Egg Prices

Beau said:
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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Can confirm, just went this AM and 5 dozen sits at 12.99 at my local Costco, which they have went up some, seems like it was 10 bucks for a long time. I'm sure they aren't the highest quality around, but for the price I'm sure they are good.
 
GQdaLEGEND said:
$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.
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I wouldn't freeze, but they really dont go bad in the refrigerator. They can get a little dehydrated but then just add a splash of water. I have had them easily a month or 2 past expiration.
 
Falco1098 said:
I wouldn't freeze, but they really dont go bad in the refrigerator. They can get a little dehydrated but then just add a splash of water. I have had them easily a month or 2 past expiration.
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Me too.
I use the "float test". If they float, I throw them out.
 
dickmidnight said:
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.
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That's good feedback. I might have to re-analyze this scenario :LOL:
 
My daughter is a farmer and sells cage free, free roaming eggs before covid they were $2 a dozen, now $3.
 
I actually have about 8 ducks instead of chickens and I prefer the duck eggs over chicken eggs. They’re a little bit larger and the yolk is slightly richer. Nice orange color.
 
Gandalfthegreg said:
I actually have about 8 ducks instead of chickens and I prefer the duck eggs over chicken eggs. They’re a little bit larger and the yolk is slightly richer. Nice orange color.
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duck eggs are great, but ducks are a much more labor intensive set up, unless you have a pond or lake on your property. plus they’re dirty AF
 
LeanEngineer said:
That's good feedback. I might have to re-analyze this scenario :LOL:
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chickens were my wife’s idea when we moved to a larger property. i was hesitant at first, but now i love it. we like to travel, and i wouldn’t still have chickens if they were a hindrance on my life at all. if it was free eggs vs not being able to go on a spontaneous weekend trip, those birds would all be sold or butchered.

this morning after breakfast i brought a big bowl of table scraps down to their run, tossed them in, opened the door to their big “free range” enclosure and grabbed a dozen eggs. might have taken me 3 minutes.

Rocket3015 said:
My daughter is a farmer and sells cage free, free roaming eggs before covid they were $2 a dozen, now $3.
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we sell off excess eggs to our neighbors for $4/dozen.

mostly we eat them all ourselves, but there are times where we find ourselves with a lot left over.
 
dickmidnight said:
duck eggs are great, but ducks are a much more labor intensive set up, unless you have a pond or lake on your property. plus they’re dirty AF
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I have a little hard plastic kiddie pool that I buried in the ground in their enclosure and it works great for me 🤷🏻‍♂️ but yes they do shed a lot more feathers than chickens. Luckily for me I’m on a large ranch so my ducks can wander pretty much everywhere when I let them out.

One nice thing I noticed about ducks over chickens is that chickens love to scratch up my garden and make a mess with that. My ducks don’t scratch and less of an issue with them tearing up my garden. I have a big Anatolian/Pyrenees cross guardian dog that hangs around my property as well so don’t ever have to worry about predators having a duck dinner while they’re free ranging.

I would agree that chickens are easier though and in most peoples situations a better fit for their needs.
 
Resolve10 said:
I think I like chicken eggs more but I’ve also been eating chicken eggs for so long it’s maybe just weird if something that looks so similar tastes a bit different?
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I'm sure I've tried them, but it's been so long, I can't remember how they taste. Like I mentioned above, I've eaten chicken eggs from my own chickens before, and I enjoyed those.
 
I used to know a lady with an emu farm, but I never got to try an egg.
 
Gandalfthegreg said:
I have a little hard plastic kiddie pool that I buried in the ground in their enclosure and it works great for me 🤷🏻‍♂️ but yes they do shed a lot more feathers than chickens. Luckily for me I’m on a large ranch so my ducks can wander pretty much everywhere when I let them out.

One nice thing I noticed about ducks over chickens is that chickens love to scratch up my garden and make a mess with that. My ducks don’t scratch and less of an issue with them tearing up my garden. I have a big Anatolian/Pyrenees cross guardian dog that hangs around my property as well so don’t ever have to worry about predators having a duck dinner while they’re free ranging.

I would agree that chickens are easier though and in most peoples situations a better fit for their needs.
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chickens will scratch and dig everywhere. that’s definitely true. you either need to keep them in where you want them, or out of where you don’t want them.

mine have a 20x8 fully predator-proof run, and then a 60x60ish fenced in pen in a wooded area of my yard that i let them into most days.

they don’t have any access to my lawn or my wife’s garden.
 
Eggs around $4-5aud which is like $3usd. That's free range blah blah

I guess we finally get something cheaper than America!
 
Excuse me while I go make an omelet ..........
 
Eggs are going up again. That’ll surprise a few chickens.

(currently £2 for 12 large free range eggs. Not much more if you want organic. Duck eggs are a little more expensive but they’re only an occasional treat for me).
 
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