How much for eggs now?

[PandaBear]

Thanks for sharing. But it highlights my confusion. "This disease is carried by wild birds and all it takes is one of them defecating into an animal pen".

So if its carried by wild birds anyway, why not let the whole flock just get it. Any that survive are immune - for some period of time anyway.

You will bankrupt most hen raisers before you get a breed that will be immune, and they likely won't lay eggs too well compare to the egg laying breeds they use right now.

As to why they charge $2 more per hard boiled eggs: because they probably were not boiled in batches and takes extra time boiled to order, and likely 6 mins of stove time instead of 3 mins. I don't eat hard boiled but some may want to, so demand and supply I guess. I think this is the same reason why sausage + egg McMuffin is 2x the price of just sausage McMuffin. One needs stove time to make the egg whereas the other just toss in the microwave sausage over a toaster heated English muffin. Time and space are money.

As to why not just boil eggs at home or why not eat at home instead of eating out for breakfast: you are paying for the convenience and space, not the raw ingredients or the skill to make the food (everyone can probably make eggs for breakfast).

Local gorcery stores sell for $8 / 2 dz (Costco) to $12 / dz (mom and pop). Guess which one runs out first and has a line before opening and which one always has them?

 

[walterjay]

Was just at Redners and saw eggs for $4.99 a dozen.

 

[97prizm]

My grocery store has the entire egg section full. Looks like no one is buying. It looks like the great wall of China made from egg cartons.

A number of chicken farmers more or less said prices will come down but chicks take a couple of years to reach egg laying age.

 

[walterjay]

Was just at Redners and saw eggs for $4.99 a dozen.

But 4 rolls were $6.00

 

[Zee09]

They were in stock yesterday

 

[Rmay635703]

A number of chicken farmers more or less said prices will come down but chicks take a couple of years to reach egg laying age.

When I was a kid they sold pullets and small eggs.

My grandfather in the UP cedar and spruce wilderness would buy “spring chickens “ which was basically a bunch of eggs, he would hatch them and feed before the snow melted, once the snow melted he would release them into his thick spruce as they were big enough to feed themselves, the bugs were thick enough to peel your skin off like a horror movie and the chickens would grow rapidly, he would force my father to grab eggs from the trees around 4 months.

They seemed to start making eggs pretty early but I’m guessing it would be like pigeon eggs, back then you would end up with a mix of hens and roosters if you didn’t pay extra for hatched chicks and he would butcher them a few at a time when he felt like it with all being caught and eaten by snow fly since he didn’t want to buy feed.

Because he didn’t really buy feed to any extent the cost was quite low, his coop was some sort of ramshackle thing made of scrap and many times they were in the trees somewhere.

 

[walterjay]

Last weekend I put an electric fence around my chicken yard. Keep out critters and poachers.

 

[Hall]

The Secretary of Agriculture said it.

I stand by my comment that she has literally zero knowledge of chickens, farming, etc.

 

[Chris142]

If just getting hardboiled eggs why not just boil them at home and put the extra $s back in your pocket?

We have chickens and eggs but you can't hard boiled fresh eggs. Can't peel them. Tried all kinds of tricks and nothing works .

I won't eat eggs any other way. Plus I like to get away from the house occasionally.

 

[Chris142]

I recall that that statement came from a brain-dead, out-of-touch politician who hasn't seen a live chicken since their 2nd-grade field trip to a petting zoo, certainly not from the USDA or an agency that knows something about chickens or eggs.


Same here....

Kroger and Walmart are $6/dozen.

$8 here from Walmart but usually sold out. Much cheaper than the supermarket where they are fetching $1.10 per egg.

 

[Hall]

I have not found an answer on why they have to kill the flock because they got the flu? Anyone know?

So if its carried by wild birds anyway, why not let the whole flock just get it. Any that survive are immune - for some period of time anyway.

See that picture that ArcoGraphite posted ? That's how the egg-production machines live (you can't call them "animals" anymore) and bird flu is highly contagious. It has a 100% mortality rate with no immunity. They won't risk it anyway in case some survive but are carriers, then they infect another group that kills them. Egg-layers are without a doubt highly, genetically-engineered too so the industry isn't afraid to breed in some disease or virii resistance in return for increased production.

These are the same chickens that live in artificial lighting conditions and their bodies think a "day" is 18 hours long instead of 24, so that they produce more.

 

[Hall]

A number of chicken farmers more or less said prices will come down but chicks take a couple of years months to reach egg laying age.

Fixed that for you

 

[ArrestMeRedZ]

I stand by my comment that she has literally zero knowledge of chickens, farming, etc.

I'm not defending her response, but a quick Google search reveals she was raised on a family farm, and received a degree in Agriculture from Texas A&M before she became a lawyer. You, sir, would be incorrect.

 

[Al]

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[Al]

I'm not defending her response, but a quick Google search reveals she was raised on a family farm, and received a degree in Agriculture from Texas A&M before she became a lawyer. You, sir, would be incorrect.

Exactly!!

 

[Wingo]

I stand by my comment that she has literally zero knowledge of chickens, farming, etc.

Rollins has a ton more experience in agriculture than Tom Vilsack did. She grew up in ag, member of the FFA, studied agriculture in college. Tom wasn't connected to Ag at all, at best by proxy since he was in Iowa politics. Honestly, I think Rollins has the most direct agricultural experience of any secretary I can remember.

 

[thastinger]

A number of chicken farmers more or less said prices will come down but chicks take a couple of years to reach egg laying age.

No they don't. They will start laying at 6 months old and when they are 2.5 years old their prime egg laying days are over and it is off to the chicken nugget house.
They will continue to lay eggs well beyond 3 years old but their production drops by half as they get to be 6 or 7, so they don't fit well in the industrial egg laying model of max egg production.
They might be 2 to lay he XXXXL eggs but they start at 6 months with normal size eggs.

 

[Jetronic]

The US government said buy/raise your own chickens.

yes cause of course those won't get sick or spread disease further..

 

[Wingo]

yes cause of course those won't get sick or spread disease further..

Wild birds have been the main ones spreading the Avian Flu. That's why most people that have their own chickens have been covering their runs and not letting them out quite as much to forage. The main thing is chicken feed and their water, not letting the wild birds access it.

 

[Speedy3861]

South Central Pennsylvania, Karns Market (local chain) $6.99/dozen for large eggs, shelf stock was skimpy