Australian Consumers Hit with Egg Limits as Half a Million Birds Culled
Australian consumers have been hit with purchase limits on eggs after massive culls on poultry farms in the Victoria region. Popular store Coles introduced a limit on egg purchases in its stores. Consumers in Coles stores in every state except Western Australia will only be able to buy a maximum of two cartons of eggs. More than half a million birds have been culled on five farms in the southwest of Victoria after the H7N3 strain of bird flu was detected. This is a different strain from the H5N1 strain discovered on dairy farms in the US.
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If you chuck the unwashed eggs in a bucket with water and slake lime they can last basically indefinitely because the inside of the egg is sterile and it's waterproof.