ECON Egg prices so high, popular store pulls them from shelves completely

Milk-maid

Milk-maid

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NoDandy said:
Their playset is one of those rigs using 6" timbers, with A Frane on one end, and a double A Frame on the other end, with a platform and steps to climb over. It also has a two story " Fort " playhouse, with a lot of space on ground level. After building the house, when we moved, we brought it all here. Obviously, kids are grown, and no need for it. No grand kids, so thought about making chicken coop with it. It is already close to house, maybe 30 ft or soOr, maybe a firewood shed. Have other options for firewood, but would like to have eggs. ? ? ? ?

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Sounds like all you need now is a good fence, a waterer, metal feed cans (to protect your bags of feed) and feed dishes.
Chickens have been a good thing for us. I've had them now since 2013. I wanted them so badly; I got them before I even had a coop. (keeping the babies under a heat lamp in a horse's water trough in the house.) Then scrambling to figure out a chicken coop. We have so many eggs, that every few weeks we bring our surplus to the food bank for the poor. Our neighbor buys some from us too.
 
nomifyle

nomifyle

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They are under $3 at my local walmart. The powers that be don't want people to eat eggs, they are too healthy, bastards. They are the perfect food.

DH only got 19 this morning.
 
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shane

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With an excess of eggs to use as a base feed, any potentially
good additional small livestock to consider expanding into?

Panic Early, Beat the Rush!
- Shane
 
Milk-maid

Milk-maid

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shane said:
With an excess of eggs to use as a base feed, any potentially
good additional small livestock to consider expanding into?

Panic Early, Beat the Rush!
- Shane
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We live on an acre -- but in town- so that's about the only livestock we can have, and really shouldn't even have a rooster in town, but we do and so does our neighbors. No one has said anything to us.
 
Melodi

Melodi

Disaster Cat
Excess eggs (if you are well enough to mess with them) cooked are a perfect addition to the diet of barn cats and farm dogs. They may not be livestock, but both are working animals and have a job to do, and it cuts down on the food bill. Cats need their eggs cooked. Yes, they will steal and eat raw bird (or sometimes chicken) eggs but cooked is much better for them. Scrambled eggs are also perfect food for weaning kittens raised by Momma or rescue going off the ba-ba. You would want to double-check with a vet, but I think dogs can have them either way though in large amounts cooked is probably the best idea.

Chickens and other domestic fowl can eat eggs, but again cooking is best because you don't want them getting a taste for "raw" eggs. Every few years, we have to cull an egg eater as it is, as most chicken people do sooner or later. Pigs could probably eat some eggs. They can eat darn near anything but probably not in large quantities. Sheep and Cattle don't eat them, at least not as eggs. I've never had goats, so I couldn't say.

So your best bet is to scramble and feed them to your working (or pet) cats and dogs, along with a bit fed back to the chickens.

Edited to add that barn kitties love the occasional "Phliphino Surprise." Which is an egg with a half-formed chick in it. Even though we gather the eggs almost daily, we still get a few. We take them outside and crack those raw for the cats as long as they are fresh. Like the occasional raw egg that breaks and falls on the floor, some raw egg and raw half-formed chick don't hurt them. By the way, we call them that funny name because they are a popular food in those Islands for people. To each his own...
 
Milk-maid

Milk-maid

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Melodi said:
Excess eggs (if you are well enough to mess with them) cooked are a perfect addition to the diet of barn cats and farm dogs. They may not be livestock, but both are working animals and have a job to do, and it cuts down on the food bill. Cats need their eggs cooked. Yes, they will steal and eat raw bird (or sometimes chicken) eggs but cooked is much better for them. Scrambled eggs are also perfect food for weaning kittens raised by Momma or rescue going off the ba-ba. You would want to double-check with a vet, but I think dogs can have them either way though in large amounts cooked is probably the best idea.

Chickens and other domestic fowl can eat eggs, but again cooking is best because you don't want them getting a taste for "raw" eggs. Every few years, we have to cull an egg eater as it is, as most chicken people do sooner or later. Pigs could probably eat some eggs. They can eat darn near anything but probably not in large quantities. Sheep and Cattle don't eat them, at least not as eggs. I've never had goats, so I couldn't say.

So your best bet is probably to scramble and feed them to your working (or pet) cats and dogs, along with a bit fed back to the chickens.
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Yes, this too. We don't have working farm dogs, but we have two cattle dogs (no cattle)
They get eggs with their food, at least once a week. They love them scrambled. If they could get a cheese omelet on toast, they'd be even happier... :jstr:
 
babysteps

babysteps

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Melodi said:
Chickens and other domestic fowl can eat eggs, but again cooking is best because you don't want them getting a taste for "raw" eggs. Every few years, we have to cull an egg eater as it is, as most chicken people do sooner or later. Pigs could probably eat some eggs. They can eat darn near anything but probably not in large quantities. Sheep and Cattle don't eat them, at least not as eggs. I've never had goats, so I couldn't say.

So your best bet is to scramble and feed them to your working (or pet) cats and dogs, along with a bit fed back to the chickens.
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Definitely don't feed them to any ruminant - cow, sheep, goat. Pigs will love them, or feeding them to farm dogs or barn cats, or cooking them and feeding them back to the birds, are good options.
 
ainitfunny

ainitfunny

Saved, to glorify God.
This week, We've had a local, medium sized private grocery store here ( only 3 stores in the chain) for over 30 years and the whole community is shocked that it's going to be turned into an Ace hardware.

Now it is only the major national grocery chains, (who having merged,) now there are other stores with other names but they are really just Kroger or Safeway stores.
 
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Barry Natchitoches

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nwillitts said:
can any one here identify sex and breed of this chick?
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No, I cannot.

It is hard to figure out the breed - or even the sex - of a little fuzzy butt that age, unless you already know what you are supposed to have.

Let it grow up some. You will have a better idea at 6 weeks old.
 
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Double_A

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20Gauge said:
I posted this article as it demonstrates a problem endemic in this nation that we have not identified properly or solved.....

Eggs are on of the easiest things to produce next to pullets ..... it takes 6 months and you have eggs. Lots of eggs.

The problem is as follows: We are going on 24 months with high and very high egg prices......

WHY????

I know they said they killed a million egg layers..... but we have over 379 million egg layers according to google. So we killed less than 1/3%, that doesn't give us a tripling of prices if not more.

Then why have they not gone down when you can have more in just 6 months.....????

We are seeing the beginnings of a food scarcity / shortage / call it what you will in the USA

WHY???
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Simple, the buying power of the US dollar is dropping so it takes more $$$ to purchase same item.

Why do people think several nations around the world announced they won't accept the US dollar for payment?
 
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