How many eggs do you use?

Capt Lightning said:
We use them mainly for baking and only 3 or 4 a week for eating. They are not particularly expensive in the UK unless you want 'Organic' eggs. On the point of cholesterol, I was told by a cardiac consultant, that dietary cholesterol has very little effect on blood cholesterol levels.
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I've been buying the regular store shelf eggs while the price is up. I'm sure they won't kill me.
@hollydolly ,fresh boiled eggs will last a good while in the frig. I'd say up to five days.
 
Jules said:
I can’t stand the sight of eggs, especially the bright yellow ones. People look at a bright yolk and often think it’s from a free range hen. Not always. It’s easy for farmers to add something to the hen feed to produce the bright yellow.
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Sometimes I add whites to eggs to cut down the saturated fat. I then add turmeric for color and a little olive oil for fat feel. DH never noticed.
 

MACKTEXAS said:
If it was really bird flu, there has been more than enough time to start over in new facilities with healthy, uncontaminated birds. Maybe it's just a matter of time before someone develops a really good substitute for eggs - better than we have now - then the gougers will find themselves out of business.
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First you need a clean facility and feed and chicks. Then five months for them to start laying. About two years for a facility to be operating at 100%.
 
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It is fortunate that our spring gift to our grand daughter turned into a boon for us. We got Eliza 4 pair of chicks this spring break. She left them here on our small farm, and then we would picture her cool pictures of the chicks. Well, now they are laying up to 3 or 4 eggs per day!! We are staying way ahead of the egg-flation. :)
 
hollydolly said:
Worth watching

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MACKTEXAS said:
If it was really bird flu, there has been more than enough time to start over in new facilities with healthy, uncontaminated birds.
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I found this speculation interesting and decided to investigate why eggs have skyrocketed in price, but chicken meat hasn't.

In a nutshell, chickens raised for their meat ("broilers") are young while egg-producing chickens ("layers") are older and more susceptible to viruses. Broilers don't get much opportunity to contract the virus because they're slaughtered at 7 weeks. Eek!

Layers live much longer - typically not mature enough to start producing eggs until they're 4-5 months old, and are productive for over a year.

Bottom line: Layers are both more vulnerable to the virus and it takes much longer to create a new generation, compared to broilers.

So broiler farms that have to cull their livestock when the virus hits them have much faster recovery rate than egg producing farms.

Backyard flocks have also been affected by this flu - but those numbers aren't necessarily reported in the news.

Mystery solved.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5270835/super-bowl-egg-prices-chicken-wings
Egg prices are surging, so why are chicken prices stable?
 
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Twostep said:
First you need a clean facility and feed and chicks. Then five months for them to start laying. About two years for a facility to be operating at 100%.
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Yes. I'm just giving up on it and learning to do without them. A good cake needs eggs, but I've made one without them using applesauce and something else in place of eggs. I never get "hungry" for eggs and could easily go without eating them the rest of my life. Haven't they had 2 years yet? I've been hearing about bird flu for a long time.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
Haven't they had 2 years yet? I've been hearing about bird flu for a long time.
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I think (but don't quote me on it) that the current outbreak is a continuation of the one that has been occurring for the past couple years. I'm not sure how to know the strength of current wave of it, maybe it acts similar to other viruses with having seasons or waves that happen?

Here are some statistics for this month, there were 1,500+ entries, I just screen-shot the first few, and also a map of the US with bird flu outbreaks in purple.

tiny slice of the Feb2025 bird flu outbreaks.jpg US counties having bird flu.jpg
 
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