Posted on 07/23/2022 9:08:36 AM PDT by grundle
This CNN video is from 2019. It was filmed in Cuba. It shows a large number of people waiting in line, for many hours, all based on the hope that there might, maybe, possibly be one chicken available for them when they finally get to the front of the line. Maybe they’ll get a chicken that day. Maybe not.
Even if they do manage to get a chicken after waiting in line for many hours, the opportunity cost of waiting in line for such a long amount of time is enormous. Imagine all of the things that all of those people could be doing with all of that time if they were living in a country that wasn’t Cuba.
Chickens are self replicating. A hen lays approximately 5 eggs per week.
Therefore, the communists who control Cuba would have to be especially incompetent to create a shortage of chickens.
Skip to 3:09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1OETmSugh8
This is about meat birds which are Cornish Cross who have had breeding ability and instinct bred out of them. They are eating robots and nothing more. Let them get a few days too old and they get so heavy their legs will break. No rooster like that can possibly mount a hen and they have no such desire anyway.
Laying hens are hens. The egg industry doesn't use male chick because they don't lay eggs. They keep enough at the hatcheries to produce fertile eggs but that's a different business. The hatcheries supply egg farms with nothing but hens.
Chicken and eggs come from the store. That's all 99.9% of people know. That includes the author of this story evidently.
Now your backyard flock of a heritage breed can procreate but even then, most hens will not go broody and set on the eggs until they hatch. Broodiness is considered a bad thing as it reduces egg production so it's mostly been bred out by culling broody chicks. Most heritage breeds are considered dual purpose meat and eggs but it takes months to get to 4-6lbs as opposed to the Cornish Cross which takes 42 days. They won't have those huge breasts and will be tougher than CC birds.
communism always fails because it takes from those who have worked and earned money and gives it to those who refuse to work.
Bird flu has been a major problem here in Asia for a couple years...usually from contact from migrating birds so usually large chicken houses are safe, but if it gets in your chicken house you have to cull the birds and disinfect.
We have a huge outbreak here in the Philippines near Manila so there might be a shortage for restaurants.
We eat local chicken from small farmers but they can get it too...It also has hit ducks and quail.
Also, with grain prices going up, the price of chickenfeed goes up too.
This is what happens when the government gets involved in anything.
No single force can destroy something good as fast as government intervention.
I knew someone would post - glad I scrolled the comments. It was the first thing that came to mind.
There are always shortages in state-controlled economies.
If they’re that hungry, eat the dogs.
No, bugs are just fine.
What ruins the plan to grow your own is the fact that in such societies theft is endemic — your neighbors.
Oh, and just what would you refuse to do if EvaGabor asked you nicely?
Have you looked at her in those series? Crawling across broken glass is not impossible if she were to ask “nicely”.
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Communist sure find a lot of ways to screw things up!
Incentives matter. Mao didn't care about incentives. It was only after Mao died that China started offering those incentives to farmers.
The writer knows that farmers are far better than communists when it comes to providing people with food.
The purpose is for the Elites to control the food. People who are obedient get fed. People who oppose them go hungry until they become obedient.
Disease exists in every country. But this level of incompetence only exists in communist countries.
HA!
She was much hotter than her sister Zsa Zsa. And poor Magda wasn't even in the running.
I understand commercial chicken farms. Georgia is the poultry capital of the SE.
Also several of my neighbors raise chickens, primarily for eggs (not many broody hens). But one neighbor has several maternal-instinct broody hens and a rooster who pays a visit every couple or three weekends or so. He is rough on the hens so he gets sent home until his services are needed.
They are growing their flock for themselves and neighbors.
I volunteer from time to time to clean the coops, so I can compost the manure. The chickens get lots of worms and I grow lots of veggies. Ms. BLUFLAG is opposed to a coop on our property and we get enough eggs from neighbors. They get beans and tomatoes mostly.
LOL
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