5.3 million egg-laying hens killed in Iowa by Rembrandt Enterprises. The company then fires employees. Imagine how many less eggs are available now per day. (Hens can lay one egg per day, so this one act could have reduced our egg supply by 5 million eggs per day.)

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[–]HiddenFox 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What a dumb click bait title. No mention of the bird flu they had. They were dead already, they just put them out of their misery. As far as firing people, no chickens, no work. They will start again and in 6 months to a year hire the same amount of people back. Welcome to agriculture.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The article said only 1 hen was detected to have bird flu.

1 out of 5,300,000 birds. They used that as an excuse to kill all of them and fire their workers.

We saw how easily people were deceived with COVID, and the same people could be deceived by bird flu.

[–]HiddenFox 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nah, bird flu is the real deal for these birds. I've seen it first hand. If one has it the rest will follow. I've seen a crow population of 1000 + disappear in about 2 weeks. Only the corpses remained and a couple dozen birds. And that was wild birds. The chickens are in close contact we each other.they are boned.

[–]raven9 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Everyone with a back yard should get their own chickens not least because the eggs will be way more fresh. Store eggs are weeks old before they even get to the store. Here is how you can tell. Break an egg into a clean glass and smell it. If it is fresh (less than 2 weeks old) it should have zero detectable smell. If you can detect a faint chemical smell it is already several weeks old.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The smell test is an interesting tip. There are benefits for having our own chickens.

When I had my hens, I noticed the egg yolks were a rich, orange color instead of the store-bought yellow yolks. I believe the nutritional value of the eggs from healthy free-range chickens is better.

It is getting to be more of a challenge to find living chickens for purchase. Yesterday I went to a local store that sold chicks in past years, but this year they (Sutherlands) are not selling them.

[–]Brewdabier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And drive up the price, dairy farms did about the same thing in the 80's to make a gallon of milk go up.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In the US, 190 chickens are killed every second, 5.3 million chickens represents about 14 days.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

These were egg-laying hens, not meat birds. These hens, after being killed, were dumped into a gigantic pit, so even the meat was wasted.