Buying chicks this week. As many folks as are raising poultry, I can foresee a movement to have USDA inspect home flocks.
Years ago, my Grandma converted her garage into a chicken coop. I might just have to do the same thing.
Two or three years ago there was a reality show about a group of Amish who moved in with some dingbat lib California 20-somethings to see how the other side lived. One of the lib dingbats thought eggs were poor widdle aborted chickens.
Basically what this means is that the powerful egg producer lobby didn’t pay their protection money somewhere along the line and need to be cut down to size. We now solidly live in a world where economic extortion is just the new way of doing things.
When buying chicks, be sure to get as many females as you can. I hear there is a way to tell from the feet.
—City Girl
The Humane Society, so far as I know, was once a mainstream organization opposed to animal cruelty. But unfortunately we live in a time in which all organizations, no matter how old and venerable, are being radicalized.
Jeez... just think of what food prices will be sinces eggs are used in alot of baked goods. Another reason to vote ROMNEY!!
Humans eating chicken eggs is just “social justice” for the 200+ million years the chicken;s ancestors oppressed our mammal brethren.
I thought the left LOVED social Justice, I get social justice for my species every time I eat at KFC.
I'd love to know the diet of some our famous inventors, Edison, Ford, The Wrights, as well as many other Inventors and Industrialist.
My guess is their were animal fats and protein from eggs that fed their European Heritage Brains fueled by the Liberty of Limited Government to pursue Excellence.
We can't have that now, our American Excellence is the same excellence as you see in Somalia, Iran, North Korea and Cuba of course, and their magnificant inventive societies that have propelled mankind into the future.... ( sarc / off )....
At 8 bucks a dozen, I’d be rich! Right now I give em to my neighbors and friends.
This article is all wrong.
That bill is rare in being backed by animal rights organizations and the egg industry alike. The space requirements are not that great and other standards, e.g., limiting ammonia in the henhouse environment are pretty basic too.
The usual claim is that farmers can’t afford humane standards because they’ll be priced out of the market by those who don’t follow them. This addresses that by enforcing only industry-endorsed improvements.
We don’t need to engage in needless animal cruelty to save a few cents a dozen on our eggs.