Egg price watch

[Jolly]

@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.

[Mik]

Chicken feed. Snort.

[Jolly]

Local ad sale price... $2.47/dz, limit 2.

[jon-nyc]

[89th]

It takes about 18 weeks for a chick to become a healthy egg-laying hen. In other words, let's just buy a billion chicks from another country, and then watch the price of eggs drop by July 4th!

[jon-nyc]

The store next to my gym has had zero chicken eggs - none at all - since 1/20/25 at 11:59. (Just kidding but it’s been a month or so). Once or twice they’ve had duck eggs.

Today the egg area was about half full, and I got XL brown eggs for 5.99.

[LuFins Dad]

Congratulations!

[LuFins Dad]

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…

[jon-nyc]

It's a specialty organic store that doesn't use typical distributors. It's not where I do most of my shopping, but I drive by it on the way to and from the gym so its a go to for the two things I need or whatever.

In the regular stores around here there have always been eggs, but not necessarily the ones you want (e.g. XL are often missing).

Just now I was at Stop & Shop, the mass market store here, and the cheapest were 7.89 and cheapest XL were 8.09.

I think the low-ish price at Mom's Organic was a loss leader and/or apology for not having them for so long.

[89th]

@LuFins-Dad said in Egg price watch:

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…

Weird. Our eggs at Aldi (usually the cheapest price) are like $6 a dozen. And sold out at Costco.

[Jolly]

Chick to broiler = 6-9 weeks.

Chick to layer = 4-5 months

[xenon]

No eggs at Costco today

[bachophile]

12 size L eggs

14.09 shekel is $3.92

just sayin

[LuFins Dad]

Yeah, but those are Jewish eggs. Probably full of nanobots that can be used for targeting assists for the space lasers.

[Axtremus]

Say, would Israel consider being the 51st of the United States?
Be sure to bring your eggs with you!

[taiwan_girl]

@xenon said in Egg price watch:

No eggs at Costco today

Same in the US. Talked to a friend in IL and they told me the same thing. Their Costco was out of eggs.

[Horace]

My Costco had eggs a week ago. But I'm so egg-rich from HEB, I didn't buy any. I could pretty much bathe in eggs if I wanted to. Feel sorry for those who can't. But let's take some personal responsibility, please. Your own life choices led you to not having eggs.

[LuFins Dad]

Bought a dozen last evening. Plenty in stock, but the price was 60¢ higher than 2 weeks ago.

[jon-nyc]

I’d rather learn to code.

[LuFins Dad]