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Eggs $.92/dozen today #7252555
04/26/21 10:50 PM
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Saw eggs for .92 per dozen. Assuming carton costs maybe .05-.10, can there be any profit at this price? How much would it cost to feed 12 hens a day? Then there is freight, labor, and a middle man, and some breakage. Bad time to be in the egg business.

Re: Eggs $.92/dozen today [Re: charles] #7252564
04/26/21 10:59 PM
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I sell eggs like crazy for 1.00 a dozen.

The eggs pay for my feed.

I have 50 laying hens

I buy 100 lbs of mash 200 lbs of cracked corn and 100 pounds of whole corn a month and they free range

I have 60 pullets right now eating 50 lbs of grower every 10 days


IF IDIOTS GREW ON TREES THIS PLACE WOULD BE AN ORCHARD !

Re: Eggs $.92/dozen today [Re: charles] #7252565
04/26/21 11:01 PM
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Right now Aldis is up to 77cents a dozen. One of the cheapest foods there is.
Tom

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Re: Eggs $.92/dozen today [Re: Bogmaster] #7252570
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At $1.00 per dozen and now corn well over $6 per bu. and soybean meal well over $400 a ton they won't stay cheap for long or they will get in short supply which will raise the prices. Shortages of many commodities and items showing up quickly as the economies ramp up.

Bryce

Re: Eggs $.92/dozen today [Re: charles] #7252573
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Economies ramping up? More like the money supply has been artificially diluted. Hang on boys.


"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon". Milton Friedman.
Re: Eggs $.92/dozen today [Re: charles] #7252577
04/26/21 11:13 PM
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I get 3,50 a dozen....all day long up here in the Northeast.


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Re: Eggs $.92/dozen today [Re: Nessmuck] #7252585
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Originally Posted by Nessmuck
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I get 3,50 a dozen....all day long up here in the Northeast.


I could get more but I just enjoy my chickens so as long aa they pay fo theirr feed im happy

Some people spend their money on beer...cigs..or an elk hunt...with no rreturn.

Least for now my girls are holding there own


IF IDIOTS GREW ON TREES THIS PLACE WOULD BE AN ORCHARD !

Re: Eggs $.92/dozen today [Re: cathryn] #7252590
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Originally Posted by cathryn
I sell eggs like crazy for 1.00 a dozen.

The eggs pay for my feed.

I have 50 laying hens

I buy 100 lbs of mash 200 lbs of cracked corn and 100 pounds of whole corn a month and they free range

I have 60 pullets right now eating 50 lbs of grower every 10 days


This reminds me of a shirt I saw at a convention years ago: "I'm a trapper....I spend $100 to make $50".

Re: Eggs $.92/dozen today [Re: charles] #7252594
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Eggs are usually under a dollar a dozen here. Especially if you buy them by the flat like I do. Seen they were $7.50 a flat the other day, so $1.50 a dozen. Egg prices fluctuate, but I haven't paid that much for eggs in... well ever. The wife is talking about getting chickens at that price for eggs.

Re: Eggs $.92/dozen today [Re: charles] #7252613
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Originally Posted by Calvin
Originally Posted by cathryn
I sell eggs like crazy for 1.00 a dozen.

The eggs pay for my feed.

I have 50 laying hens

I buy 100 lbs of mash 200 lbs of cracked corn and 100 pounds of whole corn a month and they free range

I have 60 pullets right now eating 50 lbs of grower every 10 days


This reminds me of a shirt I saw at a convention years ago: "I'm a trapper....I spend $100 to make $50".



How much do ya make on a case of beer or carton of cigs or a preference point.lol

I look at it as at least my habit breaks even


IF IDIOTS GREW ON TREES THIS PLACE WOULD BE AN ORCHARD !

Re: Eggs $.92/dozen today [Re: charles] #7252657
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1.07 for a dozen and a half at local sav-a-lot all winter till now. Must be making money somewhere


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Re: Eggs $.92/dozen today [Re: charles] #7252659
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Originally Posted by charles
Saw eggs for .92 per dozen. Assuming carton costs maybe .05-.10, can there be any profit at this price? How much would it cost to feed 12 hens a day? Then there is freight, labor, and a middle man, and some breakage. Bad time to be in the egg business.


Same situation with milk. I think the last gallon I bought was $1.78 gallon. Cheaper than that some places.


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Re: Eggs $.92/dozen today [Re: charles] #7252671
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I'd like to see $1.78 milk...eggs at the dairy have been at $0.99 for a couple years. Local dairy and local egg farm

Re: Eggs $.92/dozen today [Re: charles] #7252708
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Are eggs good for a person right now? The “experts” seem to go back and forth whether youll die sooner or live longer from them.

Re: Eggs $.92/dozen today [Re: Steven 49er] #7252725
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Originally Posted by Steven 49er
Economies ramping up? More like the money supply has been artificially diluted. Hang on boys.



Here is one of them. You do use the same dollar. LLL


Isaiah 51:6 But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
Re: Eggs $.92/dozen today [Re: charles] #7252730
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Re: Eggs $.92/dozen today [Re: charles] #7252774
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Little over $5.00 a dozen here


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Re: Eggs $.92/dozen today [Re: charles] #7252783
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Saw eggs for .92 per dozen. Assuming carton costs maybe .05-.10, can there be any profit at this price? How much would it cost to feed 12 hens a day? Then there is freight, labor, and a middle man, and some breakage. Bad time to be in the egg business.


That's why most commercial egg producers of scale have hundreds of thousands, if not millions of laying hens going each and every day. Entry level for large-scale commercial production is a quarter of a million birds. Local-to-maybe-some regional scale commercial operations can be done but that's not where most of the big-chain groceries are getting their eggs. I see "farmer's market" and others selling "farm fresh" eggs for $2-4 a dozen but the percentage of the population that will pay that is small. I wish I could find the 2017 Ag Census map showing the number of laying hens by county. The number of dark colors with the most birds is fairly small, maybe 50-100 counties out of the 3,100 total...


"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground".
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Re: Eggs $.92/dozen today [Re: charles] #7252900
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Re: Eggs $.92/dozen today [Re: charles] #7252920
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Have heard it said that eggs are a loss leader in stores where there is competition. They sell eggs cheap....and maybe at a loss.....to get you into the store, where you buy other stuff that isn't so cheap. Around these parts, Walmart and Aldi have the cheap eggs. They also have expensive eggs ($5 doz+) right next to them. I sell the expensive eggs cheap.......$2.50 per doz....mainly cause it makes the math easy. $5 for 2 doz or $10 for 4.

People wiling to pay premium to buy mine, with rich orange yolks that have a distinct flavor vs. the pale yellow no flavor 90 cents a doz eggs. But I have heard of some folks used to the pale yellow eggs that can't stand the rich farm eggs.

Picked up 80# feed yesterday. New price is $10 per bag.....up from $8 a bag just a few weeks ago.

Corn and bean prices getting up into record territory. But most of the big layer operations would have locked in all prices for inputs and sales months, if not years, ago. Cheese won't get binding for another 6 to 8 months. Egg prices will have to go up by then if there is gonna be any eggs. Industry very cyclical and players are used to it.

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