Do hens lay eggs?
Chickens need grain, which like everything is probably scarce in Cuba.
We have people in our government here in the U.S. who could easily create a shortage of chickens. Wondering why the Cuban gov’t. doesn’t try to hire them? I doubt they would be particularly loyal to the U.S. as they have already shown that evidence of duplicity.
Well yeah - they’re incompetent for sure but 2 provisos -
1. There’s been a wide spread bird flu (another biowarfare strike?) that have decimated the chicken farms even in the US.
2. If Cuba has been supplying other communist nations in the area (Venezuela, Russia?) it could deplete their stocks to their populace.
Layers don’t necessarily produce 5 fertile eggs per week, in normal egg coops.
Maybe the Cubans forgot the whole rooster aspect of fertile eggs.
Also, they may have good chick hatcheries but high death rates.
Or lousy feed.
Or lousy water/sanitation.
There’s lots of reasons that add up to poor yields.
Communists are used to ruling everything and orchestrating all behavior among the underlings.
The Commie bosses could order the remaining hens to lay more eggs. Problem solved.
The Eva Gabor character on Green Acres used to politely ask the hen to lay another egg and she got what she wanted. But that was in the USA.
In 1978, China started a limited and simple reform for farmers (who then were all on collective farms) - whatever you grew in excess of the local quota, you could sell yourselves.
Farmers immediately responded and local markets and distribution quickly developed. Chronic shortages of things like eggs, vegetables, meat, etc... disappeared.
The Wokesters aren’t the only ones who’ve forgot Biology 101.
You only need hens to make eggs but if you want chicks you also need roosters.
Incompetence is standard operating procedure for communists.
Sometimes an egg is just an egg.
If you put the government in charge of the Sahara Desert, you’d have a sand shortage in about 2 years.
Chickens have it rough they never die of old age.
Rodney Dangerfield
Communists always wreck economies.
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.
There are always shortages in state-controlled economies.
If they’re that hungry, eat the dogs.
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.