Anybody hear that egg prices are going up

I wish. I think I saw 3.99 for 18 the last time I was at the store and they were sold out.

Personally, I like chickens and hate to see any animal abused just to exploit them. There are always more humane ways to do things that if they had done them to start with wouldn't be driving up prices when big brother feels obligated to step in and tells them what to do and how to do it.

I have a feeling that the price of eggs would probably be going up anyway just as the cost of a gallon of milk has. I've temporarily given up on store milk and have been using powdered milk I can buy at the Amish General Store for cooking and using on cereal. I mix it a little stronger than the directions and we can't tell the difference between it and skim milk. I think I paid 18$ for 5 pounds the last time I bought it. It makes a lot of milk for just two people.

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I never thought the price of powdered milk was any different than the price of milk once I diluted it to taste.

I grew up on a layer farm. Dad got out of the business in 1988. Anyway, our chickens were in cages, but they were not harmed in anyway. They had access to feed & water at all times. If you walked in you heard a bunch of clucking chickens that sounded fine. I am sure there are some places that have disgusting facilities, but not all of them are bad. Just as some small farms are nice & clean & some are nasty. Just depends on who is running the place.

Maybe I'll raise my prices. I have thought of it for awhile, but never did. I charge $2 right now & mine are free ranging. I may raise it to $2.50 or $3. Not sure if my customers will complain or not.

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Egg prices in my area TN are 2.00 2.50 per doz from the raisers not the store. I have my own eggs, in fact I just froze 2 dozen of them. Home grown is so much better than store eggs as you all know. Everyday my girls deposit 6 or 7 fresh eggs. My girls rule. Check out my homestead HERE.

We got the grocery ads today. Our Dillons has eggs priced 4 dozen for 5 bucks with store card.

Ya'll sell some cheap eggs!!! Organic eggs (off our farm) are $5/dz locally.(other farms are as high as $8/dz if taken from farm to Wash DC markets) Non-Organic are $3-4/dz.

I have no idea what my store prices are... never go there to buy eggs.

With California being the 5th highest egg producing state, and something like 15 million+ laying hens, I wonder why they would have to import eggs from any other state?

I heard Calif was a BIG Exporter of eggs. Biggest in the nation.

Our hens arent laying right now.... paid 2 dollars for a dozen at the same store I have been getting them for a dollar.... yep, the price has gone up.

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When figuring the price of keeping chickens don't forget the free fertilizer.

And the bug control, and the lawn care, and the entertainment!

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I put a light on mine to keep them laying through the winter. I'm still getting 2 dozen a day. I refuse to buy eggs at the store & add new layers every year.

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I grew up on one as well Wendy, and like yours, ours was full of happy birds. But, then Dad only let the co-op put two hens per cage when other farms had them 4 to a cage. I suspect we could have passed California's new law back then in the 1960s and 70s. Ours was also clean, my Mom would not have it any other way. Built in after school and summer job for me. I had to sweep the aisles and the causeway between them with a big push broom every day after school and in the summer and weekends I helped with the pick ups and oiling the eggs. Our birds were fed twice a day and had self watering cups in each cage so they always had access to pure, fresh water. Dad spent his free time shoveling and disposing of manure to keep the smell down as much as possible. Now, I have my own flock of 20 who free range all day and have a nice, warm, clean coop to sleep in at night and nesting boxes to lay in. I get a dozen and a half eggs every two days which cost me about $4.00 a dozen to generate. I don't mind the cost though, I have seen the conditions in modern production houses and don't want to contribute to that.

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I'm jealous! Hopefully we will be in same boat soon. My city is being very difficult and I'm toeing the line between being firm yet polite. I want 4 chickens. 4! Give me a break!

Oiling the eggs?

I think she means mineral oil it helps preserve them without refrigeration.

okay- went to the store last night-
3.39 for 18 large store eggs- and 4.08 for a gallon of whole milk

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Its all relative to cost of living, things are generally less expensive here say vs New York City or Boston or really most of either coast.

Wow you have some high prices, just returned from dillons (kroger). Milk was .99 per half gallon and large eggs are 1.25 per dozen. we got 10 half gallons of milk and will freeze most of it. They were sold out of eggs but did give us a rain check good for the next 60 days.

Where you at in NC Kans? I was raised around atchison