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In many places you can. You just need to have a license/registration with your local official. I had 2 chickens in Palo Alto, CA. Not a normal place for chickens, but they were wonderful.
You'll find chickens running around at Grant road and questa in Mountain View, and even some other places around the heart of the Silicon Valley.
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. >

We have about 30 roaming our yard with a few roosters. We let some of the eggs hatch every few years, perpetual food source >

Do you have to buy a lot of feed or they just graze on the yard? >

We have 40 acres, the main house yard is about 1 and they free roam at almost all times. But they also get half a bucket of wheat/pellets a day >

damn i guess everyone who eats eggs needs to find 40 acres and some hens >

lol save on eggs with this one easy trick
step one: own an unreasonable amount of land when property prices are absolutely insane >

These folks tend to live out in the middle of nowhere, where even large lots of land are pretty cheap. Here in Oregon, there are 40-acre lots for sale for $120,000. The catch is that I'd have to live in Grant County, where there are just over 7,000 people living in an area about the size of Connecticut. >

sounds about right, if you want to own a lot of land live out in the middle of Bumblefuck Nowhere >

Last week the Walmart brand in SW Florida was $4.59 a dozen large.
Looked around and saw Egglands Best, same size for $3.49, I thought that can't be right. but I used the price checker and EB was cheaper.
I remember a few years ago 18 eggs cost under $1. >

Yep.  I’m in the Boston area and Walmart is about $4.80/dozen now, up from $4.35 or so a week ago.  Cheapest at supermarkets are about $6.49, and plenty on the shelves in the $8-10 range.
I too also remember late 2018 and early 2019 when I could go to ALDI and get eggs as low as $0.69-$0.79 a dozen. >

Just in California? I’m on Long Island and the Stop and Shop by me had Eggland Best listed as $10/dozen. Ended up buying the store brand for $5.50 >

Yes, but, in CA even the store brands are $7+ >

Very true which makes no sense
I'm sure once it starts raining like it has then there will be somewhere to raise chickens maybe so something as simple as egg's will not have to be transported all the way from Alabama >

You know what’s strange though? The farmers market near me raised prices on their eggs to match the grocery store eggs. >

I live in Upstate NY and I have one grocery store selling egglands best for $3.49 a dozen and the price hasn't gone up in many weeks, I keep waiting for it to jump but it does not.
The catch is these are placed on the very bottom of the shelf where you won't see them unless you are looking for them.
The store brand dozen large eggs are $4.99 a dozen. There is an entire case of them and you cannot miss these in their prominent place.
I can't believe there is such a disparity in egg prices. Even my Aldi is charging $4.99 a dozen now and Aldi is usually the cheapest store. They also have a pack of organic eggs for something like $4.39 but again, that's buried at the bottom of the shelf, you can barely see it.
Walmart is the worst price, where a dozen egglands is between $4-5 (keep in mind for me, the store across the street has the exact same thing for $3.49, Its directly across the street from Walmart. 18 Egglands are also $7 at Walmart and $5 at the store across the street. Walmart is also at about $6 for a regular dozen of Great value large eggs, if you can find them in stock. Walmart also stopped putting prices on the eggs, they are just sitting there without prices, and there are no self scanners in the store so you can't tell unless you have the app and scan the items with it.
My stores have cases of eggs available, so there is clearly not a shortage.
It sure does look like there is some kind of profiting or price gouging going on here that egglands best is not participating in, at least at my one store. Its not a sale or deal price either. >

Whole Foods on Long Island is charging  $3.49 / dozen for the cheapest ones. Only up a dollar from the original price a year ago >

That's a good deal.
Egglands best are still holding at $3.49 here.
Worse case I buy the 18 pack from Sam's club for $6.48, brown pasture raised
I just checked Walmart again and the 18 pack of large great value eggs jumped from $3.50 last night to $8.48 this morning, and a dozen of large white great value eggs jumped from $5.60 to $5.70. This is getting insane. >

Walmart is just implementing the modern trend of surge pricing /s >

"Why hasn't the President released the National  Strategic Egg Supply?"  --Some cable news network  any minute now. >

That's actually a thing that exists, but it's for vaccine production iirc >

I am from the Chicken Capital of the World (Petaluma, CA). I almost struck gold - chicken gold! >

chicken feed has gone up quite a bit so even raising your own has gotten significantly more expensive. >


That put a major dent in the egg supply chain along with the rising cost of chicken feed.

Certainly seems like a black swan event. The higher cost of chicken feed will insure when flocks have numerically recovered that eggs will cost more than they used to cost. >

Just saw 1 dz large cage free eggs for $12.99 on the opposite coast. Plain old large white eggs $6.49. >

Sounds like we're due for another San Francisco Egg War.  Anyone have an island populated by birds for lighthouse keepers to go slowly mad on? >

~~Egg~~ prices continue to skyrocket in California >

Y'all just need an Egg Man. >

Wild. Think I’m payin $6 for 24? Was paying $1.60 in 2020 for 24. Michigan. >

There were MANY times that I would find a dozen for like $.49 at virtually any SE Michigan Kroger. That feels like a dream now. >

Inb4 the vegans gloat over us >

Makes me think of Family Guy explaining California
The clip is about one area, but this is how I’ve always pictured the entire state >

Still a hell of a lot cheaper than eggs in Australia. >

This Random web site  says eggs are $5.36 AUD in Sydney. Which is $3.70 US, which would make them cheaper in Australia.  Feel free to correct me though if that website is completely wrong.
Edit 
Woolworth's has them on sale for $4.20 AUD this week. >

Well, I know where I'm buying my eggs now. >

Impossible, CPI is only 6.5% >


"An 18 pack use to be anywhere on a good day you could get them from $3.50 to $4.50. Now they are all the way to $7.50, $8.50 depending on what store you are at of course," she said.

Stay classy. >

Nah, our local rural grocery store sells the same dozen branded eggs for two-three bucks more than, say, Trader Joe’s. 
Food deserts have been hit extra hard by this. >

What about in a normal state that’s not fantasy land California? >

Urner Barry aka the mafia >

This is why you get your own flock of fluffy butt dinosaurs. >

Idk why the birds are following medical advice on Facebook instead of getting the bird flu vaccine >

Let them eat cake hahaha resident egg throwers in disarray may have to look for more diverse work opportunities. >

Not just Cali. I paid $4.45 for Aldi eggs in Atlanta the other day. >

Ok so I'm not going crazy >

I assume this is going to make all baked goods go up in price now too? great... >

Let people have chickens in their yard.