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Post by ivanjermakov »

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…

After reading that, I'm not only not want to build a coop, I don't want to consume eggs anymore lol. I guess I'm too "animal loving people".

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Post by el_benhameen »

davidw wrote: post #171

I've been fiddling around with the Albertsons API for fun. It's kind of neat to see a whole year's worth of purchases in nicely formatted JSON. I have half an idea to create something like a personal inflation tracker, but I'm still thinking about it. It's entirely possible that these goons will start fiddling with official statistics around things like unemployment and inflation to tell us that inflation is not actu…

I see an advertising API, but I don’t think that’s what you’re taking about. This sounds pretty interesting, can you point me to where you found it?

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Post by KennyBlanken »

aj_icracked wrote: post #294
afavour wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is also a great defense against something like bird flu. When you centralize operations a disease can spread through a population like wildfire. When it's a number of smaller, separate operations the impact is lessened.

Totally agree with this. After selling my last company (iCracked W12) I had been playing around with the idea of how to build the world's largest decentralized food production network - think millions of people leveraging their backyards to produce, share, and sell protein and vegetables. I've always wanted to build a company that blends smart home / AI technology with backyard agriculture and we decided to start wit…

> We're at the point now where we can say, "Hey AJ, there's 2 raccoons outside your coop, the automatic door is shut, all 6 chickens are safe, and you have 10 eggs that can be collected". Super fun project and would love y'alls feedback.

Nobody is going to pay you anywhere near the amount of money you'll need for the energy and equipment to do this.

"Well shit, coyotes got one of the chickens" and then...just go get another chicken for...about $5 each. There's no data you could possibly collect that would interest people enough to buy your company.

The whole point behind chickens is that there are some manageable startup costs but then they're cheap to "run" - if you have a big enough property and free range 'em or use a 'tractor', even your feed costs are cut.

> I had been playing around with the idea of how to build the world's largest decentralized food production network - think millions of people leveraging their backyards to produce, share, and sell protein and vegetables.

It's not decentralized if everyone has to use your app (I'm guessing your plan is to get a cut...) This stuff already exists. They're called "farmers markets."

It's also called "talking to your neighbors." That's been going on for hundreds of years.

> build a company that blends smart home / AI technology with backyard agriculture

Hammer, meet nail that does not exist.

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Post by colonial »

gretch wrote: post #445
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.

I've been thinking about this for a while as well A question if you have time to answer - How many birds per sq meter do you have? What's your total land area? And how do you deal with accumulation of chicken poop? Thanks

Off the top of my head:

* Maybe 0.25 birds/square meter? There's ~12 total (we raise some for slaughter now, so it fluctuates) and they have a large enclosed outdoor area attached to the much smaller (6m^2, perhaps a bit more) indoor coop.

* Several acres. We let them free roam during the day with someone to supervise, but otherwise they have to stay secured (coyotes.)

* Inside the coop, the standard way is the "deep litter" method. You cover the floor in several inches of pine shavings and turn it over with a rake daily. Add a new bag of shavings here and there, and cycle it out completely maybe twice a year. The old bedding makes for good compost. If it doesn't smell, then you're good. For the outdoor area, we just auger it over and add mulch/soil around the same time the bedding is replaced.

(Note - tending to the birds hasn't been in my wheelhouse for a while, so don't take this as gospel!)

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Post by bufferoverflow »

lumost wrote: post #694

Checking all of the prices on that page, food prices have clearly been inflating faster than core CPI. Poultry has inflated at an average rate of 8% for the last 16 years.

Because core CPI is a big fat lie. There's absolutely zero chance inflation topped at 9.1% in 2022.

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Post by jimmydoe »

tcdent wrote: post #197
vlan0 wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Vital Farm eggs. Been $8 a dozen for a long time. No change in price. What we're seeing are the consequences of factory farming and not treating animals like the living beings they are.

I've been paying almost $11 for them.

Good you can still buy them. All vita farms are oos even $13/dozen ones in my local whole foods.

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Post by jay_kyburz »

Digit-Al wrote: post #327
tcdent wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been paying almost $11 for them.

Wow! That's crazy. Here in the UK, the most expensive eggs in my local supermarket - which are Clarence Court Burdord Brown eggs - are only the equivalent of $5.08 per dozen. Those are the posh, expensive, eggs that only those with a bit of extra cash in their pocket, and a desire to eat more healthily, would buy.

Here is Australia I like the most expensive eggs you can buy, 150 birds per hectare, 800g, $15 a dozen. https://www.hilltopsfreerange.com/

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Post by palisade »

Aurornis wrote: post #591
charlie0 wrote: post #539

Meanwhile, over here in Costa Rica, I've just bought 6 eggs for about $1.50 USD and that's the convenience store price. They are cheaper at the super market.

The price is a proxy for Bird Flu activity multiplied by the intensity of regulations around bird flu incidents. So either your area has low incidence of bird flu, low regulations around bird flu, or both. We have high prices because the regulations are strict around dealing with bird flu detections. I wouldn't necessarily interpret low prices as a good thing without the big picture.

In the past... we'd just eat the eggs, get the flu, spread it about a bit, take a day / week off work, go back to work. You know, normal life. Now we overreact and just cull all the eggs and/or chickens and jack the prices up. It seems kind of weak tbh. You're never going to purify the world and make it perfect. One day someone in the future is going to say, "Ew they ate real food instead of processed food pellets?" unironically.

Then a disease will arrive that will make the entire population vanish because their immune systems never had to interact with anything.

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