Re: No X-Large eggs?

On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 23:37:28 -0500, Dave Smith
<adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

Apparently the farmers and the rest of the egg system have taken
advantage of the alleged shortages to jack up the prices.  I am left
wondering about the price of the free range eggs. Given that they claim
that free range birds are happier and healthier and are no subject to
mass exposures, their production should not have been affected.

They

were already charging more for free range than for factory eggs, so they
have no reason to raise prices.

 

  Free range farmers are the group WORST affected by bird
flu epidemucs.

  You clearly understand nothing about the effect of bird-
flu epidemics  on poultry farming in general, and free-
range farmers in particular.

   Bird flu affects wild birds too, and during an epidemic  
infected wild birds are a huge risk to out-door farmed
birds. Even in closed-barn farms of caged birds, farmers
must practise extreme bio-security to prevent infection
from outside getting in.

 https://layinghens.hendrix-
genetics.com/en/articles/biosecurity-at-the-poultry-farm-
a-basic-tool-to-ensure-poultry-health-and-welfare/

 The birds most at risk of catching and spreading birdflu,
are outdoor free-range flocks; so during a bird flu
epidemic free range birds either have to be hurriedly
accommodated indoors with full biosecurity  ( crowded,
confined no longer matches the accreditation marque for
free range sale) or culled and incinerated.

  (In this country,  exactly the same harsh rule applies
to back-yard chicken keepers).

 All producers face huge  additional expenses and losses,
production  is decimated, cost of all eggs rise,indoor
chickens are not free range. More FR birds are infected/
culled than any other.

  Janet UK