The Egg Shortage Is Real
Everyone refers to me as “the chicken lady” because I own twenty-one chickens, four ducks, and eleven pigeons. All my birds lay eggs including the pigeons. When the weather turns cold, chickens do not lay as many eggs as they do in the warmer months. Some days I go in their coop to collect eggs and only get one or two eggs the entire day. That was not good when I needed a lot of eggs for baking this holiday season. I thought of buying eggs and went to the store to price them and saw they were just over five dollars for a dozen. I could not believe those prices so I held out on buying eggs at the grocery store. We had to conserve our eggs so I had enough for baking, which meant no omelets for us on the weekends!
Our pigeons get love too!
The prices seem to keep creeping up. Our own Cande Roth said she paid just over six dollars for a dozen of eggs. You may be wondering why the grocery stores are charging so much for a dozen of eggs. The bird flu has been affecting turkeys and egg-laying chickens since February of last year. a nationwide egg shortage is occurring because of the avian flu. Over 57 million birds have been affected by the flu in recent months. A dozen eggs is selling for $7.50 in California. The same eggs are selling for $5.30 in the Midwest. Prices may increase even more as we get deeper into winter months. The supply issues have hit large national producers, distributors and grocery chains hardest.
Some of our chickens are fancy!
–Maryann Morgan
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