• FauxPseudo
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    I have chickens. People refuse to pay $5 a dozen for our pasture eggs. Even though that’s cheaper than any other eggs in the area. I’m also sitting on a dozen goose eggs. A goose egg is three times the size of a chicken egg. They want to pay less than three times the cost of a chicken egg, even though geese only lay during the spring and only lay every other day.

    • @musubibreakfast@lemm.ee
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      192 months ago

      Keep sitting on those goose eggs, when they hatch and you attack with your goose army they’ll all be sorry.

      • FauxPseudo
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        52 months ago

        It takes a full year to hatch them and then wait for them to become soldiers since they are only aggressive in the spring. Ain’tnobodygottimeforthat-meme.gif

    • @MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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      152 months ago

      This is because people assume that you should do it out of the goodness of your heart. Since you’re not mass producing.

      Which is absurd.

      If anything they should be willing to pay you a premium for a high quality product produced in far better conditions.

    • @crowleysnow@lemmy.world
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      32 months ago

      Here in southern california the only eggs I have even seen on shelves are my usual small farmers market eggs, which are now the same price or cheaper than the grocery store. It has been astounding me that the better and now cheaper option is the one not sold out. Humans really are just psychology multiplied.

    • @HurlingDurling@lemm.ee
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      22 months ago

      I wish I knew how to find farmers selling eggs like you. $5 for a dozen is a steal. Do you wash them? Or go European style?

      • @Aneb@lemm.ee
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        22 months ago

        Ikr my husband and I pass a house that sells their fresh eggs for $3 a dz when we visit his parents. I always stop and buy two!

    • Pyr
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      12 months ago

      Do the eggs just go to waste then or do you need to eat a lot of extra eggs if you can’t sell them for $5/dozen?

      Wouldn’t it make sense to lower the price to what people will pay even if it doesn’t cover the cost of the chickens, but at least reduce the cost of the chickens? If it’s not your main source of income and you have the chickens either way wouldn’t some money be better than no money?

      • FauxPseudo
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        62 months ago

        Eggs go to waste. There is no way we can eat them as fast as they come. It’s not really even a factor of price. We could list them as free and even though the stores are sold out we’d still not get rid of them. Selling eggs is similar to the worst parts of Facebook marketplace. People say they will come and don’t. They show up and the eggs aren’t good enough because you don’t feed them the same exact feed they would if they had chickens. They can only buy if there are at least five dozen available. The eggs aren’t white, or blue, or green, or whatever their kink is.

        Egg buyers are the most picky people on earth. We did get lucky last year with one couple that would always take whatever we had. But we don’t actually set a price. We live in poverty. We let anyone that shows up pay whatever they want. These people covered our feed costs but that was about it.

        • @Trees@lemm.ee
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          2 months ago

          You should set up a company website, an Instagram account, and make a Tiktok video, and label the eggs as Anti-Trump Eggs or Eggs for the People and by the People. Then decorate them with rainbow colours as support for human rights and civil rights.

          • @Schmoo@slrpnk.net
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            12 months ago

            If I did that where I live a mob of MAGA hats would descend on my home within a week, if my neighbor doesn’t shoot me first.

    • @ghostrider2112@lemmy.world
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      342 months ago

      Don’t worry, that’s just the rate if you have perfect credit (*starting at). The people that actually need such a service would likely be paying $3.50 per payment.

      • AizawaC47
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        32 months ago

        Oh my gosh, this planet is the bad place. Are we in hell and did we all die in Dec 21 2012?

  • Ephera
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    182 months ago

    Random tip: Kala Namak is a condiment which tastes a lot like egg yolk. If you sprinkle it onto some cooked white beans, that’s kind of like scrambled eggs (well, it is different, but also good and might satiate a craving).

    Basically, Kala Namak is salt+sulphur. Egg yolk also contains sulphur, and well, sulphur is one of the minerals we should be eating anyways.

  • @ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee
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    162 months ago

    I used to buy these after recent price hikes. To be fair, these were always three times the price than regular eggs.

  • Natanox
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    122 months ago

    Building a small den to hold 2 to 4 chickens is cheaper in the long run.

    For the city: Renting a parking spot and turning an old junker into a chicken den is also probably cheaper. Just make sure to secure it against egg thiefs.

    • YonderEpochs
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      Is it? Speaking from experience? I’ve heard it both ways and trying to get a better idea of how it works out financially.

      • Depends what land you have, if you are more reliant on feed then you will be at the mercy of feed prices which can vary. If you have enough secured land then it can be practically free. Also Coyotes are assholes.

      • Natanox
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        12 months ago

        Just to make it clear, the second part was a joke.

        About the other, relatives actually got 6 chickens. The main investment is time and land, and occasionally a trip to the vet. Given the US prices… if you eat eggs regularly and don’t want to miss it then I’d assume it’s cheaper, would have to ask for a details myself though (they jokingly said once they would save a ton in the US right now). It heavily depends on outside factors though (less land, dangers = more expensive).

  • @f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Them eggs is spensive cuz they real good ones. I gottem and gonna eatum with my limited edition cheese and laugh at the poors!

  • Lovable Sidekick
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    92 months ago

    Just 2 more payments, gentlemen, and this beautiful 12-slot luxury egg carton is all mine!

  • @mkwt@lemmy.world
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    22 months ago

    These Vital Farms eggs come with an insert with a QR code that allegedly shows you pictures of the specific farm your eggs came from. I’ve never bothered to look it up though.

  • @biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
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    22 months ago

    pretty funny that here in Australia, you can get a dozen for around $2 or 3 aud, and even then our major supermarkets, Coles and Woolworths, are getting probed for price gouging, AND we are apparently going though a shortage due to bird flu.

    • @Beetschnapps@lemmy.world
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      32 months ago

      The only issue is that the US has an avian flu that causes them to cull lots of birds and also drives up the costs.

      If the country had a significant amount of voting citizens that cared, it would be able to deal with this sort of issue in stride…

      Here we are…