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Egg price watch

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  • T taiwan_girl
    25 Feb 2025, 14:38

    Is having your own "backyard" chickens cheaper than the store? I am guessing "no", but never really thought about it.

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    Jolly
    wrote on 25 Feb 2025, 20:35 last edited by
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    @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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      Mik
      wrote on 25 Feb 2025, 20:45 last edited by
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      Chicken feed. Snort.

      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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        Jolly
        wrote on 25 Feb 2025, 23:57 last edited by
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        Local ad sale price... $2.47/dz, limit 2.

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        Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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          jon-nyc
          wrote on 26 Feb 2025, 15:37 last edited by
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          "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
          -Cormac McCarthy

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            89th
            wrote on 26 Feb 2025, 15:43 last edited by
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            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!

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              jon-nyc
              wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 21:22 last edited by jon-nyc 3 Jan 2025, 21:31
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              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.

              "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
              -Cormac McCarthy

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                LuFins Dad
                wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 22:23 last edited by
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                Congratulations!

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                  LuFins Dad
                  wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 22:25 last edited by
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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…

                  The Brad

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                    jon-nyc
                    wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 23:06 last edited by jon-nyc 3 Jan 2025, 23:07
                    #38

                    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.

                    "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
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                    • L LuFins Dad
                      1 Mar 2025, 22:25

                      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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                      89th
                      wrote on 2 Mar 2025, 00:26 last edited by
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                      @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.

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                        Jolly
                        wrote on 2 Mar 2025, 00:50 last edited by
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                        Chick to broiler = 6-9 weeks.

                        Chick to layer = 4-5 months

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                          xenon
                          wrote on 2 Mar 2025, 05:01 last edited by
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                          No eggs at Costco today

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                            bachophile
                            wrote on 2 Mar 2025, 12:51 last edited by
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                            12 size L eggs

                            14.09 shekel is $3.92

                            just sayin

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                              LuFins Dad
                              wrote on 2 Mar 2025, 13:40 last edited by
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                              Yeah, but those are Jewish eggs. Probably full of nanobots that can be used for targeting assists for the space lasers.

                              The Brad

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                                Axtremus
                                wrote on 2 Mar 2025, 13:48 last edited by
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                                Say, would Israel consider being the 51st of the United States?
                                Be sure to bring your eggs with you!

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                                  2 Mar 2025, 05:01

                                  No eggs at Costco today

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                                  taiwan_girl
                                  wrote on 3 Mar 2025, 15:12 last edited by
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                                  @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.

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                                    Horace
                                    wrote on 3 Mar 2025, 15:24 last edited by
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                                    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.

                                    Education is extremely important.

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                                      LuFins Dad
                                      wrote on 3 Mar 2025, 15:27 last edited by
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                                      Bought a dozen last evening. Plenty in stock, but the price was 60¢ higher than 2 weeks ago.

                                      The Brad

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                                        jon-nyc
                                        wrote on 4 Mar 2025, 04:46 last edited by
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                                        I’d rather learn to code.

                                        "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                                        -Cormac McCarthy

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                                          4 Mar 2025, 04:46

                                          I’d rather learn to code.

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                                          LuFins Dad
                                          wrote on 4 Mar 2025, 05:25 last edited by
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                                          @jon-nyc said in Egg price watch:

                                          I’d rather learn to code.

                                          Oh good lord, please don’t encourage Karla…

                                          The Brad

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