Eggs are expensive. Have you changed your breakfast because of it? What are you eating?

[zacattack]

Should we discuss the reason for high priced chicken eggs?

Millions of birds were slaughtered because of Bird Flu?

Question:
Why doesnt Bird Flu affect ducks, geese, etc, and only chickens?

It does. It hits all poultry species. There have been many turkey and duck farms infected with HPAI.

I still buy my eggs at the store, even with the current price around here $5 a dozen still cheaper than having your own hens for eggs.

 

[Olsolitaire1]

Our girls average 5 to 6 eggs a day, yesterday 7, so my wife broke one to keep on track, Ha, ha. Think we have 70 right now. We give them to neighbors

 

[Luked]

Aunt has chickens. I buy all she has every week for $2 a doz

 

[WCB]

Should we discuss the reason for high priced chicken eggs?

Millions of birds were slaughtered because of Bird Flu?

Question:
Why doesnt Bird Flu affect ducks, geese, etc, and only chickens?

It does...2022 on the last "big" outbreak there were THOUSANDS of dead Snow Geese in the area we were hunting. 1 pond we set up on a ridge above had over 70 dead or dying geese on it. And this was common from Nebraska up through the Dakotas and into Canada.

Don't be that guy...The problem is they kill off all the birds in the domestic flock where the wild flocks may build immunity from it until a different strain hits.

 

[dtrkyman]

No, a couple mornings I had two instead of three due to the store being out, but got some quickly after that, the stores here are limiting one pack per customer.

the price is high compared to a few years ago, but still cheap in the grand scheme of things, I wish I could find someone to buy from locally, the farmers market egg prices are nuts!

 

[zacattack]

It does...2022 on the last "big" outbreak there were THOUSANDS of dead Snow Geese in the area we were hunting. 1 pond we set up on a ridge above had over 70 dead or dying geese on it. And this was common from Nebraska up through the Dakotas and into Canada.

Don't be that guy...The problem is they kill off all the birds in the domestic flock where the wild flocks may build immunity from it until a different strain hits.

From a logistics standpoint You can’t kill off part of a commercial farm flock. It’s either all or nothing.

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

Nope.
I just go out to the chicken coop and get my eggs

This

 

[Loo.wii]

Bought the expensive eggs at Costco this weekend. They made it home and then my two year old got a hold of em. No more expensive eggs.

im surprised you found eggs at costco

 

[big44a4]

Other higher dollar items like steak I buy with market conditions in mind, but milk/eggs no.

 

[Mighty Mouse]

I still buy my eggs at the store, even with the current price around here $5 a dozen still cheaper than having your own hens for eggs.

I’m not getting rich off my egg savings, but my cost is well under $5/dz. My 10 hens eat about one 50# bag of feed per month at $20/bag and lay (conservatively) around 250 eggs per hen per year. So $240 annual feed cost for 2500 eggs or $1.15/dz. Replace the hens after about 2 years at $5/chick. I cobbled together a mobile coop using mostly spare materials for maybe $200.

 

[fngTony]

Between the diet and fitness threads and the fact that eggs are expensive It’s really interesting to learn on how many eggs people on this forum actually eat.

 

[Loo.wii]

Should we discuss the reason for high priced chicken eggs?

Millions of birds were slaughtered because of Bird Flu?

Question:
Why doesnt Bird Flu affect ducks, geese, etc, and only chickens?

chickens being a staple food they are put into densely populated disease incubators. Though BF can affect other birds its less common as the other birds are a bit more sparse.

 

[Elk97]

The price of layer feed hasn't changed (much) so eggs are about the same for us.

 

[CMF]

Where I’m at we are talking about $2 increase. That’s not making any sort of major impacts on my budget

it I’ve changed my egg intake quite a bit. How has breakfast changed for you?

yea, .50c and egg now, if up from what maybe .25c, If you eat three eggs for breakfast that's .75c more, I'm not changing anything
We buy the 5 dozen box at walmart, still pretty cheap protein. With 5 of us it's probably 20-30$ more a month

Between the diet and fitness threads and the fact that eggs are expensive It’s really interesting to learn on how many eggs people on this forum actually eat.

We eat a 5 dozen box every 2-3 weeks I'd guess, when we had 6-8 chickens they couldn't keep up and we still bought eggs.

 

[S.Clancy]

This is where relative vs absolute cost becomes important. Yes, eggs have tripled in price. At $2 a dozen that is $0.17 an egg. At 6$ a dozen, that is $0.50 an egg. I'm still eating eggs when I want, which is a couple times a week, usually on weekends

 

[MuleyFever]

Dont really eat eggs so no changes for me. My wife buys a dozen every few weeks.

 

[CMF]

This is where relative vs absolute cost becomes important. Yes, eggs have tripled in price. At $2 a dozen that is $0.17 an egg. At 6$ a dozen, that is $0.50 an egg. I'm still eating eggs when I want, which is a couple times a week, usually on weekends

exactly

 

[Huntindog45]

eggs are going to be least of our worries. I just heard a prediction that gas will be over $10 a gallon by July. Vehicle prices are going to skyrocket as will almost everything else. Gonna get a little interesting.

 

[blacktail434]

No change here. The ladies are laying 5-6 a day. Cost of feed is still the same

 

[KurtR]

Should we discuss the reason for high priced chicken eggs?

Millions of birds were slaughtered because of Bird Flu?

Question:
Why doesnt Bird Flu affect ducks, geese, etc, and only chickens?

Its kills a bunch of snow geese some years more than others. I dont believe killing whole flocks is a way to fix this problem