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Egads! Albertson's eggs today: $6.00/doz.

I pay $6.00 a dozen buying from a friend who raises chickens. They are delicious. I was paying $5 but was notified yesterday of increase. Redding allows a small flock within city limits, however NO roosters. Roosters seem to show up however.

[Jenise]

Larry, even with that increase you're still not in the Club. I'm paying $10/dz.

I pay $6.00 a dozen buying from a friend who raises chickens. They are delicious. I was paying $5 but was notified yesterday of increase. Redding allows a small flock within city limits, however NO roosters. Roosters seem to show up however.

Totally different circumstance, but more delicious. Not to worry, though, Trump will get the price down so low, the egg producers will pay us to take eggs off their hands.

Totally different circumstance, but more delicious. Not to worry, though, Trump will get the price down so low, the egg producers will pay us to take eggs off their hands.

I'd really prefer them still in the shell.

Silly me. (I cudda had a V-8!) I underestimated the orange genius. He's going to put a tariff on American eggs to lower the price. It's brilliant.

I grew up around chickens, so we always had fresh eggs. I've always tried to buy them from a local source when possible. Just for fun, my pet therapy dog, with whom I visited local care facilities, would NOT touch a store-bought egg. I would top his kibble with a cooked egg, and he gobbled it up. How he knew the difference, he never told me!

[Robin Garr]

I've basically given up on eating industrial eggs but will still enjoy them from neighbors or farmers' markets when available, or a couple of local farms that have gotten big enough to sell at specialty markets but still let their hens run free and peck bugs and do all the things that make eggs good (and healthy). I understand that I pay a premium for those, but that's all right. And honestly, they're usually around $6 to $8 for a dozen, and that price never changed during the period when everyone was complaining about egg prices. Go figure. I also calculate that this is roughly 50 cents to 70 cents per egg, and that's not really out of line for a nutritious meal. Even if you eat two!

We pay $7 or $8 for farmers market eggs depending on which vendor. Betsy's favorite cute blue eggs are $7, although they are sometimes quite small (occasionally almost pullet). Occasionally I mistime and need from supermarket, since avian flu prices up a bit. I noticed the biggest increase is in the most industrial brands (which we don't buy),which basically cost within a dollar of the eggs from better treated birds.

My house only needs eggs now and then so I buy at the grocery store. I buy from brands that aver they are organic and free-range and all that; but who really knows.

Snith's eggs here went up an additional 50 cents since yesterday.

[Jenise]

We go out of of our way to get farmer eggs but it's turned cold and the hens aren't laying enough to keep everyone supplied so supermarket eggs is what we must settle for. I have found one brand to be better than any others with deeply colored yolks, though I can't think of the name. They may not be available nation-wide. They even do an all-blue version, which run around $10-11 now.

... They even do an all-blue version, which run around $10-11 now.

Wow. I've not seen those prices even in Manhattan farmers markets.

I haven't bought supermarket eggs in decades, and yes, winter time could get pretty competitive for the farmers market eggs in North Carolina. The Chapel Hill farmers markets were the first ones I'd seen where people reserved eggs/got on egg lists, and you couldn't just walk up and buy eggs in the winter! It took years for me to get my spot on a list, which was greatly coveted.

The availability is better here in Manhattan, where farmers market eggs run $7-9 a dozen, depending on egg size.

The blue eggs are from araucanas. I had one that laid green eggs. Went to Trader Joe's today; they had no eggs, zilch.

We are lucky here - buy an 18 pack of extra large once a week, and they cost $7.07 each ($5 US) or 39 cents an egg.

[Robin Garr]

We are lucky here - buy an 18 pack of extra large once a week, and they cost $7.07 each ($5 US) or 39 cents an egg.

That's a great price, but it begs an important question: How are they produced? Small-farm, true free-range, etc., or more on the industrial production side? I expect Canada's health and sanitation laws are a good bit better than ours, but still ...

First, it was no eggs at Trader Joe's. Now our local rag reports that the Dunkin Donuts stores here have no doughnuts until some time next week. Some kind of supply issue from their centralized cooking source in another state. If you feel sorry or have any empathy for our local cops, send generous financial donations to Cops Without Donuts, c/o me at my address. I'll make sure to forward them.

[Jenise]

And Larry it's probably you who ate all the donuts. No shortage!

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[Jenise]

"The highly contagious avian influenza has wreaked havoc on the egg market. In November and December alone, 17.2 million egg-laying hens died as a result of the virus. That’s nearly half of all birds killed by the virus in 2024, according to the USDA. And it will take months to replace those flocks."

And now it appears the price of bananas, coffee, and flowers will increase, thanks to Trump's new tariffs against Colombian products. And almost a week, but egg prices are still high. Thanks, Don.

[Jenise]

If you can find them. Eggs, I mean. I bought eggs yesterday at a small local store--they usually have two full uprights teaming with options. Yesterday, just a few 18-whites on one shelf.

True dat. My local grocery store shelves are nearly bare.

True dat. My local grocery store shelves are nearly bare.

Here in flyover country, supplies still seem to hold in all my local haunts. As usual, what happens on the coasts may take a little more time to reach us here in the "heartland."