A dozen Grade AA Large white average a little over $6, high $6.50. For some reason, at my usual discount grocer, they often have the Eggland's Best brand for much less. Naturally, they are usually gone when I get there. At another discount grocer, I picked up 18 medium brown/"cage-free" for $3.69.

In previous few months have heard stories of entire flocks being destroyed due to bird flu


I paid 4.39 for 18 yesterday. That’s sub $3 a dozen.

No complaints about the price. But my local Whole Foods Foods store offers a delicious egg salad in its deli section. But that was missing for four straight weeks.

Thankfully it reappeared about a week ago. I mix in French’s Dijon Mustard and Cholula Green Pepper hot sauce. Sooo good!

Paid $4.53 about a week ago at an HEB north of Dallas.
So yeah, they're pretty high. I'd say normal should probably be about 60% of that.

It seems like the 'global cabal' (the one that wants us to sleep in drawers and consume insects) has been zeroing in on every staple food that the poorest people depend upon.

The anti beef people teamed with our own government and have strangled the beef industry, probably made it higher worldwide.

I can handle the price of eggs, but I'm damn well ready for beef to become 'what's for dinner' again.

I need a hat: 'make beef what's for dinner again'.

$5/dzn extra large. They were $2.50/dzn a few weeks ago.

Cheap eggs are being snapped up so that usually all thats left are the over $5/dz in my area. I have started buying larger amounts picked up box of 60 for .26 cents an egg.

The price of eggs also affects the price of things made with them, like mayonnaise or Pipe Smoker's egg salad.

I'd rather not have to live with it, of course, but even a six bucks a dozen, two eggs each morning for breakfast works out to about a dollar a meal. Bad, but not that bad.

If I didn't live in a HOA, I'd have 6 hens laying eggs for me.

Quite a few options in eggs these days, and here are HEB's prices:

large white eggs from a chicken raised in a cage is $4.17 for a dozen. Note, the hen lives its life in a cage that is ~0.65 sq ft.

large white eggs from a chicken raised cage-free is $4.88 for a dozen. Note, cage free doesn't mean they ever go outdoors. In fact, they might have a little as 1 sq ft of space in a coop/barn.

large brown eggs from a chicken raised cage-free is $4.98 for a dozen. Note, egg color is hen species dependent (e.g. leghorns lay white eggs and Red Star lay brown eggs) and not an indicator of quality of egg.

large brown eggs from a chicken raised free range is $6.48 for a dozen. Note, to be considered a free range egg each hen must have a minimum of 2 sq ft of outdoor pasture. It doesn't mean the chicken ever goes outside, but instead there is a door in the coop/barn and the chicken is alloted 2 sq ft outdoors (i.e. hen has a choice of being indoor or outdoor).

large brown eggs from a chicken that is pasture raised is $7.28 for a dozen. Note, the ones I buy each hen gets 108 sq ft of pasture. They're delicious and have bright orange yolks from their combination diet of natural things as well as chicken feed.

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Been getting free eggs for the last six years. My neighbor has about 20 laying hens so he is giving me eggs all the time. Made a big batch of egg salad the other day to use some up. New York deli style recipe I found on You Tube. Damn good.

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
If I didn't live in a HOA, I'd have 6 hens laying eggs for me.

I don't, and I do.

I sell my extras at work for $2/dozen. It pays for the feed (and then some) so mine are free.

Walmart has the one dozen size large eggs for $3.88 in these parts.

The eggs I buy have been about $12 per dozen. The cheapest I can buy are $6 per dozen but they aren’t very good. Pale yolk and paper shells. Not healthy chickens.

$5.79 per dozen (48 cents each) at local Safeway.

14 so far today.
15 yesterday.
17 day before that.
No less than 12 per day for the past couple of weeks.

We've got 28 laying hens and 4 roosters right now.

I know...I gotta eat a few roosters.

24 more freedom rangers ordered for the first week of May.

We're spending about $100 a month right now on our chickens. That's feed, treats, meds, etc.

Right now, eggs are costing us about $2.67 a dozen in feed/consumables.

No eggs at costco this afternoon.

$4.97/Dozen in Central Texas for store brand.

18 egg pack was $11 at Smiths.

$2.64/dozen for store brand large eggs.

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
No eggs at costco this afternoon.

I went to the grocery store today and eggs was a part of the list as I didn’t panic buy like everyone else here in Texas when we got some cold weather. I guess the eggs haven’t recovered as there were literally almost no eggs at all! I am tall so I found three packs of a dozen each on the top shelf way in the back that some probably couldn’t see. One had broken eggs so I bought one dozen and they were free range eggs somewhere over $6. Other than that, there was probably 4 containers of 18 eggs of the white caged chicken eggs.

Southern Colorado here. Saturday grocery store run, I paid about $7 for a dozen.

Wife and I eat eggs at home only about once a week so the price won't change our habits for now.