Better go buy some eggs QUICK!

[WhiteHawk]

Thanks to our democrat leadership, staring in 2025 all eggs sold in grocery stores must be cage free. So it seems Kroger, at least, has officially stopped restocking eggs, and only has limited stock of cage free. Went there yesterday and the section was 80% empty - and we are four days from the law being in effect.

It's just like Covid! Big Gretch is bringing Covid style shopping back!

-Geoff

 

[wrath]

It's an old 2019 law finally going into effect.

The kwality of eggs that aren't organic free-range is abysmal anyway, cage-free just means the chicken gets to move once in a while.

 

[85notch]

Thanks to our democrat leadership, staring in 2025 all eggs sold in grocery stores must be cage free. So it seems Kroger, at least, has officially stopped restocking eggs, and only has limited stock of cage free. Went there yesterday and the section was 80% empty - and we are four days from the law being in effect.

It's just like Covid! Big Gretch is bringing Covid style shopping back!

-Geoff

Kroger branded eggs are cage free anyway. This does not affect their stock so much as the holidays did. Prices however will most likely spike.

 

[1fstfox]

I'll have my own cage free eggs in the spring anyway via my own chickens. Been meaning to get some and this'll finally push things along. LOL

 

[H.O. Driver]

The holidays are over, eggs are $3.97 a dozen up here and a limit of 2 dozen per order. It's a pain in the ass when you meal prep and can only get enough eggs to last you a week when you normally do it for a month at a time.

We normally bought cage free eggs but once they announced the cage free only rule coming up the price doubled. Granted egg production naturally slows down in the winter but price usually doesn't double or have a 2 dozen limit.

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[Atrus]

I'll have my own cage free eggs in the spring anyway via my own chickens. Been meaning to get some and this'll finally push things along. LOL

As a fellow chicken owner....those will be the most expensive eggs you will ever "purchase".

They also get lazy as fck in the winter and stop laying. I'm getting a whole lotta nothing right now from those freeloaders. Best practice is to start with a few, and add a few chicks every year so you always have hens that are producing.

Also, look up "water glassing" - I plan to do that this spring when they overproduce what we can consume.

 

[1fstfox]

As a fellow chicken owner....those will be the most expensive eggs you will ever "purchase".

They also get lazy as fck in the winter and stop laying. I'm getting a whole lotta nothing right now from those freeloaders. Best practice is to start with a few, and add a few chicks every year so you always have hens that are producing.

Also, look up "water glassing" - I plan to do that this spring when they overproduce what we can consume.

I'm only planning on about 5 or so. I don't really give a shit about the eggs in the grand scheme of it. Mostly a couple eggs here and there and having a few "critters" running around to eat bugs and stuff. Kids have been up my butt about a pet and we settled on chickens since my parents already have a bunch so I've got the basics down from them.

 

[mdhmi]

The state law is extremely modest with respect to minimum requirements.
The law is far more generous towards animal abusers than I'd be.
FWIW, I picked up 24 "cage free" (a mostly meaningless term) eggs from Costco yesterday for $7.
If my math is right that's around $3.50/dozen or a little more than a buck for a four egg omelette.