WHAAT??? Being serious, I have 15 hens, 6 laying so far. Eggs here are $4.69/dz and there is a limit. Egg shortage. I never thought of selling, but folks are begging for fresh eggs. Thanks to AI and changed Ca laws. If all mine were laying, I could sure sell 5 dz per week to pay their feed bill.
Less than 23 weeks 3 eggs a day is great and normal! I think constant heat that they are acclimated to does not affect laying, but a sudden heat surge shuts mine down.
That's the thing. I think with this disease there needs to be a balance and vigilance.
@Our Roost it is pretty serious stuff in your area. I think It's good they cancelled all bird shows, sales at flea markets and fair activities. It seems to be contained.
That's so true. I need to. This egg shortage has caused a bit of an ahh-haa moment for the semi city-slickers (suburb-slickers) around here. Folks that a year ago might have been against BYC's are begging for fresh eggs. It's a great trend.
Oh goodness! Please no apology. It just happened that I was reading a thread this am and researching right before I dropped by this thread so I thought I'd share.
We had a devastating outbreak here in So Cal in 2000-2001 where they were knocking on doors asking if we had any birds of any kind...
I'm only getting 4 per day so far but should be at 12 soon. Eggs are $4.69/dz here. Ca made some new laws that ran egg farmers out of the state and restricts eggs brought into the state. So...we have a community FB buy sell trade page where we share our fresh eggs with neighbors for $3./dz. I...
I've seen it in several articles. Here's one I just read this am. http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article31028832.html Here is another one. http://fortune.com/2015/06/25/bird-flu-outbreak-farms/