[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by DangeloInspections

My granddaughter has 4 chickens. She cares for them, feeds them and collects the eggs daily. I am teaching her capitalism.....I buy a dozen eggs from her when needed....I pay her $5.00 per dozen, delivered to me. She is saving her money. She won a blue ribbon at the 4H county fair.

If you have ever tried real fresh farm raised eggs, you will never go back to buying them from a store.

Frank D.

Yup I used to buy eggs from a friend who had a farm up north. She had a bunch of different animals, and sometimes she'd swap out a chicken egg with a duck egg as a treat.

Down here, there's a place I know I can get fresh eggs but can't remember the name of it. Meanwhile I get them from Walmart, and switch between Happy Eggs and Handsome Eggs, depending on what they look like that day.

I just checked, the price for each is up around 50 cents a dozen. But when you're paying between $4.50 and $5.50 a dozen to begin with, 50 cents is not a deal-breaker.

[Laker14]

Originally Posted by Keefelane66

I don’t know where you’re shopping. If the price of a product you may want is to high just walk on. No one is forcing anyone to buy

Really? Wow! That's good to know! Thanks, Coach!

[La lamy]

Originally Posted by MartinSE

4 million chickens is less than 1% of the chickens, it is not the reason. The BIG reason, in my not so humble opinion, and it is opinion, I have not looked into it, is fuel and feed prices are hitting the egg farmers.

I listened to an NPR article interviewing a farmer in New Mexico the other day, his year over year cost of diesel fuel when from $6,000 to $16,000 and fertilizer more than doubled since last year.

We are in a pretty high inflation period, that is possibly due to so much money being dumped into circulation because of the pandemic. It was the right thing to do, might have been done better. Now, I fear draconian measures are going to be put in place to stop the inflation and we will see a serious recession next year. But, that is just my opinion, I am not an economist.

That's what I figure too.

[Newvilla]

Remember: Eggs were probably underpriced for years. Until the last two years, eggs were around a dollar a dozen. Egg producers weren’t making much.

[mrrmauu]

Originally Posted by Keefelane66

I don’t know where you’re shopping. If the price of a product you may want is to high just walk on. No one is forcing anyone to buy

Need forces people to buy food. Since EVERYTHING is up, do you expect people to starve while they wait for prices to come down?

[Villages Kahuna]

I don't know about the price of eggs, but the cost of restaurant quantities of bacon supplied by CISCO has quadrupled in price--from $22 to $88 per box.

[taruffi57]

I pay $4 for yard eggs from
a couple whose chickens produce way more than they can eat. Just outside TV. Do you know what mass produced chickens are fed and what antibiotics they are given?

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by DAVES

Truth, you will find we are not allowed to keep chickens. I've never kept chickens but we had a friend who did. Like most farm products it is amazing how cheap it is. Commonly grown stuff. Tomatoes-you buy the pots for, the soil for, the plants for. Our cost per sq foot of garden space. Cost for YOUR LABOR. True cost?

I'm growing blueberries. The birds eat all of them. I left them a bill and they claim they can't read. Chickens. If, they were legal the racoons, cayotes would not even thank you for dinner.

We have a small kroy pond in the back of our house apparently former owner had them and birds helped themselves. She should have put out a sign catch and release.

[taruffi57]

Originally Posted by charlieo1126@gmail.com

Ha ha I eat 100% liquid eggs , one small carton is about the price of dozen eggs and I assure you doesn’t taste as good, but a banana, some liquid eggs , dry wheat bread , double espresso and I’m good to go to gym lol

Have you read the Ingredients on those "liquid" eggs?

[airstreamingypsy]

Wah, wah, wah..... Driveway pity party at 5:00. Good grief, seriously? A post about the price of eggs?

[donassaid]

I'm with you. Totally ridiculous. Easter 2 years ago the neighborhood Walmart had eggs at 50 cents/dozen. They are now well over $3.00. 8% inflation? Is that the new math? That's a 600% increase. Milk went from $2.15/gal to $4.30/gal and we all know what is going on at the gas pumps. Elections have consequences which, hopefully you will remember in November.

[MartinSE]

Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna

I don't know about the price of eggs, but the cost of restaurant quantities of bacon supplied by CISCO has quadrupled in price--from $22 to $88 per box.

I don't know if this applies, but it seems it would.

A year or so ago there was a shortage of toilet paper. The reason was that people were staying home, and not going out as much. So, they were using more toilet paper at home and less at businesses - like convince stores, restaurants, offices, etc. The entire supply chain was disrupted because the two types of toilet paper have different requirements.

So, there was a surplus of commercial toilet paper and a shortage of home toilet paper. This resulted in a rise in prices until the suppliers changed their production lines. Most producers schedule on a "just in time" schedule and a disruption takes a while to recover from.

I expect the same is true of commercial food products - eggs, bacon, etc. With people for so long not going to restaurants the supply chain adapted to the lower demand. Now, we have a green light to go out, and a lot of people have all the pandemic money they got, so restaurants are seeing a rise in customers, and that drives demand, and the supply chain will take a while to react - and until the prices will soar.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by airstreamingypsy

Wah, wah, wah..... Driveway pity party at 5:00. Good grief, seriously? A post about the price of eggs?

Why not?

[MartinSE]

Originally Posted by airstreamingypsy

Wah, wah, wah..... Driveway pity party at 5:00. Good grief, seriously? A post about the price of eggs?

New Rule!

No one can post anything unless everyone thinks it is important.

[charlieo1126@gmail.com]

Originally Posted by taruffi57

Have you read the Ingredients on those "liquid" eggs?

yes I have and I only buy the ones that say 100% liquid egg whites only