The “news” is still quietly reminding people all the time that egg prices are going up, up and away. The eggs we normally get from our local Meijer, called “Penny Smart”, have gone up more than a buck in the last week. I bought some last Tuesday and they were $4.19. Those same eggs today?
$5.49 compared to $4.19 in one week is more than a 25% increase. I was buying those same eggs for around $2 or less not that long ago.
The media has been Their usual Lügenpresse selves on this topic. Lots of stories like this:
No, the bird flu has not killed 20 million chickens. A few chickens have tested positive for bird flu and the rest were “culled”, a clinical word that means killed. I am not 100% sure but I believe this is accomplished by simply shutting off the ventilation fans. The ammonia in the chicken shit becomes toxic in a matter of minutes and they suffocate. This happened in a local hog farm a few years ago, killing hundreds of hogs that were pretty much full size so well over 200 pounds apiece. Getting those out required skid-loaders and chains.
Then there is this….
I don’t believe it is actually fatal for cows and it is rarely transmitted to humans. Nevertheless it is being used to induce panic, as is the alleged death of a couple of cats that allegedly drank “raw milk”. Sure, cats have been drinking raw milk on dairy farms for as long as there have been dairy farms but now it is super scary, all the more reason to only drink pasteurized milk from a store because everyone knows there is never any food contamination from store bought groceries.
Yet another Indian egg facility was recently “impacted” to the tune of 912,000 birds: 912,000 Birds Impacted as Bird Flu Hits Egg Production Facility in Jay County to go along with the other half dozen farms with flocks ranging from 19,000 turkeys to 2.6 million laying hens.
You get the picture. Eggs are getting more expensive thanks to a totally not bioengineered new strain of apparently airborne avian flu causing massive culling of laying hen flocks by the tens of millions.
What else is going on? Quietly in a number of reports I am seeing the “V” word: vaccines. Like here:
“It’s just like somebody takes a baseball bat to your gut,” said Herbruck, who wants officials to approve and fast track a vaccine that farmers can use to protect their flocks. “I’m just an egg farmer out here trying to say, ‘Hey, please, we need some help to fight this battle.’”…
….This marks the fourth year that the virus has crippled farmers, with outbreaks continuing to emerge into early 2025. After the virus is detected, farms are instructed to kill their entire flocks to eradicate the disease, which significantly disrupts supply and raises the cost of eggs in the U.S. food system.
The process to rebuild the operation is not easy, as it takes several months to get to a point where a farm can start producing large eggs again.
After getting clearance from the Agriculture Department, Herbruck said it takes about five months for a chick to reach maturity and to start laying a good number of large eggs….
…..However, Herbruck is more concerned if the disease is airborne, which has not yet been determined.
“It’s not even possible to filter out that virus or to disinfect the air. These barns that may have 150,000 birds, we typically change the air every 30 to 40 seconds… so the idea that we might be able to somehow disinfect that air is not even reasonable,” he said.
In addition to the protocols farms are already taking, Herbruck said the tool that is still missing is a vaccine. While it is not perfect, “it’s something that can help us,” he said.
Oh goodie, a “vaccine” that would be added to every egg you consume. Even if you don’t eat eggs directly, you likely eat them in some form whether in baked goods or mayonnaise or any of a number of other products. No need to consent to a jab, all you need to do is eat an Egg McMuffin.
Allow me to put on my tinfoil hat for a moment. Eggs are commonly used to incubate vaccines, something about them that someone more versed in the science could explain, makes eggs a great way to cook vaccines by means of “killed vaccines” or “weakened virus vaccines” like the flu shot. Now if you start sticking an avian flu “vaccine” into chickens, is that going to transfer into the eggs and then cook into something else? Who knows? Who wants to find out the hard way?
At the same time that egg prices are through the roof and promising to keep climbing, the price for baby chicks for those looking to raise their own flocks are also ridiculously expensive. Barred Plymouth Rocks, a very common breed for homesteads, are going for as much as $8.75 per female chick. That is crazy expensive. We are going to fire up the incubators and try to get at least a couple dozen layers out of some fertilized eggs (a rooster runs with the hens) which is going to be way cheaper than buying babies and a better option than buying eggs from a store from chickens that have been given a rushed “vaccine”.
It sure makes you wonder why They are so eager to get as many different “vaccines” into people as possible. The vaccines for measles and smallpox are one thing but the number of shots they recommend for kids now is crazy.
Do with that information what you will.
$6/dozen at nearest Walmart (20 miles away).
or…
$3/dozen for farm fresh eggs at a couple of places within 2 miles.
Love me some farm fresh eggs
Eggs, toilet paper, pasta, infant formula, chicken wings, hell – even onion rings were in short supply for a while in recent years. I think they just spin a wheel to see what to create an artificial shortage of next.
But ya know what’s never been in short supply? Booze. That right there should tell you something.
Eggs were $29.25 for 5 dozen at tiny Lowe’s market in Nixon, Texas this past weekend. They always have some cut of beef on sale for $4.99 a pound, so we loaded up. Never thought I’d see the day that the steak in my steak ‘n eggs breakfast would be the cheaper ingredient.
Why Gorbachev cancelled his anti-alcohol campaign in record time: found out just how angry and potentially dangerous people are when they’re sober and abused.
I have a periodic hookup for fresh eggs, but this time of year their small flock lays less so I likely won’t get any again now until spring. My last trip to the store, it was $5.87/dozen for regular old “large” white eggs which I purchased. Over $6/dozen for “jumbo”. “Organic” eggs near or over $10/dozen depending on brand and size.
Price of most cuts of chicken and beef are still up quite a bit. The closeout section (stuff close to its sell by date) had a couple of angus beef briskets, good sized. Were both over $80 a piece originally, but marked half off as they were one day shy of their sell by date. I bought them both to throw immediately in the deep freeze, and will grill them when it isn’t colder than a witch’s tit outside.
I have a neighbor with chickens but they don’t lay as much in the winter – and we don’t eat that many eggs. I get the farm fresh at a Mennonite store when it opens in the late Spring. I thought I read somewhere that they claimed the chickens got the flu from wild birds – which do not seem to be dying en masse. And somehow no chickens in Canada /Mexico affected? Color me suspicious.
I don’t trust any of them. And even as Trump/DOGE sets them back on their heels on one front, they are plotting on another. I think these next few years will be vitally important for becoming more resilient and less dependent on municipal services. I don’t want to have to rely on solar, but wish we had the $ for a system. Same with another few thousand gallons of propane.
Agreed. I use a fair number of eggs, both directly (hard boiled, scrambled etc.) and in making other things. Made some banana bread recently that required two eggs. Have also made a couple of casseroles that use eggs.
As to backup power, I have a Generac standby genset that runs on nat gas, and a gasoline powered portable I keep as a secondary backup. Keep a decent amount of gasoline treated with PRI-G on hand, but do have to rotate that periodically so it doesn’t go bad. Granted these are short term, intermittent solutions, but I’m not trying to hedge against an end of civilization scenario either, as that simply can’t be done.
For water, have a second 50 gal water heater I use as a water storage tank (as it was cheaper to buy that than a purpose specific storage tank). I’ve put an electric pressure pump and manifold on it that can be enabled to get water to fixtures in the house if main pressure from municipal water utility is lost. Otherwise, water flows through the tank to keep the contents fresh when I’m running water normally anywhere in the house. I got the water heater at reduced cost due to cosmetic damage, and the pressure pump was a fairly low hour freebee I scavenged off a job where an upgraded higher capacity pump was installed, so my total cost was fairly minimal. Key to these sorts of things is to be resourceful and have the foresight to grab useful castoffs as they pop up, and repurpose them. It does require a certain mindset and creativity to do though.
We, too, have a Generac – ours runs on propane (as do our stove and water heater) and we have a 1000 gallon tank. We have a cheap, never used gas generator (got years ago with credit card points from Cabelas) – and about 30 gallons of gas treated with Pri-G (have you and I read the same books?). We also have 4 moderate sized solar ‘generators.’ I believe (hope) that the biggest one would suffice to run our well pump. Have a 50 gallon water barrel which cost a pretty penny, but it’s empty – no room in the cabin and it would freeze in the garage. Lots of hopes and plans, not a lot of extra cash at present for big expensive projects.
I get it. Sounds like you are well ahead of a lot of people who’ve made no contingency plans at all. I acquired much of this stuff years ago when I was a bit more flush with extra scratch. The last couple of years have been more challenging in that regard, but I’m holding my own, I guess. Just not adding much new/additional preps, and concentrating on keeping up and maintaining what I already have. No solar here yet, though I’ve considered some mobile solar gear. I do keep a couple of deep cycle vehicle batteries around and charged at all times plus cabling and clamps, so could slap some limited setup together even if not pretty.
That’s why Community is so important because sharing those big expensive projects is a lot easier when it’s spread out over 5, 10, or 100 families…
My Brother Lineman!!
Couldn’t be more succinct. Like minds and all. All good here in NE Appalachia.
Usual Prayers for you all.
Chris (CIII)
Glad to hear you and yours are doing well Brother and continued blessings upon your house…
Used to be they’d let the flu go through and not let anybody eat those eggs. After two weeks or so anything not dead is immune to the disease, and wait another week to sell eggs again.
Sure beats an insurance check and 5 month wait to start selling again, but that would show the case fatality rate is right up there with Kung Flu.
Put all this on the states so they can get pitchforked and shit when they get caught lying about everything that hurts the population.
Which is everything gubmint does.
The thing is, chickens dont fly so.they can’t spread this bullshit. Ducks and geese are what the carriers that spread, but you don’t see the USDA genociding them….
Just another scam
This.
This, and flocks of wild birds not showing up dead in mass numbers strikes me as an odd detail not being discussed (and likely by intent). Granted the lack of genetic diversity in the chickens used for these massive laying operations leads them to be easily mass infected by a virus, but I’m not sure I buy that’s what is going on here, even though that’s the pretense given for these huge cullings taking place.
Remember a few years ago, there were reports of large flocks of wild birds (can’t recall now if it was a specific species) dropping dead spontaneously and finding them all over the ground? Details are fuzzy in my mind now, but that was another of those crisis situations the media starts hammering on, only for it to disappear in short order and never be spoken of again. All of which strikes me as straight up psychological manipulation of the public at large.
Big Ruckus D- i remember that too. there was an article that they turned
on 5G in europe(UK?) somewhere and birds dropped dead in large numbers..
someone could research for the articles unless the satan AI wiped it. damn ai!
Great, I’m glad someone was able to jog my memory since I didn’t recall the 5G connection. Between that, and power generating windmill farms, the wild birds have taken a beating just so certain humans can indulge their profitable “green” follies.
The mirrored solar farms were killing around 6000 birds a year…
Indeed, those also. Gotta love the left’s “love” for protecting the environment with these boondoggles that do orders of magnitude more damage than they could ever eliminate.
Yea cost us over 2 Billion and now they are shutting it down because it’s twice as expensive to run as regular solar panels and they didn’t even recoup the cost of what private investors put in let alone the 2 Billion that the taxpayer footed… The green power grift is just as bad as USAID…
Exactly. And CDC, NIH Dr Faustus where doing these bird flu experiments with ducks if i remember correctly, because they migrate and it would spread. As was said before usually you let it go, stop selling the eggs until it runs through the flock snd the survivors are now immune. The wholesale slaughter of millions is same as telling you, you cant have ivermectin during covid, its bad policy and BS science. Natural immunity has always been the best way. Its orchestrated bullshit and people who are behind have names and need silver bracelets, same as covid plandemic/scamdemic.
This is just another example of the Biological Warfare being conducted against Humans by the (((usual suspects))). I’ll bet if you look into the (Published, by the Russian MOD) Data about those 30+ Biowarfare Laboratories the Red Army Destroyed (carefully) in The Ukraine, that you will find evidence of “Bird Flu” Research and Development.
Slaughter The USDA
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I shake my head in disbelief when I hear “farmers” allowing their entire flock to be killed because one or two birds “tested positive” via a PCR test, which we all know by now is a complete scam. I might allow the “infected” birds to be culled (we do that ourselves when one of our small flock gets sick), but we leave the rest alone. If they’ve survived to this point, they have immunity–remember when immunity was a thing that kept us from getting sick, not something that protected bad cops–and they will not get sick in the future. Breed the “survivors” and guess what? No more problem with this fake bird flu.
I feel like our undoing will be this: People who do things are allowing themselves to be told what/how to do those things by people who have never done anything. Time to tell the paper pushers to go back to playing with their red stapler; we have work to do.
While eggs are the most common (read cheapest) way to incubate vaccine, especially flu shots, they are also known to cause mutations in the virus so that the resultant vaccine is for a different version of virus than what was targeted. This is the primary reason the flu shots are so ineffective (the other being they usually have the wrong mix of variants in the shots).
You’ve hit the nail on the head with this Arthur. Gates and others have been saying they need to get vaccines into the food supply. What better way to do it than to manufacture a crisis/panic and have the Karens begging for someone to “do something”. It’s the same play we’ve seen before, just a different trigger.
S-C-A-M by Bill Gates and other unmentionables. Higher prices, panic in the streets, and the Great Saviours arrive to help us all. We have seen this movie before- same script, with different characters. I am ready for the heads on pikes moment. I have Canadian geese all over the neighborhood and yet no one thinks to test one. Per an agriculture blurb:
The distance Canadian geese travel during migration can be pretty impressive. These birds can cover between 2,000 to 3,000 miles during their seasonal journey. However, some populations may travel even further, with recorded flights of up to 3,500 miles for certain Arctic-nesting geese.
Canadian geese can fly 40 to 50 miles per hour during their migration, covering up to 1,500 miles in a single day if weather conditions are favorable. They typically fly at altitudes between 2,000 and 8,000 feet but have been observed flying as high as 29,000 feet during extreme weather events.
It’s worth noting that these geese don’t fly non-stop for their entire journey. They frequently stop to rest and feed, often staying in one location for several days or weeks before continuing their migration. This strategy helps them maintain their energy levels and adapt to changing weather patterns along their route.
Now, if ONE species is eligible for a frequent flier card, what about other wild birds? Yeah, Mexico, South America, all of the islands are immune from the bird flu….but the USA is a hot spot!! So, another Scamdemic it is.
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This seems like sound advice, but only if one is truly interested in securing the present and future safety and availability of food sources. Similarly with the PCR testing; run enough cycles, and malevolent actors can get whatever “justification” that they need to order up a slaughter.
Speaking of which, I recently heard an account of the High Executioner of chickens, some lunatic, hyper-woke asian woman, who had already been relieved of her duties having to be dragged out of the building by security. She wanted to liquidate more flocks as her Parthian shot, but was deprived of her chance to do so by this intercession.
Jersey J.,
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That would be Phyllis Fong (I am not making this up) -Tellier.
Salary — just shy of two hundred grand… plus car and driver, plus expense account and telephone etcetera etcetera etcetera.
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Our Mrs. Fong-Tellier holds a highly-desired commercially-viable Bachelor’s degree in…
… Asian Studies.
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From her office page:
* “Phyllis K. Fong is an American attorney renowned for her extensive service as the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from 2002 to 2025. Her career is marked by a steadfast commitment to integrity, accountability, and the enhancement of federal programs.”
And I piss leprechaun-green.
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An aside:
We operate a small organic teaching farm near the outskirts of Eugene Oregon.
Our acreage is on the migratory flyway.
As far as we can see, neither ducks nor geese are suffering from this latest Bird-Influenza.
Yes, it does appear to all be bullshit, with the possible exception that some of these commercial flocks have been sabotaged through introduction of the bird flu virus, and then through the magic of infinite PCR cycles, the whole flock is sentenced to death.
And yes, thank you, I was too lazy to track down on the particulars of that yellow, leftist bint; and my, my aren’t her qualifications for her position overwhelming?
Farm fresh eggs are nice when you can get ’em. Makes the dogs’ coats shine if you cut their kibble with fried eggs. Saves money on kibble too if you can get the eggs cheap enough. Fruit trees love crushed eggshells sprinkled around the root beds. Or you can save them in an old coffee can or ice cream bucket in the freezer and then take them back to the farmer that got you the eggs. He’ll feed them to his chickens to give them more calcium.
Getting my own chickens is sounding better by the day.