Originally Posted by J1ceasar (Post 2413680)

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.

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC (Post 2413318)

Trying to talk my wife into buying some baby chicks and raise them to become egg layers.

Should be able to clean up as long as my wife agrees to do the cleaning.

Originally Posted by DAVES (Post 2413809)

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.

Originally Posted by HORNET (Post 2413858)

Didn’t anyone notice that only egg laying birds ( chickens) come down with Bird Flu and at Election Time !!!!

Originally Posted by DAVES (Post 2413809)

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.

Originally Posted by HORNET (Post 2413858)

Didn’t anyone notice that only egg laying birds ( chickens) come down with Bird Flu and at Election Time !!!!

Originally Posted by pcntech (Post 2413764)

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.

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2413865)

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

Originally Posted by Bill14564 (Post 2413868)

Haagen Dazs mentions eggs in their ingredient list