Egg recall - there's gold in them thar hen houses!

[Wifezilla]

:: blush ::

 

[noobiechickenlady]

I'm sitting here seriously wishing my youngsters would start laying!!! Or if they had, that they would do it in the next box and not where ever they're hiding them.

Gotta love when the factory farm industry gets bit like this. All that food down the drain though... that stinks.

When DS was 3 or 4, his entire daycare center (Sucked, but I had no choice!!) came down with Salmonella. All but the bottle babies. It was eggs that did it, soft scrambled.

 

[me&thegals]

I overheard some gals at work talking about this today. They were saying they should buy eggs from me or another home-chicken-egg seller I smiled and kept on working.

beekissed--Thanks for the links! I will study up on them when I'm not supposed to be working on someone else's dime

 

[Wifezilla]

I overheard some gals at work talking about this today. They were saying they should buy eggs from me or another home-chicken-egg seller

Exactly!!!

Print out a copy of my article and "accidentally" leave it in the break room. Then "accidentally" leave a flyer for your eggs

 

[me&thegals]

If only they were laying well! I don't know if it is the heat or what, but our hens have been majorly slacking. I can barely stay on top of my existing orders

 

[Wifezilla]

Heat will do it. I had some molting last month and one of the girls took forever to start again after raising a clutch. I am finally back to normal egg production

 

[me&thegals]

Yeah--I feel like a loser chicken farmer when I read about some people's chicken's productivity! Our girls have the good life, but they are usually only about half of them laying on any given day. A great laying stretch will have about 52 out of approximately 80 hens laying. Oh well. I think they are salmonella-free eggs

 

[savingdogs]

I see this as sad for those folks who got sick but a good thing for backyard chicken flocks. What better way to prove your eggs are healthy than to say "my family eats them". I only sell to co-workers but since they know I am a truthful sort they can be assured our family eats these eggs safely and enjoys them and they can too!

I will not raise my price for these customers of mine that are regulars, but I did notice all my regular customers are anxious for eggs yesterday. I may need more chickens!

 

[Buster]

I posted that on my FB too. Nice how helpful all that inspection and certification is, aint it?

If a backyard flock has a problem, the owners get sick and maybe one or two other families. If a big factory place has a problem, THOUSANDS get sick. So who does the USDA think the problem is?

Grrrrrrrr

I read one report where they are going out of their way to say no egg producing system is safer than another.

It's the centralized food production system that is so screwed up and dangerous, morons.

 

[Wifezilla]

I noticed that too buster. In fact another blogger I know made a comment about backyard flocks having it too. I had to point out the difference in the way the birds are raised means the chance of a backyard produced egg giving you cooties like you get from factory produced eggs is slim to none.

Sure there are bad backyarders, but a bad backyard chicken raiser can't poison hundreds of people at one time.