As the national shortage continues, more and more people are selling chicken eggs on Facebook.
Over the past few weeks, people raising their own chickens have posted on the platform that they can buy eggs as store shelves continue to rise with bare and prices rising more than usual.
“It's so crazy how many eggs there are in the store! If you need fresh farm eggs, please tell me you collect them every day. A user posted.
Another wrote: Available today!! Please let me know if you want to get a schedule. thank you”
I've posted five different egg cartoons that one person can purchase. “Fresh eggs and chickens are available,” they write.
Also, more and more individuals are trying to raise their own chickens to reduce shortages and high prices in stores.
Jen Tompkins, co-founder of Rent The Chicken, is a company that helps people rent chickens and provide everything they need, from feed to sheds, and is flooded with inquiries that had surged 500% as of the end of February.
Last week, Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins announced a comprehensive $1 billion strategy to curb highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), also known as avian influenza, which destroys flocks and then raises prices.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture's Food Outlook from Economic Research Services (ERS), it will rise by 41.1% in 2025, with retail prices continuing to rise.
Prices have risen significantly over the past year as the industry faces the compounding effects of a successive outbreak that destroys US egg supply.
Egg prices rose 15.2% in January, according to the Labor Bureau's Consumer Price Index.
This is the biggest rise in egg prices since June 2015, accounting for almost two-thirds of the monthly total rise in food prices.
Egg prices rise by 53% each year.
With prices rising, some restaurants (already running at a thin margin) have given consumers the costs through temporary menu surcharges.
Some grocery stores have imposed purchase restrictions to prevent shoppers from stocking up on products.
For example, Whole Foods, owned by Amazon, has posted signs on shelves informing customers that they can only purchase three cartons of eggs at once.
Kroger previously confirmed to Fox Business that some banner departments limit shoppers to two dozen eggs per trip, while Trader Joe limits egg purchases to one dozen per customer per day.
