[Tell It Right]

As someone who used to have family in the chicken business (both eggs and broilers), the reason they shuttered their many chicken houses is because of the extra regulations requiring expensive "comfort" for the chicken. They decided it was time to retire and their grown kids were glad they took up other careers.

I don't know how widespread this is. But if many others did this, then the regulations lowered supply.

[Jeff Chandler]

Years ago I have a conversation with a member of a local egg farming family. He told me that if they had known how quickly real estate was going to rise, they wouldn’t have constructed their million-chicken egg factories (they had several). They would have waited a bit and sold the properties.

[odawg]

“...requiring expensive “comfort” for the chicken.”

I looked in on a chicken house [broiler] that had just been completed. Amazing. Better than most people’s housing across the world.

[GOPJ]

As someone who used to have family in the chicken business (both eggs and broilers), the reason they shuttered their many chicken houses is because of the extra regulations requiring expensive "comfort" for the chicken. They decided it was time to retire and their grown kids were glad they took up other careers.

I'm sure leftwing nutty regulations are part of the problem. Thanks for sharing your insights. Interesting. Also the avian flu, bad feed, and 'god only knows' what the Chinese have added to the mix... Seems it's one of those perfect storm things.