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- Feb 10, 2022
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Hi all, since you are my friends, I will share my thoughts on how bird flu ("Disease X") might impact our hobby egg production. (Yes they call me a conspiracy theorist, I don't mind.) Here are some ways I see this playing out this year, and how to prepare:
1) Commercial egg production will decline due to culling of birds by CDC & USDA, leading to increase in egg prices for consumers (and hobby farmer profits).
2) Federal or state regulations might attempt to pre-emptively cull backyard chicken flocks.
2) Ducks and geese might catch bird flu but are not affected by it. There might only be duck eggs available for consumers in some areas. This might be a good time to invest in layer ducks or geese.
1) Commercial egg production will decline due to culling of birds by CDC & USDA, leading to increase in egg prices for consumers (and hobby farmer profits).
2) Federal or state regulations might attempt to pre-emptively cull backyard chicken flocks.
2) Ducks and geese might catch bird flu but are not affected by it. There might only be duck eggs available for consumers in some areas. This might be a good time to invest in layer ducks or geese.
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