What is the Price of Eggs in Bug Tussle?

[Briar Lee]

This morning the world is all cheery and bright, so much more so because my three girls laid three eggs!

I’d still be money ahead to buy eggs at the store, like my youngest son does, but then I’d have no excuse to be a chicken rancher.


What purpose would my one ton Dodge Cummins Ram Dually Flatbed serve, if not for hauling chicken feed, scratch, and shell grit from the MFA Exhange?

Years ago, before I was born, Emmet Molder was the Mayor of Bug Tussle and bought and sold eggs.

All my life, I’ve heard people ask me what does that have to do with the price of eggs in China?

And I kinda always wondered why they cared so much about the price of eggs in China instead of places closer to home, like Bug Tussle.

Thank the Good Lord above for AI Google.

That AI Google feller sure is smart to be able to answer such burning questions.

Wonder how he do dat?

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What’s the price of eggs where you live?

They are free around here, if I don’t count everything that goes into keeping the chickens.

 

[beefeater33]

$3.00 a dozen here, from the local Amish.
The Amish around here are a little different ya know?

 

[lraisch]

Let's just say that this year instead of an Easter egg hunt, we will be decorating potatoes.

Anyway, what's that got to do with the price of incense on the upper Ganges?

 

[dd57chevy]

I bought 2 dozen at Walmart Friday . $5.46 . That is 45 cents a piece .
2 or 3 years ago they were right around $1.

The fact is eggs were an outrageous bargain @ $1/doz. I don't like the current prices , but as a protein source they are now probably comparable to ground beef ...........

 

[abecox]

Last weekend I got a dozen for about 4.50.

 

[mikethompson]

This is literally the second thread in about 2 weeks or so on the price of eggs LOL.

 

[mortonbriar]

This is literally the second thread in about 2 weeks or so on the price of eggs LOL.

Well it is important they come before the upcoming threads on chickens

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I eat 6 to 9 eggs per week. At that rate,doesn't much matter what the price is. Seems to me they're somewhere around $5 per dozen.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I hate inflation as much as anybody...

But the American public have gone full retard with their gripes.

Eggs are too cheap. Beef is too cheap. Corn is too cheap.

They complain about 20 dollar steaks and in the same breath demand higher quality.

$250 for a pair of slave made shoes... They've got no problem with that.

I have a couple hundred chickens, but there ain't no way I'm gonna go drive around town to meet people, and hear them complain that I'm charging 6 bucks a dozen for eggs.

I'll feed 'em to my neighbors dogs first.

Those people selling the 4 dollar a dozen yard eggs are either masochists, or brain damaged. They should just go open a lemonaid stand and pretend to run a business that way... It'd be a lot cheaper.

And another thing while I'm at it....

If you think the food is unhealthy or poisonous, it wouldn't take a rocket scientist to just stop eating it.

But they want to ban things, like Europe does.... and these are the numbskulls that say they want freedom.

The food is weird because some of the richest people who have ever lived complain and demand lower prices for food, no matter what.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

My wife gets eggs from some lady she knows for $2 a dozen. I have seen that they are about $10-12 a dozen at the store. So, I just think the lady charges to get rid of the damned things. I worked in a chicken house for two weeks once in high school, and I don't ever want to keep chickens, ever. I'm not even that crazy about eggs anyways.

 

[coming to_falling too]

I'm not really crazy about eggs either. I'll eat them but I rarely go out of my way to fix them myself.

 

[Sigmund]

I didnt know prices had increased a lot in the US on eggs. I know they did a while back but didnt keep track.

I guess I wont feel bad about my 2.75 a dozen.

When bird flu hits here it tends to be the Duck population. That makes for an increase in a number of French products.

 

[telescopes]

The egg prices here are not so bad if you shop the deals. It’s how they drive up other costs is where it shows - they are used in so many other products. They will come down. Give it time. No worries.

 

[Briar Lee]

I wasn’t quite two, when my father’s mother who I called Mammy, would lead me out just a toddling to Mammy’s chicken house.

Even in 1960 the profit was all gone raising eggs unless you had a farm full of barns.

And Emmet Molder, the Mayor of Bug Tussle, lived to be a really old man, and I’d drive my other Grandma over to Bug Tussle to visit in my Mustang car.

Emmet would talk about how he used to buy and sell milk, cream, butter, eggs, and tame rabbits, until the dad blasted gubbermint made folks afraid to sell him such things and when the REA brought the power out to the farms the price of ice got so high he had to close the store.

By then the Humansville hatchery and ice plant had closed, just which year, I forget.

Folks blamed the do gooders and the dad blasted gubbermint for it, I do remember that.

My wife said eggs were $9.90 at the store yesterday.

She bought a dozen for our youngest boy, who’s too good to eat my girl’s eggs.

But this morning my three girls blessed me with three more eggs, so I’ll have to have three for breakfast to keep up with them.

My wife called the local farm store, and they’ll have chicks in any day now.

I’ll expand my chicken ranch to a half dozen girls, like my Mammy kept.

I have a lot of extra books to give away, and we’re raising a garden that will produce more than we can eat, and In my old age, I intend to share my good fortune while I still can.

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Miss Charlotte had us memorize a poem, about these matters.

The House By The Side Of The Road by Sam Walter Foss

Comments & analysis: There are hermit souls that live withdrawn / In the place of their self-content;

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And she had us read a short story most appropriate to the burning question of the price of eggs in Bug Tussle.

The One Thousand Dozen by Jack London

Now excuse me, while I go eat my eggs.

 

[dd57chevy]

My maternal grandfather owned what was called a "Produce" . My uncle would drive around collecting eggs from farmers . Then he & Mom would "candle" the eggs .

The thing Mom remembers most were the rats . Grandpa would regularly sweep the area where the eggs were kept with his rat terrier . Few rats survived this .

The rat terrier was black . Can you guess what his name was ?

It was a different world...........

 

[brian64]

I hate inflation as much as anybody...

But the American public have gone full retard with their gripes.

Eggs are too cheap. Beef is too cheap. Corn is too cheap.

They complain about 20 dollar steaks and in the same breath demand higher quality.

$250 for a pair of slave made shoes... They've got no problem with that.

I have a couple hundred chickens, but there ain't no way I'm gonna go drive around town to meet people, and hear them complain that I'm charging 6 bucks a dozen for eggs.

I'll feed 'em to my neighbors dogs first.

Those people selling the 4 dollar a dozen yard eggs are either masochists, or brain damaged. They should just go open a lemonaid stand and pretend to run a business that way... It'd be a lot cheaper.

And another thing while I'm at it....

If you think the food is unhealthy or poisonous, it wouldn't take a rocket scientist to just stop eating it.

But they want to ban things, like Europe does.... and these are the numbskulls that say they want freedom.

The food is weird because some of the richest people who have ever lived complain and demand lower prices for food, no matter what.

People have been conditioned for many decades now to expect dirt cheap food...because most of it is crap...or else it's produced in factory farm torture facilities where mass production keeps the price down. As I commented before on the other egg thread, I don't mind paying more for good eggs from hens that weren't tortured.

As for your suggestion to not regulate the food, fine with me, but then get rid of the corrupt "regulatory" agencies that do little else than protect the food monopolies. Either that, or clean out the fraud and corruption and make them do their job right. What needs to be banned is the revolving door between the agencies and the corporations they're supposed to be regulating.

 

[Briar Lee]

When Mammy died of cancer in May 1960, my father kept Mammy’s flock for awhile, then he added indoor plumbing and a propane heater to Mammy’s house and rented it to a man named Christian and his wife Evelyn, for $30 a month.

He let them have his mother’s chickens and built my mother a new chicken house on our farm.

They had a rooster, which would chase at me, when I tried to gather eggs. Understand I had no duty to gather eggs, I wanted to gather the eggs.

One day the rooster chased me, and I stood up for myself and chased it back, over behind a stand up roost. Then I pushed on that roost to teach him not to mess with me.

He squawked and beat its wings until it suddenly stopped. I peeked behind the roost, and he was graveyard dead.

Just for a moment I stood there in silence, shocked by the foul, evil thing I had done.

I had three choices. Do nothing and say nothing, and take the eggs to Mama.

Take the eggs to Mama and confess.

Or go ask Daddy in the milk barn, what to do.

I ran to the milk barn and said Oh Daddy I’ve killed Mama’s rooster and I didn’t mean to!

Daddy said that rooster is awful mean to you, and it died of a heart attack, and we don’t really need a rooster anyway so long as we can buy chicks.

Go take the eggs to Mama, and make sure and bury that rooster deep, where we bury the dead chickens.

We don’t want any diseases spreading to the milk cows.

I was out there with my shovel digging a hole, and looked up and saw Daddy watching me. Then Mama came out, went up to Daddy, and hugged him and kissed him and made such a scene I looked away.

Grown ups, are strange critters.

 

[The Libertine]

I just moved out to the country in the past month and have bought chicks. Was told they should be laying by midsummer. Price of eggs here in New York is around $7 per dozen. Figured chicken feed is easier and cheaper. My new neighbor has chickens and all he feeds them is cracked corn. Let's see how my little project turns out. Thinking about buying ducks and guinea fowl as well.

 

[dd57chevy]

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

People have been conditioned for many decades now to expect dirt cheap food...because most of it is crap...or else it's produced in factory farm torture facilities where mass production keeps the price down. As I commented before on the other egg thread, I don't mind paying more for good eggs from hens that weren't tortured.

As for your suggestion to not regulate the food, fine with me, but then get rid of the corrupt "regulatory" agencies that do little else than protect the food monopolies. Either that, or clean out the fraud and corruption and make them do their job right. What needs to be banned is the revolving door between the agencies and the corporations they're supposed to be regulating.

Damn right.