Hickman’s Family Farms loses 95% of Arizona chickens to bird flu
Hickman’s Family Farms loses 95% of Arizona chickens to bird flu
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Hickman’s Family Farms loses 95% of Arizona chickens to bird flu
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What they don't tell you is that it is ridiculously cheap and easy for chicken farmers to replace lost chickens.
The chicken/egg shortage from the bird flu was resolved in under 2 weeks, but they used that opportunity to keep prices high.
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They also don't tell you that this kind of farming where all the birds are crammed together is a great way to increase the chances of it mutating into a human pandemic. And the Trump administration is busily cutting everything that could protect the human population should that happen. No vaccine research, no vaccines, no monitoring.
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You know fully well that vaccines make frogs gay. It's a protective measure not to use them!
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It's cheap and easy but how could they do it in 2 weeks? They take about 6 months to reach maturity and start laying.
I believe we could have got more eggs from elsewhere and that the corporations were being greedy but I you can't accelerate the growth to a laying age.
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They don't wait for birds to die to raise their replacements. Think of it like a flowing conveyor. The culled birds were going to be replaced eventually anyway, and ramping up production probably means paying more to get birds, and they will produce fewer eggs for a short while.
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Does this make any sense to you? How someone can lose 95% of there laying and you think they have it replaced in 2 weeks? Let's say you have 10,000 chickens. You believe you have 9,500 hens ready in 2 weeks? That's crazy. That would be aiming for a huge expansion of layers before the bird flu happened. Chickens lay from 6 months to around 6 years (maybe more). I have 14 chickens out back. Well when I can keep them there, they free roam so they may be out front in a neighbors yard. But I give all the neighbors free eggs and they love them. (Both neighbors have said they wanted them out without questioning them, one likes to feed them and got yelled at by his wife to do it on my property so they don't shit on their cars, and the other wants them wandering her yard because she may be lonely? Idk but she asks for them and says they make her happy
Chickens don't spawn babies that spawn eggs without time. If I had 10 chickens and I lost 9, it would take me 9 months to get back to laying standards
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