The Chicken Ranch said:

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Diseases can eventually be isolated and flocks replaced in time.

Feed costs, which is heavily transportation driven and labor driven, is a major contributing factor.

Do people really think that you can sell eggs at $1.29/dozen with $15/hour labor and $4+ diesel? Yeah. Maybe in fantasyland.

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How does this price rise affect the Lone Star Card shoppers?

$1400 in early 2021 and UE benefits that ended in summer 2021 and extended child tax credit are why eggs are more expensive?

If that is true then we have a much bigger poverty problem than we know.

HollywoodBQ said:

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The Chicken Ranch said:

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Diseases can eventually be isolated and flocks replaced in time.

Feed costs, which is heavily transportation driven and labor driven, is a major contributing factor.

Do people really think that you can sell eggs at $1.29/dozen with $15/hour labor and $4+ diesel? Yeah. Maybe in fantasyland.

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How does this price rise affect the Lone Star Card shoppers?

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To make sure the corporate overlords don't miss out, I wouldn't be surprised if Abbott would have Texas give them (card shoppers) whatever adjustments are needed so they continue trickling tax dollars up to any company feeling the pinch.

Cheapest dozen at my local HEB, according to the app is $4.45, or about 37 cents/egg

Ghost of Bisbee said:

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I bought 2 dozen for $5 at Costco in California the other day

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I guess you're one of the lucky ones. We were at Costco last weekend in FW and they were out.

That CA price doesn't seem accurate. Just pulled up receipt on the app and I paid $8.29 for two dozen at Costco in Katy 2 weeks ago. Pasture raised organic.

It's like California is TRYING to drive people out of their state.

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/iowa-lifts-ban-live-bird-235600849.html

I know, I know, it's a yahoo article, but with Iowa being the number one egg producer and hearing stories all fall of the flu destroying flocks in Central and Northern Iowa, figure I'd post it. When the earlier post says farmers can't afford the food, remember that most egg and chicken production is contract raising just like hogs. The large companies own the birds and usually the feed mills. The farmer puts the building up and is paid so much for the space and other incentives on top of that. I'm sure 100% isn't like that, but a vast majority are. Most of these sensational videos about farmers woes are just for headlines and clicks.

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And here is all the issues. Corporations are controlling our food. Look at the huge pork plants outside eagle grove. No way that much food should be controlled by a corporate office and the farmer used as a work force. Only way to fix our food issues in this country is for more people to get off ass and buy direct from a real farmer not a corporate banker. They will starve you someday if you don't learn how to grow your own. All these kids selling mom and dads farm in iowa to live in Chicago May someday live to regret going to the ballet and art show over the barn and hen house. For those when they go hungry I won't care. I plan to grow my own on Land owned by family and not sold through the generations to blow on the Easy life. Good luck to the fool living on a non corner lot in the city. Oh and if I catch them in my garden I'll fertilize it. Theft of food will be an issue if the liberals have their way about it.

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I was told my chickens wouldn't really save me money. I was fine with that as I like the farm eggs. I spend about $20 a month on a bag of pellets and let them free range for bugs and seeds and grass shoots and get usually enough eggs that I give some away to family regularly.

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Same here. My 3 free range hens give too many eggs as it is, and the duck should start laying in the spring. Some costs beyond the feed (which isn't much since they feed themselves on the pasture), but it's minimal. Didn't think the prices would go up the way they did when I got them last year, but I'm in Idaho, so it's probably not too bad here. Should check next time I go to the store and see where it's at now.

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Costs go way up when you scale up……

I've got over 100 that I let free range but they still require feed or egg production goes way down.

Avian flu is an issue contributing to this and so is inflation. I was paying $12 for scratch grains two years ago, now it's $16. Oats, lay pellets, corn all have similar % increases.

The big problem w this is that eggs are used as ingredients in all sorts of foods. Bakeries are going to have to significantly raise prices of their goods.

Everyone is going to need to learn how to enjoy a $4.00 taquito at Whataburger and $50.00 birthday cake

I was told I was wrong ad that eggs were $2 a dozen just a month ago

Keep them heads buried people

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That CA price doesn't seem accurate. Just pulled up receipt on the app and I paid $8.29 for two dozen at Costco in Katy 2 weeks ago. Pasture raised organic.

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You're comparing California prices to Katy? That's an odd way to make a conclusion.

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AgCPA95 said:

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That CA price doesn't seem accurate. Just pulled up receipt on the app and I paid $8.29 for two dozen at Costco in Katy 2 weeks ago. Pasture raised organic.

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You're comparing California prices to Katy? That's an odd way to make a conclusion.

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He said he paid $5 for 2 dozen…I would expect it to $10 or more based on Katy pricing. Just saying his price doesn't make any sense.

365 by Whole Foods Market, Cage-Free Non-GMO Large Brown Grade A Eggs, 12 Count (Pack of 1)

$3.39 delivered today in NYC. Many people on local pages complaining the grocery stores in rich and poor areas alike are selling eggs for $8-$12/dozen.

It seems many stores are taking advantage of the fact people heard eggs are expensive.

My eggland's best stock.

Okay, got it. I missed the 5 dollars at Costco in CA part.

I've heard from a few people that their chickens started laying again when they changed their food from mass production stuff. Even seen a few posts about it on social sites.

I think I paid $3.39/dozen yesterday at the Whole Foods in downtown Sunnyvale, which is pretty standard. They haven't had the 18 packs for a while though, and they did have a sign limiting customers to two one dozen cartons due to the shortage (and they did blame avian flu), but the price was still the same.

Generally stocking levels on things have been improving, but it's not like back when I lived in Texas last year by any means. I frequently have to bounce back and forth between skirt and hanger steak depending on availability. I've been meaning to go to Costco more often as I've heard they have a better meat selection, and I kinda want to start doing some hotpot at home and they've got that thin sliced shabu shabu stuff over there.

The real shortage out here is still quality low level employees and decent housing. The Chipotle near me sucks ass, and the chicken wings places out here pale in comparison to a Texas WingStop. My one bedroom luxury apartment runs 4k, small houses across the street are $2M+, and the folks who run the counter at Chipotle for $15 an hour near me just can't afford to really live out here.

I'm a FANG employee out here after working in Houston for over a decade, and this place is a play land if you can get one of these jobs. But I see what the hunger games movies were about now that I'm out here. Poor black woman that drove me around to find apartments when I moved hear damn near cried when I tipped her $100 for the day. Real nice lady, had a mom with dementia, she was trying to show me around when there was a situation at home and her kid was blowing up her phone about that she really should have been dealing with it seemed. I cut the day early and tipped her, asking if we could follow up next weekend on finding a place. I'm the guy ****ing these people over because I make the money that's driving them out, but this is where the real money jobs for me are, and I don't know the answer on helping them outside of un-****ing this place politically.

This is a great new poster

Better eggs than toilet paper.

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This is a great new poster

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I'm a little more old school than that, I was around here when Listeater happened and the Bomar story broke here first. I'm not an Ag, will never have the tag, but have some association with BCS and my friends got me on the forum years ago, I just lost my danged password and login so I made a new account.

I worked oil and gas for a long time, upstream, technology division. Money got too good to ignore and upstream was **** when I left. I don't think folks on TA really understand the situation out here in CA. Things are more complicated than what you see getting posted on TA for the most part.

Don't want to dox myself or anything, but I'll provide what perspective I can. Registered Republican when I got here and got my firearms safety certificate at Reed's in San Jose if that gives me any cred for not being a CM. There's lots of us out here for the money, we just shut up at work about politics and grind. I've got Santa Cruz, Montara Beach, Mavericks, PCH, some other cool places within an hour of my front door. Working on learning to surf this next year when it warms up a touch, still ****ing cold with a 4/3 full suit right now. I didn't even need a shorty in the Caribbean. The road to the Lick observatory is ****ing trip as are most of the canyon roads if you're into cars. Miatas actually make sense out here. The nature out here is amazing, that and the weather are the biggest pull for me (plus the jobs, top notch talent for coworkers, and the mucho dinero). I'll have >20K in my 401K for the year by next Thursday. I'll hit the fed limit of like 58k or 61k or whatever by April. Stocks and taxable savings on top, but we seriously work all the time. Way more intense than any past job I've had, but if you're the right type this is what you want. Didn't know what I'd been missing my whole career til I made it here. Performance gets rewarded, literally zero ****s given about anything else.

Like the egg situation might suck if they raise prices or run out, but do I give a **** given everything else? The answer is yes, it's just annoying. The highs out here are higher, the lows are lower too.

I'm gonna quote Trump, there's good people on both sides of the issues. The only truly bad people I've met are the money driven aggressive types unrestrained by ethics. FANG is rampant with those psychopaths. You find the good folks on your teams and work around the others. This place is all about performance and nothing else, you have to align with the good ones and work together to make these places right. Oddly enough my boss loves me for the values I learned in my old industry and bring to the job every day. Good people are good people, we just believe different things politically due to different life experiences, most folks just need to learn and understand. ****s just more complex out here than folks realize, problems are harder than they think. But good morals are the foundation to solving them. We just have to want to help people instead of fight about it.

Corporate greed is the producer of Egg-Land's Best, Farmhouse Eggs & Land O'Lake Eggs, increasing its profits by 65% last quarter to a record-breaking $198 million while doubling the price of eggs & reporting no positive cases of avian flu. Yes. We need a windfall profits tax.

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 15, 2023

66k for 2023

Manhattan said:

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Corporate greed is the producer of Egg-Land's Best, Farmhouse Eggs & Land O'Lake Eggs, increasing its profits by 65% last quarter to a record-breaking $198 million while doubling the price of eggs & reporting no positive cases of avian flu. Yes. We need a windfall profits tax.

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 15, 2023

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Yea because taxes always make prices go down. Dumbest people on earth.

Colorado (California junior) has the same law on the books too. All eggs have to come from cage free hens. Grociers limit two egg items per customer becuase of the shortage.

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Ghost of Bisbee said:

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I bought 2 dozen for $5 at Costco in California the other day

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How many days ago was "the other day"? 36 counts at Walmart in Texas have been $15.50 nearly all week

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He's literally just making **** up.

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I paid 5.50 for 1.5 dozen eggs at HEB last night.

for those of you who raise chickens, use crumbles vs. the laying pellets. My birds kept wasting the pellets looking for smaller size bites.

Hill Country Fair brand 1.5 dozen at Frisco HEB are $6.25. Went to Costco and got 2 dozen for $7.19

Just dumb

IndividualFreedom said:

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for those of you who raise chickens, use crumbles vs. the laying pellets. My birds kept wasting the pellets looking for smaller size bites.

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Don't over feed them. If they are hungry enough, they'll eat the pellets. I try to mix in scratch grains, cracked corn, rolled oats and/or sunflower seed w the pellets. I usually only use crumbles for baby chicks.

And you are paying for dust w crumbles. I can tell a big difference of dust in all of the bags of feed I get. Started a few months ago. Hmmmm, almost as if the producers purposely changed their filters in the bagging plants to allow more dust per bag……I.e. hidden inflation.

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66k for 2023

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Danka.

Cage free does not equal free range.

I highly encourage people to get a few chickens as their source of fresh eggs or find a local source to purchase locally produced fresh eggs. The feedback we get from others on our eggs is very positive. The yolks are a richer yellow color and do not have an "eggy" flavor, but more rich. Chickens are easy to care for and the kids enjoy them. We also like that it gets us off the couch and outside more.

But most importantly, if you're going to pay $4.00 per dozen at Wal-Mart, at least find a friend with chickens and buy from them. You'll be amazed how much better they are.

Manhattan said:

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Corporate greed is the producer of Egg-Land's Best, Farmhouse Eggs & Land O'Lake Eggs, increasing its profits by 65% last quarter to a record-breaking $198 million while doubling the price of eggs & reporting no positive cases of avian flu. Yes. We need a windfall profits tax.

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 15, 2023

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Socialists like Bernie create the Walmarts and Amazons. Last person you should be quoting.

In his career in congress he's done 2 things. Named to post offices. Dude is a fkn clown.