Re: No X-Large eggs?

On 2024-11-12, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2024-11-11 11:19 p.m., Ed P wrote:

I've always bought X-large eggs.  Last week, Publix did not have any.
Did not think much of it, stiff happens.
 
Saturday, I was talking with a friends in Massachusetts. She mentioned
that for a couple of weeks, should could not find x-large eggs.
 
This morning, I want to BJs.  They have  a few varieties and packages.
You can get Cage Free, Captured and tortured, organic, and more.
 
But no X-large.  I know millions of chickens were killed from bird flu,
maybe the replacements have not grown enough to produce the larger eggs?

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It takes three weeks to incubate fertilized eggs and then about 18 weeks
before they hens start laying.
Apparently the farmers and the rest of the egg system have taken
advantage of the alleged shortages to jack up the prices. 

That's the law of supply and demand.  When demand exceeds supply,
prices rise.

I am left
wondering about the price of the free range eggs. Given that they claim
that free range birds are happier and healthier and are no subject to
mass exposures, their production should not have been affected.  They
were already charging more for free range than for factory eggs, so they
have no reason to raise prices.

To compensate for losses in other areas of their business?

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Cindy Hamilton