The price of eggs

[Tropicalsenior]

1 hour ago, rotuts said:

and the cost of an ostrich egg ?

Ah, but each ostrich egg is equivalent to 25 hen eggs so you get two dozen eggs for the price of one egg.

[liuzhou]

On 5/22/2023 at 4:23 AM, rotuts said:

and the cost of an ostrich egg ?

 

 

Ostrich eggs vary from about 2 kilos (4½ lbs) to 3.5 kilos (7¾ lbs) in weight and are priced here between the equivalent of $9 to $19 USD each.

 

Here is one beside a standard sized chicken egg for scale. The ostrich egg was around 5 lbs.

 

 

Edited May 23, 2023 by liuzhou (log)

[weinoo]

On 5/19/2023 at 8:53 AM, weinoo said:

 

Back to somewhat normal this morning.

 

Today - $1.49 for large whites, and $1.79 for large browns.

[Margaret Pilgrim]

Last I bought, last week, were $3.00 dozen, large white.      Good tasting, but nothing spectacular.

[Katie Meadow]

The last post in this thread was two years ago. Clearly there's an Avian Flu cycle. 

The last two years or so inflation raised the price of our usual free range organic eggs above $8. Yesterday my husband paid $12 for the same dozen eggs. He said the egg shelves were pretty bare. 

 

This is the first ever that I remember looking at cake recipes that use four eggs or more and thinking, deal breaker!

[Midlife]

Just paid US$2.99 for a dozen large white eggs here in SoCal. Prices seem to be all over the place. Must be regional as supply has been affected. 

Edited Wednesday at 01:49 AM by Midlife (log)

[FrogPrincesse]

I pay $6.49 for a dozen organic, pasture raised eggs at Trader Joe’s.

[Raamo]

My wife got a dozzen organic eggs yesterday for ~$5.25, they were cheaper then the non-organic. (This is in Minnesota)

[chromedome]

I need to remember to check the price of eggs in my area when I'm in town (I'll post here, just for comparison's sake).

 

I won't be buying any, because we have chickens and quail, but one of my goals for the year is to (finally) get a firm grip on the cost and ROI of our rabbits and poultry. Our little flock of hens only lay erratically now because it's winter, but the quail churn out an egg each like clockwork (at 3-ish quail eggs to one large hen's egg, we're getting the equivalent of 24-25 hen's eggs/week from the quail to go with our 5-8 actual hen's eggs from the chickens). That's a lot of eggs, so we're pretty much swimming in the things right now even with our hens being in "winter mode." I gave away a lot of quail eggs over the holidays, and will probably pickle a few jars soon if I can find the time.