General Discussion

and can vary wildly (and widely) from one location to another! California seems to have gotten the leading edge of the bird flu (egg prices only went up by about $0.50 last week, as opposed to a dollar or more per dozen in December), and now the Midwest and New York seem to be catching the brunt of it. It would help with comparisons if people could post location as well as current prices.

WRT to "raise your own chickens": it's patronizing enough to tell people who live in apartments or otherwise have no access to garden plots to just grow their veggies in pots. Telling city folk who may not own their own homes to raise their own livestock shows a lack of understanding of the logistics involved - even if they wanted to keep poultry in their apartments. (My own city allows residents to keep a small (I think, 6) number of hens, but landlords can be more picky)