Thoughts on bird flu & egg sales for 2024

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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.
 
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I'm right on board with you!! A couple of months back AHS (Alberta Health Services) raided a Hutterite farm (think Amish but a little more modern..). They tested a number of chickens. One came back positive. Last I heard they were going to cull the entire flock. To top it off in Canada they want ALL BEEF AND DAIRY CATTLE VACCINATED AGAINST BIRD FLU!! By 2025.
This is part of a much bigger agenda.
It's literally COVID 2.0. Deadly virus that doesn't make anyone actually sick. No set symptoms, only one "cure". The cure for wellness.
BTW the conspiracy theorists have been batting 1000 for the last 4 years and longer.
 
goats-n-oats said:
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.
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Don't worry, the State will be coming for them too. Do you have a back up plan?
 
Greenwolf said:
Don't worry, the State will be coming for them too. Do you have a back up plan?
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It's interesting looking back at this now that we're in July. There is a bird flu spreading out from Pennsylvania, avian metapneumovirus, that affects turkeys, waterfowl and chickens but not humans. According to the USDA egg sales report, supply demand ratio has pushed egg prices $0.19-27c higher. So, a little doom but not total doom.
Molon labe.
 

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