Posted on 12/24/2014 7:23:20 AM PST by smokingfrog
Those poultry farmers that are not in compliance better get cracking!
Do the chickens have large talons?
The idiots voted for it. They can suck on it.
I own suburban property that is zoned to allow chickens. I almost bought in last year. I’m going to start setting up for next spring.
Can't beat that...and lotsa protein.
I don't do toast and save the bacon grease for frying treats.
There's a yoke in there somewhere
Just a note for those that think this won’t effect them, it will.
Just because you don’t live in CA, or buy eggs from a farm not in that state, doesn’t mean your egg prices wont go up.
Nearly every egg producer in every state sells their eggs to national egg distributors who do supply stores in CA too. There is no way to separate that so everyone will get dinged on this new rule.
Unless the courts tell CA to pound their law up their asses, this will effect egg prices nationally. So far the court isn’t doing that.
To enforce such a law CA would have to hire inspectors to verify the eggs came from such-and-such farms which comply, or another place that doesn't. Egg producers will have to fill out myriad forms to swear they adhere. Small producers will drop out (I suspect this is the true agenda). Price per egg could skyrocket, not from the growth of a chicken cage but growth of government and burden of regulation.
Luckily the CA gov't has no other pressing problems to address, and plenty of excess funds to devote to such a worthy cause. Wonder what the pay scale will be for egg police?
To show the possum it could be done.
I found out Oregon has had this type of cage law in affect for years. The difference is people can buy out of state eggs which do not comply. Commercial food producers are not allowed to put non-compliant eggs in their products.
I’ve seen the cage free chicken eggs priced the same as regular eggs here.
The eggspert said cage free chickens will eat more and will cost more to produce. I would think eating more would make the chicken produce more and cross the road more often.
The regulation is much too vague. Not all hens are the same size. Who decides what is too small? Do bigger hens lay bigger eggs? Do hens that have more room lay more or fewer eggs? Lots of unknowns. If you have to buy a bunch of new cages, that will just get passed onto the consumer.
There was a laying house for broiler hatching near my Mom’s parents. They’d candle all the eggs, and sold the 2 or more yolk eggs in flats of 18 or 24 for something like $0.50. We ate the hell out of those huge eggs every year at hunting season up at the cabin.
Dang, but I want some eggs fried in bacon grease now!
Some of them are simply closing up and getting out of the chicken/egg business.
Some of the chickens are being sent to slaughterhouses to be made into ground chicken products, a few luckier chickens are being taken in by animal rescue groups and adopted out (we took in fifty this year), while the remainder are being thrown into wood chippers which is legal in California.
It's the chickens that are being sent to the wood chipper that are most telling: They're usually too skinny to be worth processing and they're usually too unhealthy to be put up for adoption. They'll have lice and mites, they'll have untreated injuries, or they'll be diseased. All conditions that are typical of cramped living space.
For instance, our rescue chickens all had chicken lice when they showed up and I had to flea dip all of them. They have lice because their beaks have been docked and they're unable to preen the lice off of themselves.
So here's the thing: While some people think this is just an animal welfare issue the fact of the matter is that if you buy cage-eggs at the store you're inevitably eating eggs from diseased and vermin infested birds.
It might be profitable to run egg factories (also called batteries) but the product is not necessarily something you'd feel comfortable giving to your children.
My children eat only the eggs that come from our very healthy and very pampered Rhode Island Reds. While I might bake with some of the eggs from our rescue hens I still have some who are getting over health issues and until they look better I just give their eggs to the dogs and cats.
Don't think I'm an animal rights freak because I'm not. But I do believe that healthy chickens produce healthier eggs. I won't say the eggs from the other chickens are unhealthy, but there's no doubt to me that the chickens that produce those eggs are not in the best condition.
Egg producers have the option to change to meet CA standards or stop selling to CA (I would choose the latter).
I'm a free market guy. I'll let CA grow their own eggs, generate their own electricity, import all the illegals they care to support. Just don't send me the bill!
He also let us feed them and watch one run around with his head cut off.
Never realized that those pigs he kept were bacon.
Let those in California responsible for this be hoisted on their own petards. I feel bad for those trying to live there,but maybe they will be more careful from now on about who they elect. Way too much insanity coming out of that state. If they want to be different from the rest of the nation,then there is no reason some of their insane regulation should affect the rest of us. Same goes for other areas trying to do the same things by restrictive regs.
***Commercial food producers are not allowed to put non-compliant eggs in their products.**
When I worked in a chicken hatchery years ago, all the cull eggs (too large, small, cracked)were shipped to a cake mix manufacturer near here. The layers were not caged, but their eggs were hatched and the chicks grown for food.
Now, how are the inspectors going to know if an egg came from a non-compliant farm?
***Dang, but I want some eggs fried in bacon grease now!***
Bacon is high right now, but still worth it!
Plant (farm) inspection.
I guess you could call it Egg Plant inspection, and that would make it a vegetable.
the price of eggs in california will rise because of increased production cost and decrease in supply when egg farmers move to Utah
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