All of the above and more. 😞

Stu, I'd love to hear the audio of the conversation you had with her my friend ... lol

Because, as mentioned in several previous posts, broilers (the "chicken that crosses the road") is harvested at something like 45 days (less than 8 weeks).

But yes, it's all media hype. The price in the store is not really $6+, it's really about $2.79, but the media hype has you believing the eggs are more expensive. The media hype is even so good that the electronic cash registers believe the prices is much higher than it really is!

Good to hear from you. We ought to get together.

Just got eggs at BJ’s for $4.50 a dozen. The prices are on the way down after the kill of from last year.

They probably are but who cares other than fight farms? :oops:

Is there such a thing?

Yes. Or so I have been told. 😒

Roosters are mean all on their own. Have more than a few serious wound marks on my arms and legs. I was just walking through the yard. I swear roosters are stealthy, and live to hide and attack. As kids we were more afraid of roosters attacking, then snakes.

Put two fully adult roosters anywhere near each other and one isn’t going to walk away.

Around 1947, my parents decided to raise chickens in the garage of our country home (think starter home). So the story goes (I wasn't born yet) neither one of them could go into the garage to collect the eggs without being attacked by the rooster. My father had to take a broom with him. Then he couldn't bring himself to kill a chicken.

Needless to say, it was a failed experiment. I don't think they knew what they were doing, and supposedly some farmer in the area ended up with free chickens and a rooster.

Followed closely by the dog eating a pound of black-market butter. I still wasn't there, so it's all hearsay.

If there were no roosters, chickens would cease to exist.

Well, true enough I suppose, but then saying 'A 135%+ percent increase above $2.17 would be over $2.18' would also be technically correct. And saying that there is an X% increase IS math.

Besides the bird flu raising prices there is panic buying, it's similar to the hoarders of toilet paper during the pandemic.
The world is not going to collapse if eggs are not part of our diet.
I'm sure mankind will find alternatives to eggs to consume if need be.
I'm going to make myself a ham sandwich.

I have never met a nice rooster, so it’s a true story. Until my 30s, my Grandparents, had a garden that was 2 acres of vegetables, 2 acres of fruit, hen house of 20, and a giant rooster.

My granny carried a hatchet with her every morning to gather the eggs. For some reason the rooster never attacked her. But everyone else was fair game.

And I heard that he personally culled all those chickens! No wonder the guy looked so tired the last couple years... :laugh:

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Generally there are two different types of farmers one that raises chickens for meat, the other one that raises chicken for eggs so that there are different farms and they are separated..

As to why they don't get sick, same reason you can spray your grass with some weed killers and they'll only kill the weeds.

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Two different types of chicken!!!!

How many eggs are produced each month?
 

SoCalGal gave a very good in depth answer to the layers vs boilers question. In April 2024, 8.93 million chicken eggs were produced. If 20 million layers are culled, that is a significant impact on supply. Think of everything that uses eggs. Us at home, restaurants, bakers, factories producing bread, pancakes and waffles. ice cream, and on an on. We use a lot of eggs in the U.S. every day. I went to Wolfy's in Leesburg and they are charging a .50 cent surcharge per egg. So is Dennys and Waffle House.

Biscuits and sausage gravy.

So, what do we spray on the chickens? 🤔😯

Reality, you can buy sexed chicks at Rural King. Only female chickens lay eggs. A male chicken,rooster, is the one that crows and it will impregnate the female chickens. A fertilized egg has an embryo. What is called a blood spot. You, we do not eat those. Eggs with two yolks are fairly common. What we buy. A dozen all the same size and type is not normal.

Far as I know none of the villages allow you to keep chickens o any live stock.

Multiple villages bordering areas that have chickens. Two of our homes we can hear the rooster crowing every morning. Bonus, get on their list to buy eggs, pastel blue and green shells work well outside of Easter. Some do find the very Orange yolk off putting

So we can blame females for this

OK we will hide the coop in the back and give our neighbors a 25% discount. Problem solved

1. ALL birds lay eggs. It's one of the things that makes them birds.
2. Hens kept in insanely close quarters under horrible unsanitary conditions and forced to endure having their beaks cut off (so they can't peck each other), are more likely to get sick than hens that are raised in healthy environments. If ONE bird gets sick in a coop of 10,000 hens, then the entire coop is compromised.

There's no egg in ice cream. Contrary to some twisted, but popular belief, eggs are not dairy. They are poultry.

Haagen Dazs mentions eggs in their ingredient list

Does that mean it's not ice-cream? Maybe it's really frozen custard? Or is it a frozen embryo smoothy?

HeHe.........

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