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Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?

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310 points greenie_beans | 1 comments | 19 Feb 25 21:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.284s | source
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michpoch ◴[20 Feb 25 20:30 UTC] No.43119763[source]▶
> Last week, the average price of a dozen eggs hit $4.95 per dozen

That sounds.. pretty cheap?

Here (Switzerland), 10 eggs (instead of 12), cost at least 4.20 CHF (almost 5 USD): https://www.coop.ch/de/lebensmittel/milchprodukte-eier/eier/...

These are the lowest quality eggs available.

Regular eggs are around $1 each and it's been like this for at least a decade now.

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jeffrapp ◴[20 Feb 25 20:36 UTC] No.43119820[source]▶
Prior to the price spikes, it was relatively easy to find a dozen eggs for around or below $2.
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michpoch ◴[20 Feb 25 20:46 UTC] No.43119962[source]▶
In what conditions are these eggs being produced?

Are these also codes 0 - 3, similar to the European ones, with different classes of the chickens living conditions?

$2 per dozen eggs is cheaper than in the poorest countries in Europe.

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1. jeffrapp ◴[20 Feb 25 20:57 UTC] No.43120101[source]▶
Honestly, terrible conditions. Factory-farmed style eggs. The “better” eggs were already at the $3-7+ price point depending on the feature set you’re looking for. Organic pasture raised eggs? Closer to the $7+. Plain brown organic eggs were closer to the $3 mark.

The egg industry in the US is a mess of marketing words that aren’t really regulated. Words like free-range, cage free, “access to the outdoors” often have little impact on the well-being of the chickens.