Eggs

[Willow S]

Just paid $5.95 for one and a half dozen large eggs at our local grocery store in New Hampshire. I had to double check the price on the self and then didn't believe it until I looked at the receipt after checkout. And the selves were well stocked. Paid over $7 a little over a week ago for 1 dozen.

 

[sean donato]

I hate ducks and geese. We had them on the farm and I never understood why. Just nasty messy slobs of birds. Perfectly content just having chickens. Whomevers feed went up, must have been a local thing. Just stopped off last evening and got 4 bags at the mill. $10.59 per 50lb bag, same as last month. Actually cheaper then it was over summer, fluctuated between $11-12 per 50 lb bag. All this cold weather we've been having they girls hardly leave the coop. Needs to warm up so they can eat out of the yard.

 

[wampum]

Every year it seems like eggs go up about this time. I have to collect eggs a couple of times a day to keep them from freezing. I sell my eggs to my customers for $3. A dozen year round. But I do not sell enough. So I take the excess to the auction about every 3 weeks. They are all good eggs large to xl.. I took 26 dozen in today and they sold for $6 a dozen I was surprised. I think the commission is 15% but that is still good. In the summer I am lucky to get $2 to $2.50 a dozen.

 

[wampum]

About the bird flu. When I planned to move from the farm house to my newer small doublewide house on another piece of my property I had to build a new coop. I decided to bite the bullet and build one with an extra large run. I covered the run with a roof and used 1/2 inch mess on the coop instead of chicken wire. I also used cattle panels along with the mesh 4 feet up and 2 inch spaced wire fence tacked under the bottom about 2 feet around the outside and buried it. Every place a wild bird could get in I sealed it. I have to be saving feed because there are no wild birds in the coop. I also for about 4 years now have not lost a bird to predators. That coop is probably worth several hundred dollars but I used materials I already had but did have to buy some 1/2 mesh wire I may have a couple of hundred in it. I like free range better. But my birds are safer this way.

 

[Mad Professor]

I can get as many local free range eggs as I want at $6-7/Dz. Quality eggs with the yolks an orange color.

 

[nedsim]

I can get as many local free range eggs as I want at $6-7/Dz. Quality eggs with the yolks an orange color.

Same here - $6.50/dozen, or $6/dozen if you join the "egg club" and pay for 10 dozen up front and pick them up as needed. Big multi-colored eggs, thick shells, bright yolks, and cohesive whites.

 

[SS396driver]

Local eggs are around $4 a dozen here. Seems every other house has chickens . I usually get a dozen a week for free from my neighbor. He has a way too many chickens but everyone has to have a hobby . I have them running around my yard from time to time

 

[Grateful11]

Sam's Club Member's Mark Pasture Raised 1 1/2 dozen for $6.22. They did have Eggland's Best for $4.38 for 1 1/2 dozen, they seem to have disappeared from their website at every store around.

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