Posted on 11/13/2025 10:45:11 AM PST by DallasBiff
US egg prices October 2025 have collapsed at a record pace. According to the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), wholesale egg prices have dropped 86% since March, falling from about $8.20 per dozen to just $1.15 per dozen this month.
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Yeah. It is.
If you want them to lay eggs in any quantity.
The birds that chickens were bred from only produce eggs when there is an abundance of seeds(grain). When there are no seeds they do not lay eggs.
Your pasture raised chickens were fed lots of grain, they are just allowed to run around outside for a bit and eat other things as well.
Some Freeper raises chickens that way, says the birds eat bugs and worms, lizards and even a frog. Grain fed to hen house birds is not their natural diet.
It is like watching a minature “Jurrasic Park” with no happy ending for the mouse.
True and it takes about six months for new egg layers to come online. Prices should be stabilizing soon.
It won’t be cheaper. Nothing really never goes down.
Understatement of the millennium.
Biden was murdering all the chickens. Many eggs had to become chickens to drive prices back down.
Great explanation. Interestingly for a good while, the eggs from the localvore farmers at the farmer’s market were cheaper than the chains. Beautiful orange yolks. But went back to Eggland’s the moment Sam’s Club 18-count dropped back under 6 bux.
Paid $1.99/18 eggs last week at Krogers.
JMHO but people should continue to buy say a quarter of their eggs from the small suppliers. It keeps them in business and a back up system, even a small one is very useful.
We are sure.
And it doesn't take long to create a generation of egg layers, just 6-8 months. During COVID, my BIL was driving a rendering truck and Iowa farmers were killing tens of thousands of pigs. Unlike cattle, processors want a certain size pig, plus they need to be in containment & expensive feed. Cows can stay outside & sustained on grass & hay.
Is every urinalist as stupid as they seem?
Never mind.
$2.72 for eggs and also $2.72 for whole milk yesterday South Florida Aldi.
I’m in big time egg country in N. GA.
The little guys with the roadside stands did well, and never got stupid expensive like the grocery stores. And generally had product.
It was surreal comparing that to the gloom and doom being reported about eggs by the Fake Media.
Like I said. Our chickens were fine. I know people who mix pasture with quail, turkeys and chickens. Which is something I wouldn't do as blackhead is probably one of the most distressing things I have ever seen happen to turkeys outside of racoons but they were fine.
We don't raise for the market, just ourselves and extended family with a few going to friends.
But quite a few people I know expanded the size of their flock and were making money selling four or five dozen eggs a day at a price that was somewhere about half of what you were paying in stores. There were a few that tried to price gouge but they either vanished or quietly dropped their price down to a reasonable level.
Which is how the free market is suppose to work. :)
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