Meanwhile, my chickens cost exactly the same as they did 12 months ago. :)
You say that, but just wait until they unionize.
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It's not "making excuses" I genuinely think what I said. This kinda recrimination and such aren't helping anything.
What was your purpose in saying you think it's ignorance more than malice? What did you actually want to communicate with that statement?
I intended to convey that I think it was more likely ignorance than malice.
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Seems interesting a bit but surely the economics are rather brutal? Even a traditional coop has an ROI of years and years and years.
It's a good question - From what we've seen most suburban people that raise chickens don't do it to lower costs of eggs - they do it to have better control over the quality of food they eat, to teach their kids that you take care of the chickens, they take care of us. To eliminate food waste (avg family throws out 200+ lbs a year of food that can go to chickens, and because funnily enough most backyard farmers treat…
Pasture-raised backyard chickens are also great pest control.
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#534What's going on with eggs in the US? The whole world had high inflation after Covid, so that's not US-specific, but eggs tripling in price? That is extreme. I don't think my (Dutch, free-range organic) eggs went up more than 25%.
Massive bird flu outbreak that has killed many egg laying chickens and required euthanizing many more to try to contain the spread. In just the last 3 months over 30 million chickens were killed, which is about 10% of the total US egg laying chicken population. Overall the US has lost so far something like 40% of its egg laying chickens.
I guess the flu hasn't made it to the EU, large eggs at Lidl have been about 28 cents each for many months now.
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I highly doubt that the farmer down the street from me is testing for avian flu. Their eggs are fantastic, though!
It spreads so fast and is lethal enough that they probably don’t need to test, because they’d know quite quickly.
Likely. I guess if they held onto the eggs for a few days before selling them it would work. If the bird is still alive and the egg is a few days old, sell it.
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#536Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not "making excuses" I genuinely think what I said. This kinda recrimination and such aren't helping anything.
What was your purpose in saying you think it's ignorance more than malice? What did you actually want to communicate with that statement?
I would venture a guess that they wanted to communicate their opinion that it's ignorance more than malice.
Please do not escalate into a flame war.
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its 3-4$ at trader joes - still 8ish in WholeFoods in Michigan
Still $3.50 at TJs in SF last week still, which is by far the cheapest around (that I'm aware of). Pretty surprised they are still that low given prices elsewhere.
Loss leader, perhaps, to get people through the door and buy other stuff at a better markup. That and/or they've got long-term fixed price contracts.
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> you can't feed 340M people with "fresh, local eggs" i think the opposite, i would like to hear a good argument why you can't.
Where can the NYC metro area get fresh, local eggs to feed the 19 million people that live there? This is an extreme example, but still applies to every other metro area too.
Why am I imagining high rise chicken coups now? Vertical farming, take note :)
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#539Meanwhile, over here in Costa Rica, I've just bought 6 eggs for about $1.50 USD and that's the convenience store price. They are cheaper at the super market.
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I’ve always bought the most expensive pasture raised free range cage free eggs at Whole Foods. If I recall they used to be around $10 per dozen. Been a while. Anyone know Is this still the case?
Meanwhile in Ireland, I can get a tray of 30 free range for 8 eur at a vending machine on the dog walk. Or 15 for 4.50. Lidl is maybe marginally cheaper, prices there have gone up maybe 20% in a year.
Free-range hens have some outdoor access, but pasture-raised hens roam outdoors freely with significantly more space to forage.