-Chris
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
This is why Canada has plenty of eggs — and the U.S. doesn't
With egg prices in the United States at record highs, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is now exploring the ways other countries produce eggs for potential solutions. The department may not have to look far: Just over the border, eggs remain plentiful and affordable in Canada.
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And of course the real reason is because we have total idiots, I should say had, running federal agencies... They go from 1 hysterical issue to another with no effort to make reasonable decision... Always making stuff worse
ReplyDeleteAs an side note yesterday, Tuesday, 18 pack of large white eggs were $ 7 ....$ 2 cheaper than last week at my local Walmart
JD
Regarding "total idiots" ... you're assuming that the goal wasn't to kill off millions of chickens and raise egg prices.
Delete$8.82 at the Al-Mart here in Arkansas
Delete"Idiots" doesn't begin to cover it!
DeleteNPR - got it. Eggs are expensive in the US because the US government decided to kill millions of chickens. Instead of letting healthy ones live, kill all of them. And I really doubt the severity of the 'avian flu'.
ReplyDeleteNPR went on to say that US egg production facilities are hundreds if not thousands of times bigger than the same kind of facilities in Canada. When one plant shows positive hundreds of thousands of chickens will have to be destroyed. In Canada it may be as few as a few thousand or maybe a few tens of thousands.
DeleteHuge mass production doesn't work well when this kind of thing goes wrong.
I noted the change in phrasing, comparing the number of chickens in the "typical" Canadian farm to "many" American farms. Why couldn't they compare typical to typical?
DeleteThe easiest way to put a stop to the 'bird flu' problem is not to allow 'Federal Inspectors' or 'Typhoid Marys,' as I call them, access to the bird flocks. They are the ones spreading it. They don't follow Bio Lab protocols for containment, much less operating room cleanliness standards.
ReplyDeleteWhen I still raised hogs we had a similar problem with the county assessors. They wanted to walk through our barns and out in the yards to look at the buildings without ever changing their boots or clothes after walking around other hog facilities. The other dopes were the loan officers from the financial institution that I used. A dumber less connected bunch of goons you would have to go to government bureaucrats to find. Supposed to be farm oriented by had no clue about cleanliness regarding carrying disease from one farm to another.
DeleteBird flocks, just like virtually every species, will develop immunity to pathogens over time. Therefore - let these viruses run their course. The survivors will have natural immunity. END OF STORY. If having populations in densities that promote rapid spread of virus - hey, ever hear of something called free range?
ReplyDeleteI am not a farmer or a virologist, but I pretend to be both on the internet.
https://x.com/The_Fozzer/status/1898696011113013368
ReplyDelete""We have not had any shortage of eggs," says Mike von Massow, a food economist at the University of Guelph, in Ontario. "We can choose from 14 different types of eggs."
ReplyDelete14 different types of eggs?
Give him a break, he's Canadian.
DeleteThe Biden administration ordered the destruction of more than100 million egg laying hens. And people then wonder why the cost of eggs skyrocketed. It will take months to replace all those destroyed hens.
ReplyDeleteYeah, and it takes about 6 to 8 months before pullets mature enough to start laying.
Delete500 chicks sold overnight at my local feed. I was fortunate enough to grab a few for the coop.
DeleteBird flu. hmmmm the reptilian class. Why are the geese, ducks, eagles, owls, robins, blue jays not on the hit list to prevent the spread of "bird flu?" Asking for a friend.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention, this "bird flu" supposedly originated in China a decade or maybe more ago. How does bird flu jump two oceans and the largest continent on the planet to arrive here?
DeleteNemo
Albatrosses.
DeleteAlbatri?
Multiples of one albatross.
I believe the egg shortage/bird flu issue has been fabricated/manipulated to provide a reason to corrupt/contaminate a critical US protein source with vaccines/pharmaceuticals/???- already recent news of funding a poultry vaccination effort-
ReplyDeleteEggs are not expensive because of lack of chickens. Eggs are not expensive because of idiots running government departments. Your eggs are expensive because you have no competition, and no law against monopolies. You are being ripped a new one by "the man in the middle". And that is because of your effectively corrupt government (I'm not pointing fingers here, my government is definitely no better, just different) and this is not something DOGE is going to fix. https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/10/demand-and-supply/#keep-cal-maine-and-carry-on
ReplyDeleteOf all these chickens that were "destroyed" because of the flu, how many were infected? Were large numbers of healthy birds killed out of a sense of caution, or was it done n purpose to disrupt things?
ReplyDeleteNot being a big fan of canned tuna, so I sometimes will by canned chicken. A year or so ago that part of the isle at the nearest W-mart, where the canned chicken was displayed, had no more than two, three feet max. of shelf space set aside for the chicken. Today there's at least two to maybe three times as many cans on that shelf. I don't memorize prices, but it does seem that the chicken hasn't gone up in price as much as most other food items.
It has to be that the rise in price is due to supply issues due to chickens being killed. I feed my birds a commercial 22% layer feed. The cost of the food has stayed the same, except for a temporary upward blip a few months about 2 years ago. After the blip, the cost went back down to normal. I make jumbo to super jumbo eggs (I weighed some and they were 3.2 ounces each) at about $3 a dozen; a bit more in the winter and less in the summer. Pick winter hardy, free range tolerant, and highly sociable birds and let them graze for bugs and chick weed.
ReplyDeleteI had enough yard birds to supply my house with all the eggs we needed.. Unfortunately about 4 years ago Hurricane Ida blew through my area and created a good amount of damage... I turned my birds loose before the storm because I thought that was their best chance to survive the storm.. I repaired the coop but haven't gotten any birds to replace the others
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