Egg prices skyrocketed because millions of birds were killed off due to bird flu. Biden Admin arguably went a little overboard with forcing more kills than necessary.
MAGA 🇱🇷🎆
The destruction of millions of chickens due to the claim of “Bird Flu in the Biden Years! When clean eggs are hatched it still takes SIX MONTHS for those chicks to begin laying eggs, which would be right about.....now.
Thank you President Trump.
Biden deliberately slaughtered chickens just before handing over power, to drive up egg prices so the fake news media/Democrats could blame President Trump.
The crimes of the Democrats never end.
Bird flu has had several cycles of killing chickens and turkeys.
But they blamed the high prices on Trump
I believe he was responsible for some milk dumping, too. And whoever heard of a baby formula shortage?
$1.97 for a dozen large the other day at WalMart .
“Affordability!”
Affordability!
Egg prices still running very high on the west Coast with CA having the highest in the nation.
Pondering thought. Egg prices will decline eventually. I think businesses are taking note of the convenience stores owned by Indians. Fuel prices are not declining because almost every convenience stores are owned by Indians. Call it price fixing if you like. I was talking with an owner and about fuel prices and how inside sales is where the profit is. He fired back and explained that since the great Rona scare where they were making .10 per gallon they now make .25 per gallon because they all decided not to lower the price as a collective group in my local town.
Egg prices still running very high on the west Coast with CA having the highest in the nation.
Grok:
“Difference: Gas costs about 30% more ($0.87/gallon higher) on a population-weighted basis in states with Democratic-controlled legislatures
Affordability!!!
Again, not in Oklahoma. Price gouging is real, and almost all grocery stores are owned by one corporation.
I will give a very simplified explanation of how things work in commercial egg production.
It takes a laying hen (white leghorn) between six to nine months to grow to egg laying maturity.
They start laying at six months but the eggs are often small and not suited for the supermarket. They go to the factory to be processed into egg powder or the stuff in cartons.
If you have a 3000 laying hen farm you would have 500 new chicks, 500 who are at six months, 500 who were around a year, 500 that were at a year and half, 500 at two years and 500 that at two and half years and are due to be culled when the next batch of chicks arrive from the hatchery in six months.
All very simple. But the little man from the Ag department shows up and says that there is suspicion of bird flu in a egg farm ten miles away and so they are going to slaughter all your birds.
And that is exactly how it worked. You did not have to have any sick birds. Maybe even the ground zero farm did not have any sick birds. There was just a suspicion.
There is no court of appeals. Your birds will be slaughtered.
So you clean out your empty sheds. And you need to replace the laying hens. But you can't.
The hatchery has your standing order for 500 chicks and they have set things up for you to get that number every six months. They can not suddenly produce 3000 chicks for you. There is some wiggle room but not that much. And none of the other chicken farms in your area that have been culled are going to get replacements either. Let's say there were five farms in the area affected. That is 12,500 eggs a day no longer being produced. And it will be six months before that number will budge. And the five farms will be producing 2,500 at most.
And heaven help us if a hatchery got hit.
They would be at least nine months before they could start producing chick again.
Are we sure they’re not fibbing about $8.20/dozen wholesale in March? I never encountered basic eggs that high on the retail level in an expensive area.
It’s a lot easier to get chickens up and running then cattle. Hopefully we fix the cow problem too but I think that will take a little longer.
The egg prices were artificially caused by killing off a lot of chickens
It won’t be cheaper. Nothing really never goes down.