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Bird flu scares the hect out of me
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bluflaam777
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Sugar is dangerously addicting. I lost 10lbs in one week just from quitting soda. In 3 months, I lost 45lbs by quitting soda and a lot of starchy, bready type stuff. Nothing else.
I started riding bike and walking again and lost even more. I went from 250lbs (horribly too heavy for my body) down to 170 and have been holding steady for about 5yrs.
I still drink soda once in a while but it tastes sooooo sweet to me now it makes feel a bit ill. Same with bread, pasta etc. I eat on occasion but not very much anymore. I like riding my bike around the neighborhood and taking the dogs out for walks.
I will have a beer or 2 or a couple glasses of wine with dinner or friends. I even have a glass of bourbon or scotch a few times a year.
I started riding bike and walking again and lost even more. I went from 250lbs (horribly too heavy for my body) down to 170 and have been holding steady for about 5yrs.
I still drink soda once in a while but it tastes sooooo sweet to me now it makes feel a bit ill. Same with bread, pasta etc. I eat on occasion but not very much anymore. I like riding my bike around the neighborhood and taking the dogs out for walks.
I will have a beer or 2 or a couple glasses of wine with dinner or friends. I even have a glass of bourbon or scotch a few times a year.
IMA SOL MAN
Flashlight Enthusiast
From what I have heard, if one chicken in a flock shows symptoms, they immediately kill the whole flock. Some people feel (probably the chicken ranchers) that it would make more sense to simply remove the sick chicken, and monitor the flock for further sick chickens, and take a wait and see approach to controlling things. I tend to agree with the wait and see approach, as knee jerk reactions usually aren't the best thing to do. No sense in needlessly killing off a flock because of one sick chicken. But that is what is driving the egg shortages/prices.
Odd. Yesterday, 2/21/25, I bought 2 dozen eggs from the local Kroger affiliate. Then my son stopped by and gifted me a dozen of his home grown chicken eggs. Since he is using heat lamps in their hen house, the hens are laying eggs well, so much so that he and his family can't eat enough of them to keep up. We had 13 eggs before the day began, so now we have 49 eggs! There's just me and the Missus, so we are set for awhile.
Backyard hen houses keeps coming up at the city commission meetings, and the commissioners keep shooting down the idea. But I think if this egg shortage continues to get worse, and prices keep going up and up, eventually they are going to have too much pressure, and they will have to give in. Time will tell. Personally, I'm for backyard chickens, but I can see how it could cause problems--egg thefts, chicken rustling, etc.
Odd. Yesterday, 2/21/25, I bought 2 dozen eggs from the local Kroger affiliate. Then my son stopped by and gifted me a dozen of his home grown chicken eggs. Since he is using heat lamps in their hen house, the hens are laying eggs well, so much so that he and his family can't eat enough of them to keep up. We had 13 eggs before the day began, so now we have 49 eggs! There's just me and the Missus, so we are set for awhile.
Backyard hen houses keeps coming up at the city commission meetings, and the commissioners keep shooting down the idea. But I think if this egg shortage continues to get worse, and prices keep going up and up, eventually they are going to have too much pressure, and they will have to give in. Time will tell. Personally, I'm for backyard chickens, but I can see how it could cause problems--egg thefts, chicken rustling, etc.
bluflaam777
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^ I do get why they don't bother with quarantining chickens. They are in a mass pen and by the time one or more start to show signs of illness, the flock/group has been contaminated.
To make matters worse, anything that has come in contact with the same have most likely (unknowingly at the time) spread it to other places.
With livestock, they do try to quarantine the animals to monitor them. But even then, the nature of commercial farming is such that it lends itself to having the worst outcome.
Right now, prices suck eggs! Just inflation by itself is bad enough but add this type of thing and we get to eat 'near-meat' for a while.
I might have to go back to raising my own if this keeps up. The neighbors are gonna hate me LOL
To make matters worse, anything that has come in contact with the same have most likely (unknowingly at the time) spread it to other places.
With livestock, they do try to quarantine the animals to monitor them. But even then, the nature of commercial farming is such that it lends itself to having the worst outcome.
Right now, prices suck eggs! Just inflation by itself is bad enough but add this type of thing and we get to eat 'near-meat' for a while.
I might have to go back to raising my own if this keeps up. The neighbors are gonna hate me LOL
IMA SOL MAN
Flashlight Enthusiast
Be sure to cull the roosters, or you will have neighbor problems, depending on how close your neighbors live.
bluflaam777
Enlightened
I have one neighbor that's pretty close.
But I'm not gonna get chickens. I was just kidding around. LOL
But I'm not gonna get chickens. I was just kidding around. LOL
IMA SOL MAN
Flashlight Enthusiast
Well, if you do get chickens, you could probably pacify the neighbors with some free or low-cost eggs. That might make the difference whether or not they tolerate them. 😉
PhotonWrangler
Flashaholic
Wow, he put a lot of work into that. Well done.
Yep! I found it entertaining. 😀
IMA SOL MAN
Flashlight Enthusiast
Time to invest in some yummy, delicious....
I've long championed the same strategy for people.
It only costs $7.12 for 18 cage free eggs at Walmart. $6.62 for Eggland dozen cage free large brown eggs.
Why don’t you spend your time working instead of spending endless hours posting here?
bluflaam777
Enlightened
Not here. They run from $10- $15/ dozen for the cheap eggs waaaay more for anything that I'd actually want to buy. Fortunately, I don't use eggs very often. I do need 1 or 3 for baking once in a while but that's it. They don't even sell them in 1/2 dozen locally anymore. I used to be able to get 3 or 6 packs for a couple of bucks. It was cheaper by the dozen, but I don't use them...so for me cheaper in the small cartons. Nowhere to be found anymore.
They seem to have ghosted me. I bought a dozen the other day but only needed 2 or 3.
So, basically 2 or 3 eggs cost me almost $12.
I can feed them to the dogs I guess. heheh.
You must live in the socialist state of California where regulations, woke policies, and ecoterrorism raises all prices to ridiculous extremes. Besides the low prices of eggs, the local gas prices yesterday were $2.29/gallon. The smart play like many have done is to leave that state.
