Didn't know the egg shortage was so bad

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The local restaurants offering 24-hour breakfast have cut back their breakfasts to 4 hours a day because they can't get enough eggs.
 
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When I was a youngster my father had a couple of thousand white leghorn layers. I well remember helping vaccinate them. What a chore that was but necessary. He sold them when I was 10 years old and I helped him tear down the chicken house when I was 22. I found an egg so it was at least 12 years old. I threw it down on an asphalt road and it bounced. I threw it harder and it sounded like a fire cracker going off when it broke.
 
$1.59 in my area. Chicken cut up $1.00 a pound this weekend. Pilgrims processing plant is 50 miles away. If you don't lay an egg you are dead meat.
 
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There's no shortage of eggs in the markets around here.

I'll eat at home...Guns always allowed...All the bacon you can eat...Clothes are optional...No arguments over "smoking or non-smoking"...Open 24/7.

Just watch for the inevitable grease splatter while cooking in the clothing optional condition.
 
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California passed some kind of regulations on the space each chicken deserved in the cages.. Predictions were it would halve the chicken population there.

I wonder if the eggs got any bigger?:rolleyes:

Not any bigger but the price went up $1/flat at the ranch where I buy mine... darn hippies...:mad:
 
News mentioned last night that prices in some areas were up 50% at stores, and that was expected to become common over the next few weeks.

My Kroger had a sale over the weekend, $1.25 a dozen, but they were cleaned out. Asked the guy stocking. He said the flyers had been printed a few weeks ago, so they had to honor the price, but could not get enough to fill the shelf. Egglands were up .50 over two weeks ago.
 
My gal works in a casino restaurant. The employees were told there would be no eggs served in the employee dining room as they were needed for the customers, there existing a shortage.

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I havent noticed any shortages here at least yet.I have two dozen in the fridge now.However,just on monday or tuesday?Whataburger announced it was cutting back on hours serving eggs. I may invest in a Nr ten can of powdered eggs if we start havig a shortage here?
 
A little bit of breaking news on any egg shorage. I just askedone of the big boss yahoos at McDonalds and he said--thereis noegg shortage in the USA--the shortage is in Mexico. He said that Whataburger--buys their eggs from mexico--which I had not known--so--whataburger buys all their eggs from mexico--McDs buys theirs American.

So,im guessing that other restaurants and grocery stores who may have a shortage of eggs--is because they too buy theirs from Mexico....

Now--whether the above is fully true or not???????? I dont know.Im just the messenger.
 
"The H5N2 bird flu has claimed more than 36 million layer hens, almost all of them in the Upper Midwest. The loss equals about 12 percent of the nation's egg-laying capacity. Iowa is the biggest U.S. egg-producing state, and the flu there alone has wiped out 24 million chickens, or 41 percent of its commercial hen population."

Egg shortage from bird flu trickling down to consumers - StarTribune.com

Our local grocery stores had to change egg brands, due to the shortage. The last eggs I bought were some fancy cage-free brand. That was all that was available.

I don't know the numbers, but bird flu has also killed many turkeys.
 
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