Posted on 06/05/2015 6:50:18 AM PDT by bgill
H-E-B has put up signs on our egg shelves throughout all of our stores, asking our customers to limit their purchases to three cartons of eggs per purchase... the company does not want restaurants and commercial institutions coming in and stripping its shelves of eggs... [Whataburger] is cutting back on the hours it offers breakfast... Some egg-dependent companies are contemplating drastic steps that include importing eggs from overseas or looking to egg alternatives.
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My brother and his wife have gone chicken nuts. (hee hee hee) They have way over 50 chickens. Don’t know what to do with the eggs.
They are into breeding the miniature breeds now. Have been buying fertile eggs and hatching them. (varies a lot on how successful, shipping the eggs is iffy.)
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By the way, it is great to see you posting. Hope you are feeling better my friend.
Are they all roosters?
Dittoes on that.
What’s the exchange rate of .22 shells to eggs on the black market?
Big tip. Rooster do not wait until daylight to crow. They Crow all day and all night.
At my place, when they crow, they gotta go.
I had one that figured it out refused to crow until he was almost a year. He was good with noodles.
No problem, just use your finger. We’ll all have to change our ways. It’s coming.
Bird disease spread mostly on the Misouri/Mississippi flyway, where cheap feed has concentrated chicken-raising. Places outside of the northern part of that migratory route shouldn’t be much affected.
Summer and biosecurity should solve the problem. Shouldn’t take more than a month or two.
Under communism, there are shortages of everything (except misery).
Bird flu spread by wild birds on a migratory bird route. High concentration of chicken and turkeys to take advantage of cheap feed in the heart of the Iowa and Minnesota makes for market impact.
Heard about this, on our local AM station news break.
Time to invest in laying hens!
Same here. We’re getting a dozen a day. And three of them set on a couple dozen and now we have 11 chicks being carefully nurtured by their moms. The one banty is still laying on hers. The father is HUGE and the chicks we got from her last year are much larger than a banty, and they produce decent sized eggs.
Chickens are fun.
Yep. We give ‘em away to friends around here. And they do stuff for us. It’s kinda like a big family.
I raised over a 100 back in high school FFA. Not fun. If it hits the fan, I could do it again but until that time it’s grocery store eggs.
Chickens are great entertainment. Watching them fight over a baby snake is a real treat.
If Chickens weighed 100 pounds they would kill and eat us all.
Was that the inspector who was infecting the flocks? Don’t remember what happen with him but he should have been shown the nearest tree.
Remember a few years ago when Texas ranchers were selling off their cattle herds cheap because of the drought. One would have thought the price of beef in the grocery store would reflect the on the hoof price, instead prices skyrocketed and have never come down. It will be the same for eggs and chicken.
The older I get, the more certain Commodities that we never gave a thought about gain importance. My Wife wonders why I’m always buying TP on Sale. I explain that it will get used sooner or later. It doesn’t have an Expiration Date.
My Mother told me stories of her and her Siblings gathering up old Newspaper to do the deed during the Depression.
They did what they had to do.
I could never live in Venezuela. LOL
Beef takes two years to saturate the market.
Although, the feds don’t like cows and intend to make it harder to raise them, and beef is a premium product that has a world market, so beef might not be ‘cheap’ again for a long time.
My wife and I have 10 hens with an additional 18 that haven’t started laying yet. We average over a dozen a day; we have so many extra eggs that we just give them away to close friends. Invest in chickens!
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