So Doctorow has some words about egg prices

[MagickMuffin]

8. Well in all fairness, the substitutions are mostly for baking

If enough people could start a chicken coop co-op, we could cut out the price gougers!
It would be a great investment to serve our communities. The same could be established for our produce as well. We should know what we consume and how it was processed and produced.

Back to the chickens. They aren’t hard to raise, nice coop (perhaps on wheels) a cover for protection against cooper hawks, and let them eat what they can find with an additional food source.

My mom started with a few hens, the coop was a metal storage shed. Then she upscaled to more chickens. She made us sell them door to door, which was embarrassing considering the kids that lived there were my school mates.