Chicken "rentals"?!?!?!
BBC: Rising egg prices in the US spark chicken rental trend
@ai6yr
Hmmm. There's a pandemic being spread by birds. I know! Let's get a bird and pass it around like it's a fucking measles party!
@tlariv @ai6yr I have three ducks in my yard, and all I can say is, people who don’t know about poultry shouldn’t have poultry during a bird flu outbreak. Birds are filthy, dusty, and impossible to isolate from wild birds and other critters that carry fowl fever. Backyard flocks are not the answer to bird flu related egg shortages. Smaller farms may be, but not placing vectors in everyone’s yard.
@StumpyTheMutt @mcnado @tlariv @ai6yr "I can't believe eggs are approaching $1 each! That's outrageous! Hmph!" -person griping to a brunch friend over Eggs Benedict, $18.
I mean, $2 for an omelette is still pretty reasonable.
@StumpyTheMutt @msbellows @mcnado @tlariv @ai6yr Except the big factory farm producers charging so much are definitely not bothering to keep their hens either clean or happy. 🙃
@mivox @StumpyTheMutt @msbellows @tlariv @ai6yr mega farms is one reason we have an egg shortage. It is impossible to keep big farms (or little ones) free of bird flu. If you have numerous regular old farms, you don’t lose as many birds at once because they usually don’t all get taken out simultaneously. You lose one mega farm, and the whole region is short on eggs.