Egg panic in my area.

[fdcg27]

I wonder how much of the impact of the H1N1 outbreak has been caused by spread through operations with a million plus layers on each site? I wonder whether a more distributed production model would be more resilient, albeit more costly?
Ohio is one of the largest egg producing states and has suffered considerably recently from flu outbreaks, resulting in the killing of millions of layers.
Eggs here are in the four dollar a dozen range, with retailer specials here and there.
Fresh chicken prices remain pretty moderate and have not spiked like those of eggs.
I wonder why this might be?

 

[zzyzzx]

It's easy enough to not eat eggs.

 

[Pablo]

It's easy enough to not eat eggs.

Tell my wife this

Our local market has not raised prices. We have people around us with chickens too

I mainly use them for cooking

And Costco and hoarding- sick of that

 

[thastinger]

A lot of cities allow people to have up to 6 hens but no rooster...you've got to eat a lot of eggs with 6 hens in their prime...but people could help themselves if they wanted to.

 

[Patman]

It's easy enough to not eat eggs.

I don’t like eggs but I love eating the food that eventually develops from them (I love chicken in other words!)

 

[#18FAN]

I ate minimum 11.3 dozen eggs for breakfast last month my consumption remains the same.

 

[Pablo]

I ate minimum 11.3 dozen eggs for breakfast last month my consumption remains the same.

You need a 0.7 bump. Hahahaha

 

[#18FAN]

You need a 0.7 bump. Hahahaha

I'll begin getting 18 a day soon again I better get busy.

 

[Hermann]

I ate minimum 11.3 dozen eggs for breakfast last month my consumption remains the same.

If I ate that many eggs u would swear there was a sulphuric acid leak for a 3 square block area.

 

[jhellwig]

You need a 0.7 bump. Hahahaha

That is just gross..............

My chickens stopped laying completely this winter. I don't like having to buy eggs even when they are cheap.

 

[Analog-1]

Too much attention and panic over something that will raise cholestrol levels and clog ateries.

Completely false information. I have eaten 3 eggs every single day for over 20 years and my labs are fine. Not to mention eggs are very good for you.

 

[BaronHK]

Just sit back and let them pay $50 for a 60 count of eggs at Walmart if they want to and eat something else. I mean, this is ridiculous.

Somehow the plot of Interstellar seems to fit though. The Earth just dies from ecocide while everyone figures "Just eat something else." until we're down to corn and nothing else. No birds in the sky, no chicken, no turkey, no goose, no eggs. I guess that's first.

I didn't have "Earth's ecosystem breaks down and people fight over the last chicken eggs." on my 2025 Bingo card.

Watch it spread to cows, pigs, humans. Not letting USDA inspectors onto the farms fixed everything, didn't it?

 

[overtimeman]

Got a friend who gives us a couple of dozen a week. They are small eggs but he sales his largest eggs so I don't complain.

 

[Al]

People go crazy. they are $7.50 here in SE PA and stock is low. If they raised the price to $12 there would ve even MORE demand. Tou would have thought people would have learned their lesso0ns.

 

[supton]

I've gotten into the habit of a 2 egg omelet in the morning and I'm not sure I'll change course, not until it's like $2 per egg. It's like the price of gas, until I'm willing to change my habits, I'll keep buying & using and just eat the cost (no pun intended).

We did however buy a couple extra pallets of toilet paper. Just in case. 'cuz that made a ton of sense back in the day...

 

[notharry]

Price rite $3.99 a dozen.

 

[SC Maintenance]

Eggland best jumped a buck or two on the weekend to $6 a dozen. Even at double that I would still buy them. Price per nutritional value would still be pretty good even at a buck an egg - IMHO.

Tasty too.

 

[Quattro Pete]

Good quality pasture raised dozen eggs is about $6.50 around here, or at least last time I bought it. I'm sure it's going to be more now because of this panicking.

 

[4WD]

They learned their marketing from Big Oil and Big Pharma!

Which still are made tiny by Big Tech …

 

[DannyM]

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HMMMM??>.... USA EGG CRAZY .. . BIRD FLU !!!!!.. MOST ADVANCED NATION ????

BUT.............. MEXICO... NOTHING.. NO PROBLEM .. HMMMM ..