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2023-04-09 Economy

Egg Prices Expected to Drop After Easter

Christians need eggs for colouring, Jews need eggs for roasting, everyone needs ‘em for baking all sorts of delicious things to eat...

[Dallas Morning News via the Wisconsin State Journal] Egg prices are expected to continue to drop after the annual Easter spike and as more and more chicks grow up into adult laying hens.

Dallas-Fort Worth area shoppers could find a dozen eggs priced between $2.50 to $2.99 at most area grocers this past week. That’s still about 40% higher than before the avian flu, but a bigger improvement from the peak price in January of almost $5.

The hen supply is recovering from the deadly avian flu that forced U.S. farmers to kill more than 40 million egg-laying hens last year. Wild birds, which were the source of the avian flu, are migrating north again. "By midsummer, we’ll know if the virus has run its course," Anderson said.

It takes six months for chicks to become fully grown and begin producing eggs. The supply of hens laying eggs to be hatched and hens producing eggs to be eaten are both up from a year ago, Anderson said. "But we’re still behind."

Eggs were an average of $1.79 a dozen in December 2021, a couple of months before the avian flu caused 43 million laying hens to be euthanized. Eggs were big contributors to inflation last year as Dallas-Fort Worth grocery prices increased more than 14%, one of the highest for metro areas tracked by government economists.

Prices for cage-free, vegetarian-fed, organic and omega-3 eggs, which are produced by hens fed a diet containing flaxseed, are about twice as expensive as USDA Grade A eggs.

Posted by Bobby 2023-04-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11157 views ] Top

#1 Wild birds, which were the source of the avian flu, are migrating north again. "By midsummer, we’ll know if the virus has run its course"

No one dares ask about the origins of the virus.

the deadly avian flu that forced U.S. farmers to kill more than 40 million egg-laying hens last year

Posted by Skidmark 2023-04-09 11:27|| 2023-04-09 11:27|| Front Page Top

#2 vegetarian-fed

I already like eggs, but if the hens are eating vegetarians, win-win!

Posted by Frank G 2023-04-09 13:16|| 2023-04-09 13:16|| Front Page Top

#3 A carnivorous hen is a velociraptor...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-04-09 13:32|| 2023-04-09 13:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Vegetarian? Chickens? Only if there are no insects!

Posted by magpie 2023-04-09 17:48|| 2023-04-09 17:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Explains the recent bump in my Ore-Idas also?

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2023-04-09 17:52|| 2023-04-09 17:52|| Front Page Top

#6 My father ran a produce business that supplied eggs to grocery stores. The eggs that are labeled “Grade A Large” were called small back then. Do young hens make smaller eggs?

Posted by Papa Cooky 2023-04-09 23:21|| 2023-04-09 23:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Thehipchick, “ In general, your flock won’t lay any eggs until it is at least 6 months of age.
Between 6 and 9 months, you are going to have fairy eggs.
Between 9 months and 3 years is where you will get the most medium to large-sized eggs with most laying chicken giving off consistently sized eggs.”

Posted by Papa Cooky 2023-04-09 23:24|| 2023-04-09 23:24|| Front Page Top

#8 So, better eggs with an old hen.
Who knew!

Posted by Skidmark 2023-04-09 23:41|| 2023-04-09 23:41|| Front Page Top

#9 And then turn it into soup or stew with the hen gets too old to lay.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-04-09 23:44|| 2023-04-09 23:44|| Front Page Top

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