Just got eggs at BJ’s for $4.50 a dozen. The prices are on the way down after the kill of from last year.

They probably are but who cares other than fight farms? :oops:

Is there such a thing?

Yes. Or so I have been told. 😒

Roosters are mean all on their own. Have more than a few serious wound marks on my arms and legs. I was just walking through the yard. I swear roosters are stealthy, and live to hide and attack. As kids we were more afraid of roosters attacking, then snakes.

Put two fully adult roosters anywhere near each other and one isn’t going to walk away.

Around 1947, my parents decided to raise chickens in the garage of our country home (think starter home). So the story goes (I wasn't born yet) neither one of them could go into the garage to collect the eggs without being attacked by the rooster. My father had to take a broom with him. Then he couldn't bring himself to kill a chicken.

Needless to say, it was a failed experiment. I don't think they knew what they were doing, and supposedly some farmer in the area ended up with free chickens and a rooster.

Followed closely by the dog eating a pound of black-market butter. I still wasn't there, so it's all hearsay.

If there were no roosters, chickens would cease to exist.

Well, true enough I suppose, but then saying 'A 135%+ percent increase above $2.17 would be over $2.18' would also be technically correct. And saying that there is an X% increase IS math.

Besides the bird flu raising prices there is panic buying, it's similar to the hoarders of toilet paper during the pandemic.
The world is not going to collapse if eggs are not part of our diet.
I'm sure mankind will find alternatives to eggs to consume if need be.
I'm going to make myself a ham sandwich.

I have never met a nice rooster, so it’s a true story. Until my 30s, my Grandparents, had a garden that was 2 acres of vegetables, 2 acres of fruit, hen house of 20, and a giant rooster.

My granny carried a hatchet with her every morning to gather the eggs. For some reason the rooster never attacked her. But everyone else was fair game.

And I heard that he personally culled all those chickens! No wonder the guy looked so tired the last couple years... :laugh:

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Generally there are two different types of farmers one that raises chickens for meat, the other one that raises chicken for eggs so that there are different farms and they are separated..

As to why they don't get sick, same reason you can spray your grass with some weed killers and they'll only kill the weeds.

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Two different types of chicken!!!!

How many eggs are produced each month?
 

SoCalGal gave a very good in depth answer to the layers vs boilers question. In April 2024, 8.93 million chicken eggs were produced. If 20 million layers are culled, that is a significant impact on supply. Think of everything that uses eggs. Us at home, restaurants, bakers, factories producing bread, pancakes and waffles. ice cream, and on an on. We use a lot of eggs in the U.S. every day. I went to Wolfy's in Leesburg and they are charging a .50 cent surcharge per egg. So is Dennys and Waffle House.

Biscuits and sausage gravy.