Eggs or Chicken?
@Novelangel (394)
United States
February 9, 2023 8:19pm CST
So now eggs are so expensive there are entrepreneurs out there who are renting out laying hens to people who can't afford to buy eggs. As goofy as that sounds, it's definitely a thing. At the same time, we can go in the store and buy chicken for less than a dollar a pound. Why is it that we can cheaply buy chicken while the eggs they lay are worth their weight in gold? Makes all kinds of sense to me. LOL.
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@Novelangel (394)
• United States
10 Feb 23
Nice. My neck of the woods has them at around $4 to 6 dollars a dozen. It's ridiculous.
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@Deepizzaguy (106659)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
10 Feb 23
It wrecks my mind that eggs are expensive in the markets while buying a chicken meal for a smaller price.
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@Novelangel (394)
• United States
10 Feb 23
Same. I make jokes that we are actually eating the chickens they destroyed on the bird flu witch hunts. Seriously, what else can we think?
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@Novelangel (394)
• United States
10 Feb 23
True, unless purchased from a small farm. They have to spend a lot on upkeep, feed and such.
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@Novelangel (394)
• United States
10 Feb 23
They aren't killing just hens though. All chickens can get avian flu, so if both hens and roosters are getting destroyed, where is all this chicken meat coming from? Besides, the big egg farms don't even keep roosters, only hens.
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@LadyDuck (472489)
• Switzerland
10 Feb 23
@Novelangel There is difference. Chicken are sold for meat when they are only 6 weeks old. So those you are buying now are all grown after the avian flu. Hens do not lay eggs during the first 18 weeks... we still have to wait for a while.
@Beestring (14917)
• Hong Kong
10 Feb 23
Yes, that doesn't make sense. Chicken cheaper than eggs. I wonder how many people are really renting hens.
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@Novelangel (394)
• United States
10 Feb 23
I don't know, but I guess after 6 months of renting them you can keep them. Not sure, but that sounds like it's pretty expensive too.
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@1creekgirl (42400)
• United States
11 Feb 23
@Novelangel A while back we bought six little biddies, but the feed was expensive and they were so much trouble, we gave them away. Maybe we should have kept them, lol.
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@porwest (95999)
• United States
24 Nov
@1creekgirl This is what I have always thought, is that at some point the feed and coops and upkeep outweighs the savings on the eggs. Just my two cents worth.
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