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Agreed. Same here. I like watching my 7 and the guarantee of ample eggs close at hand that they produce in conditions I control.
"Those adopting chickens “might be surprised to discover” that the birds could live for a decade or longer"
Any given Sunday is good by me. >


"Those adopting chickens “might be surprised to discover” that the birds could live for a decade or lo

That's a feature not a bug >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 86%. (I'm a bot)


Animal welfare advocates are urging New Zealanders not to respond to a nationwide egg shortage by racing to buy chickens, as many supermarket shelves lay bare for the second week following a ban on battery cages.
New Zealand has 3.9m hens for egg production, according to the Ministry for Primary Industries.
The export value for the year ending June 2022 was about NZ$18m, while the Egg Producers Federation of New Zealand website reports that retail sales of eggs are worth upwards of NZ$286m.


Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: egg^#1 chicken^#2 cage^#3 produce^#4 New^#5 >

Why shouldn’t they get chickens if they don’t have eggs? I don’t understand. That’s literally the only way to get eggs… >

Looks like it’s the animal welfare activists saying not to. Which makes sense. People who panic buy a chicken likely don’t know how to take care of them. Plus if the only reason you buy one is because of the shortage, when the shortage is over people might abandon the chicken. And if you’re buying a chicken your probably getting it as a chick. By the time it starts producing eggs the shortage might be over >

Those are all perfectly valid points that the kind of person who would crisis buy a chicken for eggs would completely ignore.  They can't think beyond the tip of their nose. >

Exactly. What might deter them in the end is, it costs more to raise chickens than the eggs are worth. I have 5 layers that give around 2 dozen eggs a week, but chicken food, scratch and heating the coop in the winter costs more than eggs.  Not to mention the farm work it takes to care for their daily needs, gather (and sometimes clean poop off of) the eggs, tend to them if they get sick, etc.
Don't raise chickens for eggs if you don't love raising chickens. Or you'll hate it more than "free" eggs. >

I'd make a joke about the simulation being at capacity but there aren't any spare cycles for it >

To some degree yes, theres a lot of us, but theres also been a bird flu pandemic among foul alongside the covid pandemic among humans.
Disease outbreaks like covid and avian flu will continue to become more frequent and possibly more severe due to humanities ever wider bounds of expansion. >

incoming /s
so, you're saying we're in a simulation?
that leads to more questions like, who's running it and why, do they need vaccines and a universe scale Truman's Show?
simulations aside, hopefully they'll be able to manage with minimal culling >

Watch the "Veritas" episode of doctor who. Season 10 episode 6. >

Haha pun! >

"Those adopting chickens “might be surprised to discover” that the birds could live for a decade or longer"
Any given Sunday is good by me. >


"Those adopting chickens “might be surprised to discover” that the birds could live for a decade or lo

That's a feature not a bug >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 86%. (I'm a bot)


Animal welfare advocates are urging New Zealanders not to respond to a nationwide egg shortage by racing to buy chickens, as many supermarket shelves lay bare for the second week following a ban on battery cages.
New Zealand has 3.9m hens for egg production, according to the Ministry for Primary Industries.
The export value for the year ending June 2022 was about NZ$18m, while the Egg Producers Federation of New Zealand website reports that retail sales of eggs are worth upwards of NZ$286m.


Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: egg^#1 chicken^#2 cage^#3 produce^#4 New^#5 >

Why shouldn’t they get chickens if they don’t have eggs? I don’t understand. That’s literally the only way to get eggs… >

Looks like it’s the animal welfare activists saying not to. Which makes sense. People who panic buy a chicken likely don’t know how to take care of them. Plus if the only reason you buy one is because of the shortage, when the shortage is over people might abandon the chicken. And if you’re buying a chicken your probably getting it as a chick. By the time it starts producing eggs the shortage might be over >

Those are all perfectly valid points that the kind of person who would crisis buy a chicken for eggs would completely ignore.  They can't think beyond the tip of their nose. >

Exactly. What might deter them in the end is, it costs more to raise chickens than the eggs are worth. I have 5 layers that give around 2 dozen eggs a week, but chicken food, scratch and heating the coop in the winter costs more than eggs.  Not to mention the farm work it takes to care for their daily needs, gather (and sometimes clean poop off of) the eggs, tend to them if they get sick, etc.
Don't raise chickens for eggs if you don't love raising chickens. Or you'll hate it more than "free" eggs.