What breed of hen is that may I ask?

Stealing hens used to be a serious crime.....about like stealing a horse. My Dad told of a neighbor way back when that had the sheriff come to arrest him for stealing chickens and the dude offed himself rather than go to jail.

I just walked out of the grocery store in Mansfield mo. And I saw $11.59 for 18 grade A.

I am Rich !!!!!

"you'll own nothing and be happy". The squeeze is real.

I give eggs to about everyone that stops buy the house. FedX, UPS a few friends from town. I always take eggs to my buddy that is a butcher. He gives me deals on meat all the time. I get gran for feed for trapping problem beaver or buy it from farmers loose rather then in 50lb bags. It is about half price buying from farmers. I also get samples from a seed plant. That adds up in the hundreds of pounds a year. It all cuts down on feed cost. I eat eggs every morning and my wife bakes a lot. So we use eggs. .

That is a thing of beauty

I was shocked at the price of food in the US this past summer. People here think our food is expensive, that tells me they don’t travel.
I pay $6 for 18.

I pay $3 a dozen

Yea, the prices will go down, just gotta leave it up to the big man. They will eventually drop in price as will gas and everything else when they start drilling again. It’s a process to change the damage that’s been done the last few years, it’ll take a little while, but from my understanding they will go down in price eventually.

JMHO It's all about the bird flu, just wonder which Chinese lab developed it for Anthony Fauci, and the past administration.

What's really funny to me is people believing brown eggs are worth more than other eggs.
A farmer sells @ $ 2a dozen white eggs, $ 3 a dozen for brown.
Admitted that was a couple months ago, but I get them extra large for $3.50, but I know them well, and get my meat supplies there.

During the summer , buy and specify unwashed eggs when the prices are lower.
Water glass them for 18 months.
Only problem, I have is they're good for everything except over easy or sunny side up eggs.

Have they reduced the size requirement to be sold as a large egg? They just seem smaller to me these days, and you can't hardly find medium eggs around here in the stores. I like the mediums for deviled eggs.

I heard they had allowed a grade change because of lack of eggs, also heard some were paying 12.50 a dozen.

We have 16 hens. They avg 12-13 eggs a day. We sell them at the gym or my wife’s work for 2.50/doz. Have our regulars that have been buying from us for a while. Always have new folks asking for them but I tell them I will put them on a list only if we get extras.

We just had omelettes for supper. I have around 100 egg laying age hens, mostly bantams. I have more younger ones. I haven't selected my breeders for this year yet. I need to get it done and sell off my extras because prices are good already. I usually wait until late March to sell them, when the prices start soaring up, Most of the people I sell to are not willing to do outside chores in cold weather and get rid of their entire flocks in the Fall. They buy new birds from me every Spring.

I don't give any artificial light, so this time of year we only get a few eggs a day.

I sell mostly chicks and only very rarely sell eggs. When i do sell eggs, I mostly sell hatching eggs, rather than eggs for eating. Even a cheap chick brings more than a dozen eating eggs.

It's a little late, but I should see what I can pick up as hatchery overhatch to grow out for Spring sales.

Keith

4.00 dozen. At an Amish produce place, brown eggs with nice orange yokes.

We had bird flu hit the biggest egg producer in our area. They have several facilities fortunately, but pretty sure they had to wipe out the entire flock at one location to the tune of thousands of birds. I also noticed a sign on the door to the egg cooler at Meijer right before the first of the year saying a new law was going into effect January 1st. From now on, only “cage free” eggs are allowed to be sold in Michigan. Prices have only gone up since then.