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We have about 30 roaming our yard with a few roosters. We let some of the eggs hatch every few years, perpetual food source
I have 36 Grade A organic eggs and I'm in the market for a 1,500 sq. ft. house. Three bedrooms and two baths is fine. No lowballers now, I know what I have here. >

I will trade you my brand new Tushy bidet, still in box! >


The USDA shows the current price of a dozen large eggs in California cost about $6.72,

Never thought it would happen , but eggs in Canada are cheaper than the US. The eggs here are about $3.70 a dozen which works out to $2.76 USD >

I just bought eggs at Safeway yesterday, which tends to be a bit more expensive than average, and the most expensive eggs I saw were a little over $5 for organic/free range. I feel like these stories always pull prices from like, fancy parts of Santa Monica and San Francisco and say "this is what things cost in California!1" >

It’s all relative really. I live in Upstate NY and went to my Hannaford and an 18 pack of eggs was 8.50. If I go to the Trade Joe’s nearby though a dozen eggs costs me like 3.50. 
I have no idea what is going on. >

Same! At the Shoprite in Kingston, NY (Hudson Valley) last night- had to buy a half dozen for ~$4 as all the dozen cartons were $7+. 
I’m talking store brand, not even the good stuff I wish I could buy. 
My husband and I are considering joining a farmshare or scouring the backroads near our house to find the cheapest farm stands. We’d be buying our own chickens and selling eggs ourselves if we didn’t have a baby on the way haha. >

You could probably make more from the baby anyway. -Johnathan Swift >

Attribution instead of taking credit, how modest. >

It's fun to propose 'new' ideas. >

didn't realize bird flu wouldn't make the news. i only heard of the reasons behind the egg shortage from reddit >

My contractor thought it was just more price gouging, and was horrified to learn that the bird flu was actually a valid reason. >

It's not clear its a reason for the price hike localized to California.
About 16% of the layers in the US have been affected, many culled. But none of the big CAFOs in California, Nevada, or Arizona have been. >

Just because they are located there, doesn’t mean they don’t have contracts with the rest of the US. If there’s a 16% drop in production, that will still affect the price overall. >

I live in New England and yesterday the store didn't have eggs for less than $6 >

Am in NY, Whole Foods has the basic brown egg dozen for $3.49. >

I live in metro Atlanta, a carton of eggs was eight bucks when I went shopping last. I feel like this will be our "back in my day, a loaf of bread was a quarter". >

Meh give it time for companies to get there birds back. It will level out over the years. Will certainly suck till then. >

Time to buy about 4 chickens >

My apartment is going to love this move. >

Well, I feel not crazy now.  Eggs were out at my Costco for weeks, no explanation.  They are back, the quality is weird (they are smaller, thinner shelled) and they are almost 60% more expensive. >

With the 60% increase, is that now $40?  Last time I got the large bulk pack of eggs, a couple months ago, it was $26, but last time they only had 24 packs in clear plastic. >

When the prices finally come down, from correcting the problems that caused the shortage, I bet they will come down very fast.  One week they might be $7, and the next week they might be on an "amazing special deal sale if you buy 5 cartons: $2 each." >

They do that when eggs are about to expire or hit their sell limit. I don't expect eggs to drop in price for a long time, also considering the culling. >

Can't chickens that lay eggs go from birth to producing in like a month or two? >

They've got to replace millions of chickens. I'm no chicken scientist, but we'd need a massive chicken orgy on a scale which we've never seen before. >

Farmers just use tools to take sperm from one chicken and shove it up another. They'll rape their birds to breed more as fast as they want to. >

Sex robots >

I have a flock of 17 chickens. I haven't bought any eggs in over two years. 
This is my flex.