Not sure where to post this but...

[birdlover]

I was at the Whole Foods supermarket yesterday (I live in No. Va.) and they were selling 1/2 dozen silkie eggs for SIX DOLLARS!!! Does that hit you as totally outrageous like it did me!!???

 

[areyoumymother]

wow, that is a little much, that is like a dollar an egg ... but... it is Whole Foods afterall.... They have a tendency to be a bit pricey

 

[GiddyMoon]

Were they fertile?

 

[birdlover]

Nope! Just for eating!

 

[GiddyMoon]

Who in the world would be stupid enough to fall for this?

 

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

Wow, wish i could sell my silkie eggs for that much! i would be rich, Rich, RICH!

 

[hilareee]

that's why we call whole foods "whole paycheck"

 

[birdlover]

 

[eenie114]

$1 per BANTAM egg? A dollar for a tiny egg? For hatching I can understand, but this is insane. Maybe they're trying to fool people with the name "Silky"? It sounds fancier than other breed names.

 

[birdlover]

On the carton, it had a picture of a black silkie and a label that said they were Japanese exotic bantam eggs or something like that. Yes, in Northern Va. there aren't very many people who are chicken savvy and SOMEbody is taking advantage of that fact!! I just wonder how much profit the owner of the chickens makes out of the $6.