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.
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)
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.
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.
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...
“You’ll eat nothing but insects and lab grown meat from naw on sucka!” - New World Order
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.
-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.
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.