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Eggs are 10.99 in denver. (i.imgur.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

The prices are caused by inflation, massive cullings of infected hens with bird flu, and just the area you live in. Where I'm at, eggs are $4.50 USD/dozen at the moment. They've been higher though.

Those eggs specifically look to be "cage-free", which increases their price by a little bit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Yep I'm near Delaware so we have all the chicken farms at least near us. And our eggs are $4.5 for a dozen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

In Germany, you can't even buy eggs from cage farming anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago* (last edited 3 minutes ago)

Not necessarily better. My uni did experiments to see how far a chicken moved after being put in a free range pen, and they hardly move. Such pens are large and contain hundreds if not 1000s of chickens. (We tend to imagine free range as 15 hens in a flock, but that is miles away from the truth) Hypothesis was that since Chicken are flock animals they get stressed in these pens and the weaker ones now are on the outside of multiple flocks leading to more stress and feather picking as dominance never really are settled. Roomy cages with proper perches and such paradoxically might be "better" for industrially farmed chicken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 48 seconds ago) (1 children)

~~ Upstate NY and a dozen is between 8-9 dollars last I looked. ~~

I apologize, that's the 18 pack. I was removed we got charged the 18 pack price but only had a 12. That was a four hour later going over the receipt find.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Where in upstate? They're $4 everywhere Ive seen them.