Posted on 09/24/2022 3:45:07 PM PDT by fwdude
I wasn’t aware of any egg shortage until a sign at my store just informed me. I assumed the prices were rising just because of general inflation, but apparently there is a serious worldwide shortage of hen eggs.
Due to a national egg shortage, costs have increased significantly in recent weeks. We will continue to work with our suppliers to improve availability.
Does anybody have any more news on this or any elaboration?
A lot of the shelves in the egg section were empty for the first time since the plandemic. It was really weird and seems to portend some serious economic event on the horizon.
My brother has a few laying chickens and he has no shortage ,LOL
I just read some articles about some countries ending caged egg production in a phase-out plan. I know this could play into this shortage.
I love pasture-raised chicken eggs, but it is very labor and cost intensive.
They don’t lay all year, I’ll bet.
Our Safeway in the San Fran Bay Area was almost completely out of eggs a couple weeks ago. I thought that was really weird. California passed an initiative to be nice to hens which sent egg prices soaring, but that was a while ago.
Bird flu.
Supposedly a lot of flocks have been slaughtered to stop the spread.
I noticed that the 6-pack of eggs that I thought was stupid expensive at $1.59 a week ago was $1.89, yesterday. (Oregon coast)
Yeah, I’ve heard about the bird flu, but this is really recent. Eggs were abundant until a few days ago. Maybe it’s just now filtering down through the market?
Waffle House is buying them all up.
Avian flu. When identified at a producer location, all birds exposed must be euthanized. Can put a producer out of business for months.
They don’t lay all year, I’ll bet.
I know they tear up his yard up all year ,LOL
I used to see periodic empty egg sections at the grocery from time to time during the lockdowns and supply chain interruptions. It’s been a lot better, but I thought I had heard about a prediction in the Spring of an egg shortage sometime this summer.
I’m lucky. There are lots of farmers around here if I ever can’t find them at the grocery stores.
That’s one thing I don’t have to concern myself with. My four Orpingtons keep laying me one or two every day. Now, if I can come up with the feed to keep them happy.
IOW, how to know when government's in charge.
Over here, our gals are laying away. Bonus is that we can cuddle the suppliers.
It is somewhat regional. Prices always spike in the spring then continue to drop as fall approaches. This year the prices did not fall like in years past. If stores did not keep ahead of the demand by raising prices, they have run out and have bare shelves. Probably not coming back this year, so prices will go higher.
When all this talk of shortages started, we decided to re-populate our chicken pen. We have eggs comin’ out our ears now. Might come in handy eventually...
Ours lay all year. They back off a bit in the winter, but they still lay five times more than we need.
Are they still 99 cents a dozen?
“You’ll eat nothing but insects and lab grown meat from naw on sucka!” - New World Order
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