Baby Yoda
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Same! 2-3 per day.
'Egg Armageddon': Mass. voters passed animal welfare law
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Bethlehem57
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Me too! I have 10 hens, and 1 roo. You can see one that’s on my front porch wanting to come in. Like everyt else, they are spoiled rotten, but they lay the best eggs! The yolks are orange and so much better than the bleached out ones from the store!
Ghoti Ichthus
Pray so they do not serve alone. Ephesians 6:10-20
I hope this is simply a matter of "unintended consequences"
I think the easiest, cheapest, and fastest way to address this would be announcing that a particular part of the law won't be enforced. Governor could issue an Executive Order pending Legislative action. The most expensive way would be a lawsuit [sigh]
I think the easiest, cheapest, and fastest way to address this would be announcing that a particular part of the law won't be enforced. Governor could issue an Executive Order pending Legislative action. The most expensive way would be a lawsuit [sigh]
yrrek
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They can’t sell eggs…. So I guess chickens as pets will be a new trend…
alisani
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I couldn't. I would name every single one of them Dinner.
Baby Yoda
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Bethlehem57
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Already happening. And the price for unsexed chicks are ridiculous! Over $20.00/chick if you want all females and then if you want specific chicks, it can get higher. I have an incubator and buy fertilized eggs, but hatch rates are iffy. If you can find them locally it’s cheaper.
kathymendel
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And..........where could this lead in the future? No prepared or frozen foods in the grocery stores that contain contain egg product?????
Oops...........no cookies or birthday cakes in the bakeries???? No egg-nog at the holidays???? Wow! What dumb voters!!!!!
Oops...........no cookies or birthday cakes in the bakeries???? No egg-nog at the holidays???? Wow! What dumb voters!!!!!
yrrek
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There are egg alternatives that are plant based... it's not the same but it exists. A member of my church is allergic to eggs and that's how I know that. She can have cake and baked goods if it has no dairy products in it. No milk... no eggs.
alisani
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sacrilege
athenasius
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Our daughter and son in law have a working farm. My five granddaughters are encouraged to name the lambs things like Riblets, Chops, Stewie etc. The ewes grew up with names like that. Most of the lambs go for meat. They keep some for wool and for breeding. I forget the breed. The Ram is named Rammie (I voted for Rambo but the little girls preferred Rammie) but the next ram is apparently going to be called Dodge. The egg layers are allowed as pets, and some have names if they are especially close to the girls, but the meat birds and turkeys don't get named. Meat birds are 8-12 weeks from hatch to harvest with the Turkeys a while longer.
The floods destroyed a lot of the farms down in south western BC where a lot of the fertilized eggs come from. Most smaller farms just order up batches of chicks thru the mail. I'm thinking it might get easier and cheaper for them to let some of their flock of chickens do things the old fashioned way instead of ordering the next batch of layers via Canada Post which is how they come still. They have several roosters -- not just for fertility reasons, but roosters keep predators away. They can actually be quite savage even with coyotes and wolves.Well I would save a few to name "Breakfast."
I don't know what people were thinking. I agree with Peanuts here
Taking away food from the poor isn't right on any level. And battery chickens produce those eggs they can afford. I haven't always been able to afford free range eggs.
Plus that is going to mean all those chickens will be killed off (and the farmers out of business) so less tax revenue, and a bunch of dead chickens which the animal rights people are proud of I suppose.
Baby Yoda
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My comment was just a joke. My hubs was raised on a farm and said you can never name any animal.
athenasius
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Oh I know. I got a chuckle out of it. I agreed with your comment and alisani's. I meant to just say our kids who run a working farm name them with dinner names as a reminder to the little girls that some of them are intended for dinner, theirs or someone elses.My comment was just a joke. My hubs was raised on a farm and said you can never name any animal.
I ended up replying to you both but your quote got put lower down and I don't know how to fix it.
Peanuts had a good point about this law being hardest on the poor. so that was the next thing I was replying to. Sorry about the confusion.
ChildofLight
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I named a few animals but always knew the difference between pets and animals for food.
I have to say “Spot” had some pretty good steaks though. He was a steer, the only steer that had a name and I was grown when I named him.
I have to say “Spot” had some pretty good steaks though. He was a steer, the only steer that had a name and I was grown when I named him.
ChildofLight
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Maybe the politicians made the law were afraid of getting egg on their face.
Do away with the chickens, you do away with the eggs.
Do away with the chickens, you do away with the eggs.
Baby Yoda
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Wings Like Eagles
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The assimilation of the protein in eggs surpasses that of even meat or dairy. Eggs are vital for the poor. In India, they have street vendors who sell fried eggs as a snack. Wouldn't that be great if they sold eggs like that here instead of the usual junk food. I think the people of MA (who are able to do so) should all start raising chickens in their back yards. Much more nourishing that "factory-farmed" eggs anyway.
Ghoti Ichthus
Pray so they do not serve alone. Ephesians 6:10-20
Ghoti Ichthus
Pray so they do not serve alone. Ephesians 6:10-20
@Musician 4 Jesus can open a new business
potty-training all those chickens 
. . . probably easier than cows and goats
Wings Like Eagles
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It's actually not hard to raise a few chickens in the back yard. They will eat various kinds of "weeds" and grubs, worms, etc. (which are good for them and make a better quality egg). Farm stores sell chicken feed. It isn't terribly expensive (organic is more expensive). And you can buy an inexpensive grain sprouter and grow sprouts indoors to supply extra nourishment to them in winter. Here's a website that contains basic instructions on it: https://wholefully.com/how-to-start-raising-backyard-chickens-in-7-simple-steps/
People have been raising chickens for thousands of years. If it was terribly difficult, they wouldn't do it--as all humans are basically lazy. But they do like to eat. And you get the bonus of eating the hens once they are past their prime egg laying time. We get our eggs from a small, organic egg farmer near us and he offers chickens a couple of times a year, when he has the old hens slaughtered. Some of the best chicken you will ever eat--and, by all means, save the chicken fat for use in cooking. A lot of old farmer recipes call for using chicken fat. Some old farm wives say that the very best pie crust is made using a fifty-fifty mix of chicken fat and butter as shortening.
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