Posted on 09/24/2022 3:45:07 PM PDT by fwdude
Iowa will produce around 14-15 billion eggs this year, with several other states at around 10 billion eggs. Egg prices in Iowa grocery stores are down now, easily found less than $2.00 per dozen. Supply and prices elsewhere will follow suit, but note that transport cost is not coming down.
but apparently there is a serious worldwide shortage of egg hens.
Not a chicken vs egg, which one came first thing. The eggs are not fertilized and egg laying hens lay 300+ eggs a year so if there's a shortage of eggs, it's really a shortage of hens. The reason(s) for that, I haven't a clue.
We are getting eight a day... And two duck eggs.
Our cost is $14 every two weeks for feed. Eight Hens and two ducks.
112 Hen’s Eggs & 28 Duck Eggs.
Ten dozen Hen’s eggs
Two and one third dozen Duck Eggs.
Duck eggs cost twice what Hen’s cost.
I wish I could clone the hen I have. Don't feed her and she still lays eggs. She's free range too.
I wish I could keep chickens, but don’t have the ability to tend to them every day as they require. Maybe after retirement.
-PJ
All according to plan...
I haven’t seen any egg shortage. Just ate a couple of boiled eggs. Still can’t get excited about any “plandemic” or other stories about COVID, either, even though I’ve now had it for the first time for about a week (home test, no hospital, no doctor, no crazy home remedies).
Here in the Los Angeles area, Ralph’s (Kroger) has been completely out the last couple times I checked, in the last 2 weeks. Sprouts Farmers Market still had plenty, but most were the expensive free-range kind. I had mistakenly thought Ralph’s was just having a refrigeration problem, so thanks for bringing the issue to my attention.
I started waterglassing eggs back in April.
Started sampling them yesterday; they’re kinda watery, but good for scrambling.
And I’ve got about 30 dozen.
Should get me through the winter once my hens slow down.
I’m sure I’ve had COVID without knowing it. It’s the only deadly disease you can have with no symptoms.
It’s true!
I was at the grocery yesterday to buy eggs. I checked the carton for broken eggs and darn it, there were two eggs missing.!
So I got different carton since there were plenty to choose from.
The chickens are demanding $15/hr.
Holy heck! I’m getting ready to bake a lot of cookies for a wedding. That Pittsburgh tradition - the wedding cookie table! And wouldn’t you know eggs and butter are either through-the-roof expensive or hard to get! Oh well - my niece is worth it.
I think..
Hmmm.. Our local store has lots of eggs, and they cost lots of money, $3.99 a doz.
California, ain't you just sick to death of hearing about California..?
Not even close, even at Easter time. I remember those days though!
Lot of people thought they'd buy a couple of backyard chickens over the pandemic and take advantage of all them "free" eggs. They found out how expensive free could get.
The imagined spread. Farmers have gone outside the government for testing that has come back negative after being declared positive by the government.
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