The ladies are slowing down already this year, so I sent the latest full dozen to Neighbor S and planned on buying eggs during the Monday water run.
I had reason to regret it. Five and a half bucks a dozen? Yike.
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
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You could cover those eggs with hookers and cocaine and they still wouldn’t be worth five bucks. Living here in ‘the big city’ I pay something like two bucks a dozen. The analytical part of me wants to do the math on store bought eggs vs home chickens when you factor in feed costs, time, coop materials, etc, etc.
You must be shopping in a high class place! We pay around $3.50 for jumbo eggs. Large are something under $3.00.
It’s 5.50 where I live in california. Also home grown eggs are So much better. Also no amount will help if the store runs out. Best to have your own chickens
I agree but only because I have no use for hookers and cocaine – I expect that in reality they cost much more. 🙂
But yeah – the last time I bought a dozen eggs it was like two bucks, and that really wasn’t long ago. So I don’t know what we did to deserve such a massive increase. But now I’m seriously wondering if I shouldn’t rebuild the Lair’s chicken yard.
Joel: second time you’ve done this, the receipt tells the world what town is nearby you. Just sayin’.
Shit, you’re right. Fixed.
Our eggs aren’t as expensive as yours, but I’ve noticed a strange thing: the only size available is “Large”. Up until a few weeks ago, we had a good selection of “Large”, “Extra Large”, and “Jumbo”. Are they reducing the feed to chickens? Or did somebody eat all the real performers?
Crap, I missed the town name yesterday . . . snooze, lose. 😉
“So I don’t know what we did to deserve such a massive increase.”
A couple of months ago some kinda “bird flu” hit the big egg producers and a bazillion layers were “euthanized” in an effort to contain it . . . without much success. So it’s now increased demand for a considerably reduced supply. 🙁
I suspect the price increase has to do with a combo of bird flu, like Kentucky pointed out, and feed prices.
I know here in Canada, feed has been highest I’ve seen it for poultry, and I suspect everything else that eats grain based feeds.
As we’ve had better harvests this year, things are slowly starting to come back down.
As more layers come online after being culled heavily to avoid the flu (which was silly to me to cull barns of seemingly healthy birds over 1 or a handful of deads, since a recovered bird is one with immunity…*I* would take her eggs and hatch them and hope for that immunity to be passed on to chicks, even if only a small part of it…but what do I know, I only have 125 chickens as opposed to several thousands) prices, theoretically, should come down on eggs.
Or not, because once the sellers know they’ll get that price, well, they might decide to keep getting that price.
Just paid $2.95/dz for “Large”. Idaho, backwoods.
I just bought an 18 count package at the big independentish store (three-store chain) in our medium-sized city (20K people, the biggest in the county). The first package was $4.18, and any more would have been $4.68. This is from a large regional egg outfit in Oregon. They were really short on supply during the worst of Covidiocy, but have more or less recovered.
I’m sure a lot of the issues are fuel and electricity. We’re not quite as bad as California, but Those Better Than Us think we should be good little subjects and not live 40 miles from a city, and that city better be west of the Cascades. Two strikes against us, but they can take their wishes and shove ’em.
We figured our year-and-a-half old Border Collie would harass any chickens, so we’re not planning on doing a coop until/unless she mellows out. Ask me in 5 years.
Yes, you might have to get more. You could become a Chicken Tycoon. Have to be chickens, you are in the wrong state for dental floss.
Did some checking today. Indeed, eggs have gone up, but as much as you paid. Large are $4.30 and jumbo are $5.40. This was in a Publix, would be cheaper in a Walmart.