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Post by HDThoreaun »

tsimionescu wrote: post #261
silisili wrote: post #228

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My local sellers are $4/doz for the good ones, $5/18 from another seller whose eggs taste 'off' so I quit buying them. I think $4/doz for quality eggs is worth it. This is also hopefully a catalyst to get people to petition their city for backyard chicken rights. Raising chickens is relatively easy and can be rewarding. Even if you don't want to personally, support the right of those around you to, please.

Generally, mixing livestock and people in the confined conditions of a city is a very bad idea (if you're talking about suburbs, then that's a completely different thing, and I would agree with you about supporting it).

Many of the houses on my block of chicago seem to have chickens and there havent been any problems. Nothing but 3 flats

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Post by ars »

sethammons wrote: post #566
ars wrote: post #186

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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): Was…

First of all the washing procedure they used is not what is used commercially. Commercially they also spray mineral oil on the eggs which this study did not do.

And then of course there's this line:

"These differences between unwashed and washed eggs are not significant."

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Post by cco »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #599

Lots of people suggesting to build chicken coop. i have one, sure it's not much work. 2 minutes every day to grab the egg and bring the food and water, but then every 3 year you got to take the hatchet, grab each chicken, cut right on the neck and then hang it with it's feet while it's bleeding out and flapping its wings. then there are the few occasion where you miss with the hatchet and it cuts half its neck, its h…

Having slaughtered my fair share of chickens on a relatively small but not back yard operation, there is a much easier way!

Buy a t-post (any 3-5 foot rigid metal pole will do but a t-post has perfect geometry). Next, you'll grab your chicken, lay her down on her back or stomach [1], once she has settled down you're going to lay the t-post gently across her spine just a bit behind her skull.

Now place your feet on either side of the t-post to secure it, grab her legs, and in one swift motion pull and stand up.

You will very quickly decapitate the hen and once you do it a couple times it'll be very low stress for both you and the chicken. This latter part is key, if you're stressed, unsure etc, the animals will be the same.

You can improve this further by keeping an upside down traffic cone around, drop the bird into it once slaughtered and that'll contain the flapping/running around you mention.

In my experience, for novices, this is the easiest method for all parties and reduces the risk of slips, mistakes etc.

[1] Back is sometimes easier, they'll often go into a trance. Sometimes you can lay them on their stomach and trace a line to relax them, there are youtube videos of this.

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Post by bdangubic »

Retric wrote: post #643
bdangubic wrote: post #637

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family of 3, never ordered delivery in my life outside of pizza once in a blue moon and eating out no more than twice per month - food bill $1,900-ish / month

That’s over 20$/day per person. All 3 of you could literally eat exclusively fast food in most of the US on that budget. You’re not just paying for food here. One possibility is you’re talking things you buy at the grocery store here, but laundry detergent is’t food. So what’s the actual deal here.

eating healthy… eggs are $14/dozen and all that “inflation” jazz

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Post by simonsarris »

MisterTea wrote: post #618
aucisson_masque wrote: post #599

Lots of people suggesting to build chicken coop. i have one, sure it's not much work. 2 minutes every day to grab the egg and bring the food and water, but then every 3 year you got to take the hatchet, grab each chicken, cut right on the neck and then hang it with it's feet while it's bleeding out and flapping its wings. then there are the few occasion where you miss with the hatchet and it cuts half its neck, its h…

> but then every 3 year you got to take the hatchet, grab each chicken, cut right on the neck and then hang it with it's feet while it's bleeding out and flapping its wings. Is this a requirement? My friends parents keep chickens and dont kill any of them. They dont have fly problems as the chickens spend most of their day outside of the coop letting them shit on the ground like nature intended. This disperses the wa…

How many do they keep? It's not a requirement but after ~3 years they hardly lay, but still eat, and most people looking for serious production are not interested in running a chicken retirement home for X additional years of life as well.

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Post by iancmceachern »

DiscourseFan wrote: post #561
iancmceachern wrote: post #543

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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.

Try living your life the other way around for a while.

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Post by Retric »

bdangubic wrote: post #654
Retric wrote: post #643

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That’s over 20$/day per person. All 3 of you could literally eat exclusively fast food in most of the US on that budget. You’re not just paying for food here. One possibility is you’re talking things you buy at the grocery store here, but laundry detergent is’t food. So what’s the actual deal here.

eating healthy… eggs are $14/dozen and all that “inflation” jazz

The article is literally about eggs being 7$/dozen, which is an egg specific price spike.

Even assuming you’re spending twice as much on eggs it just doesn’t add up to over 20$/day. Flour is 0.50$/lb, lettuce is 3$/lb, butter is 5$/lb, etc. Even a 3,000 calories per day you’re well under that.

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Post by greenie_beans »

likeabatterycar wrote: post #647
greenie_beans wrote: post #641

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> Literally the definition of "not local" lol that's hilarious. you can keep arguing about the semantics of that while panicking about the factory farmed egg shortage. it won't bother me because i'll be feasting on food grown by farmers i know, all within a day's drive from me. if you are lucky then the regional distributors will pick up the slack thanks to the "not local" farms.

Most people with jobs and families etc. don't have a day per week nor gas money to spare to drive seven hours each way to go egg foraging. It's great you can manage this luxury but it's just not practical and a fairytale life for 99% of people. Not to mention many people in NYC don't own a car.

do you have a substantive argument or more ridicule? because i can go for both.

would you like to see my spreadsheet of regional distributors who move food into NYC from small farms in the northeast? it's possible you've eaten this food. or would you like to see demographic and usda farming data when small farms were the primary food producers during a time when the NYC metro had a similary large population, before CAFOs and the centralized ag we know today? or were those people fed because they went egg foraging?

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