Yes I know, but having everybody keep chickens now will make the risk shoot through the roof. I mean, if you don't want this pest to stop, that's a good way.
How much for eggs now?
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Yes I know, but having everybody keep chickens now will make the risk shoot through the roof. I mean, if you don't want this pest to stop, that's a good way.
I was just at our BJ's in South Carolina (actually NC - Charlotte Suburb) looking at same display. Interestingly, it was $19.99 for us.
In the US nobody really sells anything smaller than large eggs at retail (medium are rare, small are specialty for 30+ years)
The type of chickens laying eggs outside a farm market setting are not similar to what you are used to or familiar with.
Antique chickens would many times start laying eggs at 4 months, these multipurpose chickens laid eggs that aren’t considered marketable .
If industrial layers start laying at 6 months they again won’t lay many eggs marketable to retail at that point, which is why so called liquid eggs should be the same price now as years ago. (Bad eggs usually go into all sorts of industrial crap)
Bird Flu gets problematic at 6+ months already which kills your production and raises costs.
Your point however is taken, F consumer preferences, grow pullets, sell little eggs and small chickens.
Small eggs 99 cents a dozen, large $8 let the market decide.
Could do this but industrial farms are so specialized they probably literally can’t handle pullets and small eggs.
Roosters oddly are more resistant to bird flu, could grow them for meat and soup stock but most are destroyed because they are harder to raise and lack the breast meat everyone expects, good thighs, wings and legs though, lower fat which might upset some.
A few years back, Kroger would have dozen and a half cartons of eggs as a weekly digital deal every few weeks for around a buck.
My, but things have changed.
I'm seeing $6-7 a dozen locally with a high of $7.99.
This is the market's way of telling you that you don't really need to eat eggs.
My, but things have changed.
I'm seeing $6-7 a dozen locally with a high of $7.99.
This is the market's way of telling you that you don't really need to eat eggs.
Hermann
Site Donor 2023
Was just at Price Chopper and the shelves were stacked to the brim and no one buying them. $6..49 a doz
I punch holes in the air pocket side and boil for 9 mins, then cool in tap water for 10 mins, then peel. Most of the time I can peel them well other than about 1/10 of them. Fresh eggs from the shortage too.
It's also interesting comparing egg sizes between US and Europe, for example. A "large" US egg is about the same size as "medium" egg in Europe, weight wise.
Look at the sizes of pee wee and small grade A eggs, wonder if Euro even recognizes the little stuff?
Canada is different also
There are outbreaks of Avian flu pretty much every single year. It has been common in N America for the past 8 years, so it's nothing new. More birds were culled in recent years (can't recall which, but between '21 and '23) vs 2024.
You'd think she would know what's needed to raise chickens in your backyard then.... How many cities (where the vast majority of people live) don't allow chickens to be raised ? What about people who live in apartments ? It's easy to say "raise your own chickens for eggs" for a news byte when in reality, it's not even close to practical.
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Trader Joe's had its store brand of large eggs for $3.49/dozen in central Virginia yesterday, which was $2 cheaper than even Walmart, Lidl, and Aldi. Customers were limited to one dozen. But Trader Joe's is distantly related to the Aldi stores.
I'm boycotting eggs I have been for the last 3 and 1/2 months. I refuse to pay over $4.50 for a dozen eggs.
I think it's just another tactic to keep the common man down and broke.
They ask high prices for the eggs and as long as they can get it they'll keep taking it from us.
Boycott, eggs don't have long shelf life and chickens don't live more than a few years.
I think it's just another tactic to keep the common man down and broke.
They ask high prices for the eggs and as long as they can get it they'll keep taking it from us.
Boycott, eggs don't have long shelf life and chickens don't live more than a few years.
So they are killing their laying stock just out of spite?
4WD
$50 site donor 2025
20 million is more than a few to replace. DIY? In my village of 12k - there are 3 places selling chicks like crazy.
(To AM … I mean baby chickens
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We are being played for fools.$1.24 at Walmart by me:
