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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
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Subject: Re: No X-Large eggs?
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:07:11 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-11-12, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On 2024-11-11 11:19 p.m., Ed P wrote:
>> I've always bought X-large eggs.  Last week, Publix did not have any. 
>> Did not think much of it, stiff happens.
>> 
>> Saturday, I was talking with a friends in Massachusetts. She mentioned 
>> that for a couple of weeks, should could not find x-large eggs.
>> 
>> This morning, I want to BJs.  They have  a few varieties and packages. 
>> You can get Cage Free, Captured and tortured, organic, and more.
>> 
>> But no X-large.  I know millions of chickens were killed from bird flu, 
>> maybe the replacements have not grown enough to produce the larger eggs?
>
>
> It takes three weeks to incubate fertilized eggs and then about 18 weeks 
> before they hens start laying.
> Apparently the farmers and the rest of the egg system have taken 
> advantage of the alleged shortages to jack up the prices.  

That's the law of supply and demand.  When demand exceeds supply,
prices rise.

> I am left 
> wondering about the price of the free range eggs. Given that they claim 
> that free range birds are happier and healthier and are no subject to 
> mass exposures, their production should not have been affected.  They 
> were already charging more for free range than for factory eggs, so they 
> have no reason to raise prices.

To compensate for losses in other areas of their business?

-- 
Cindy Hamilton