I believed that eggs in the United States were expensive.
One egg in the UK went to more than $ 500 this week-but not because of the “inflation” caused by birds.
A round egg “one in one billion” brought 420 pounds, or about $ 550, at the auction on Tuesday.
The rare eggs were identified in Fenton Farm shortly before Christmas and was sold as auctioned to raise money for charity. All revenues went to the Diphone Rape Crisis Organization, which supports the survivors of sexual violence and abuse.
“I felt watching one of my children in a sports race when everyone was offering a bid. It was great. There were people in the room too, and everyone who carried them, I am very grateful,” Alison Green, a Fenton Farm egg processor, told BBC after the auction.
In the three years she worked on the farm and about 30,000 eggs that she dealt with weekly, Green said she had never seen anything like the spherical shell she discovered in January.
To ensure that the egg did not spoil, the team maintained salt before the auction date. Green think that those who buy the egg will not eat it, because they may only buy it for its scarcity – or the tremendous absurdity.
The winner left Green Shell.
She originally hoped that she would sell more than 10 pounds, and her expectations of water were detonated. I originally promised to buy eggs themselves if it seemed as if it would be sold for a low amount.
Rounding eggs, although they are very rare, start several times in recent years.
In 2023, Australian woman discovered a spherical egg completely in her grocery stores.
In the previous year, a round egg chicken emerged in England. The chicken, which was called “Twinskie”, was in the family two decades ago before the golden eggs, which he also sold on EBY.
Through the pool in the United States, the egg prices remain amazingly high as the deficiency continued due to the bird flu that force the farmer to execute large parts of its herds.
The average price of eggs for more than $ 5.89 per scales this month-an altitude of $ 1.48 in 2020-The US Department of Agriculture expects that the costs will increase at least 41 % this year in addition to the prices that have already differed, the previously reported was reported.
In New York City, the cartons were allocated for $ 19.29.
The demand even raised the direction of egg smuggling, as the border patrol agents start seizing more eggs than fentanel during illegal border crossings.
