egg prices are out of control..local govt needs to reduce urban chicken coop restrictions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shocked to see 10.99 eggs at the store. Even the cheap ones are now pushing $5 per carton, and that's ONLY when they're in stock. It's either constant shortages or massive prices. Why haven't over burdensome regulations preventing urban livestock been repealed yet? Counties make it far too difficult for people to grow their own food, like eggs. All you need are a few hens that produce tons of eggs, and they're far healthier than the store crap anyway. It is time local governments rewrite the laws to allow homeowners and apartments to have urban chicken coops.

Just buy eggs at Aldi. Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is absurd. Chicken coops are a legitimate nuisance to neighbors, especially when lots are small. They create noise, very unpleasant smells and can threaten public health with communicable diseases. Move to an area with agricultural zoning if you want to have a chicken farm.

Chickens are no more noisy that barking dogs, which are legal everywhere. Counties should be wanting to encourage more self-sufficiency and home production to boost food security since things are so crazy uncertain now.

[Anonymous]

Is 8 dollars too much for 24 eggs. I thought that was reasonable.

[Anonymous]

Won't that just spread bird flu faster?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Won't that just spread bird flu faster?

Yes, but you won't know that they have bird flu.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Won't that just spread bird flu faster?

No, just keep a covered enclosure and netting/fencing small enough to keep out wild birds. A roof will do wonders.

[Anonymous]

No to backyard chickens right now. Full stop. If we get human to human transmission of avian influenza, we are completely screwed, especially if it happens in the near future. The more humans mix with chickens the faster this will happen.

[Anonymous]

Why can’t the government just spray for the wild birds, since they are the way it’s spreading? I’m not really keen on spraying poisons to kill birds, but if the choice is between getting rid of some wild birds and a bird flu epidemic like covid was, then the government needs to get rid of the birds. Otherwise we’re going to be right back in 2020 again, with distancing, masks, everything shut down. And trump will F’ it up again just like last time, and the pandemic will drag on forever. Harris could’ve handled this so much better. We are sooo F’d.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t the government just spray for the wild birds, since they are the way it’s spreading? I’m not really keen on spraying poisons to kill birds, but if the choice is between getting rid of some wild birds and a bird flu epidemic like covid was, then the government needs to get rid of the birds. Otherwise we’re going to be right back in 2020 again, with distancing, masks, everything shut down. And trump will F’ it up again just like last time, and the pandemic will drag on forever. Harris could’ve handled this so much better. We are sooo F’d.

It's endemic and birds can fly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No to backyard chickens right now. Full stop. If we get human to human transmission of avian influenza, we are completely screwed, especially if it happens in the near future. The more humans mix with chickens the faster this will happen.

We’re going to have human-to-human avian influenza within 2 years anyway. It’s already endemic in dairy and beef cattle now, and transmissible through dogs and cats, besides obviously birds.

Nothing is going to stop it. It’s hilarious that you think banning backyard chickens is going to make a difference.


I’ll bet you also thought cloth procedural masks and “two weeks to flatten the curve” were going to stop COVID, too, didn’t you?

Sap.

[Anonymous]

Last thing DC needs is more animals and poop

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shocked to see 10.99 eggs at the store. Even the cheap ones are now pushing $5 per carton, and that's ONLY when they're in stock. It's either constant shortages or massive prices. Why haven't over burdensome regulations preventing urban livestock been repealed yet? Counties make it far too difficult for people to grow their own food, like eggs. All you need are a few hens that produce tons of eggs, and they're far healthier than the store crap anyway. It is time local governments rewrite the laws to allow homeowners and apartments to have urban chicken coops.

Just ignore the regulations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last thing DC needs is more animals and poop

Imagine being someone who believes that every poster here lives in some urban filing cabinet, row house or postage stamp lot SFH in the city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t the government just spray for the wild birds, since they are the way it’s spreading? I’m not really keen on spraying poisons to kill birds, but if the choice is between getting rid of some wild birds and a bird flu epidemic like covid was, then the government needs to get rid of the birds. Otherwise we’re going to be right back in 2020 again, with distancing, masks, everything shut down. And trump will F’ it up again just like last time, and the pandemic will drag on forever. Harris could’ve handled this so much better. We are sooo F’d.

It's endemic and birds can fly

Want to stop bird flu for good?

Poison every single wild bird on the planet. Kill every single one of them. That’s how you stop bird flu.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last thing DC needs is more animals and poop

Imagine being someone who believes that every poster here lives in some urban filing cabinet, row house or postage stamp lot SFH in the city.

If you cared about the environment...