Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 09:46     Subject: egg prices are out of control..local govt needs to reduce urban chicken coop restrictions
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Anonymous wrote:Egg prices are fine in DC and eggs are available. Who is trying to start some sort of a misinformation campaign?


Costco in Wheaton and the Safeway in Kensington had ZERO eggs as of 8pm last evening (Tuesday)


DH went to Costco in Gaithersburg in late afternoon yesterday. ZERO eggs, too. In addition, organic strawberries cost $16~ and non-organic strawberries cost close to $10 that was used to be price of organic strawberries not long ago.....


$16 for ONE STRAWBERRY?!!?!
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 09:44     Subject: egg prices are out of control..local govt needs to reduce urban chicken coop restrictions
OP has egg on her face if she thinks that raising chickens at home is a cost effective way to get eggs.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 09:24     Subject: egg prices are out of control..local govt needs to reduce urban chicken coop restrictions
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Egg prices are fine in DC and eggs are available. Who is trying to start some sort of a misinformation campaign?


Costco in Wheaton and the Safeway in Kensington had ZERO eggs as of 8pm last evening (Tuesday)


You mean right after the big snow freak out back to school shopping?


Recognizing that there is an egg shortage and the egg prices are high won’t make you Maga or Republican or conservative. It’s OK to accept the truth.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 09:16     Subject: egg prices are out of control..local govt needs to reduce urban chicken coop restrictions
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Egg prices are fine in DC and eggs are available. Who is trying to start some sort of a misinformation campaign?


Costco in Wheaton and the Safeway in Kensington had ZERO eggs as of 8pm last evening (Tuesday)


You mean right after the big snow freak out back to school shopping?
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 09:14     Subject: egg prices are out of control..local govt needs to reduce urban chicken coop restrictions
Anonymous wrote:Chickens make a lot of poop, it's quite disgusting and that is why there are minimum yard size requirements of over 2 acres for each


There aren't, though. Not even in Fairfax County.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 09:13     Subject: egg prices are out of control..local govt needs to reduce urban chicken coop restrictions
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Egg prices are fine in DC and eggs are available. Who is trying to start some sort of a misinformation campaign?


Costco in Wheaton and the Safeway in Kensington had ZERO eggs as of 8pm last evening (Tuesday)


DH went to Costco in Gaithersburg in late afternoon yesterday. ZERO eggs, too. In addition, organic strawberries cost $16~ and non-organic strawberries cost close to $10 that was used to be price of organic strawberries not long ago.....


Strawberries in January are expensive.....
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 09:04     Subject: egg prices are out of control..local govt needs to reduce urban chicken coop restrictions
Anonymous wrote:As much as I support the legality of yardbirds, outside coop’d chickens don’t lay in the depths of winter like we’re in now.

Inside birds will, if you manipulate the temperature and light levels to spoof the bird’s hormones into thinking it’s spring time. But birds living in outdoor coops stop laying in the fall. Winter is about surviving, not hatching a bunch of chicks that will have nothing to eat for months. So hens quit laying.

Yardbirds won’t solve our egg shortage in the winter.


You must keep feeding them over the winter and provide heat, probably as an evil incandescent bulb to keep them warm. They will lay eggs.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 09:02     Subject: egg prices are out of control..local govt needs to reduce urban chicken coop restrictions
Anonymous wrote:Chickens make a lot of poop, it's quite disgusting and that is why there are minimum yard size requirements of over 2 acres for each


Animals pooping outdoors. Oh no!
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 08:55     Subject: egg prices are out of control..local govt needs to reduce urban chicken coop restrictions
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Egg prices are fine in DC and eggs are available. Who is trying to start some sort of a misinformation campaign?


Costco in Wheaton and the Safeway in Kensington had ZERO eggs as of 8pm last evening (Tuesday)


DH went to Costco in Gaithersburg in late afternoon yesterday. ZERO eggs, too. In addition, organic strawberries cost $16~ and non-organic strawberries cost close to $10 that was used to be price of organic strawberries not long ago.....
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 08:35     Subject: egg prices are out of control..local govt needs to reduce urban chicken coop restrictions
I don't have a problem with hens, but my mom's neighbor has a rooster and you can't sleep with the windows open anymore.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 08:33     Subject: egg prices are out of control..local govt needs to reduce urban chicken coop restrictions
Anonymous wrote:Egg prices are fine in DC and eggs are available. Who is trying to start some sort of a misinformation campaign?


I’m not Maga or a Republican, but I’m not in denial and fully see that egg prices have gone through the roof. The last couple times I went to Costco there were no eggs. The eggs selection at my local Safeway is abysmal. The only eggs that are left are too expensive for me (and I’m sure thousands of other people.)

Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 08:31     Subject: egg prices are out of control..local govt needs to reduce urban chicken coop restrictions
Chickens make a lot of poop, it's quite disgusting and that is why there are minimum yard size requirements of over 2 acres for each
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 08:30     Subject: egg prices are out of control..local govt needs to reduce urban chicken coop restrictions
As much as I support the legality of yardbirds, outside coop’d chickens don’t lay in the depths of winter like we’re in now.

Inside birds will, if you manipulate the temperature and light levels to spoof the bird’s hormones into thinking it’s spring time. But birds living in outdoor coops stop laying in the fall. Winter is about surviving, not hatching a bunch of chicks that will have nothing to eat for months. So hens quit laying.

Yardbirds won’t solve our egg shortage in the winter.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 07:35     Subject: egg prices are out of control..local govt needs to reduce urban chicken coop restrictions
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Anonymous wrote:no they most definitely do not need to do this.

I'll pay 2x the current price of eggs to make sure my neighbor doesn't have a chicken coop.


People have the right to farm and feed their family


not according to your local government!

no one is stopping you from moving 30 miles west or east to your own little farm.


Almost every local jurisdiction allows poultry as pets


You will need a permit. Unless you have more than two acres. If you have more than two acres, you already sold to a developer.


Not where I live. Farming in residential zones is allowed on all agricultural and single-family zoned properties. Urban Farming is allowed in the residential zones for townhomes and multifamily communities as well other non-residential zones.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DPS/Process/zspe/Chickens.html

Where do you live?





People's Republic of Fairfax County.


You mean the reasonable side of the Potomac that actually attempts to protect public health and the environment.


No. I mean the busybodies who worry about the color of the bike shed next to the nuclear reactor.


I think it's funny that the posters who apparently hate everything about the area also hate backyard chickens. Not surprising, but funny.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 07:13     Subject: egg prices are out of control..local govt needs to reduce urban chicken coop restrictions
Anonymous wrote:Egg prices are fine in DC and eggs are available. Who is trying to start some sort of a misinformation campaign?


Costco in Wheaton and the Safeway in Kensington had ZERO eggs as of 8pm last evening (Tuesday)