I heard that the egg prices are out of control due to bird flu and greed. How did this situation impact the chicken meat prices?
It’s hard to google local prices actual people pay in other countries for commodity goods like chicken and bread :/
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Here are a couple of pics of this week’s ad at a grocery chain.
Thanks, believe it or not but I find it actually really interesting how prices differ and what products are sold.
If I travel I always try to go to markets where local people buy their groceries
Me too! I also love to go to hardware store on vacation, especially small, old independent ones.
Where?
Dallas, Texas
I’m forgetting what exactly the reasoning was, but I looked this up at one point and apparently there’s a difference between the chickens used for laying eggs and the chickens used for meat. It’s not that one is resistant to the virus or anything, but apparently we aren’t concerned about the stock for meat. It won’t be affected as much as eggs.
Prices haven’t changed for meat by me. $3.99/lb for the cheap supermarket “brand” as it always has been.
Edit: I looked it up and actually the chickens used for meat, broilers, are apparently more resistant to the virus but also live MUCH shorter lives. They were bread to bulk up quickly to go to slaughter as fast as possible while chickens used for eggs take more time to get to egg laying age and are more likely to get the flu and die.
Yeah, different breeds for one, but meat birds are often only raised to a number of weeks in commercial ops (I want to say 6-8 depending upon the breed and other factors, but I’m not 100% on that).
Layers don’t put on the weight like meatbirds nor in the same places. They also tend to have useful laying lives measured in years (I want to say 3 at peak production, but again I only know a tiny bit).
That’s exactly it. In meat production, if you have to sacrifice the entire stock because of flu, in six weeks you’re back in busines.
For a hen to lay eggs it needs to reach maturity, that takes at least 20 weeks.
From what I hear, the hatcheries are (or at least were) super screwed. Some did specifically switch from layers to almost exclusively meat birds based on the random farming youtubers I watch.
Chicken prices are going to skyrocket because the people who work the farms are all from central and south America. They’re already pulling their kids from school and are laying low. If ICE really starts cracking down Chick-fil-A is fucked.
Meh, fuck Chick-fil-A anyway.
I’m right here and I can hardly tell. Local store here in the Midwest has fresh chicken breasts for anywhere from $2.49/lb (store brand 5lb package) to $7.49/lb. (Brand name, no hormones or antibiotics, grain fed 1.25lb package)
My husband thought he got a good deal on eggs the other day and excitedly asked, “how much are eggs?” I said, “somewhere between 2 and 10 bucks. White, brown, regular, cage-free, store, or eggland?.” He moped away and never told me how much he paid.
I spent $7/dozen on cage-free, free-range blue eggs a few days ago. They were delicious on my gyudon.
Oh that’s really good for fancy eggs! What are blue eggs?
Would you say the price did get spread further out or were they always that far apart?
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California Bay Area: Safeway store brand is $2.49/lb for whole chickens or whole legs, $5.99 for boneless, skinless breasts. Free range (Rocky) is $2.99 for whole/whole legs and $8.99 for breasts. Organic (Rosie) is $3.99 whole, $10.99 breast. It was cheaper pre pandemic, the bird flu hasn’t raised prices a second time.
You can go to grocery store sites and set your location to a specific store, and look up items.
Anyway I looked it up at my local Walmart (Arizona, US) and boneless breasts are $2.69 a lb, boneless skinless thighs, 3.49, and wings, $1.19 a lb. Ten lbs of chicken leg quarters, $6.50. So it doesn’t seem to have gone up a lot.
Unfortunately many US grocery stores geo block the EU :/
Probably because of privacy laws? I guess I could use a VPN but asking here was easier / more fun.
Oh, I see. Just an idea. I was wondering if maybe they’d block or redirect you.
These prices are confusing. The first two are about the same for me but somehow your wings are nearly a third the price.
The prices vary based on how much usable meat there is in the cut vs. bones, and how much work went into cutting it. Wings are mainly bones for instance. It can also be how fast it sells, so the risk the packages will spoil before they’re sold and what quantities they order or produce it in.
Between $3 and $4 per pound for chicken breasts here.
Where’s here? They’re $5-6 in Texas.
