I was reading that a major constraint on chicken farmers in the US is that they have to rebuild their stock after huge losses in chickens, and you cannot just instantly magic up an infinite supply of new chickens – takes a while to scale that up. It sounded like the companies that raise chickens are not the same as the ones that produce eggs – like, if you’re an egg-producing-farm, you’re competing on the open market with individuals to buy chickens. So it’s gonna drive up the price for random individual who just wants a chicken and buys from the same chicken-raisers.
All that being said, if a chicken is going for $6, I cannot imagine that the price of a chicken is a huge part of the price of eggs. Like, feed, a hutch, care, heating, maintenance of the infrastructure…that’s gotta outweigh the price of the chicken substantially.
Yeah, the price of the chick is tiny. Once you have the coop the main cost is feed, except that if they use half of my property then I spend more in property tax for that half than I spend on chicken feed.
I was reading that a major constraint on chicken farmers in the US is that they have to rebuild their stock after huge losses in chickens, and you cannot just instantly magic up an infinite supply of new chickens – takes a while to scale that up. It sounded like the companies that raise chickens are not the same as the ones that produce eggs – like, if you’re an egg-producing-farm, you’re competing on the open market with individuals to buy chickens. So it’s gonna drive up the price for random individual who just wants a chicken and buys from the same chicken-raisers.
All that being said, if a chicken is going for $6, I cannot imagine that the price of a chicken is a huge part of the price of eggs. Like, feed, a hutch, care, heating, maintenance of the infrastructure…that’s gotta outweigh the price of the chicken substantially.
Yeah, the price of the chick is tiny. Once you have the coop the main cost is feed, except that if they use half of my property then I spend more in property tax for that half than I spend on chicken feed.