Watch: Farmers May Have Figured Out Exactly What’s Causing the Egg Shortage

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Farmers May Have Figured Out Exactly What’s Causing the Egg Shortage; On January 12, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the Consumer Price Index for the month of December. The data showed that inflation had ticked down 0.1 percent to an annual rate of 6.5 percent. At the same time, the food index rose 0.3 percent bringing the year over year total to 10.4 percent.

The single biggest contributor to the increase in the food index was the soaring cost of eggs. According to the BLS data, egg prices rose 11.1 percent from the previous month and a whopping 59.9 percent year over year.

Anyone who has shopped in a supermarket lately knows the price of eggs has soared.

Data from the St. Louis Federal Reserve showed that the average price of a dozen large, Grade A eggs in the U.S. cost $4.25 in December, up from 1.79 a year earlier.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture attributes the current egg shortage to a historic breakout of the “highly pathogenic Avian influenza,” which has killed millions of chickens.

According to a rash of posts making the rounds on social media, something more sinister might be to blame for the lack of supply. Last week, a young man, possibly a farmer, claimed in a Facebook post:  “Ok so something really weird is going on, I have called multiple farms that sell chickens and they are all telling me that their chickens have stopped laying eggs and therefore they do not have any for sale. I looked into it a little further and apparently they are putting something in the feed to stop them from being able to lay eggs! If you have chickens and are having the same thing happen try to start feeding them a rice and pinto bean mix because it seems anything made as feed is being tainted with something that is causing this!”

In the Twitter post below, a woman who has raised chickens for over 30 years said she has never gone without eggs. But from Halloween until a week ago, her chickens produced just a single egg. After switching from chicken feed to goat feed, they began to lay eggs again.

Another Twitter user said her chickens stopped laying eggs between last summer and last fall. She purchased higher quality feed from a local supplier and they began producing eggs again.

In the tweet below, a woman writes: “Manufactured #eggshortage! Feed suppliers have added something to prevent hens from laying eggs. The consensus is Dumor or Producer’s Pride are the culprits. These bastards put shit in the chicken feed to create an egg shortage!”

In a TikTok video, a young woman said her hens had stopped laying eggs. One day, because they had a lot of leftovers, they served their chickens table scraps. The next day, they began laying eggs. She blamed it on the commercial feed.

The young man in the clip below echoes the same problem. He asks, “Do you think it’s intentional?” And he invites others to share their opinions in the comment section.

Finally, one woman hits back against what she considers to be a “conspiracy theory.” She captions her post, “let’s talk about the chicken feed conspiracy.”

She tells viewers: “This chicken feed conspiracy has gotten so far out of hand. … It’s completely normal for chicken egg production to drop as they get older. It’s also completely normal for chickens to stop laying or lay very little in the winter. It’s all natural.

“Was this a particularly lean year for people? Yes. Do I think that the government’s putting something in the feed to stop chickens from laying eggs? No.

“Do I think that the people that make the chicken feed might be cutting a few extra corners that results in the chickens not getting the same nutrients that they used to? Yeah, that’s probably a pretty good bet.

“But, we haven’t changed a single thing about our chickens’ diet, have changed nothing else about their lifestyle, and they started laying at the first of the year just like we expected. We’re not averaging like three to five eggs a day. …

“So everyone just needs to cool their jets. Give your chickens extra protein in the winter. Understand this is a normal process and take everything you see on TikTok with just a grain of salt.

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4 thoughts on “Watch: Farmers May Have Figured Out Exactly What’s Causing the Egg Shortage”

  1. Perhaps it is a conspiracy. Perhaps it is a reality. If the Covid-19 vaccine remnants can be found in pork, as is reported, it sure is possible that the same types could be manufacturing egg shortages, or ingeniously and evilly aborting eggs.

    But, I have only noted the prices of eggs increasing, not a shortage of them at the market. The egg section has always been stuffed to the hilt. What I find hilarious is how all those designer eggs, like the “Cage Free” variety, which must be a hit with the hipster crowd, who haven’t gone full vegan, have remained on the shelf. A horse is a horse, of course, of course. Same applies to a damned egg. Funny how money changes one’s political and wokester loyalty, isn’t it? If a wokester ever tasted a farm fresh egg, now that might mend that poor soul’s ways. They just don’t get better than a farm fresh local egg. Try it, you’ll like it. No, you’ll absolutely love it. They are the ones coming from that local farmer. You don’t see those delicacies at Kroger’s or Aldi’s.

    On a side note, Walmart recently dropped their $25.00 price of a five dozen carton, to about $19.00 or less, just last week. So, whether or not it is a manufactured crisis in the shortage of eggs, or the feedstocks chickens eat, someone noticed. I can guarantee that I noticed the change, because I eat a lot of eggs.

    “…Grade A eggs in the U.S. cost $4.25 in December, up from 1.79 a year earlier.” Since that range is much closer to what my egg purchasing experience has been, it might be safe to say that the BLS has no clue what they write, and that is something I never imagined complimenting the Federal Reserve with. Take your shopping experience, on eggs alone, from the beginning of the Cooties pandemic to the beginning of the 2nd year of Biden’s term as prison warden, and you will notice much more than a 59% increase, year over year, of the price of eggs. They outpaced my other staple food, Bacon, which has gone up, but can be found at more reasonable prices if you look around. I found a ten pound box of slab bacon down the road, the other day, at 3.89/lb. It was well worth driving twenty five miles to get, also. And the funny way I heard of it was a kinda “pay it forward” experience I had at Aldi’s, when a couple waiting at the checkout told me where it was. I have since passed that pay it forward on to another at Aldi’s.

  4. Hens do not lay every day of the year. As my very wise Mother-in-law explained to me many years ago, a hen has what is called a clutch of eggs in her body. When that clutch is completely laid, her body rests until another clutch is formed. With my chickens, it is usually 2-3 months before they start laying again. The older a hen becomes, the fewer eggs she lays.
    Chickens are more finicky about feed than I ever suspected. Some feed I bought they would hardly eat. What I have now is loved by them all. I supplement their feed with laying pellets and sunflower seeds, every day. I figure my eggs cost about $2 each, but they are brown and tasty, so I am happy.

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