Egg Prices

WesleyInman

WesleyInman

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What are you guys paying for eggs?

This week I paid $14 for 30 eggs.

Sometimes we have sales on 18 for 5.99-6.99

But this is close to double what I was paying a year ago.

Anyone else seeing this?
 
$4-5 for 12 eggs in western NY .. which i think is alot lol

can u freeze them ? ive never done it .. but wonder what happens to them if you just throw em in freezer and take em out a day before.
 
I recently purchased a flat of 5 dozen eggs at Costco. I believe it was about $12, IIRC.

Edit - I just checked, it was about $13.50. So, about $0.225 per egg.
 
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Prior to **** for brains taking over the whitehouse I was paying as little as .49 a dozen here on sale and .79 regularly at the cheapest store and 1.49 at the smallest grocery store.

Six months ago 2.49
Two weeks ago 3.99
Last week 4.69

Sale prices are about 2.99/doz reg white

Good news I grabbed boneless skinless chicken breast at the smaller locally owned store for 2.99/lb and they are NOT those giant rubber ones, these are nice normal sized with none of that cartilage/striation **** you see at walmart. Fresh ground beef was 3.99. We are very lucky to have this local place. I have NOT ONCE gone to this store during the entire wooflu BS and not found what I was looking for, not once were they out of what I wanted. How many stores can say that? #buylocalifpossible
 
$13 for 36 eggs at BJ's... pretty sure thats the cheapest around me.

EDIT: I guess i should mention thats usually for the 'normal' prices. If you watch for sales/coupons can find them a bit cheaper. But most of the normal grocery stores are around ~$5/dozen for large eggs.

Double Edit: Anyone else getting to the point of considering putting a chicken coop in their backyard haha?
 
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baldwanus said:
$13 for 36 eggs at BJ's... pretty sure thats the cheapest around me.

EDIT: I guess i should mention thats usually for the 'normal' prices. If you watch for sales/coupons can find them a bit cheaper. But most of the normal grocery stores are around ~$5/dozen for large eggs.

Double Edit: Anyone else getting to the point of considering putting a chicken coop in their backyard haha?
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I’ve considered it for awhile but I don’t think I can where I live

I used to have a connection at work and the lady would bring me her chicken eggs around once a week…quail eggs sometimes…nothing better than free eggs
 
baldwanus said:
$13 for 36 eggs at BJ's... pretty sure thats the cheapest around me.

EDIT: I guess i should mention thats usually for the 'normal' prices. If you watch for sales/coupons can find them a bit cheaper. But most of the normal grocery stores are around ~$5/dozen for large eggs.

Double Edit: Anyone else getting to the point of considering putting a chicken coop in their backyard haha?
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I had one in my backyard, in High School. It was nice to always have eggs available.
But if you've never been around them much ..... Chickens are pretty nasty animals.
They smell, carry "lice". Neighbors usually don't appreciate them.
 
Connecticut, 2.99 a dozen at Aldi for the store brand, 3.99 for the free range organic dozen.

Stop and shop and shop rite they range from 3.99-5.99 a dozen.

No clue what they are in bulk but il check this weekend
 
Smont said:
Connecticut, 2.99 a dozen at Aldi for the store brand, 3.99 for the free range organic dozen.

Stop and shop and shop rite they range from 3.99-5.99 a dozen.

No clue what they are in bulk but il check this weekend
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Are u in CT?

I am.

ShopRite is $5.99 a dozen. 30 eggs for $14.

I'm gonna try Aldi.
 
I live in BFE Arkansas about 30 miles west of Hot Springs. My wife normally does all the grocery shopping. However, this weekend we had a guys "camp/hunt" weekend and I went 8 miles down the road to my local grocery store. $14 for 30 eggs. I almost **** a brick. Bacon was like $14 a pack as well. I couldn't believe it. I know I paid less than half of that last year for our "hunt".
 
I thought I was the only one who noticed this. There was a slight increase over the last year, and then this weekend; Bam! Prices doubled.

$3.99 for 12 cage free eggs. They may have Been on sale. Used to be two for $5.
 
I typically get eggs from costco and I think last time I got them they were around 7 bucks for 2 dozens eggs if I recall correctly.
 
A month or so ago I paid 4.50 for a dozen Jumbo eggs..... A few days ago the same eggs were down to 2.50 at the same store. I think that whole Bird Flu scam that happened this year reduced the chicken population significantly enough to cause the price spike.
 
I pass alot of farms with "Fresh Eggs" signs on my work commute. Going to start stopping to checkout prices. I used to get a dozen for $2.50 from a farm in town before I moved. Could see the chickens and everything.
 
Well, be ready because this damn inflation is just the beggining.

Everything is more expensive and the salaries are not increasing.

$1 more in gas this week.

They are struggling us, then they will buy our business, houses etc for a couple of dollars.
 
I actually found eggs at a store called ALDI's for $3 a dozen. So I will shop there now.

My current stores are called Shoprite and Stop and Shop and eggs are a small fortune there.

I don't understand why they suddenly spiked.

Appreciate the replies.
 
Thankfully eggs is something I can save a little on. There's a lady a few miles from my house that sells both chicken and duck eggs to me for $2 a dozen.

@WesleyInman yea man I love Aldi for a lot of basic staples. I haven't seen it in awhile but they used to sell Biltong I think it's called. It's the sugar free jerky stuff.
 
I have my own chickens but 2.49 to 2.99 a dozen egg lands best like 3.49 a dozen. But I can get 6 to 18 a day and all I need to do is give them water. Plus all food scraps go out and theyll eat the egg shells after I’m done.
 
Renew1 said:
I had one in my backyard, in High School. It was nice to always have eggs available.
But if you've never been around them much ..... Chickens are pretty nasty animals.
They smell, carry "lice". Neighbors usually don't appreciate them.
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i have 16 chickens in a backyard coop and that isn’t my experience at all.

if you maintain and set up the coop properly, theyre clean, don’t smell, and the hens lay an egg a day, almost every day.

i collect 13-16 eggs from my nest boxes every day.

a 50lb bag of feed (~$18) lasts me a month in the summer and about 3 weeks in the winter.
 
dickmidnight said:
i have 16 chickens in a backyard coop and that isn’t my experience at all.

if you maintain and set up the coop properly, theyre clean, don’t smell, and the hens lay an egg a day, almost every day.

i collect 13-16 eggs from my nest boxes every day.

a 50lb bag of feed (~$18) lasts me a month in the summer and about 3 weeks in the winter.
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I'm glad that wasn't your experience, man (truly).
But it was definitely mine.
And later it was my (and my sister and brother in law's) experience again, as they lived on, and maintained his father's farm
 
Renew1 said:
I'm glad that wasn't your experience, man (truly).
But it was definitely mine.
And later it was my (and my sister and brother in law's) experience again, as they lived in, and maintained his father's farm
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bummer! we’ve had them for about two years now. free eggs are obviously awesome and my kids love the chickens.
 
manbeast1 said:
I have my own chickens but 2.49 to 2.99 a dozen egg lands best like 3.49 a dozen. But I can get 6 to 18 a day and all I need to do is give them water. Plus all food scraps go out and theyll eat the egg shells after I’m done.
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lololol so true.
 
dickmidnight said:
i have 16 chickens in a backyard coop and that isn’t my experience at all.

if you maintain and set up the coop properly, theyre clean, don’t smell, and the hens lay an egg a day, almost every day.

i collect 13-16 eggs from my nest boxes every day.

a 50lb bag of feed (~$18) lasts me a month in the summer and about 3 weeks in the winter.
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Mind telling me how to get a setup and where to buy feed?

I think we wanna do chickens.
 
baldwanus said:
$13 for 36 eggs at BJ's... pretty sure thats the cheapest around me.

EDIT: I guess i should mention thats usually for the 'normal' prices. If you watch for sales/coupons can find them a bit cheaper. But most of the normal grocery stores are around ~$5/dozen for large eggs.

Double Edit: Anyone else getting to the point of considering putting a chicken coop in their backyard haha?
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I was just laying the ground work with the wife today to push for chickens haha
 
rob112 said:
I was just laying the ground work with the wife today to push for chickens haha
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That's what I was doing as well! Although I need to work on my pay back calculations to make it worth it. For example, chicken coop, chicken feed, time to feed the chickens, time to go get the eggs, risk of chickens dying, smell of chicken sh%^, etc. I'm over thinking it here but that's what's keeping me from getting them. Until eggs get to be like $10 bucks a dozen idk if I can sell my wife :LOL:
 
LeanEngineer said:
For example, chicken coop, chicken feed, time to feed the chickens, time to go get the eggs, risk of chickens dying, smell of chicken sh%^, etc.
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the coop is your only real upfront cost.

feed is only about $15-20/month. the range depends on winter vs summer and how much time they get to spend free ranging.

the rest of your concerns can be managed by setting your coop and run up properly. for example, my feeder holds 60lbs of food, so i don’t have to worry about feeding them every day. i use a deep bedding system in my coop, which means in about 18 months of having chickens, i’ve cleaned it out once and it doesn’t smell.

i have my coop and run set up so that i can go on vacation without a second thought as to whether or not the chickens are ok. i just hire my teenage neighbor to come grab the eggs every other day.

all in all, i’d say they take up less than an hour of my time weekly and i have 16 happy, healthy birds. it’s far less work than people make it seem.

i can put together a punch list for anyone considering getting their own chickens wirh how to set yourself up so that your coop and run are as self sufficient as possible.
 
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Resolve10 said:
I think when making claims like this showing sources might be something this board could use more of.

Edit: Only commenting because I just wouldn't think of Florida as a place with tons of chickens (idk why). Then saw this then a cursory google search doesn't show this to be the case. In case anyone is as boring as I am and actually wanted to look up egg production.
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I already knew Florida to be a high producing egg state. My "claim" was the first thing that popped up (Literally #1) in a Google search.

D*mn, you MUST be bored.
:D:unsure::cool:
 
Alright chicken lovers, ill have to find some pics of my ole coop. At one point we had 77 hens. We were getting 4-6 dozen eggs a day. Actually ended up selling to local baker's and mom n pop restaurants.

It was cool for a while, but we got out of it. Tons of time, that we just don't have to devote to that anymore.

Started out you know when your kids want a new puppy and they take care of it for the first 3 days and then you know what happens after that......
 
Resolve10 said:
Ya but the first thing that popped up didn't have any sources either so it was basically useless.
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You know what .... I have NO IDEA what you're hoping to prove here ... But I LITERALLY don't give a sh*t about this entire conversation.
It doesn't even matter. Waste of time. It has nothing to do with my original comment.
So .... Happy Googling!!!!
 
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