Economy Eggs Are Now $8 for 18

[CyberRubberDuck]

Apparently bird flu is rampant and killing droves of chickens

Speaking to a farmer I know, its not anything to do with bird flu. Just like nothing ever is because of a new virus, always an underlying agenda.

 

[CyberRubberDuck]

Tell me you don't have connections with the farm community without telling me

Nah, I know farmers that lose 20% of their birds suddenly and then test positive for bird flu so they off the rest to try and save the birds they have at a different location. This isn't just otherwise happening on healthy bird farms.

Funny it's never actual bird flu that kills the birds. We always get there first and kill them before we can actually see what bird flu supposedly does.

 

[Omni1]

Ok I'm ready to eat the bugs now. I could live with overpriced meat and everything else but pricing eggs like a delicacy is the last straw. Give me my protein fortified cricket smoothies, please.

https://www.waff.com/2022/12/10/price-eggs-skyrocketing/

Inflation is out of control. Don't blame me. I voted for Trump.

 

[Omni1]

2023 is going to be tough. Best case scenario is that inflation somewhat stabilises, but we're almost certainly going into a recession.

2022 is going to be looked back upon as the good times compared to what is going to happen in 2023 & 2024. Unfortunately inflation is going to continue.

 

[Krayd]

Bad idea for anyone who can earn money with a real job.
The amount of feed, fencing, winterization and upkeep to produce eggs is moneylosing unless you invest a bunch in a scaled operation.
As a fun hobby if you want? sure

Chickens eat a lot of scraps, feed is cheap, free range chickens dont need fencing, putting insulation in the coop is cheap and easy if you have a quarter brain. plus the fertilizer they give you is the best nutrients for a garden. Plus it keeps chickens out of the battery pens that are just horrible conditions for animals to be living in.

It saves a lot of money and most importantly promotes self sufficiency and independence.

I can see how it wouldn't be right for soy boys that hate to get dirt under their fingernails and have to do a bit of real man labour though.

 

[Belaya Smert]

Almost always use wholesale clubs for meat and produce. TS is the second person in a week I have heard complain about egg prices. Also had a co worker say Helmans mayo was two dollars more than Kraft.

 

[brackis1]

Chickens eat a lot of scraps, feed is cheap, free range chickens dont need fencing, putting insulation in the coop is cheap and easy if you have a quarter brain. plus the fertilizer they give you is the best nutrients for a garden. Plus it keeps chickens out of the battery pens that are just horrible conditions for animals to be living in.

It saves a lot of money and most importantly promotes self sufficiency and independence.

I can see how it wouldn't be right for soy boys that hate to get dirt under their fingernails and have to do a bit of real man labour though.

lol @ calling me a soyboy during your pathetic chromosome-lacking admission of not understanding math and going on some survivor prepper mentally ill rant about gardening. No soy rotations on your plot? For shame!

Bahahaha. Can "real men" do arithmetic, division, and multiplication?
I've worked construction before doing drywall, framing, roofing, concrete pours and finishing, but I guess that's not a "real man" job because I suggested the average person is wasting their time buying hens lmao. Should all manly men build their own homes too? Why bother with soyboy A/C units when a REAL MAN can built a swamp cooler and store ice under woodchips year round
Again: anyone who isn't some broke hillbilly in the south, and has a wage earning job that exceeds that of a Walmart greeter, is wasting their time and money cosplaying as a farmer if the problem is the "price" of eggs.

I can buy eggs for 35 cents per right now during the peak of a shortage.
A family of 4, consuming 2 eggs each per day, is spending $23 a week on eggs at peak prices. Or just over $1000 a year for 2912 eggs.
That assumes having a full sized family and a generous amount of egg consumption.
To acquire 2912 eggs you'd need a dozen hens at minimum for high yield hens in their physical prime.

Laying age hens are going to run $40-60 each under these market conditions. Or sex-divided chicks about $10 each with overbuying to ensure they are raised healthy and not cannibalized. These Hens will lay for at a prime rate of 200-250 eggs per year for about 3 years if you do a perfect job.
Anyone without unlimited land is going to need to use 3.75 lbs/hen/month at the very minimum if letting them range; and more realistically 6+lbs. 90lbs a month to concurrently raise chicks and have a dozen yielding hens. Current feed prices are about $20 for a 50lb bag at tractor supply. So $45/month on feed alone, or $540 a year.
Supplies and time required to build a coop under current material prices for are going to be about $500 (and likely more if the opportunity cost of your earning power at a real job exceeds $20/hr).

Oh did we get to medical costs and issues yet?
Birds get sick too. Ya know...avian flu ring a bell? What happens to a family on a budget when their birds die, need meds, get cannibalized, or eaten by a fisher cat?
How about everyone living places with long winters that massively reduce the ability of birds to range, their laying yields fall off a cliff, and energy prices to heat their coops go up?
Super fun to have to walk outside and rummage through a shitstain chicken house everyday to make breakfast instead of walking to the fridge in a robe lol.
How about all the material, hen/chick prices and feed prices doubling if suddenly every family in America tried to buy up retail supplies?
Super chill and easy for an adult who should be raising their own human kids and working a real job with their day lol. Or ya know; they could just buy some fucking eggs at the store for $1000/year while shopping for a diverse variety of other foods and beverages.

Fun hobby if you have space and time, or want to spend extra for home-quality? Sure
But acting like every person can and should become Farmer John is so absurdly delusional.
But hey dude I get it: unibomber avatar, can't punctuate, bad at math. Life must be hard for you outside the compound and you should keep at it.

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

2022 is going to be looked back upon as the good times compared to what is going to happen in 2023 & 2024. Unfortunately inflation is going to continue.

And trump would have prevented this ?
<puh-lease75>

 

[Krayd]

lol @ calling me a soyboy during your pathetic chromosome-lacking admission of not understanding math and going on some survivor prepper mentally ill rant about gardening. No soy rotations on your plot? For shame!

Bahahaha. Can "real men" do arithmetic, division, and multiplication?
I've worked construction before doing drywall, framing, roofing, concrete pours and finishing, but I guess that's not a "real man" job because I suggested the average person is wasting their time buying hens lmao. Should all manly men build their own homes too? Why bother with soyboy A/C units when a REAL MAN can built a swamp cooler and store ice under woodchips year round
Again: anyone who isn't some broke hillbilly in the south, and has a wage earning job that exceeds that of a Walmart greeter, is wasting their time and money cosplaying as a farmer if the problem is the "price" of eggs.

I can buy eggs for 35 cents per right now during the peak of a shortage.
A family of 4, consuming 2 eggs each per day, is spending $23 a week on eggs at peak prices. Or just over $1000 a year for 2912 eggs.
That assumes having a full sized family and a generous amount of egg consumption.
To acquire 2912 eggs you'd need a dozen hens at minimum for high yield hens in their physical prime.

Laying age hens are going to run $40-60 each under these market conditions. Or sex-divided chicks about $10 each with overbuying to ensure they are raised healthy and not cannibalized. These Hens will lay for at a prime rate of 200-250 eggs per year for about 3 years if you do a perfect job.
Anyone without unlimited land is going to need to use 3.75 lbs/hen/month at the very minimum if letting them range; and more realistically 6+lbs. 90lbs a month to concurrently raise chicks and have a dozen yielding hens. Current feed prices are about $20 for a 50lb bag at tractor supply. So $45/month on feed alone, or $540 a year.
Supplies and time required to build a coop under current material prices for are going to be about $500 (and likely more if the opportunity cost of your earning power at a real job exceeds $20/hr).

Oh did we get to medical costs and issues yet?
Birds get sick too. Ya know...avian flu ring a bell? What happens to a family on a budget when their birds die, need meds, get cannibalized, or eaten by a fisher cat?
How about everyone living places with long winters that massively reduce the ability of birds to range, their laying yields fall off a cliff, and energy prices to heat their coops go up?
Super fun to have to walk outside and rummage through a shitstain chicken house everyday to make breakfast instead of walking to the fridge in a robe lol.
How about all the material, hen/chick prices and feed prices doubling if suddenly every family in America tried to buy up retail supplies?
Super chill and easy for an adult who should be raising their own human kids and working a real job with their day lol. Or ya know; they could just buy some fucking eggs at the store for $1000/year while shopping for a diverse variety of other foods and beverages.

Fun hobby if you have space and time? Sure
But acting like every person can and should become Farmer John is so absurdly delusional.
But hey dude I get it: unibomber avatar, can't punctuate, bad at math. Life must be hard for you outside the compound and you should keep at it.

tldr

 

[brackis1]

tldr

Thanks for reconfirming that math and reading aren't things you're capable of as a real man.

 

[Krayd]

Thanks for reconfirming that math and reading aren't things you're capable of as a real man.

It's just such a waste of my time reading from a white knight cuck of big egg corp. drone on against an obvious intelligent solution to inflation and big businesses holding the monopoly and charging whatever they want for food because there's no competition from backyard and micro-farmers.

Also, free range chickens are proven to be way healthier and showing basic decency for animals and one's own well being is nothing to be ashamed of.

Here's some math for you smarty two shoes, 2 hens give you an egg each a day, at 18 eggs for $8 each guess what cost less in a year? battery pen eggs or 2 freerange?

 

[NoSmilez]

It's all fun and games until your egg laying chickens get the Avian Flu too.

Also damn I was planning to hit up Costcos for eggs tomorrow.

 

[brackis1]

It's just such a waste of my time reading from a white knight cuck of big egg corp. drone on against an obvious intelligent solution to inflation and big businesses holding the monopoly and charging whatever they want for food because there's no competition from backyard and micro-farmers.

Also, free range chickens are proven to be way healthier and showing basic decency for animals and one's own well being is nothing to be ashamed of.

Here's some math for you smarty two shoes, 2 hens give you an egg each a day, at 18 eggs for $8 each guess what cost less in a year? battery pen eggs or 2 freerange?

Man you really are an unintelligent loner. 2 eggs a day? lmao.
I fully acknowledged in my post that home eggs can be more rewarding and healthier.
It's just a pain in the ass and doesn't save money when you add up time and supplies. I laid out the math clear as day.
2 Hens will not lay everyday; they lay seasonally 1/day.
The average person or family barely has a yard to enjoy, let alone to fill with a bunch of fucking birds lol.
Store bought eggs in bulk for anyone consuming a lot are much cheaper than 18 for 8.
I love how you call me a soyboy and then try to appeal to caring about the well-being of chickens.

End of the day, it's not cost effective and you will remain a poorly educated nutjob living in some shizo fantasy about "independent living" with 2 Hens lol.
Of the grid living would be raising dozens and a bunch of other animals in a remote area and not having a real job in society.
Wanna do that? great
It's not practical for the rest of civilized people with traditional education, brains, families and wages to earn that allow them basic luxuries like a fridge filled with food and drink sourced from all around the world and delivered to local stores for them to buy without specialized effort.

 

[Omni1]

I pity anyone that buys eggs from a store. I get my eggs from a farmer that I've known for years. The eggs are huge & the shells are thick. There is no comparison between her eggs & eggs from any of the stores in my area. Actually, there are a few exceptions. Stores that sell local farmer eggs also have high quality eggs. She (and other local farmers) sells her eggs at a few stores in the area.

 

[Eric Silva 2.0]

So your theory, with no evidence, is that they just like faking positive tests to kill the birds for fun?

Rather than it’s an accurate test that in the long term will lessen the amount of birds infected with bird flu and also decrease the chances of human jumps of this virus?

I don’t think governments are inherently good or evil. I do think they like a docile go with the flow populace that allows the gov to easier trickle wealth up into the ruling class. A food scarcity (on eggs of all things) does not help that and is one thing that can actually lead to tangible revolution of ruling class. Keeping people fed and happy is in their best interests.

"So your theory, with no evidence, is that they just like faking positive tests to kill the birds for fun?"
You think this is fun? I'm also guessing you think it's just coincidence that they guy involved in vaccines and pandemic preparation just happens to be the largest holder of farmland in the U.S.? The trend of billionaires getting involved in food (Bezoz/Whole Foods/Amazon Fresh) doesn't end well. Now are expert bought all the farmland probably to 'help'. He got involved in vaccines and was doing pandemic readiness exercises while predicting a pandemic and poof, we have a pandemic. Now he's buying all the farmland and the chickens are getting killed and they want to ban cows because of climate change. Nothing to see here.

 

[HockeyBjj]

"So your theory, with no evidence, is that they just like faking positive tests to kill the birds for fun?"
You think this is fun? I'm also guessing you think it's just coincidence that they guy involved in vaccines and pandemic preparation just happens to be the largest holder of farmland in the U.S.? The trend of billionaires getting involved in food (Bezoz/Whole Foods/Amazon Fresh) doesn't end well. Now are expert bought all the farmland probably to 'help'. He got involved in vaccines and was doing pandemic readiness exercises while predicting a pandemic and poof, we have a pandemic. Now he's buying all the farmland and the chickens are getting killed and they want to ban cows because of climate change. Nothing to see here.

So you’re saying yes? That is your theory with no evidence or motive? Bill gates just enjoys faking bird flu tests to kill poultry chickens?

 

[erhnamdjinn]

in my country now red onions went as high as $15 a kilo and you cannot even get white onions anymore

 

[Super_Nintendo]

Man you really are an unintelligent loner. 2 eggs a day? lmao.
I fully acknowledged in my post that home eggs can be more rewarding and healthier.
It's just a pain in the ass and doesn't save money when you add up time and supplies. I laid out the math clear as day.
2 Hens will not lay everyday; they lay seasonally 1/day.
The average person or family barely has a yard to enjoy, let alone to fill with a bunch of fucking birds lol.
Store bought eggs in bulk for anyone consuming a lot are much cheaper than 18 for 8.
I love how you call me a soyboy and then try to appeal to caring about the well-being of chickens.

End of the day, it's not cost effective and you will remain a poorly educated nutjob living in some shizo fantasy about "independent living" with 2 Hens lol.
Of the grid living would be raising dozens and a bunch of other animals in a remote area and not having a real job in society.
Wanna do that? great
It's not practical for the rest of civilized people with traditional education, brains, families and wages to earn that allow them basic luxuries like a fridge filled with food and drink sourced from all around the world and delivered to local stores for them to buy without specialized effort.

Writes "unintelligent loner" before penning an essay on eggs. lol

 

[Eric Silva 2.0]

So you’re saying yes? That is your theory with no evidence or motive? Bill gates just enjoys faking bird flu tests to kill poultry chickens?

Are you for banning cows because they cause climate change?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/c...-to-climate-change-can-scientists-change-that
I'm saying the same guy that was practicing pandemic readiness and investing in vaccines before the pandemic is the same guy that owns the most farmland. He also happens to be investing in synthetic beef. I'm saying there is nothing to see here. I'm just predicting there will be bigger problems with the food supply in the future. I'm also predicting more problems with pandemics. If you think he bought all that farmland because he loves farm animals, good for you. Again, nothing to see here.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Are you for banning cows because they cause climate change?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/c...-to-climate-change-can-scientists-change-that
I'm saying the same guy that was practicing pandemic readiness and investing in vaccines before the pandemic is the same guy that owns the most farmland. He also happens to be investing in synthetic beef. I'm saying there is nothing to see here. I'm just predicting there will be bigger problems with the food supply in the future. I'm also predicting more problems with pandemics. If you think he bought all that farmland because he loves farm animals, good for you. Again, nothing to see here.

From everything I can find it seems Gates is into arable farming and is buying up land for that rather than land used for livestock. Open to proof otherwise though.