240,000 chickens to be slaughtered in bid to stop bird flu spread
SMH: 240,000 Chickens to Be Slaughtered in Bid to Stop Bird Flu Spread
whyisave on 20/06/2024 - 18:01
Last edited 21/06/2024 - 10:08 by 1 other user
Last edited 21/06/2024 - 10:08 by 1 other user
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Don't forget the 500,000 they killed a couple of weeks back.
commercial egg hens life is usually around 18 months and they get to egg laying age in just 4 months. It would need to be significantly more than that killed to have a real impact on the egg market.
And yet egg prices have already gone up (at least in Victoria) and Coles will only let you buy 2 cartons. (I guess you could visit more than one store? :) )
@EightImmortals: The coles restrictions were to stop idiots bulk buying in panic, there isn't a shortage and any store that has raised prices is just gouging.
@gromit: ….all based on the excuse that the government is killing off the chooks. Would the supermarkets have done those things if the culling hadn't happened?
How were the birds slaughtered? The article doesn't say.
by machine gun. the person holding the gun name is Kelly
They will all be beaten to death. By one man.
It's an error. Birds were SLAWtered then gravyed
As a good Ozbargainer I went and got chickens last time there was an egg shortage. Now have fresh eggs every day. Also protects me from the conspiracy sites since I have now eggs whenever and dgaf.
Just make sure they don't cluck too loudly or your neighbour Karen might dob you in to the chicken Gestapo.
It's not the clucking that gets you, it's the squawking
From Karens or chickens?
Doesn't take all that long to create 250k chickens tbh. In the farm animal world chickens are like weeds.
exactly, the industry would be producing a million or more a month just for normal stock replenishment.
Are we back in 2020's panic stock up again? Not a single egg at near by Coles & Woolworths !!!!
And I'm in Sydney metro area.
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To put into perspective there are over 20 million egg producing chickens in Australia. While 240k is large it will have bugger all impact on egg availability except for the idiots that do the toilet paper thing and try to hoard them. If it spreads then we have a serious problem, at the moment the impact is just to those that own the farms and a few local areas.