[Rodneysblue]

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.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by G.R.I.T.S.

I’ve asked the same thing. Why aren’t roosters getting avian flu? 🧐

They probably are but who cares other than fight farms?

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Topspinmo

They probably are but who cares other than fight farms?

Is there such a thing?

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Is there such a thing?

Yes. Or so I have been told. 😒

[asianthree]

Originally Posted by Topspinmo

They probably are but who cares other than fight farms?

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Is there such a thing?

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

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.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by asianthree

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.

[RoadToad]

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

[roscoguy]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

Well, over $5 *is* over $4.

AI doesn't really do math, it just strings together words that sound correct and seem to answer the question. The three facts ($2.17, 135%+, over $4) are individually correct and even the sentence combining all three is technically correct but there was no math involved.

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.

[Cuervo]

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.

[asianthree]

Originally Posted by CFrance

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.

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.

[roscoguy]

Originally Posted by GATORBILL66

Biden ordered billions of chickens to be killed!

Originally Posted by Bill14564

I heard it was TRILLIONS!!

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

[J1ceasar]

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 Susan1717

That is a good question! Regardless if a hen is raised for eggs or its meat, how can there be a shortage and disease of one and not the other?! And why are ducks and other birds not affected?

[paulajr]

Two different types of chicken!!!!

Originally Posted by Michael G.

Bird flue apparently is causing a shortage of eggs and prices are on the raise.

🐓One has to ask: "How does that effect the butchered chicken meat from the hens laying those infected eggs??" 🤢 🐤🐥🐣

If so, why isn't there a shortage of chickens and have the prices gone up?

[pcntech]

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.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Cuervo

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.

Biscuits and sausage gravy.