Anybody hear that egg prices are going up

As i have said before, around 1950 my mother decided that it was cheaper to buy store eggs than to continue raising them. I wonder if any of the chicken growers on here have an idea of how much it costs them to produce a dozed eggs? I woder how much the price of eggs will have to go up for more people to start keeping chickens.

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Yeah, I will not be buying that. Y'all know that China actually makes FAKE eggs? Fake rice, too. I'm going to have to pass on that action.

Is this a federal law that was passed? I don't understand why other states have to follow California's law.

I hate it for the farmers involved and I hate the fact that eggs are going up. That being said, I feel sad every time I see a chicken truck in town. We have a Cagle's processing plant in a town close to us and the trucks rumble through our downtown. Seeing those chickens packed in there makes me sad. I'm really looking forward to having my own chickens and treatin them right.

Other states have to comply because the law was written so that any egg sold in CA had to be from birds raised in the new way.

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Egg prices have gone up. Prices were about $1.85 per dozen and now are more like $2.50 per dozen. About a month ago, Kwik Trip was even selling them for $0.99 per dozen.

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Well No Not really they Just wont sell to Cali...

Then you will see a Major Increase in Egg prices there.

From what I understand California imports most of their eggs and because it is such a big market egg produces feel they have no choice but to switch. That said I am guessing eggs on the Eastern/parts of the Midwestern side of the US will still stay cheep.
We have our own chickens and we can't eat the eggs in the store any way...I so enjoy being self sufficient.

I've seen egg prices jump here where we are. I usually buy from the local Amish general store at 1.75 a dozen for nice large brown eggs. Unfortunately their hens have stopped laying and I am forced to buy eggs at the local C&R. 1.99 for medium eggs per dozen. When I saw the egg size and price I was glad no one was around to hear the oath I mumbled under my breath.

We've cut back on the number of eggs we use by about half.

And I have chicks ordered for spring delivery. Just have to hold out till fall and I'll have my own eggs to eat and will no longer be a slave to a market that abuses birds. I doubt if I'm the only one who is going this route. Next price that will probably skyrocket is the price for day old chicks.

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Whether we like it or not, those "abusive" barns raise a schwack of eggs. Homesteaders are not about to replace the production level needed, nor are the free range folks who take advantage of these things.

That being said, raising ones own is IMO the best way to do it. I only mention the above, as it seems some think there is a more efficient way to do it in an outdoor pen.

There is a balance somewhere on this topic I think. I see both sides though...

Maybe small producers can't take up the slack. But because they can't do it all doesn't mean they shouldn't do any.

What I'm waiting for is the backlash from the large producers, who are feeling the crunch and seeing competition, that petition the government for new regulations for small producers, to "even the playing field". And some monstrosity of legislation will come crashing down on every small flock in the US making anyone with more than 6 hens 'commercial' and in danger of multi-million dollar fines and 20 years in jail if they don't jump through a few dozen hoops that have nothing to do with anything other than government flexing it's muscles on behalf of some whining big producers.

Wait for it....

...and chicken feed...and chicken...and anything with chicken IN it.

I've been wanting to hatch my own chicks for a while now...I think that'll be my next project.

I'm already battling my city to be able to keep chickens and this has just strenghtened my resolve!! lol.

As far as I can tell this is just for Laying Hens not the chicken barns that raise them for meat.

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Let's see, we average about $30/month for chicken feed for our flock of 16 and we use about 2 - 3 dozen eggs per week, so...

• 2 doz/week...$30 div 8 doz/month = $3.75/doz
• 3 doz/week...$30 div 12 doz/month = $2.50/doz

Right now, I pay about $1.65/doz for medium eggs (hens aren't laying). So, as of right now, it's cheaper for me to buy eggs than keep chickens (for eggs). I suspect that if the price of eggs skyrocket, so will feed, so it will, in all probability, still be cheaper to buy them in the future.

Now, if one raises chicken for eggs AND meat, that changes things IF you hatch your own.

I'll just have to shell out a little more.

I watch the price of eggs like a hawk, we eat quite a few and I always have them on hand. I don't buy cereal and so eggs are a daily breakfast item. I used to be able to get them for $.99/dozen from the gas station, then it went up to $1.29, every where else was $1.59. Now the gas station is $1.99 and other places are more. I recently bought a 7 dozen pack at Sam's Club for $1.59/dozen. Aldi did have some reduced yesterday to .69/dozen, but I still have over 3 dozen left so I passed, I probably should have grabbed a few. I'll probably just stick with Sam's as long as they don't go bad before I used them, unless I see them cheaper at Aldi. Now the sale price elsewhere is $1.50.

I still have three chickens. I need to start watching them like the hawk that is watching them.

Like a few others mentioned, I'm wondering about the price of spring chicks too. I've got a dozen Buff Orps right now and I'd planned to add 25 brown leghorn chicks this spring.

Demand may drive chick prices up some this year.

Ive said for a long time I pay more for my eggs than the richest man alive. I guess im like Old Joe in A Christmas Carole when he said, That's the way I ruin meself. But, Im in NE Okla, and I can lay on the ground and work on machinery without getting ticks, and that makes them worth while. Sides, It makes the kids somewhat beholden to me for supplying them. Ill be even fonder to them now that the prices have gone up lol.

About 20 years ago when I learned about how the "big farmers" raise hens for eggs, I was disgusted by it and vowed to have my own layers when we finally moved into the country.

We finally moved in 2005 and became "nerd on a nano-farm" and soon after had our first set of chicks. Since then I can count on one hand the number of times I've bought eggs at the store. I have no illusions about what I spend on my hens to create a dozen eggs... but for me its about more than just money.

I was happy to see the law change in CA and on the flip-side, feel bad for people who have to pay more for their food. But at what point do we say that the cost of cheap food isn't worth the price paid for our farmland, animals raised, health of the consumer, etc?

As consumers we've been fooled into thinking that cheap food is as healthy as its always been. They've snowed us so they can line their pockets with more money. Because at the end of the day.... for the big producers, its ONLY about the money.

I may not be able to control much, but I can choose (and have chosen) to remove myself as a consumer from the egg industry.

Produce your own food and you control one of the most important aspects of your life.

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I am paying 3.29 for a 18 pack of large eggs-

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