FARM Eggs ! What is your situation?

ivantherussian03

Veteran Member
It probably nothing but we’re having unexpected and unexplainable shortages of eggs.

my auntie said egg prices have increased dramatically on west coast. Other people says prices haven’t changed.

what say you?
 

Martinhouse

Deceased
Haven't bought eggs in quite a while but I'll check when I next go shopping. Thanks for the warning!

Am hoping my new hens will start laying within a month or two.
 

JF&P

Deceased
3.06 a doz....at the local Safeway. Seemed to be plenty on the shelf. I never pay any attention to the price.
 
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Blacknarwhal

Let's Go Brandon!
Eggs are cheap and plentiful in SW lower MI. $1.49 a dozen for cage-free grade-A large eggs and those aren't the cheap ones.

The CHEAP ones are something called Penny Smart, which are $0.69 for a dozen grade-A large eggs.
 

Dosadi

Brown Coat
I don't buy eggs, the young family kids watch over the clans chickens

I do look to see what they are selling for, last week a dozen was 90 cents at piggly wiggly.

They have a nice in store deli and the girls there are southron trained so their cooking is pretty good,

Bought some shepards pie and some fried chicken from em to be lazy and not cook one day.
 

DennisD

Veteran Member
With six middle-aged hens, we average about two egg per day. Plenty for wife & I; our daughter gets a duz every other week or so.
 

Melodi

Disaster Cat
We put a light bulb in the chicken house on a timer and between the chickens, ducks, and quail Nightwolf has been using that egg-recipe book that was recommended here about five or six years ago and I ordered from an online used book shop.

Until this week, we also had a rather mild (for Ireland) Winter as well, though they are still laying even with the below-freezing weather.
 

Arnina

Contributing Member
Egg prices have nearly doubled at the local Aldi stores. I haven't checked elsewhere. My family keeps a minimum of 4 dozen fresh in the fridge, and they are rotated out quickly. Store shelves are less full than normally seen, but I chalked that up to the time of year. There's no limit on amount purchased, but the higher price probably limits the amount people choose to purchase unless they really needed the eggs.
 

Displaced hillbilly

Veteran Member
No egg shortage here that I can see. I don’t have to buy them tho. We have our own chickens. And thank goodness my youngest have started laying even with the crappy cold weather. Averaging 5-8/day now.
 

zookeeper9

Veteran Member
Aldi has them for .99
Walmart 5 doz for $4.69

The 7 hens in the backyard are laying 3 to 4 a day because it is still winter.
 

TxGal

Day by day
No shortages here that we've seen, or price increases. I'll check later when I go shopping. We have our own chickens, too. Laying is down a bit, but we're still getting enough to keep us going. Waiting on our barred rocks to start laying, I think we got our first one from them yesterday.
 

naturallysweet

Has No Life - Lives on TB
No store egg shortage. I've noticed non sale prices are rising. I try to eat my chickens eggs. But my pups and cats get 6 eggs a day, so they they store bought. I'm lucky to get enough for myself from my hens. I buy store bought on sale so they can last weeks. That way ,I don't have to pay normal prices.

Just put a new light on my chicken coop. Most of my hens are teenage anyway. So , I'm expecting to be swamped with eggs soon.
 

WalknTrot

Veteran Member
Nothing unusual here.
Eggs are often a fairly local/regional product. Maybe a weather related shipping thing or the like. Winter is the slower time for production, (molt/changeover in flocks) but there shouldn't be any long term shortages, just slightly higher prices.
 

teedee

Veteran Member
We have always had lower egg production in the winter. The wife started feeding left over cat food to the chickens this winter and that has really improved the production. I think it is the added protein because they cant get as many bugs during the winter.
 

parocan

Veteran Member
eggs range from 3.00 a doz here on Vancouver island for the factory eggs, to 6.00 a doz,
for the free range chicken eggs. Factory eggs are easy to get, not so much the free range eggs.
 

rafter

Since 1999
Central Mo....I bought eggs for 58 cents a dozen last week at Aldi's. Egg prices fluctuate especially in the winter due to the cold. When it's real cold hens don't lay as many.
 

john70

Veteran Member
chickens will eat almost anything, left over food, road kill..you can hang it and the chickens love the maggots that fall off
 

SAPPHIRE

Veteran Member
Front range Colorado....anywhere from sale price of less than $2 for 18 up to fancy priced organic free range which may top price at $7 per dozen...…....wide range of option AND PRICE
 

Macgyver

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Have not purchased any in awhile but the grocery store was stocked up last Thursday when I was there. Only reason I really noticed was they have this large out of place open top cooler that will usually be full of sale items. It was crammed full of the store brand eggs.
 

Loretta Van Riet

Trying to hang out with the cool kids.
Friday at Walmart in DuPage Co, IL.
60 egg box for $6.21, One dozen Organic for $3.68, the half-dozen non-organic for $0.51

No limits.
 

SouthernBreeze

Has No Life - Lives on TB
No egg shortage here. Walmart was so stocked with eggs that I bought 3 dozen last time I was there. IIRC, they were 1.78/dozen.
 

Walrus Whisperer

Hope in chains...
I don't buy eggs so don't know how much they go for. I have chickens, around 15 or so. Half are old girls, none of them laying yet, of the young gals, im getting 4-6 a day. I have auxillary lite in the coop, goes away at end of Feb. I sell most of them, eat some. No rooster, if 1 of the newer ladies goes broody, I will get on Craigslist and get some fertiles, I love letting them have that experience. Some just aren't faithful enough, some go berserk if u check up on the chicks, those don't get to do it again. This is what I wanted to do my whole life! I also have 2 bantam duccles in the house. Both not a yr yet, both left leg crippled, 1 lays a tiny egg, other nothing yet. They were given to me, person didnt want crippled chickens. Both r just sweet as pie and rather be in a lap. They have to be alone, the big girls would kill them cause they can't get away. The mille fluer is named Persia cause she looks like a persian carpet, other one is named cream puff cause her coloring is all pale. The worst? I have Marek's disease on my property. It's a crapshoot, it even gets the girls who were vaxxed for it. All in all, it's worth it. Family hates it, they think birds r dirty and their all the same. It very rewarding when I have a couple that love being petted.
 

nomifyle

TB Fanatic
LOL I thought this as about how are your chickens laying. I have no idea what the store prices are because I haven't bought eggs in six years. Right now we have an over abundance from our chickens, a week or so ago I gave away 3 1/2 doz, and we have that much extra again. They are laying 6-9 a day, and at most we might eat 3 each in a day, but not every day. Feed prices some to go up and down.

Judy
 

tech

Veteran Member
Can’t say about store eggs, but no egg shortages here...the warm weather has kept them laying.
 
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