$4.19 a dozen at the Local ALDI’s !

I have my own hens and they produce more then we need !

Cage free eggs just make animal rights whackos and stupid people feel better. That method of farming does not improve the life of the hens any. It just means they are dumped loose in a barn instead of hung in a large cage. They are still just as crowded. They are still debeaked. They still don't get to go outside. They still don't get to eat anything green or fresh. They still live so crowded and contained that they will die in under 10 minutes without an exhaust system. They still don't have much of a life. It does raise the cost of production. It does raise the rate of accidental deaths. It doe raise the overall death rate. Cage free eggs are basically pointless.

Keith

how much does a meal with eggs the main course cost how much does a steak meal cost

Cage-free, free-range and all organic. LOL

I figure it costs us less than a dollar a dozen to grown our own.

I can’t get 3.00 a doz out of my eggs locally. I normally just give them away because I got tired of trying to sell them. They prefer to buy them from Walmart I guess, even if they are 5.00 a doz currently. I just gave the neighbor a dozen recently and he sheepishly asked if he had to do anything to them first to eat them….I said yes! Please crack and remove the shell!

thats funny fast i give my free range eggs away to some times its worth more down the road

Least expensive eggs I have found, lately, are $3.99/dozen or $4.99/18. If I can give up smoking when they reached $5/pack, I ain't giving $5/doz for eggs!

well Eggs are the better buy between the two by far.

Y
You quit smoking awhile back then!
I quit buying candy bars at 85 cents....

It's been a long time, and I do not miss it!

I sell mine for $3.50 a dozen, get about 30 a day. Feed is the cheapest it has been in a long time. $6.50 for 50# at the local mill for 18% layer feed.

$35/100 here for the same.

Looks as if the prices will be high or higher for the foreseeable future. The Avian Flu is moving with the migrations and that means it will become heavier again in spring. Twice a year with a lot of mutations in a year make this difficult to reign in and with our poultry industry heavily concentrated or centralized it can do a lot of damage.The one good thing from a production aspect is with the broiler industry turning out finished birds in 8-9 weeks they don't live long enough in many cases to get caught up in the disease. The movement through our dairy herds is one reason among several that are causing milk production to be declining the last several months.

Bryce

If I could get feed for $6.50 I'd get another batch of hens....

We own a small chicken farm and we sell the eggs for $7.00 to a local grocery store. But since the hens slacked off, we had to get rid of them and we will get some more chicks this spring.

4.79 at ALDI here, I can go with out.

I’ll have to ask my son what they pay. They buy crates at a time to use for trapping.

16% layer pellets is $10.50/50lb bag at the local MFA.

What!?! I pay $30-$32 per 50 pound bag. It’s times like these I wish I was in the Lower 48.