egg prices are out of control..local govt needs to reduce urban chicken coop restrictions

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I am not doubting there's a shortage, but I keep finding eggs every time I go grocery shopping -- Aldi, Whole Foods, Giant, etc. But I never go grocery shopping on Saturday or Sunday because the stores are always out of too much stuff (not just eggs). Just go on a weekday and you should be fine, though Mondays might be dicey due to restocking from all the weekend shoppers.

As for prices, my most recent purchase was a carton of 18 for $6.79 at Whole Foods. Not that bad.

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OP is right. If counties can approve nasty data centers and high density developments nobody wants, just give us our chicken rights. But no roosters - I don't wanna hear cockle doodle doodle at 5am.

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Anonymous wrote:Montgomery County, MD. residents can have between five and 8 chickens in their backyard.

You have to have a certain sized yard and live a certain distance from your neighbor. Most houses don't meet that requirement.

Tell that to my neighbor

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Anonymous wrote:no they most definitely do not need to do this.

I'll pay 2x the current price of eggs to make sure my neighbor doesn't have a chicken coop.

People have the right to farm and feed their family

not according to your local government!

no one is stopping you from moving 30 miles west or east to your own little farm.

Almost every local jurisdiction allows poultry as pets

You will need a permit. Unless you have more than two acres. If you have more than two acres, you already sold to a developer.

Not where I live. Farming in residential zones is allowed on all agricultural and single-family zoned properties. Urban Farming is allowed in the residential zones for townhomes and multifamily communities as well other non-residential zones.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DPS/Process/zspe/Chickens.html

Where do you live?

People's Republic of Fairfax County.

You mean the reasonable side of the Potomac that actually attempts to protect public health and the environment.

No. I mean the busybodies who worry about the color of the bike shed next to the nuclear reactor.

I think it's funny that the posters who apparently hate everything about the area also hate backyard chickens. Not surprising, but funny.

Yes, let’s eliminate zoning and give our neighbors the bird flu. https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/positive-bird-flu-case-in-accomack-county/amp/

If you’re worried about getting the flu, get a flu shot and wear a mask.

FFS, don’t you remember the advice you gave everyone during covid? Wear a mask! Get a vaccination or booster!

What happened to that?

Idiot, masks and vaccines don't stop flu and they didn't stop covid.

Tony was either ignorant, or perpetrating crimes against humanity. He admitted his shot didn’t shield you from his virus.

Masks cut down dramatically on flu or covid transmission, or keeping your mouth shut. You know, speaking generates aerosols that will contain virus, which is in the spit

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Anonymous wrote:Dems should not have arbitrarily culled chickens who show no sign of disease and test negative. Deliberate

Delusional.

They absolutely should for public health reason. You need to cull infected populations to slow the spread and reduce the risk that the virus mutates.

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Walmart today, a dozen generic eggs $6.99, the pretty brown one $10.99 a dozen

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Trump's Ag.Department says to grow your own eggs

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Anonymous wrote:Shocked to see 10.99 eggs at the store. Even the cheap ones are now pushing $5 per carton, and that's ONLY when they're in stock. It's either constant shortages or massive prices. Why haven't over burdensome regulations preventing urban livestock been repealed yet? Counties make it far too difficult for people to grow their own food, like eggs. All you need are a few hens that produce tons of eggs, and they're far healthier than the store crap anyway. It is time local governments rewrite the laws to allow homeowners and apartments to have urban chicken coops.

Where are you seeing this? Or when? (It's January 2025, here in suburban Maryland.) I am paying $7/dozen for high-priced eggs at a high-priced grocery store, and there is never any shortage of eggs.

DP

I saw that price for one of the pasture-raised brands at the Harris Teeter the other day.

In any case, when the government slaughters thousands of healthy chickens because a few came down with a disease, it's logical that the resulting reduction in production will impact egg prices.

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Anonymous wrote:Shocked to see 10.99 eggs at the store. Even the cheap ones are now pushing $5 per carton, and that's ONLY when they're in stock. It's either constant shortages or massive prices. Why haven't over burdensome regulations preventing urban livestock been repealed yet? Counties make it far too difficult for people to grow their own food, like eggs. All you need are a few hens that produce tons of eggs, and they're far healthier than the store crap anyway. It is time local governments rewrite the laws to allow homeowners and apartments to have urban chicken coops.

Where are you seeing this? Or when? (It's January 2025, here in suburban Maryland.) I am paying $7/dozen for high-priced eggs at a high-priced grocery store, and there is never any shortage of eggs.

DP

I saw that price for one of the pasture-raised brands at the Harris Teeter the other day.

In any case, when the government slaughters thousands of healthy chickens because a few came down with a disease, it's logical that the resulting reduction in production will impact egg prices.

I'm just glad they don't do the same in the schools when a kindergardner gets a cold.

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Anonymous wrote:Shocked to see 10.99 eggs at the store. Even the cheap ones are now pushing $5 per carton, and that's ONLY when they're in stock. It's either constant shortages or massive prices. Why haven't over burdensome regulations preventing urban livestock been repealed yet? Counties make it far too difficult for people to grow their own food, like eggs. All you need are a few hens that produce tons of eggs, and they're far healthier than the store crap anyway. It is time local governments rewrite the laws to allow homeowners and apartments to have urban chicken coops.

Where are you seeing this? Or when? (It's January 2025, here in suburban Maryland.) I am paying $7/dozen for high-priced eggs at a high-priced grocery store, and there is never any shortage of eggs.

DP

I saw that price for one of the pasture-raised brands at the Harris Teeter the other day.

In any case, when the government slaughters thousands of healthy chickens because a few came down with a disease, it's logical that the resulting reduction in production will impact egg prices.

I'm just glad they don't do the same in the schools when a kindergardner gets a cold.

They do that in schools when a kid gets a gun.

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Anonymous wrote:Shocked to see 10.99 eggs at the store. Even the cheap ones are now pushing $5 per carton, and that's ONLY when they're in stock. It's either constant shortages or massive prices. Why haven't over burdensome regulations preventing urban livestock been repealed yet? Counties make it far too difficult for people to grow their own food, like eggs. All you need are a few hens that produce tons of eggs, and they're far healthier than the store crap anyway. It is time local governments rewrite the laws to allow homeowners and apartments to have urban chicken coops.

Where are you seeing this? Or when? (It's January 2025, here in suburban Maryland.) I am paying $7/dozen for high-priced eggs at a high-priced grocery store, and there is never any shortage of eggs.

DP

I saw that price for one of the pasture-raised brands at the Harris Teeter the other day.

In any case, when the government slaughters thousands of healthy chickens because a few came down with a disease, it's logical that the resulting reduction in production will impact egg prices.

I definitely prefer to be poisoned by an egg that I can get for half price, so I am sad.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not doubting there's a shortage, but I keep finding eggs every time I go grocery shopping -- Aldi, Whole Foods, Giant, etc. But I never go grocery shopping on Saturday or Sunday because the stores are always out of too much stuff (not just eggs). Just go on a weekday and you should be fine, though Mondays might be dicey due to restocking from all the weekend shoppers.

As for prices, my most recent purchase was a carton of 18 for $6.79 at Whole Foods. Not that bad.

Guess what! if everyone goes on the weekdays then they'll run out by Friday.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump's Ag.Department says to grow your own eggs

Do Republican women not realize that the last one of them who stepped into invoking chickens into a political debate lost their primary to a Tea Partier aka premature MAGAt?

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Anonymous wrote:Trump's Ag.Department says to grow your own eggs

Wow the economy is that bad? Time to grow our own food?

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Anonymous wrote:Trump's Ag.Department says to grow your own eggs

Wow the economy is that bad? Time to grow our own food?

Tariff gardens!