Egg price watch
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https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/brown_egg_layers.html
TBH, the Red Star hens are probably the most prolific layers, but it's nice to have variety.
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Now, for those who need 6 or 7, you can always check Tractor Supply or the local feed store to see when they'll have chicken.
For dual purpose, I like Buffs.
https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/buff_orpingtons.html
They lay ok and they're pretty big bodied birds. Get straight run, keep the layers and raise the cockerels for meat.
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I don't get the fuss. Eggs are still about two for a buck, which is about as cheap a protein main dish as you can find. It's temporary and will pass.
I think the diners are making a mistake with the surcharge. Just raise the dish price a buck, people will get used to it, then your profits go up when the price of eggs goes down.
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I don't get the fuss. Eggs are still about two for a buck, which is about as cheap a protein main dish as you can find. It's temporary and will pass.
I think the diners are making a mistake with the surcharge. Just raise the dish price a buck, people will get used to it, then your profits go up when the price of eggs goes down.
@Mik said in Egg price watch:
I don't get the fuss. Eggs are still about two for a buck, which is about as cheap a protein main dish as you can find.
Yes, this. Is it just conceivable that Dennys and Waffle House could be exploiting the situation a tiny bit?
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I don't get the fuss. Eggs are still about two for a buck, which is about as cheap a protein main dish as you can find. It's temporary and will pass.
I think the diners are making a mistake with the surcharge. Just raise the dish price a buck, people will get used to it, then your profits go up when the price of eggs goes down.
@Mik said in Egg price watch:
I don't get the fuss. Eggs are still about two for a buck, which is about as cheap a protein main dish as you can find. It's temporary and will pass.
Cheaper than that when you buy in the bulk those guys do…
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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.
