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Post by DiscourseFan »

iancmceachern wrote: post #543
bombcar wrote: post #368

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From an absolute financial standpoint it might be hard to justify eggs from backyard chickens, though once you realize that they can eat something like 25% of their feed can be grass or clippings, and that some percentage can be redirected household waste (think: peels, food waste, etc) it becomes much more favorable. As you mentioned, most treat them like pets which means they get to learn how long-lived chickens ca…

It's a good thing we don't make every decision in our lives from an absolute financial standpoint. We'd all be eating gruel and porrage.

We in fact do make most decisions in our lives based on finances, you're just not aware of most of them.

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Post by pkaye »

zie wrote: post #104

Fake/Vegetarian eggs are priced the same here, so I made the switch and am only using fake eggs now for most of my cooking.

Which one do you use? I was looking up the Just Egg brand in the US and it was more expensive than the free range chicken eggs brand we use. We've been trying have a more plant based diet but just stick with chicken eggs for now because we don't use it every day.

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Post by hammock »

TylerE wrote: post #477
hammock wrote: post #444

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If they don't want to charge more though?

When their gas prices go up, their equipment goes up, their feed goes up, etc, they won’t have any choice.

Doesn't quite answer the question (of why they should sell at the highest price they can).

Unless you are suggesting that raising prices today is better (normative sense, since you used the word "should") than raising prices when you don't have a choice. In which case, can you explain more your reasoning?

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Post by nemo44x »

I was at a local Costco and the eggs were just completely raided and people were lined up grabbing as many cartons as allowed (3). Organic eggs were all gone and only free range were available.

It makes you really realize how fragile supply can be, even for domestic products.

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Post by sethammons »

ars wrote: post #186
colonial wrote: post #109

Yup, bird flu moment. I'm very glad my family put up a chicken coop in our backyard years ago; we get a ~carton a day, and they last forever even outside the fridge due to the natural "sealant" still being intact. Hopefully store prices will come down as the year goes on and flocks bounce back.

The commercial eggs also last forever outside the fridge. That thing about the natural sealant is a widely believed myth. Source: I leave my commercial eggs outside the fridge, and they last with zero problems.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8561600/

what myth are you talking about?

The study found that washed eggs had higher bacterial counts in their contents after storage compared to unwashed eggs, particularly at higher temperatures. Key findings include:

Cold Storage (4°C for 8 weeks): There was no significant difference in bacterial counts between washed and unwashed eggs.

Warm Storage (30°C for 12 days): Washed eggs showed significantly higher bacterial contamination, suggesting that washing increased the likelihood of bacterial penetration.

Bacterial Types: The number of hemolytic bacteria and coli-aerogenes was also higher in washed eggs.

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Post by pkaye »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #233
SG- wrote: post #162

eggs in Canada are still $4CAD/dozen which is $2.80 USD. Canadian egg producers have smaller and spread out farms preventing disease spread along with better supply issues overall.

> Canadian egg producers have smaller and spread out farms preventing disease spread Canadian and Mexican egg producers vaccinate their chickens [1]. This isn’t a story about industrial farming. It’s about animal vaccine requirements and trade protectionism banning Canadian and Mexican eggs from the American supply chain. [1] https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-case-for-vaccinating-chicke...

Based on this article, there are other trade agreements which limit use of these vaccines.

> This intersects with Craig’s main point — if we started vaccinating chickens, it would kill our poultry exports:

> The biggest sticking point is around trade. The US exported more than $5 billion in poultry meat and products on average every year for the past three years. The USDA enters into trade agreements with each individual country it trades with, explained Upali Galketi Aratchilage, a senior economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Each agreement outlines specific biosafety and production requirements that both countries agree to follow. The USDA said, in an email to Vox, that many of those agreements do not allow bird flu vaccination.

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Post by adrianmonk »

bityard wrote: post #242
jghn wrote: post #127

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This. I buy my eggs at the farmers market from a local, actually small, farm. I pay $8/doz. In normal times this is very expensive. But you know what? Tomorrow when I go to the farmers market they'll still cost me $8/doz.

I guess I don't see why local farmers _wouldn't_ raise their prices to maintain their premium above store-bought eggs. They certainly have around here.

Maybe they see it as a way to acquire new customers. They are in the very unusual position of being able to undercut their bigger competitors on price while still making a profit.

Right now, buyers are probably shopping around a ton. You can probably get customers who normally wouldn't be interested. After they try it, some of them may decide they like it and could become long term customers.

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Post by jkestner »

bombcar wrote: post #473
silisili wrote: post #442

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Noticed that too. The two rural towns near me bans any poultry with under 5 acres, which is essentially the entire town. Luckily I live right outside their limits. RE: roosters, a lot of cities that permit backyard chickens do not allow roosters as they're considered a bit of a nuisance. As I'm sure you're aware(though I've found many people aren't), roosters are not required for the keeping of chickens nor the produ…

They can be useful for flock protection, if you don't get a dud rooster. But in general, they're more annoying than you expect. And yeah, you don't need one to "get them to start laying" though if you want to try to actually hatch some eggs you will need one (or buy the eggs ready to go). Now I've heard that the roosters in Kansas/Nashville, them do lay eggs ...

Most annoying thing about roosters is, if you have one, then you'll have a bunch. (Our hens go hide their clutches eventually.) But if you have a bunch, then you can have coq au vin.

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Post by CharlieDigital »

bluGill wrote: post #359
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Canadian and Mexican egg prices haven’t budged because they vaccinate their chickens [1]. I’m not a fan of factory farming. But this isn’t a story about that. It’s a story about American (a) producers favouring cheap production by avoiding the cost of vaccination and (b) regulators favouring a policy of trade protectionism that keeps our neighbours’ cheap eggs off our grocery-store shelves. [1] https://www.slowboring…

Buried in that story is one more important point: if you vaccinate many countries will not let you sell that chicken to them anymore. US exports a lot of chicken to such countries and if we vaccinate that market dies. (or we can vaccinate some but not others and then deal with the supply chain complexity)

Are egg laying hens the same supply line as the chicken sold for meat? (Genuinely curious here whether that's the case or not)
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