below. A food distributor there is an operation or facility that sells, distributes, stores or transports food. The producer may sell only eggs "produced on the producer's premises", so a stall cannot sell a neighbour's eggs under this rule.

The regulations define a farmer's market as one where rental or allotted space is used to sell food and other items made, baked or grown locally, and where at least half the spaces are for locally grown produce for at least six months of the year. A public market is a place where independent merchants sell food and other items from permanent or temporary stalls, and it does not include a farmer's market. The rule is in an amendment filed on July 30, 2026 (Saskatchewan Regulations 51/2026). Ask the market's manager and your public health inspector what a stallholder selling eggs must do there.

Source: The Food Safety Regulations, P-37.1 Reg 12, ss. 2(1)(a.4), 2(1)(j.1) and 22(1.2), (1.3) and (6) and Saskatchewan Regulations 51/2026, The Food Safety Amendment Regulations, 2026, ss. 3 and 7.

Can I sell eggs to a restaurant, a store or someone who resells them in Saskatchewan?

Not ungraded to a restaurant. The Food Safety Regulations say no operator of a food facility, which includes a public eating establishment, may use ungraded chicken eggs in any product produced or served in or from the facility.

For a store the sources we read say less. The rule that lets a producer sell ungraded eggs is a sale "directly to consumers", at a farmer's market, a public market or the farm. The regulations' general rule is that food intended to be sold to the public must be liable to inspection, or come from a source subject to inspection, by the Government of Saskatchewan, the Government of Canada, another province or territory, or a local authority, unless the local authority exempts the operator in writing. We found nothing that says a store may sell a farm's ungraded eggs, or what inspection a small farm's eggs would need. Ask your public health inspector. The Ministry of Agriculture's page says most commercial eggs in Saskatchewan are graded, sorted and distributed by a grading company in Saskatoon. We read no rule on who may grade eggs for a sale within the province: the Saskatchewan Egg Regulations, 2010 are listed as repealed effective June 13, 2024, and we did not read what replaced them.

Source: The Food Safety Regulations, P-37.1 Reg 12, ss. 2(1)(c) and 22(1), (1.3) and (1.4), Ministry of Agriculture: Poultry and The Saskatchewan Egg Regulations, 2010, A-20.2 Reg 13 (repealed), cover page.

Do I need to grade or label my eggs in Saskatchewan?

The regulations say the eggs are packed in clean cartons labelled with the producer's name and contact information and the date the eggs were packaged. For ungraded chicken eggs, the carton is also marked "ungraded eggs" in letters of a size and prominence that are easily readable.

None of the sources we read speaks of reusing a carton. The regulation asks that it be clean, and nothing about removing an old brand or grade. Ask your public health inspector about reuse.

The federal egg rules the CFIA lists cover eggs sent from one province or territory to another, not a sale within Saskatchewan. Ungraded eggs may cross a provincial line only to an establishment that grades or processes them, in a container labelled "Ungraded Eggs".

Source: The Food Safety Regulations, P-37.1 Reg 12, s. 22(1.2)(b) and CFIA: regulatory requirements for eggs, section 4.0.

Do eggs have to be refrigerated to sell in Saskatchewan, and at what temperature?

Yes, at 4°C or lower. The regulations say the producer must keep the eggs at 4°C or less until they are sold, "including during transportation, display and storage".

The Ministry of Agriculture's poultry page says something different for a farm's own handling: let eggs cool gradually before refrigeration, and store them generally for three to four days at 10 to 13°C before marketing. The page carries no date and speaks of production, not of the sale rule, and the regulation was amended in 2026. The two differ and we settle neither. For eggs you sell, the regulation's 4°C is the one it states.

Source: The Food Safety Regulations, P-37.1 Reg 12, s. 22(1.2)(c) and Ministry of Agriculture: Poultry, "Egg handling and storage".

Can I sell duck, quail or other eggs in Saskatchewan?

The sources we read give no rule for them. The Plan Regulations define "eggs" as eggs laid by a hen, and the licence and the 300-hen line speak of hens. The sale rule says "eggs" for the producer's conditions and "ungraded chicken eggs" for the marking and the ban in a food facility. The Ministry of Agriculture's page says ducks and geese are outside the supply-managed poultry. Nothing we read speaks of selling duck or quail eggs, so we print no rule. Ask your public health inspector before you sell them.

Source: The Commercial Egg Marketing Plan Regulations, A-15.21 Reg 2, ss. 2(h) and 2(j), The Food Safety Regulations, P-37.1 Reg 12, s. 22(1.2) and (1.4) and Ministry of Agriculture: Poultry.

Do I have to wash or candle eggs to sell them in Saskatchewan?

The regulation asks only that the eggs be whole, clean, with no visible cracks and not leaking. It names no washing method and does not ask for candling. The Ministry of Agriculture's poultry page gives guidance: eggs that need cleaning can be brushed off with sand-paper or washed, in water at least 12°C warmer than the eggs, with a sanitizer but not dishwashing liquid and not water with high iron content, then rinsed and completely dried before storage.

Source: The Food Safety Regulations, P-37.1 Reg 12, s. 22(1.2)(a) and Ministry of Agriculture: Poultry, "Egg handling and storage".