My chickens have shut down for a molt.

So I had to buy eggs tonight..and had some stickah shock.

Paid 6.99 for an 18 pack ! ...OUCH !

Just paid $2,64 a doz. at Aldis.
Tom

Paid 4.99 dozen Brown eggs at Aldis . My chickens slowed down to, Been giving em Black sunflower seeds & some oats for protein. Tried it last year to help quicken the molt, Seemed to work.

Yup....4.69 doz. For large brown eggs at Maahket Basket

good eggs went from $5 something to $8 something for 18 around here recently..so i pay $8 something for 18.

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My wife said she picked some up today at our local Dollar Fresh store for $4.29 a dozen.

Mine are done molting, they shut down in mid September, and now laying good, even the spring chicks. Must be the difference in the daylight.

I always waterglass a few half gallon jars so I nevvah run out of eggs.

$3.12/18 here.

Using lights on timers will help chickens to stay laying when the days get shorter.

Almost $4/doz here

My chickens are on 24 hrs of daylight summer and winter. They freak out if it ever gets shut off at night

I get new chicks every 2 years
My 8mo . Old hens are laying 11 to 12 for. 12 daily

I sell them for $3.50 doz to one elderly couple
And another lady won't pat less than $5.00 4. Doz for $20 almost every two weeks

My daughter wont let me pay her. Im not sure how much she sells them for. Has a lady that buys em all then resells them. I know she raised her price. SIL was telling me they had to cause of feed price. They really took a hit on feed a couple months ago. Mill was broke down. Had to buy bagged feed at tractor supply. Has his Pyrenees guard dogs penned up now too. Deer rifle season. Lose a few birds every year while those dogs are penned up. Coons are the worst at snatching one.

I mostly like to eat. I leave production to others.

$2.50

$3.00/ doz.

Welcome to Bird flu prices...as more and more farms get hit this fall it is only going to get worse.

I save all my deer scraps to grind and cook. When my birds start to molt, they get a bunch of that meat each day.

Glad I raise my own hens.

we sell for $5 a dozen at market. Local poultry farmer that does pasture raised broilers and layers charges $7 a dozen and gets it.

Depends on the quality, the feed and if the egg seller/farmer knows what they are doing which I find in most cases they do not. That said, one of the things I insist on is that the whites are firm. I have paid as high as $6 but right now for decent quality fresh-I insist on fresh $2.18 for Montana hutterite grown which I do not normally by.