Posted on 12/20/2014 6:50:39 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Nowhere, since it is a rooster.
If it is a hen, then downhill, if there is any significant slope to the roof.
My prize shall be one-dozen eggs.
See you at Krogers.
You'll be happy to know that it will.
The hard winter of 2012-2013 killed hundreds of thousands of cows and calves in the Dakota's, Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado. Most in just a few days.
It's going to take some time for those herds to be built back up, but The American Farmer and Rancher is up to the task.
There will be prenty of beef to go around.
Looks like I’ll have to shell out more money for breakfast.
Thanks for the ping!
I pay a friend who needs the money $3.00 a dozen for freerange Americauca eggs. They eat anything they find, some grain, some feed and table scraps. The eggs have heavy dark orange yolks and taste much better than grocery store eggs. When I make egg-heavy dishes, the difference is marked. When included in baked foods, they make the biggest difference of all.
Plus they are blue, green, brown, and pink, which the kids love.
They remind me of eggs from my childhood which came from a local farm.
I hope yours are just as good.
Do you ask your friend to wash them? I asked the friend I get mine from to stop.
Eggs have a natural protective coating that gets washed off in the US, but most countries leave it on and they stay much more fresh. I wash them off before I use them.
Egg shortage caused by several factors...problems in Mexico and Canada that have decimated supply in those countries. High prices in beef have moved consumers to poultry and there has been continued consolidation of poultry producers. All of those factors have led to a case of high demand and not enough capacity.
If they can keep the bird flu from hopping the border into WA and MN....where there are two large poultry companies ...expectation is that pricing should moderate before spring
She does not wash them for that very reason! I’m lucky, she has several breeds including Ameraucana. I get some lovely blue shell eggs.
Agree with your sentiment -
Sorry but I've seen those 1 foot by 1 foot cages - sometime with 2 chickens to a cage - lined up by the hundreds FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIVES... with a moving conveyer belt underneath to catch the eggs -
No living, breathing creature should be treated like that - not to mention the quality of those eggs.
I'd have my own hens if possible, but the next best thing is getting them from a friend - and it's a treat, when I pick them up , to see them happily clucking around the grounds and gardens - FREE RANGING - and they have a real hen house to be safe in at night - with brooding boxes and roosting rails - and clean straw on the floor.
And those egg yolks are bright HEALTHY orange - the way eggs should be.
So those of you who think the status quo is just fine - keep buying your unhealthy, all but useless as to nutrition, eggs. You deserve what you get.
win-win!
and they should also have lovely music available to listen to, and be able to improve their minds through learning..
My chickens refuse to eat store bought eggs. I have very smart chickens.
It doesn't roll, it slides.
Roosters lay square eggs and only on the third blue moon of the year, in the summer.
Also, squirrels will steal their food while the chickens are out in the yard.
One of my hens would chase them but always to late.
Some retailers sell eggs at below wholesale and support the low prices with other product prices in order to keep customers (see info behind following link). Wholesale egg prices in California are expected to go down next week. Notice how much higher wholesale egg prices are in California compared to other states with greater production.
http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/pybshellegg.pdf
OK the info is appreciated.
I don’t understand why that would cause such a huge price increase on the east coast, as we have egg farms and poultry companies here.
The beef issue yes, although many black angus farms are in my state NC. I can see the high demand on poultry due to beef costs.
This is disturbing that we aren’t keeping more local suppliers of those staples like poultry farms and egg producers all around the country. I do remember some issue here in NC a few years ago on poultry and eggs, but I thought that had been resolved....more research.
Thanks for keeping us informed.
The issue is that California requirements apply to eggs produced in Minnesota and North Carolina too, if producers might sell eggs in California.
Chain stores and restaurants have national distribution systems where it’s too costly to segregate commodities based on origin location.
not to worry
egg production is an elastic activity. If the cost rise beyond sustainable levels in socialist california, production will simply move or grow elsewhere.
the fools in California will suffer
Californians have a hard time saying “NO” on propositions.
I don’t know why.
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