DWalt
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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.
Didn't know the egg shortage was so bad
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coltle6920
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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.
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.
m1gunner
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$1.75/doz. No limit here.
Ever since the urban chicken coop movement hit this area, every third house has eggs for sale.
diamonback68
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Eggs are $2.79 a dozen for Grade A Large here. Not good.
considering about 20 million laying hens have been destroyed in Iowa alone you wonder why eggs are in short supply and expensive? Plus millions more in other states. Bird Flu.
EQGuy
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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.
4barrel
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$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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CAJUNLAWYER
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You're lucky. My wife makes me wear clothes at the table
DeathGrip
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Just watch for the inevitable grease splatter while cooking in the clothing optional condition.
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coltle6920
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You're lucky. My wife makes me wear clothes at the table
I'm sure it's for her benefit...not yours!
coltle6920
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Sorry! I forgot about the lack of warning labels on bacon.It should be obvious that at minimum an apron or towel would be required
Fishslayer
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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?
Not any bigger but the price went up $1/flat at the ranch where I buy mine... darn hippies...
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 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?
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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.
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.
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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DWalt
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Just came back from our closest Whataburger location. They cut back to serving breakfast only between 5AM to 9AM because their egg distributor cannot supply the normal demand. Our usual counter lady said the steady breakfast customers are furious over it. Large house-brand eggs at the local H-E-B store are up to $2.89/dozen today, but they appear to have a good supply. The "Organic" eggs were up to about $6.00.
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da gimp
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You're lucky. My wife makes me wear clothes at the table
Caj, I can honestly say she has never made me wear clothes at the table sir.
that joke has probably been told on every construction site since the 1st Egyptian pyramid...............the first guy don't stand a chance......
$3.99 a dozen here yesterday. With Minnesota & Iowa laying hen shortages, prices have spiked. Strange that there are still lots of eggs on the shelves.
"The bird flu has caused "perhaps the largest short-term change the U.S. egg market has ever experienced," wrote Maro Ibarburu, a business analyst at Iowa State University's Egg Industry Center, in a recent report.
The egg supply crunch could have longer-term effects, too.
Rebuilding lost egg-laying capacity could take a year or two, Ibarburu said in an interview. "It will be a gradual process … it will take some time."
"The bird flu has caused "perhaps the largest short-term change the U.S. egg market has ever experienced," wrote Maro Ibarburu, a business analyst at Iowa State University's Egg Industry Center, in a recent report.
The egg supply crunch could have longer-term effects, too.
Rebuilding lost egg-laying capacity could take a year or two, Ibarburu said in an interview. "It will be a gradual process … it will take some time."
Twiki357
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The newspaper ad for my local Albertsons has 18 packs of large eggs on sale starting today for $1.99. Only problem is that the store closed for remodeling yesterday.
Razsmom
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Ouch...
You are too funny, DeathGrip!!! I have been there before and it sounds like you have had this experience before...
You are too funny, DeathGrip!!! I have been there before and it sounds like you have had this experience before...
jag312
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I believe flu vaccine is cultured in eggs. A shortage of eggs now can mean a shortage of flu vaccine this fall.
m1gunner
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Price change yesterday on eggs at my market. Price dropped from 1.75 to 1.25/doz.
Shortage? What shortage?
Shortage? What shortage?
Rembrandt Foods has been the hardest hit by the Avian flu, it is a local business here and is the 3rd largest egg producer in the country. Most of their egg production is channeled into commercial egg product not directly to the fresh egg retail market. There will be continued price fluctuations and varying supply of fresh eggs over the next 6 months to one year as producers try to meet the needs of both the retail & commercial ends. Small disease free producers will profit greatly. It is the American way.
Incidentally, Rembrandt Foods is owned by Glen Taylor, owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Lynx and the Minneapolis Star Tribune among other business interests. The feeling here is that Taylor
will spend whatever it takes to get back in production ASAP.
Incidentally, Rembrandt Foods is owned by Glen Taylor, owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Lynx and the Minneapolis Star Tribune among other business interests. The feeling here is that Taylor
will spend whatever it takes to get back in production ASAP.
rbrbrb6
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Never noticed an egg shortage here but then there are 9 hens outside that give us 7-8 eggs a day! Several dozen in the frig as I type.
