hows everyone coping without eggs....

I get mine hot from the chooks' bums every morning. What's going on, have I missed something?

www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2016-06-10/farm-group-says-free-range-causing-shortage/7499042

It seems there is (or was) a national shortage of eggs.....

www.heraldsun.com.au/nocookies?a=A.flavipes

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sonny2727 said..
hows everyone coping without eggs....

As far as I'm concerned eggs are just a condiment to be served with BACON (one of natures superfoods).

Eggs , bacon lube !

Do they want to save chickens now?

Here in California they passed a law outlawing caged chickens for eggs, they are now all "free range".
People that warned against it said that the cost of the eggs would go up dramatically, and they did. So what happened next? People decided that the cost of the eggs were no longer worth it, so they stopped buying eggs, which lead to an egg glut.
Can't have eggs sitting in the stores w/o anybody buying them, so now the price is almost back down to where they were before the new law. And so far they have generally stayed there, but because so many people found it easy to not eat so many eggs, they still buy fewer, stalling the price increase.

Net result, free range chickens hurt the egg market, but the chickens are happier, those cute chickens. Funny thing though, we now have more chickens available for cooking now, as the prices for them has fallen a bit also, don't need so many egg layers anymore, so kill them and sell them as fryers.

The bigger net result, the chicken farmers are not happy, in fact pissed off, that new law hurt both the egg and fryer market for chickens.
The unintended consequences of thinking you're doing the right thing.
Maybe cheaper for the consumer, but the chicken farmers had to cut back on their stock to stay in business.
And when I say "cut back" that doesn't mean that the surplus chickens were sold off as pets.

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Mastbender said..
Here in California they passed a law outlawing caged chickens for eggs, they are now all "free range".
People that warned against it said that the cost of the eggs would go up dramatically, and they did. So what happened next? People decided that the cost of the eggs were no longer worth it, so they stopped buying eggs, which lead to an egg glut.
Can't have eggs sitting in the stores w/o anybody buying them, so now the price is almost back down to where they were before the new law. And so far they have generally stayed there, but because so many people found it easy to not eat so many eggs, they still buy fewer, stalling the price increase.

Net result, free range chickens hurt the egg market, but the chickens are happier, those cute chickens. Funny thing though, we now have more chickens available for cooking now, as the prices for them has fallen a bit also, don't need so many egg layers anymore, so kill them and sell them as fryers.

The bigger net result, the chicken farmers are not happy, in fact pissed off, that new law hurt both the egg and fryer market for chickens.
The unintended consequences of thinking you're doing the right thing.
Maybe cheaper for the consumer, but the chicken farmers had to cut back on their stock to stay in business.
And when I say "cut back" that doesn't mean that the surplus chickens were sold off as pets.

I was surprised that Guatemala imports chickens from the USA. Such a poor economy that buys things from the USA when they should be able to raise their own. Maybe that's where all the surplus Californian chickens are going?

Good news ladies, we are going on a holiday to Guatemala.

^^ I hear the guacamole is pretty good in Guatemala...

This is going to cause havoc to Greenleader's bodybuilding efforts.

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Mastbender said..
Here in California they passed a law outlawing caged chickens for eggs, they are now all "free range".
People that warned against it said that the cost of the eggs would go up dramatically, and they did. So what happened next? People decided that the cost of the eggs were no longer worth it, so they stopped buying eggs, which lead to an egg glut.
Can't have eggs sitting in the stores w/o anybody buying them, so now the price is almost back down to where they were before the new law. And so far they have generally stayed there, but because so many people found it easy to not eat so many eggs, they still buy fewer, stalling the price increase.

Net result, free range chickens hurt the egg market, but the chickens are happier, those cute chickens. Funny thing though, we now have more chickens available for cooking now, as the prices for them has fallen a bit also, don't need so many egg layers anymore, so kill them and sell them as fryers.

The bigger net result, the chicken farmers are not happy, in fact pissed off, that new law hurt both the egg and fryer market for chickens.
The unintended consequences of thinking you're doing the right thing.
Maybe cheaper for the consumer, but the chicken farmers had to cut back on their stock to stay in business.
And when I say "cut back" that doesn't mean that the surplus chickens were sold off as pets.

The farmers are pissed off because the law dictates better treatment for chickens

The whole chicken industry is a bit crook from what I have seen, what are those live chick mulching machines called?

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Rex said..


The farmers are pissed off because the law dictates better treatment for chickens

The whole chicken industry is a bit crook from what I have seen, what are those live chick mulching machines called?

Mosh Pit

Eggs are cholesterol bombs unfortunately.
Heart disease is chook's revenge.

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Rex said..

Mastbender said..
Here in California they passed a law outlawing caged chickens for eggs, they are now all "free range".
People that warned against it said that the cost of the eggs would go up dramatically, and they did. So what happened next? People decided that the cost of the eggs were no longer worth it, so they stopped buying eggs, which lead to an egg glut.
Can't have eggs sitting in the stores w/o anybody buying them, so now the price is almost back down to where they were before the new law. And so far they have generally stayed there, but because so many people found it easy to not eat so many eggs, they still buy fewer, stalling the price increase.

Net result, free range chickens hurt the egg market, but the chickens are happier, those cute chickens. Funny thing though, we now have more chickens available for cooking now, as the prices for them has fallen a bit also, don't need so many egg layers anymore, so kill them and sell them as fryers.

The bigger net result, the chicken farmers are not happy, in fact pissed off, that new law hurt both the egg and fryer market for chickens.
The unintended consequences of thinking you're doing the right thing.
Maybe cheaper for the consumer, but the chicken farmers had to cut back on their stock to stay in business.
And when I say "cut back" that doesn't mean that the surplus chickens were sold off as pets.

The farmers are pissed off because the law dictates better treatment for chickens

The whole chicken industry is a bit crook from what I have seen, what are those live chick mulching machines called?

which came first life or eggs ?

I'm not squeamish. Shot and butchered all my own meat for three years many decades back but a short stint on a chook farm and in an abattoir put me off chicken for life.

The squalor and the stink was overwhelming.

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NotWal said..
Eggs are cholesterol bombs unfortunately.
Heart disease is chook's revenge.

That's the old view NotWal, it turns out that the cholesterol in eggs has almost no effect on blood cholesterol levels. There's two types of cholesterol and the one found in egg yolk is the "good" one.

Same with Bacon.