This to bring all the ranchers out of the woodwork to call attention to these dumb policies our farmers have to deal with?
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (32)
sorted by:
(insert rancher poking baby cow with long stick. "grow faster") sigh. Chicken's reproduce and produce much much faster than cows do, that is why.
This is true. A chicken cycle is 6-8 weeks. 100 million can be replaced in a year no problem. A small chicken farmer with one barn usually has something like 20k-40k birds.
Larger barns usually have 500,000 chickens. The larger farms usually have 6 to 10 500k barns per location. That would be 3 to 5 million chickens each. There are hundreds of the small to medium size all over northern Indiana alone.
I was just over at a brand new nursery and they had 30k chicks and they'll turn them around every 6-8 weeks or so. Once he gets through about a year he'll build 2 more and go from there.
Prices for eggs just recently went down = Chicken farmer's egg laying hens must of matured enough to be super producing again.
Yes, but in truth when they said they had to kill 70 million or so what, last year? That would not even have been the whole production in northern indiana, let alone the rest of the country.
The price hikes really are more fuel/inflation related rather than production.
fuel/inflation/regulations costs: each time a state tacks on a new regulation that has the farmers (or any business) paying more money to stay open for business just to meet the requirements of that regulation, the higher the prices will be to cover the losses of the farmers. I pointed out the PNW water rights push.. where they are fining smaller farmers into the ground just to legally use ground water on their own acres for farming. If they have any enclosed barns with floor = you now get to pay more money as well. Little sneaky regulations to push people away from any sort of farming on their lands.