Eggs

[raebhoop]

A tray of 24 eggs in my local shop have just doubled in price overnight...Which racketeers are taking us to the cleaners now?

 

[joe-90]

Shop elsewhere then.

 

[Arthur2shedsJackson]

A tray of 24 eggs in my local shop have just doubled in price overnight...Which racketeers are taking us to the cleaners now?

Your local shop I think !!

I haven't heard of a National Egg Price crisis.

 

[raebhoop]

Shop elsewhere then.

A well thought out response there mate...would your comment be as flippant if it was the price of screws or whatever you use in your business?

 

[joe-90]

It's not made the news has it? They've just got the price wrong.

 

[749s]

Shop elsewhere then.

A well thought out response there mate...would your comment be as flippant if it was the price of screws or whatever you use in your business?

Come on, stop this nonsense!

 

[crystal ball]

They must be double yolkers, worth shelling out double

 

[joe-90]

They were BOGOF last week and he didn't notice.

 

[LastMagicBean]

They must be double yolkers, worth shelling out double

I think you've cracked it !

 

[seco services]

I paid about £3.50 round here on saturday.

 

[HERTS P&D]

I get my eggs for free, I keep chickens. Nothing like a fresh laid egg in the morning and yes you can taste a big difference.

Andy

 

[Arthur2shedsJackson]

I get my eggs for free, I keep chickens. Nothing like a fresh laid egg in the morning and yes you can taste a big difference.

Andy

We need to get to the bottom of this price hike though, so maybe as a chicken owner you can help.

Have the chickens been making any extravagant demands lately, or has chicken feed increased in price significantly?

 

[HERTS P&D]

No And No, but for some reason I have noticed that in the past 2-3 days the eggs having been tasting better, so maybe they have upped in the quality control department before making any demands.

Andy

 

[ellal]

Having 6 of our own chooks, chicken feed no longer costs chicken feed!

Probably only costing half of the supermarket crap now...

 

[Norcon]

You see a lot of people with their own chickens now. Well country people anyway.
We build egg producing poultry units for clients. Total cost of one of them is around £200k. About 300 cu/m of concrete per house roughly.
And you need two to make a living from it.
About £35k buys all the concrete. Thats the cheap part.

Think its around 5000 chickens per house. And for free range you need about seven acres of land.