Between food processing facilities being attacked and chickens not laying eggs, everyone is talking about the sky high cost of eggs. Eggs are a very important food in our diet. Many farmers are talking about the massively reduced lay rates of thier hens since summer which makes no sense. Something in the food? Where have we seen reproduction issues before? Who wants to "vaccinate" our food supply? Who owns vast amounts of US farmlands?
Eggs are a super food. They contain nearly every vitamin and mineral your body needs. They are also an excellent source of cholesterol. Cholesterol? Thats bad for you isn't it? This is a loaded subject. Some of the many benefits cholesterol provides is cellular repair and the production of certain hormones. One of those hormones being testosterone. The big "T". With this in mind, the "high cholesterol and low T problems" with our men today makes more sense. Dr. Burg has a channel on youtube that covers this topic in depth. The videos are a bit dry but highly informative.
Now, take into consideration that 1 egg provides about 300mg of cholesterol which supplements the 3000 that you body produces and recycles. Providing you body with a nice surplus if you are eating 4+. Up to now, eggs have been one of if not the cheapest food used to bulk up, providing an excellent source of protein and healthy fats and nearly 0 carbs.
Eggs are used in so many recipes for cooking and baking. The food industry will suffer immensely as meal prices will continue to skyrocket, the cost will turn many away from eating them on a regular basis and thereby reducing our nutritional health even further.
Some ideas to help mitigate the problem, I would like to encourage my patriotic brothers and sisters to invest in free ranging your chickens if you have the land for it. Eggs may soon be the gold bullion of food. If you are able, make plans for providing low cost or even free eggs to your family and neighbors. If you have a good community and it doesn't violate laws maybe a neighborhood chicken co-op where you would let them free range throughout the neighborhood and the whole neighborhood can collect eggs.
With everything else going on i know the high cost of eggs is going to play into the WEFs plan to get everyone eating bugs and reducing the population.
Stay awake my fellow patriots.
What comes after summer that leads to a decrease in egg production? Colder weather and a decrease in daylight reduces egg production. Everyone's chickens slow down with egg production even mine here in Florida, happens every year like clockwork.
Yep, and as soon as that magic hour in February hits, they start again. You can hear the raucous in the barn as soon as it starts. The old ones still lay, but they quit around August, as soon as the days get shorter. I think the big operations are shutting down, which is good, I hate factory farming where it ends up just 3 or four outfits are selling to the supermarket chains. I grew up in Queens, NYC, back in the day, there were farms on Long Island, New jersey, Yonkers and north to Connecticut.They were big farms but not mega producers, like now. No one gets rich farming chickens, so a bad case if avian flu can wipe a farmer out. The big egg producers contract with "farmers", who do care and feed and house the birds, they are given an amount of money to do the caretaking, but the birds do not belong to them. Chickens are very cool animals, they are smart, and there is no restaurant anywhere that can match the taste of a home raised chicken, for meat or eggs.
They do. My 13 hens have been laying 2 eggs a day for a few weeks now, this week I saw a slight increase to 3 eggs a day, and this morning I had 5. I do not give additional.light to increase production as they also need this break. In order to be able to lay 3+ years. I'm also adding to my flock asap.
Get a roo if where you live permits it. It's interesting and entertaining to see their interactions and to see the actual role played by the rooster. Most people think chickens are dumb, but when you watch them interact and learn their language it gets interesting. I'm working on getting set up for hatching and selling young chickens and eggs of course, I'm already selling 3-4 dozen eggs per week at $3 each which has thankfully offset my feed costs. I'm averaging 10- 12 eggs per day off 19 hens, come spring I'll be averaging 15-19 per day. I currently have a blue silkie rooster with white feathers that's already given me a few silkie/olive egger hybrids that I'm currently raising up, luckily they're a perfect blend between the mother and father and are very beautiful birds with a nice balance of traits inherited from both parents. Now I'll say that silkies are edible and taste like chicken, but look up a cooked blue silkie chicken it'll blow your mind.... Most people wouldn't want to eat it due to appearance. I'm planning on acquiring more of a heritage breed young rooster to add to my flock in hopes he doesn't compete physically with my silkie roo to raise and sell/rotate out dual purpose birds.
I plan to get a jersey giant roo to breed the Rhode island red and jersey giant hens and let them go broody to raise their own chick's for next year's moat birds. The rest of the hens I'll keep away from the roo and get eggs. I just want the RIR, Isa Browns, some Easter eggers and the jersey giants for hens