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Meanwhile, New Bill Would Allow Texans to Have Chickens in Back Yard as Egg Prices Continue to Skyrocket

By Mike Miller

Forget the old phrase (misattributed to Herbert Hoover, by the way), “a chicken in every pot,” as egg prices continue to soar across America, several new bills recently introduced in the Texas Legislature would allow residents of the Lone Star State to have chickens in “every” backyard.

As reported by the Killeen Daily Herald last Thursday, Texans are currently paying between roughly $4 and nearly $9 for a dozen eggs at H-E-B Grocery Company, based in San Antonio, for example, equal to or more than the cost of rotisserie chickens. (Personally, I’d rather have the rotisserie chicken.)

Anyway, that’s a helluva jump, egg lovers. David Anderson, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension economist, Bryan-College Station, told the Herald that a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture retail egg report showed that a dozen eggs cost $1.79 in December 2021 and $4.25 on average in December 2022 nationwide.

According to Anderson, “one reporter in Houston interviewed a backyard producer who told them this is the first time ever that it’s been cheaper to produce eggs than buy them at the store.”

Read Full Article Here…(redstate.com)


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