Ya they are covered in a mucus like stuff that seals them once laid.I can buy them locally from a farmer for $4.00 per dozen.
Free range chickens with those really dark yolk eggs.
Washed or unwashed, your choice. I hear you can store unwashed eggs on the counter,
but I have never tried that.
For an answer to this question, just check out Cal-Maine Foods stock (ticker CALM). They are one of the biggest egg producers. Stock has nearly doubled in the last year.Have the farmers that do have eggs been able to raise their prices, or is this strictly "demand pricing" at higher levels?
The government pays farms for loss of production due to bird flu, so the farmers have little reason to care. (Without this policy though, there would be an incentive to put tainted eggs on the market.)
Every day hereEggs are $6.00 a dozen here. I cut my intake in half. Going for oatmeal and fruit some days.
Herd animals.People are animals.
You can put some lights over them and turn them on at 5 am and they will start laying like normal.Glad our stupid chickens started laying again after a few months hiatus. They were getting expensive to feed plus eggs are running higher here as well.
In TJ, Mexico now, just got 32 eggs for a little under $5 US. Too bad they don't keep like oil. No shortage of any kind. 2 miles away in the US there is a panic. Wild