Top tier👌
Eggspensive was right there!
Missed opportunity
Laid it out for you.
He clucked up
Lol, you can buy a full chicken for $5 (10 for $49.99) and they lay between 4-7 eggs a week, you can make an ROI between 1-2 weeks and never have to buy eggs again.
I would strongly recommend you buy chickens if you have the ability.
Unfortunately good feed is more expensive than the chicken.
don’t they eat scraps?
Also testing for diseases. They could catch the bird flu and you might not know it right away and you end up catching it from them. I’ll let the farms deal with testing.
Nice try, Purdue.
Yeah, keeping them alive and healthy is the expensive part.
We wanted chickens so badly this year but with H5N1 spreading and owning 3 cats (which seem to have a high death rate from H5N1) I’m still not sure if it’s a great idea. If anyone can convince me though I would still happily get chickens.
To be fair, lots of animals like to kill chickens. I’ve lost dozens to predators. And I’m committed to free range, I don’t want to keep chickens locked in a small coop/run all the time. I still lock them up at night and they appreciate that. I actually have zero at the moment, waiting for spring to start over after some dogs jumped over my fence and killed all of mine. I still get free eggs from my sister though. Oh, and you can’t suggest chicken ownership without disclosing all of the chicken shit. It’s almost mountains of chicken shit.
I had 7 and am down to 2 because of a coyote.
Call it Guano and sell it as fertiliser.
People have killed over guano. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_War
It’s also how Bond originally killed Dr No
Bond kills No by taking over the guano-loading machine at the docks and diverting the flow of guano to bury him alive.
Re-he-he-eally
Bumblebee tuna!
What are your thoughts on suburban chicken ownership? I’m wholly uninterested, I need another creature to keep alive like I need another hole in the head, but my wife and daughter are really into the idea.
That’s essentially what I have been doing. You’d be surprised how many predators still roam the suburbs though. I have lost chickens to raccoons, opossums, hawks, dogs and foxes.
My only real suggestion is check your zoning. I was operating in a kind of grey area but I have known people who had to get rid of their chickens to avoid daily fines. Getting well set up for chickens is a bit of work, I wouldn’t want to do that in vain.
The US Americans. Pretty sure the rest of America doesn’t have crazy egg prices, right?
Did bird flu just miss your chicken populations, or are you just fine eating diseased produce?
What?
There are two more countries in North America and a bunch more in South America.
source?
All the Caribbean countries are in NA, and Central America.
Not to mention Greenland and France.
How many of them commonly refer to themselves as Americans?
more every day, just watch
As many as they want to.
So, a number approaching zero? I’d cede the point if people from other parts of the Americas were wanting to be called American. But they overwhelmingly don’t.
Dude, we tried to get coffee before it went up… It had already went from $12 to $16!
i chuckled-- but eggs are pretty expensive everywhere at the moment.
They are half the cost in Canada right now due to better supply management and taking public health a bit more seriously (only 6% of Canadians chickens are infected vs 14% of American chickens).
I’m not sure why the US people are so bothered by them in particular that it made into the spotlight on presidential campaign… I mean, it’s probably not the most expensive item on any recipe.
But yeah, they are currently expensive.
Bread, milk and eggs are just traditional bellwethers of food economy in the US, so they get scrutinized first/most.
Purely due to circumstance, the price of eggs became an easy, overly simplified economic indicator, and via massive amounts of misinformation/disinformation, somehow an indicator of the Biden administration’s efficacy. Eggs were essentially the stand-in for all the complicated and politically inconvenient stuff that willfully ignorant folks don’t understand, prefer not to think about, or simply want to deny.
Willfully ignorant people know that grocery prices in general were being affected by inflation, but understanding the causes and recognizing that it was a global phenomenon was not something they were willing to engage in because it was an easy way to demonize and blame Biden.
In my personal experience, when prices spiked last time, these were the people who claimed that eggs were the bulk of their diet because it was the only protein they could afford to eat anymore. That was never true for most, but that’s what they claimed as they lamented how they could no longer afford to eat. They also liked to mention the prices of the highest price tier eggs (name brand, organic, fancy stuff, free range, etc) and try to pass that off as the going rate for eggs, despite the fact that they never bought those “premium” eggs prior to the price hike and that the “cheaper” eggs cost significantly less. Also, now that it’s happening under their preferred presidential administration, suddenly they are much less vocal (almost completely silent) about the price of eggs. But if forced into a discussion about the topic, they suddenly appear to understand and advocate for the idea that it’s caused by factors outside of the president’s control. Funny how that works, huh?
On the flip side, most of the folks who are currently bringing up the egg prices are doing so in a satirical sense (even if it’s covertly satirical), fully aware that Trump isn’t in control of the egg prices. It’s just a good way to further demonstrate his supporters’ own hypocrisy. Also, it’s sort of giving the willfully ignorant people a taste of their own medicine. Probably not terrible effective from that standpoint, but cathartic for the people currently doling it out.
As an apart, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to say the jokes are out of line.
I don’t get how the people believed into all the fuzz in the presidential campaign. (Though yes, I seem to have underestimated how much they are actually costing there.)
The jokes, I get. And you should keep pushing the subject.
It’s used as a barometer to gauge the overall prices of groceries. It differs from country to country. Back in my home country, a type of small, cheap fish was used as the measurement. Meaning, when even that cheap little fish is getting expensive, you know it’s really bad.
When your barometer breaks, you are supposed to get another one. Otherwise you get a “36 Roentgen” moment.
They’re part of the consumer price index, a measure of inflation which in turn impacts the fed interest rate. A high rate means a high cost of borrowing which is bad for business (especially small business / start ups).
For most people it just contributes to the cost of living crisis but it has greater implications on the economy as a whole.
Trump has promised a reduction in interest rates this year while nearly all of his policies are designed to worsen inflation in the short term.
I’m American. I just bought 12 eggs for $5. What’s this going on about?
In a lot of the US eggs were under a dollar pretty recently. I’ve been paying $5-$7 the last couple of months. But I also get a lot of free eggs. But it’s just bird flu decimating the supply so they raise prices to reduce demand and make up for lack of sales volume.
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Related note: There are some good vegan eggs out there to give a try!
If you want something that cooks and bakes like eggs there’s stuff you can by like Just Egg
For baking there’s a million things you can use that are pretty cheap. For instance, Aquafaba is the leftover water from cooking chickpeas or the water in the can if you buy it canned. Acts like egg whites and can be used as a binder for baking
Actually that’s really cool. Meat and egg prices have gotten so high that I’m basically an accidental vegetarian, maybe it’s just time to cut those things out of my diet. I’ve heard soft tofu is a good egg replacement for breakfast, how is that done?
If you’re looking for a scramble, things like tofu scrambles can be pretty good! Usually that’s with firm tofu rather than soft tofu, but you absolutely can use soft tofu as well. It can also be seasoned a million different ways. Here’s one example recipe (with firm tofu)
https://www.noracooks.com/tofu-scramble/Soft tofu will have a different texture than firm so you can try recipes for both and see what you think. (EDIT: Note that you generally don’t want to substitute one for the other because of that texture difference so look for recipes that specifically call for using firm tofu or specifically call for soft/silken)
Soft/silken tofu can also be used as a binder too and replace dairy / eggs in various recipes. Like I’ve made a chocolate mousse with it before and it didn’t affect the taste. Had some friends and family try it and they both didn’t know there was tofu in it and also were surprised to learn it was vegan
https://aseasyasapplepie.com/silken-tofu-chocolate-mousse/There’s a also some vegan cooking & baking communities here on lemmy if you want other inspirations. Here’s one that’s pretty active !homecooks@vegantheoryclub.org and here’s another that’s a little less active but has recipes for it all !veganrecipes@sh.itjust.works
I hate most plant based vegan replacements but the Just Eggs are actually pretty good.
First meme I saw today and made me laugh aloud. I don’t know that anyone has achieved that in a long time. Chef’s kiss.
I have that skill. Glad you liked it!
Five years ago it was toilet paper.
