Conspiracy Theorists wanted -> Egg prices
 

Firefighters Continue to Assess Damage After Large Fire at Bozrah Egg Farm – NBC Connecticut

Lets pile on it on when there one theory, and keep exploiting it. .
-competitors

Some reporting, I don’t even see how many chickens died.

As far as expensive eggs, the clueless could do what we have done all of our lives. Turn to other sources of protein and use as few eggs as possible until prices recover and they will. Of course, one could farm with their own hens.

Isn't it obvious? Goldurned hens went and got UNIONIZED.

Probably abducted by aliens! They want something that tastes like chicken for a change. Too many humans on their menus.

While not getting eggcited over some cracked up conspiracy theory, nor taking it just as a yolk either, but quite frankly I'm also not ruling out...fowl play.

:bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:

Eggs, the new status of wealth.

My guess is a way to destroy the bird flu sickness and the building owners were behind on the payments . :shrug:

Meat chickens are going up in price as well.

I understand that Sam's Club will be charging more for those roost-ed chickens.

Rumor has it that it is all a communist plot to make us all vegetarians and save the cows.

At our age, don't you wonder what's next to raises and announce a shortage of something.
Either there's to many people in the world putting a demand food products or the whole world's going to hell.

Now that’s my kind of humor! Eggcellent!

Raise them in the Linai?
 

Are you suggesting you would raise them in your Linai? Just asking. Between the smell, rats, and mice,,, but then again it would solve the problem of using chemicals on the lawn as fertilizer. The lawn will really green up after cleaning out the coop, I mean Linai. Then there's the fly issue. But they'll keep the gecko problem in check, bugs too. I don't remember seeing anything in the compact, so you should be good to go. :jester:

Excellent graphic. Thanx.

One has to wonder though, just what is too much? Back in 1965, that fifty cents we paid a local farmer per dozen eggs would be $4.46 today. I don't know what we spent for milk back then but with five kids growing up in the wilds of northern Minnesota it must have been substantial. Milk came from the same farmer who supplied the community with eggs. If we got there early enough in the day the milk would still be warm from the cow. Freshness was never a problem. Most everything was locally sourced: beef came from a farmer who raised Hereford cattle. A pig or two in the fall went in large part for ham and bacon, which we mostly made ourselves, and the leftover pork scraps and fat, together with a whole deer, meant 150 - 200 lbs. of sausage. I don't ever remember mom buying potatoes at the grocery store. We raised our own; and enough potatoes to feed a family of seven for a year is a whole lot of potatoes. Not one of my fonder memories though...those were the days before gasoline-powered garden tillers so everything--weeding, tilling, hilling, more weeding, more tilling, finally harvesting--was done by hand. To say nothing of the wild blueberries, raspberries, and cranberries that we picked in the fall so mom could turn them into the best jam and sauce on the planet.

We might pay more per capita for our food today, but really not very much more. We're paying not just for the food but for the middlemen; packaging, shipping, etc., as well--things that back in the day were not an issue. What we gain is convenience. We pay $4.50 per dozen eggs but don't have to clean the coop. That Christmas ham that looks so nice in the cooler at Publix is quick, convenient and delicious; but we don't have to butcher the pig, cut up the meat, soak the hams in brine for a month and then smoke it ourselves. We eat as good if not better today than 50 or 75 years ago, and our "labor" consists of filling the cart, paying at checkout, and complaining about the prices. We're not hoeing potatoes for four hours under a hot August sun.

Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't have traded my experiences growing up for anything. We learned a lot more than just gardening and butchering. But, on balance food-wise, Americans today have it better than ever.