Your Egg Prices Could Be So High Because of Price Gouging, Farm Group Says.

[hippywife]

As usual, it seems our corporate overlords never miss an opportunity to turn a disaster into profits.

https://farmaction.us/2023/01/20/time-your-egg-prices-could-be-so-high-because-of-price-gouging-farm-group-says/

[AllaN01Bear]

1. thank you!!!!. could, could?!!!

i aint smart but i aint stupid either . milton the monster.

[Siwsan]

2. No doubt

With the price so high, I've pretty much stopped baking.

I've also noticed the price of potatoes is going down but the price of frozen hash browns, fries, etc, are still high and getting higher. 5 pounds of potatoes cost less than 32 oz of frozen hash browns. So I buy the potatoes and make my own hash browns. Now I'm going to try making fries in my new air fryer.

[AllaN01Bear]

3. and make biden look bad.

[calguy]

4. Glad we have 25 chickens in the backyard

By the time I start figuring out how much my wife has spent on six coups, fencing, feed, and everything else it takes to maintain her hobby, we're averaging about $46 a dozen for our eggs,.

But then, the enjoyment she gets from raising chickens is priceless, and it feels good to give most of our eggs to the local food bank every week.

[hippywife]

6. We used to keep chickens years ago.

By the time we got the coup together and a chicken tractor, most of which we made from recycled materials, all other costs were pretty minimal. We also reduced feed by letting them range the garden and eat whatever bugs they found there, as well as moved them around the yard in the tractor for the same purpose, which also makes for better, richer eggs. They also loved fruit and vegetable kitchen scraps.

It was fun having them, and not a terrible amount of cost or work.

[Warpy]

8. It was cost effective for my grandmother

because she not only got the eggs, she got stewing hens when their egg laying days were over and what my grandmother could do to an old, tough hen was magical. Since she always kept at least one rooster, she had new hatchlings every spring, contributing young roosters to the chicken dinner supply.

Unless you're letting your hens die of old age, you can still get your money's worth out of them.

Oh, and another benefit my granny got, she'd wring their necks when their time was up, hang them on the clothesline over her garden, and pop the heads off to drain the blood into the garden soil. That garden was amazing, she got tons of food out of a relatively small urban plot, decades of chicken blood providing abundant nitrogen. No, I wasn't traumatized, I knew where meat came from already.

[calguy]

10. Our hens are pets

They continue to eat feed and die of old age a couple years after they stop laying. I joke when I say our eggs cost $46 a dozen. I've never tried to put a dollar figure on it. It's just something I use to tease my wife about.

[Warpy]

11. See, I don't get that

I find it cruel to put them through old age, something that wouldn't happen if they chose their own lives. Old chickens who can't take to the trees any more become meals for something else. Being old myself, it's a condition I'd be happy to prevent in critters I loved. I always think that's the deal we made with our meat animals, we'd make sure they had plenty of food and so would their young and we'd protect them from predators and save them from old age when their secondary purpose had ended. For a wool sheep, that's about eight years. For a laying hen, it's three or so. For a loudmouthed, annoying rooster, it's considerably less.

Then again, I kept my cats going until they told me they'd had enough. Then it was off to the vet. One made it to 21.

[TygrBright]

5. NO!!! I am so SHOCKED! Gobsmacked, I tell you!! Who would EVER.... oh, wait. Ne'mind. n/t

[Phentex]

12. HA HA!

Yeah water is wet. I tried to tell my husband this. I can't believe that prices are tripled or quadrupled because of bird flu or labor shortage or whatever. Meanwhile, the prepackaged hard boiled eggs only went up by 15/20 cents.

[twodogsbarking]

7. Weatherman says snow come from sky, falls down, slowly.

[elleng]

9. 'Naturally.'

Noticed gas price increasing here too, up to 3.45? yesterday, had been 3.20-ish.