Egg prices! Yikes!

Thanks to Lisa Young for this:

The average price of a dozen eggs goes up and up.   It now averages $4.25 a dozen, and that’s for the cheapest kinds.

The New York Times explains

• Inflation
• The war in Ukraine
• Higher feed costs
• Higher energy costs (those hens have to be kept warm)
• Avian flu (44 million hens died or were killed)
• Higher-than-normal demand

It could get worse.  Avian flu infects animals as well as birds and could infect us.

How’s that for a cheery thought.

Small egg farms, anyone?

Or chickens as art, per National Geographic?

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