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Currently down to 1 to 1.5 dozen a week, the prices are causing me to shift to other
foods to control costs, sheesh!
Five eggs every day is a lot of eggs, but I know young athletes who eat that many. That's 30 grams of protein, which at our current price of $3.00/dozen, amounts to $1.25/day.
Even if eggs are $6.00/dozen, you are paying only $2.50 for five eggs.
It would hard to obtain the same 30 grams of protein in any cheaper or healthier way.
Y'all need to quantify your egg prices, with the egg sizes you bought.
The CostCo eggs, are only "large."
Not Extra Large, or Jumbo. Those bigger eggs command a premium.
Quail eggs are a different bird....
More importantly. how they were produced. If in conditions where the hens can barely move around and never see the light of day eating the cheapest feed possible, probably the grand amount of $3.99 a dozen some are pitching fits about. If in better indoor conditions eating better feed (semi-free range) around $5.99 a dozen. If given access to an outdoor pen area but still fed better feed inside (free-range) around $7.99 a dozen. If pasture-raised (fed outdoors in rotating pasture areas with diet augmented by bugs/grubs) with indoor nesting/sleep up to $9.99 a dozen, especially if certified organic. The big difference? The yolk and nutrients, not to mention quality of life of said chickens. As with any product that produces a lower yield with more expensive production costs, it costs more at the store. There are no entitlements just because you feel it costs too much with arbitrary "fair prices".
What happened to all those new backyard chicken farmers who rushed out to be “self-sufficient” in the first year of COVID?
Surely, not every one of those new feathered badges of country-ness succumbed to wandering dogs or avian flu. Did people realize how much work it was to produce eggs for one family instead of just adding a carton to the shopping cart?
Everything has a cost. Sometimes it includes more labor than dollars. Sometimes the opposite. We’re still free to make that choice.
They probably have eggs. We do. Home chickens don't get eggs into stores.
Avian flu was a real thing this year, and if one bird got it, they killed every chicken on the whole farm. It was crazy and sad. People were covering their coops and keeping them inside to keep migrating birds from pooping on them when they went over.
It probably had a lot of severe local effects where outbreaks happened and it will take awhile to catch up and replace whole poultry operations.
I bought 10 local-raised large eggs at an open market stand in downtown Chemnitz for 3 Euro (about same as $3 USD) or 30 cents each. Grocery store prices are not much different. The price has been the same since I returned here last May. They sell eggs here as either a half-dozen or 10 pack, not by the dozen. These are from free-range chickens with no antibiotics or hormones. The yolks are dark yellow and the eggs have a real good flavor. I normally eat one hard boiled egg in the morning with my stir pan mix of brussels sprouts, butternut squash, onion, bell pepper, quinoa, lentils or pinto beans with of course garlic and lots of spices.
I wish eggs were only $3 a dozen. They're closer to $5 here.
Same here. The lady I buy my tomatoes from in the summer also has chickens/eggs. Last spring she raised her prices from $3.50 to $4 a dozen due to the price of feed. She’s a bargain now and there IS a big difference between fresh eggs and grocery store eggs.
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