Egg price watch
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Is having your own "backyard" chickens cheaper than the store? I am guessing "no", but never really thought about it.
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I think it depends on whether you’re used to buying $11 a dozen bougie eggs from pasture raised chickens that are given a foot rub every night or the $3 for 3 dozen white eggs laid by what is genetically considered a chicken living in a 6” by 6” cube with a funnel sewn to the gullet to pour in corn mush and water.
My guess is that raising your own chickens doesn’t actually make sense for most that do it, but hey, Crunchy’s gotta crunchy, amirite?
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And yes, if we were in a slightly more rural community without an HOA, Karla would definitely raise chickens…
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If they export them to the US, we'll be able to get them for a $1 each after the tarrifs.
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@Mik said in Egg price watch:
$0.24 per egg US. Not bad. Maybe Canada didn't kill all their chickens.
To my understanding we are vaccinating the all poultry barns and outbreaks so far have been contained. An advantage of the supply management system we maintain over the farm subsidies as in the USA.
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@Mik said in Egg price watch:
$0.24 per egg US. Not bad. Maybe Canada didn't kill all their chickens.
To my understanding we are vaccinating the all poultry barns and outbreaks so far have been contained. An advantage of the supply management system we maintain over the farm subsidies as in the USA.
@Renauda said in Egg price watch:
@Mik said in Egg price watch:
$0.24 per egg US. Not bad. Maybe Canada didn't kill all their chickens.
To my understanding we are vaccinating the all poultry barns and outbreaks so far have been contained.
That must drive all the crunchy moms nuts…
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Is having your own "backyard" chickens cheaper than the store? I am guessing "no", but never really thought about it.
@taiwan_girl said in Egg price watch:
Is having your own "backyard" chickens cheaper than the store? I am guessing "no", but never really thought about it.
Depends on what you feed them. Feeding laying pellets produces more eggs, but the pellets ain't cheap.
If you raise chickens like the old folks, you can raise them incredibly cheap. First, remember a chicken is a hog with feathers. Feed them scraps. Supplement with feed as needed, and the feed doesn't have to be pellets. Give them some crushed oyster shells every so often. Put a drop of bluing in their water occasionally. Let them out of the pen to scratch and peck for food.
Put your rooster to work. Fertilized eggs + laying hen = chicks. At no cost.
As your hens get older and less productive, kill them and eat them. A good hen can weigh half or better what a young turkey weighs and hens have a lot of flavor. And remember those free chicks? Some of those will be cockerels. They are also to be killed at a certain size and eaten.
Barring predators or a communicable illness in your flock, you can keep a perpetual flock for very little money. Chicken feed, to be exact.
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Congratulations!
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Seriously, though? I’ve had zero problems finding eggs and at no significant difference in price beyond standard inflation, I get that’s not normal, but it’s hard to relate…
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