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Post by eri on Apr 26, 2023 13:06:18 GMT 12
locally the only eggs i can find are basically a $1 each at small markets
the local countdown doesn't seem to have had any for a couple of days
heading over the other side of the city to look for affordable eggs FFS!
hope the chicken's-rights people are happy
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Post by fish on Apr 26, 2023 14:40:02 GMT 12
locally the only eggs i can find are basically a $1 each at small markets the local countdown doesn't seem to have had any for a couple of days heading over the other side of the city to look for affordable eggs FFS! hope the chicken's-rights people are happy
I found some at PaknSave the other week for about 72 cents each. Note that the owners of Countdown and Newworld (Foodstuffs?) got captured by the lefty-poof-tree-hugging-vegetarains and have voluntarily declared a ban on colony eggs. It doesn't kick in until next year I think, but all the chook growers who are converting from cages wont go colony, cause they can't sell eggs to 90% of the market next year. Colony eggs (Farmer brown) are typicaly in the 70 cents each range. The full free range are in the $1-$1.20 range. Couple of years ago I could get eggs for 37 cents each at my local New World (i.e. without shopping around). The whole egg thing is an excellent example of how govt regulations and wokeness are fucking up this good country. It is cheaper to get a Domino's $3.99 pizza for the kids dinner than give them scrambled eggs on toast. Other than basic nutrition, the health impacts of all of this is eye watering. Oh, and try baking something at home. You know, if you are trying to make ends meet, make good wholesome food for the kids and pay the mortgage while the food prices go stratospheric. Everything you bake needs a fucking egg in it... |
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Post by GO30 on Apr 26, 2023 23:34:37 GMT 12
Having a few 100K chooks going in 2 big fires very recently doesn't help either.
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Post by fish on Apr 27, 2023 11:44:40 GMT 12
Having a few 100K chooks going in 2 big fires very recently doesn't help either. What was the second fire? I remember the one in the Northern Waikato (can't recall the name of the farm / brand right now) Its not good for anyone when shit like that happens, the hens, the farmers and the consumers. |
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Post by em on Apr 27, 2023 19:49:11 GMT 12
locally the only eggs i can find are basically a $1 each at small markets the local countdown doesn't seem to have had any for a couple of days heading over the other side of the city to look for affordable eggs FFS! hope the chicken's-rights people are happy
I found some at PaknSave the other week for about 72 cents each. Note that the owners of Countdown and Newworld (Foodstuffs?) got captured by the lefty-poof-tree-hugging-vegetarains and have voluntarily declared a ban on colony eggs. It doesn't kick in until next year I think, but all the chook growers who are converting from cages wont go colony, cause they can't sell eggs to 90% of the market next year. Colony eggs (Farmer brown) are typicaly in the 70 cents each range. The full free range are in the $1-$1.20 range. Couple of years ago I could get eggs for 37 cents each at my local New World (i.e. without shopping around). The whole egg thing is an excellent example of how govt regulations and wokeness are fucking up this good country. It is cheaper to get a Domino's $3.99 pizza for the kids dinner than give them scrambled eggs on toast. Other than basic nutrition, the health impacts of all of this is eye watering. Oh, and try baking something at home. You know, if you are trying to make ends meet, make good wholesome food for the kids and pay the mortgage while the food prices go stratospheric. Everything you bake needs a fucking egg in it... Have you been in a battery hen shed before ? I did when I was 10 back in 1982 and it was fucking awful . There’s nothing woke about giving a food producer some room to move . |
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Post by GO30 on Apr 27, 2023 21:10:14 GMT 12
Having a few 100K chooks going in 2 big fires very recently doesn't help either. What was the second fire? I remember the one in the Northern Waikato (can't recall the name of the farm / brand right now) Its not good for anyone when shit like that happens, the hens, the farmers and the consumers. Tauranga way. We just supplied a shed load (13km of it) of string for the rebuild. The string opens the doors in the morning so the chooks can get outside and then close them in the evening.
Done a fair few others as well as they call convert, which most have already due to Tegal and Inghams refusing to accept battery chooks any longer. Pure inside only battery chooks would be bugger all these days, the majority do have access to the big wide outdoors.
Contrary to popular opinion the chooks like to roost inside for the night as they prefer it and in many locations like out westie Akl, where there are a shed loads (to use a cheap pun) of chooks, that protects them from predators like pigs and cats.
I shot a cat the other night so according to reports if I can get 2,499,999 more I will eradicate stray and feral cats from NZ. That will leave around 1,000,000 who live in houses with their 2 legged servants 
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Post by em on Apr 27, 2023 21:39:35 GMT 12
What was the second fire? I remember the one in the Northern Waikato (can't recall the name of the farm / brand right now) Its not good for anyone when shit like that happens, the hens, the farmers and the consumers. Tauranga way. We just supplied a shed load (13km of it) of string for the rebuild. The string opens the doors in the morning so the chooks can get outside and then close them in the evening.
Done a fair few others as well as they call convert, which most have already due to Tegal and Inghams refusing to accept battery chooks any longer. Pure inside only battery chooks would be bugger all these days, the majority do have access to the big wide outdoors.
Contrary to popular opinion the chooks like to roost inside for the night as they prefer it and in many locations like out westie Akl, where there are a shed loads (to use a cheap pun) of chooks, that protects them from predators like pigs and cats.
I shot a cat the other night so according to reports if I can get 2,499,999 more I will eradicate stray and feral cats from NZ. That will leave around 1,000,000 who live in houses with their 2 legged servants
These traps are the business for cats . Bloody good for possums too www.nrc.govt.nz/our-northland/story/?id=70879www.landcareresearch.co.nz/assets/Events/biosecurity-bonanza/2017/NAWAC-testing-of-the-SA2-Kat-trap.pdf |
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Post by GO30 on Apr 27, 2023 21:59:49 GMT 12
So is my .22 with it's very well tuned in red dot. 10 steps out the door and I dropped 3 possums in a minute the other evening. The cat I thought was a possum with unusually pale eyes until I went to deal to the body only to find it was a pussysplat.
I've started leaving little bits of food in a specific area. Last week I noticed 2 cats prowling it looking for the scraps. So I just brought a huge Hushpower suppressor for my .223 and have set up a hide in a prime spot 150m back. They will never see, or hear, it coming.
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Post by fish on Apr 27, 2023 22:03:31 GMT 12
I found some at PaknSave the other week for about 72 cents each. Note that the owners of Countdown and Newworld (Foodstuffs?) got captured by the lefty-poof-tree-hugging-vegetarains and have voluntarily declared a ban on colony eggs. It doesn't kick in until next year I think, but all the chook growers who are converting from cages wont go colony, cause they can't sell eggs to 90% of the market next year. Colony eggs (Farmer brown) are typicaly in the 70 cents each range. The full free range are in the $1-$1.20 range. Couple of years ago I could get eggs for 37 cents each at my local New World (i.e. without shopping around). The whole egg thing is an excellent example of how govt regulations and wokeness are fucking up this good country. It is cheaper to get a Domino's $3.99 pizza for the kids dinner than give them scrambled eggs on toast. Other than basic nutrition, the health impacts of all of this is eye watering. Oh, and try baking something at home. You know, if you are trying to make ends meet, make good wholesome food for the kids and pay the mortgage while the food prices go stratospheric. Everything you bake needs a fucking egg in it... Have you been in a battery hen shed before ? I did when I was 10 back in 1982 and it was fucking awful . There’s nothing woke about giving a food producer some room to move . I think you will find any industrial food (protein) production is fucking awful for the un-initiated. I used to kill cows and cut them up for a living. Upon moving to the city, I very quickly worked out that everyone (especially chicks I was hitting on, but literally everyone) thought cows were cute and lived in paddocks, and steak was yummy and comes from a supermarket. They did not want to know what happens in between. Same goes with chickens. Do you really think the people tucking into KFC consider where their 1/4 pack has come from? They want it cheap, they want it fast, and they want it when they've got the munchies. Nothing else. I used to work a in a processed chickens factory in the UK (ran half of it for a while). 300 tonnes / week of chicken burgers and nuggets etc. Seeing any high volume food production will put you off it. More so if you are a delicate soul. Pigs are particularly intelligent sentient beings, but everyone still loves bacon. Note, I've never been in a pig slaughter house, I think I would have always struggled with that. But when I look at a cow in a paddock, I mentally unwrap it and imagine all the yummy steak cuts on its back and arse... Anyway, I've no problem at all with you making your own choices about what you eat. On that, I am a but put out by the lefty-poof-tree-hugging-vegetarians telling me what I can and can't eat. More so when we are really struggling with our food bill, and the mortgage, I really need my kids to eat an healthy diet, and eggs go from 37 cents each to $1.20 Freedom of choice. You are free to choose what to eat, as long as it complies with the woke rulebook of wokeness. |
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Post by harrytom on Apr 27, 2023 23:30:19 GMT 12
Use to cart Chickens from farm to Works in Aussie,smelly stinking sheds,alway wet from chicken piss,who knows what they were feed but a 6 week old chicken is big compared to a free range,6 weks were for Red rooster and Kfc,8 weeks for retail trade,supermarkets etc 10 weeks they would have heart attacks.The farms we worked were like tunnels,Own lightening that came on,feeder drops auto at set times,last 24 hrs feeder raised and water only,gets more weight in quickly,well ventulated,concrete floors with mash laid out,easy to clean sheds. Ever seen what damage a fox can do?? They kill for fun,bite heads off and continue.Thats the issue with older sheds.Cruel way of farming but economical. 40,000 chickens per night Sunday to Friday morning. Lucky I was on the night side,day time .They can run.even in a shed. They were caught for Cordina foods. No hand catching but using www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqzpIqwpOdQWe had the smaller model that emptied in to a bin,then coneyored to baskets and set number of chicks per bin,usually 8/10 per basket depending on size. |
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Post by DuckMaster on Apr 28, 2023 0:59:46 GMT 12
The problem is the farmers don't have chickens. It's next to nothing to do with the rules from the supermarket or the govt yes that has contributed a little but the crux of the issue is there's no chickens.
There is literally a shortage of egg laying Chickens worldwide.
Once the Chicken population returns to normal levels the price of eggs will stabalise at lower than current levels. That should happen later this year.
You won't see the prices of yester-year again. Farmers now know what they can get away with.
If you want cheap eggs buy a egg machine and feed and water it.
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Post by em on Apr 28, 2023 8:44:20 GMT 12
Have you been in a battery hen shed before ? I did when I was 10 back in 1982 and it was fucking awful . There’s nothing woke about giving a food producer some room to move . I think you will find any industrial food (protein) production is fucking awful for the un-initiated. I used to kill cows and cut them up for a living. Upon moving to the city, I very quickly worked out that everyone (especially chicks I was hitting on, but literally everyone) thought cows were cute and lived in paddocks, and steak was yummy and comes from a supermarket. They did not want to know what happens in between. Same goes with chickens. Do you really think the people tucking into KFC consider where their 1/4 pack has come from? They want it cheap, they want it fast, and they want it when they've got the munchies. Nothing else. I used to work a in a processed chickens factory in the UK (ran half of it for a while). 300 tonnes / week of chicken burgers and nuggets etc. Seeing any high volume food production will put you off it. More so if you are a delicate soul. Pigs are particularly intelligent sentient beings, but everyone still loves bacon. Note, I've never been in a pig slaughter house, I think I would have always struggled with that. But when I look at a cow in a paddock, I mentally unwrap it and imagine all the yummy steak cuts on its back and arse... Anyway, I've no problem at all with you making your own choices about what you eat. On that, I am a but put out by the lefty-poof-tree-hugging-vegetarians telling me what I can and can't eat. More so when we are really struggling with our food bill, and the mortgage, I really need my kids to eat an healthy diet, and eggs go from 37 cents each to $1.20 Freedom of choice. You are free to choose what to eat, as long as it complies with the woke rulebook of wokeness. Yep I’m aware you worked in the slaughter house and yes you can’t beat NZ beef . I run a small breeding herd of beef cattle so deal with calving ,castrating , killing and ultimately eating them . The steer that’s currently in the freezer I pulled out of the cow with a UK sail tie 2 years ago . We also have sheep , goats for dog food , pigs and yes chickens . The commercial highline and brown shaver breed of laying chooks happen to be the friendliest and quirkiest of all the breeds we have tried . We Don’t eat cage eggs or supermarket pork for the same reason I wouldn’t put engine oil from bobs emporium in my car or boat , house paint from the warehouse on my boat or a zenith snap shackle from mitre 10 on my Gen halyard . |
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