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Tarps99
New Orleans Saints Fan
Lafourche Parish
Member since Apr 2017
4946 posts

Great Egg Scam of 2023

I just got back from a local chain grocery store. White large Eggs were 5.29, extra large 5.99, and Jumbo 6.59 for the store brand.

But the brown cage free eggs were only 4.49 a dozen for the store brand.

Usually, brown or cage free eggs are more expensive.

So folks look around before just grabbing the usual carton of eggs.

I am about order a few chickens to cut out the middle man to lay my own eggs.


shutterspeed
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re: Great Egg Scam of 2023
The brown eggs come out of the hen's butt, tho.


stout
Arizona Fan
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Member since Sep 2006
158869 posts

re: Great Egg Scam of 2023
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I am about order a few chickens to cut out the middle man to lay my own eggs.




I am sure your neighbors are excited about their property values increasing


JudgeHolden
Mississippi St. Fan
Gila River
Member since Jan 2008
18566 posts

re: Great Egg Scam of 2023
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The brown eggs come out of the hen's butt, tho.


All chicken eggs come out the butt, city boy.
This post was edited on 1/21 at 8:27 pm


JonTheTigerFan
LSU Fan
Central, LA
Member since Nov 2003
6408 posts

re: Great Egg Scam of 2023
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The brown eggs come out of the hen's butt, tho.


A guy at work told me his wife is convinced the brown eggs are fertilized and she won’t eat them


Sao
SMU Fan
East Texas Piney Woods
Member since Jun 2009
60057 posts

re: Great Egg Scam of 2023
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am sure your neighbors are excited about their property values increasing



Why do you hate freedom?


NCIS_76
Alabama Fan
Member since Jan 2021
2163 posts

re: Great Egg Scam of 2023
Wasn’t there a good many large chicken farms burned recently? This could be a possibility why eggs have hiked through the roof. I don’t know. I’m asking the question.


JudgeHolden
Mississippi St. Fan
Gila River
Member since Jan 2008
18566 posts

re: Great Egg Scam of 2023
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A guy at work told me his wife is convinced the brown eggs are fertilized and she won’t eat them


Back in the day you cracked the egg into a separate bowl to make sure it wasn’t an embryo.

Also, aren’t all eggs fertilized?

ETA. Googled it. Apparently not.
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BluegrassBelle
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Member since Nov 2010
93856 posts

re: Great Egg Scam of 2023
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Wasn’t there a good many large chicken farms burned recently? This could be a possibility why eggs have hiked through the roof. I don’t know. I’m asking the question.


They had a rooster issue in the last two years and had to bring in new chickens for breeding. Then there was a big outbreak of avian flu in the Midwest.


tigerinthebueche
LSU Fan
Member since Oct 2010
35906 posts

re: Great Egg Scam of 2023
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Wasn’t there a good many large chicken farms burned recently? This could be a possibility why eggs have hiked through the roof. I don’t know. I’m asking the question.



Not sure about arson but Avian flu put a hurting on chickens in the last few years.

quote:

The worst outbreak of avian influenza on record is threatening to stretch into a second year, as the U.S. races to contain a virus that has already caused some food prices to soar amid a shortage of eggs.

Nearly 58 million birds from commercial and backyard flocks have been wiped out in the U.S. since last February, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.



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Cowboyfan89
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re: Great Egg Scam of 2023
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Then there was a big outbreak of avian flu in the Midwest.

This is what I've understood to be the main driver of the current increase. What's crazy is we don't seem to have a shortage of eggs. At least not where we normally shop, anyway.


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JYD
Butler Fan
Pineville
Member since Oct 2003
7338 posts

re: Great Egg Scam of 2023
I’m getting 10-12 eggs a day lately. Chickens are awesome.



midlothianlsu
LSU Fan
Midlothian, Texas
Member since Oct 2009
1144 posts

re: Great Egg Scam of 2023
One of my favorite Archie Bunker quotes happened when Edith fixed tongue for supper. Archie says ‘I ain’t eating nothing that came out of a cow’s mouth. Give me a hard boiled egg.’


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Hopeful Doc
LSU Fan
Member since Sep 2010
14047 posts

re: Great Egg Scam of 2023
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White large Eggs were 5.29, extra large 5.99, and Jumbo 6.59 for the store brand


Just blame it on that ol’ crazy bone


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FCP
Delta State Univ. - Fightin' Okra
Member since Sep 2010
4516 posts

re: Great Egg Scam of 2023
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I’m getting 10-12 eggs a day lately.
Same. Well 6-8, but the cartons are filling up. Old girls took some time off around the end of 2022, but they are getting cranked back up.


cuyahoga tiger
LSU Fan
NE Ohio via Tangipahoa
Member since Nov 2011
5592 posts

re: Great Egg Scam of 2023
2 cavemen were sitting around, kind of hungry...one says to the other "I'm eating the next thing that comes out that chickens ass"....the rest is history


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Gee Grenouille
Alcorn St. Fan
Bogalusa
Member since Jul 2018
3005 posts

re: Great Egg Scam of 2023
I bought sixty eggs for 20$ at the Walmarks the other day. That was the cheapest per egg. Now I got to eat all these eggs.


Pandy Fackler
Colorado State Fan
Member since Jun 2018
10434 posts

re: Great Egg Scam of 2023
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The brown eggs come out of the hen's butt, tho.


Goddamn that made me fricking laugh.


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KamaCausey_LSU
Member since Apr 2013
11925 posts

re: Great Egg Scam of 2023
There is no better time to buy eggs from local farmers. No bird flu flock eradications for them.


BoogaBear
LSU Fan
Member since Jul 2013
4684 posts

re: Great Egg Scam of 2023
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getting 10-12 eggs a day lately. Chickens are awesome.


Yep, chickens are fun. Ours our just now getting laying age and we have a few that are sick and not laying while we treat them.



Today:
2 silkie eggs
2 americauna eggs
1 copper maran egg

We have 18 hens and 2 roosters. Only 7 hens are laying.

How many do you have?


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