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Post by MisterTea »

simonsarris wrote: post #655
MisterTea wrote: post #618

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

About 30 total. They are not serious about production and let them live out life so that makes sense now.

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Post by bryanlarsen »

bombcar wrote: post #476
bryanlarsen wrote: post #460

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Here's an idea. Let's get a large proportion of our calories from inefficient animal sources. Then if there is a widespread crop failure we can eat the breeding stock and then the animal feed. That's generally what happens in Africa. It doesn't work as well in North America because consumers here are too rich to switch to barley and oats when wheat is expensive.

The problem in the USA is we produce about infinity billion times the calories we need. If food was a problem in the US we wouldn't be putting corn in our cars or our cows.

Yes, ethanol is the American equivalent. If we ever have a food shortage due to widespread extreme weather or similar, the president can nix the ethanol mandate to eliminate the food shortage.

The world does not have caloric food insecurity. We might be insecure in terms of specific nutrients or specific foods, but the modern world is not insecure in terms of human food calories.

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Post by dinkumthinkum »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #639

This is it? This the big meme of 2025? "Remember when eggs were expensive"? Ukraine is at war, minorities are being oppressed at home, an economic tidal wave is about to hit us vis-a-vis Chinese imports, the economy is on the ropes, and big brother is literally banning the government from saying words like "sex" and "gender" - but, oh boy, can you believe the price of these eggs??? Is every person in this country eat…

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Post by carb »

Auracle wrote: post #247
carb wrote: post #216

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That's true when you're talking about foxes and wolves, but not if you're talking about an airborne flu. Rows of adjacent cages keeping groups of chickens in close proximity with each other with shared air.

Many cage free chickens are also free range chickens, where they can roam outside. That massively increases their chances of picking up the bird flu, as opposed to those they are inside all day. I'm not advocating for one or the other, just explaining. Even cage free chickens will come into close enough proximity where they will all die if just one chicken picks up the flu. It's incredibly virulent.

Yes that's true they can roam outside, but roaming outside does not massively increase their chance of picking up bird flu.

For the same reason that the main guidance during COVID was "be outside if with other people" and not "stay inside if with other people".

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Post by wil421 »

cco wrote: post #653
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 ei…

Use a traffic cone. It will be easier and calm the chicken down.

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Post by Spivak »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #639

This is it? This the big meme of 2025? "Remember when eggs were expensive"? Ukraine is at war, minorities are being oppressed at home, an economic tidal wave is about to hit us vis-a-vis Chinese imports, the economy is on the ropes, and big brother is literally banning the government from saying words like "sex" and "gender" - but, oh boy, can you believe the price of these eggs??? Is every person in this country eat…

I mean egg prices became a meme for exactly the subtext you're implying. This election season was unbelievably frustrating because of how large a focus was placed on economic conditions which as a general rule leads to throwing out incumbents. And the new generation running the GOP is a bunch of people who look more like a conspiracy forum than a government. To the point where Democrats got nervous and ran someone who in 2008/12 could have run as a Republican. Trying to give moderate Republicans for whom the economy is their biggest issue someone to vote for.

But as soon as the election was over the economy was suddenly great and none of that mattered. Despite consumer prices having either not moved at all or gotten worse thanks to bird flu, looming tariffs which look to extract straight from people's wallets and a proposed tax policy that is about the same for everyone who isn't mega rich. The egg price thing has become a, "guess we know what people really voted for." I was looking forward to the tax cut that'll probably never come.

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Post by aimanbenbaha »

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

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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…

Amazing project! I always get excited when I hear new innovative ideas to improve ecosystems/businesses that are taught of as "traditional". There's this My First Million podcast episode with Justin Mares (DTC Food entrepreneur) where they talk about boostrapping alternative food biz ideas and are very bullish on these verticals and they also talk about various types of birds breeds and how cornish cross became the predominantly type of chicken raised.

Regarding this smart poultry startup, where I'm from I often hear from poulty farmers chicken should be able to roam free and have a wide space to lay around eggs and reproduce. I'm curious how this limitation is addressed to backyard herders?

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Post by mplanchard »

B-Con wrote: post #507
mplanchard wrote: post #395

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Man, if only it were possible to adjust the number of eggs that we eat in order to account for the increased cost of eggs that are farmed humanely and whose purchase benefits the local economy instead of massive corporate conglomerates. But alas, 340 million souls need their daily eggs.

Your solution to a supply and demand mismatch is that everyone regulate their demand to match the local supply? Your solution is for a problem that doesn't exist.

Yes? I know it’s not a popular opinion, but I think that if you can’t produce something ethically at scale, the right thing to do is to produce less, ethically, and for people to consume less of it. For example, I buy more expensive meat from places that treat their animals well, and as a result I eat less meat than I would otherwise.

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Post by palmotea »

afavour wrote: post #84
mplanchard wrote: post #18

Fresh, local eggs have remained around the same price here. While more expensive than eggs from large producers in normal times, they are now often cheaper. This is a great reminder of how important it is to support local farmers and small operations, which increase the resilience of the system as a whole.

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.

> 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.

But muh efficiency!

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Post by Yajirobe »

cco wrote: post #653
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 ei…

This is all so brutal. I can’t believe you people are discussing such things so nonchalantly
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