slo’s FRIDAY 1/10 poll - Price Of Eggs 🥚

The Price Of Eggs (per dozen) - Questions in post below ⬇️

  • $1.01 - $1.99

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • $2.00 - $2.99

    Votes: 6 4.7%
  • $3.00 - $3.99

    Votes: 37 29.1%
  • $4.00 - $4.99

    Votes: 45 35.4%
  • $5.00 - $5.99

    Votes: 21 16.5%
  • $6.00 - $6.99

    Votes: 13 10.2%
  • $7.00 or more

    Votes: 13 10.2%
  • I live in the United States

    Votes: 78 61.4%
  • I do not live in the United States

    Votes: 6 4.7%
  • Other - Please post your answer

    Votes: 4 3.1%

  • Total voters
    127
You got that right. I've used store bought in a pinch when things ran low or they were away and I couldn't get any from them, but fresh eggs are a thing I wish everyone could experience at least once in their life.
Besides the beautiful deep color yolks, you really notice the difference the first time you try to hard boil. Fresh eggs do not peel easily... I always add some vinegar and use eggs that have been sitting a week or two
 
Besides the beautiful deep color yolks, you really notice the difference the first time you try to hard boil. Fresh eggs do not peel easily... I always add some vinegar and use eggs that have been sitting a week or two
I use an Instant Pot to hard boil mine now and peeling them is so much easier. I don't use the Instant Pot for much, but it was worth the price for that alone. :)
 
I’ve got to say, I rarely look at the price of grocery items when I shop. I know what I want, I go in and buy it and get out. At almost 62 I’m not worrying about the price of food -or beer for that matter! 😂

This. Also, even if they were $6/dozen, I would think it is a steal - that is $1/meal for me at that price. Seems reasonable, esp with how much it costs to keep chickens.
 
This. Also, even if they were $6/dozen, I would think it is a steal - that is $1/meal for me at that price. Seems reasonable, esp with how much it costs to keep chickens.
meh, as a chicken keeper they do not cost that much to keep. Chickens are pretty cheap. to start out there is an investment, but even that is minimal. Chicks cost 6-10$ each depending on the breed and number you buy.

Each bag of feed which lasts a month for about 6 hens costs $14. Those 6 hens would easily produce 2-3 dozen eggs a week (depending on the breed). so $14/ 7 dozen = $2 a dozen, and I am being really conservative on the # of eggs. I usually get high egg production breeds.

Plus they love kitchen scraps, so good composters. They are low maintenance and do not need a fancy heated Taj Macoop, just a solid place to protect against predators and get out of the weather and really do not need a huge amount of space. Although janky as heck... I built my coop myself using scrap pallets, old cabinets, leftover roofing shingles and plywood. We are very rural and sometimes free range which is great for ridding the yard of ticks, but do not keep a regular schedule because predators.

If you do not force them they stop laying in the winter (when there is less daylight), but you can have eggs all winter by using a light in the coop to mimic daylight. I like to give my chooks a break in the winter, Forcing them will decrease the overall number of years they lay as each chicken has a finite ## of eggs. You do not need a rooster for hens to lay eggs.

Plus they are surprisingly amusing as heck. My senior mother loved to sit out with the chickens and feed them.
 
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meh, as a chicken keeper they do not cost that much to keep. Chickens are pretty cheap. to start out there is an investment, but even that is minimal. Chicks cost 6-10$ each depending on the breed and number you buy.

Each bag of feed which lasts a month for about 6 hens costs $14. Those 6 hens would easily produce 2-3 dozen eggs a week (depending on the breed). so $14/ 7 dozen = $2 a dozen, and I am being really conservative on the # of eggs. I usually get high egg production breeds.

Plus they love kitchen scraps, so good composters. They are low maintenance and do not need a fancy heated Taj Macoop, just a solid place to protect against predators and get out of the weather. Although janky as heck... I built my coop myself using scrap pallets, old cabinets, leftover roofing shingles and plywood. We sometimes free range which is great for ridding the yard of ticks, but do not keep a regular schedule because predators.

If you do not force them they stop laying in the winter (when there is less daylight), but you can have eggs all winter by using a light in the coop to mimic daylight. I like to give my chooks a break in the winter, Forcing them will decrease the overall number of years they lay as each chicken has a finite ## of eggs.

I have 2 dear friends who keep chickens and, from what they pay and reap, plus the time and upkeep involved...nope, surely not for me or my wallet. I am done raising kids (almost) and I am at the stage where I am just going to pay whatever it takes for convenience. :)
 
I have 2 dear friends who keep chickens and, from what they pay and reap, plus the time and upkeep involved...nope, surely not for me or my wallet. I am done raising kids (almost) and I am at the stage where I am just going to pay whatever it takes for convenience. :)
curious do you know what they pay or what they do? I have been involved with livestock (horses, cattle etc.) my whole life, so comparatively to the larger animals chickens are a breeze

I head out to the coop once a day to feed water and collect eggs. I totally clean the coop/run several times a year by stripping out all the shavings and replace it with fresh shavings, takes about an hour... so maybe about 6 hours total over the year. I usually keep 5- 8 birds at a time. The biggest pain is getting people to care when we vacation. We do not vet for chickens, thankfully we have had decent luck with health. Mostly age and predators taking their toll. We do not do meat birds, they lay until they stop and get to retire and live the good life on my dime.

with any animal.... say a dog... you can give them an excellent basic good life with their needs met... or a fancy life with sweaters and mini dog Loungefly backpacks. But I get it, it is much easier to buy a dozen eggs
 
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My neighbors down the road keep a flock and that's where I get my eggs from. Much better price for sure. :)
Not sure what the price is for eggs from the individual chicken ranchers since bird flu hit. It used to be close to twice what grocery store eggs were. So at least around here, NOT a much better price. And since they don't under go the same bird flu inspections are commercial operations do, I'd be a little hesitant right now to buy uninspected eggs. .
A friend got her degree in Poultry Science over 40 years ago and the restrictions to prevent the spread of disease in commercial egg operations are mindboggling. Her husband also worked in the industry and they couldn't work at different poultry operations for fear of bringing disease from one farm to another.
 
Not sure what the price is for eggs from the individual chicken ranchers since bird flu hit. It used to be close to twice what grocery store eggs were. So at least around here, NOT a much better price. And since they don't under go the same bird flu inspections are commercial operations do, I'd be a little hesitant right now to buy uninspected eggs. .
A friend got her degree in Poultry Science over 40 years ago and the restrictions to prevent the spread of disease in commercial egg operations are mindboggling. Her husband also worked in the industry and they couldn't work at different poultry operations for fear of bringing disease from one farm to another.
They ask me for $1.00 a dozen, but I'm sure that's the friends and family discount. I don't think they sell to other people outside of the community so I believe the $1.00 is more a token than anything else.
 
We used to sell our eggs for $2/dozen to friends/neighbors/co-workers. I generally see $3-5/dozen signs at the places near us that sell eggs.

Chicken keeping is REALLY easy, and really not expensive. We've got our set up so we can leave for a week on vacation, and they're OK if there's no one to look in on them. Like Sugar Mag, ours get to just live out their time after they're done laying eggs for us. I would love to start over with 6 new chicks, though. I've got 3 old girls right now. We like Australorps for egg-laying. Nicer temperaments than hybrid reds, and just as many eggs. We've had Barred Rocks - they were great layers/chickens, too. And I like to have a couple of Americaunas or Easter Eggers just for the fun of blue eggs.
 
We’ve got 15 chickens so we haven’t bought eggs in a long time. My neighbor has just as many. We keep our friends stocked in eggs as my family gets tired of them quickly. We just ask friends to keep their fruit/veggie scraps for the chickens.
 
This week I held my nose, closed my eyes and bought Eggland cage-free eggs at a local supermarket and paid $5.49/dozen.
At least they had some 🤷🏽‍♀️
 
A bargain. I paid $9.52 Sunday at Walmart for 18 cage free eggs (illegal to sell any other kind in California). They were $12.98 at my regular grocery store Sunday. Walmart has never been out of eggs although a few times the case was only half full. The regular grocery store was completely sold out once, and now, they only have a brand of eggs they never carried before. No store brand, so apparently their normal supplier has been impacted. Time to go fix my fried egg breakfast!
 
I'm in Canada, 45 minutes outside of Vancouver BC. A dozen large eggs cost $4.16 CDN at my local grocery store which is approx $2.87US. Organic and/or free range eggs are closer to $6CDN a dozen.
 
We buy free range, organic eggs. I prefer the Happy Eggs brand, but lately they are very hard to find at any store, but I used to be able to find them at Fresh Market, Publix, and Walmart. They even were on sale sometimes! The yolks are dark colored, and they taste better. A dozen were around $5 mid year 2024, now they are $7 plus. I try not to focus on the jump up in price. We also eat steel cut oatmeal. I guess we eat breakfast like kings.
 
I didn’t need eggs but I noticed today that Eggland’s Best were $4.39, cheaper than the Giant store brand at $4.99.
 
I didn’t need eggs but I noticed today that Eggland’s Best were $4.39, cheaper than the Giant store brand at $4.99.
Prices are still crazy high here. And the uneven supply baffles me. Walmart this morning was fully stocked, AND had converted one of their refrigerated end cap cases to eggs, doubling their inventory of eggs. And they now have six packs of eggs, something I have not seen at Walmart before. They had the usual 12 and 18 packs and a huge inventory of 60 egg boxes. But 15 minutes later, at my chain grocery store, the egg case was nearly empty. I bought an 18 pack a week ago, and still have 17 left, so didn't buy any this week.
 



















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