wellingtonfarmer
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- Herefordshire
Hearing egg prices are under pressure again and drops imminent.
The job is officially f**ked.
The job is officially f**ked.
Egg prices dropping again.
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Grassman
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- Derbyshire
Unfortunately this has been predicted over the last year or two. The buyers have got control now with lots of new, enthusiastic producers with big shiny new sheds pumping out lots of eggs.
I feel sorry for them if they have lots of debt but I feel more sorry for the established farmers watching their incomes dropping to near nothing.
Only
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- Powys/Shropshire border
wholesale market is the worse for many years(worse than 2010/2011)- too much free range -too much cage
some producer prices (mostly in scotland)down to 75p/doz
as mad as it may sound but there is a genuine shortage of large free range eggs- but medium and seconds are worth sweet FA
2 million birds too many i was told today
some producer prices (mostly in scotland)down to 75p/doz
as mad as it may sound but there is a genuine shortage of large free range eggs- but medium and seconds are worth sweet FA
2 million birds too many i was told today
henman
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- pembrockshire
4 price cuts in a year medium eggs down from 95p down to 75p now If any body says there money in eggs there talking sh-t
midlandslad
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- Midlands
Despite all the negativity surrounding FR eggs there are still plenty of new units going up in East Yorkshire, I am aware of 132,000 additional birds and that doesn’t include the new super unit of 256,000 birds!
How much additional capacity will be needed for 2025 when the supermarkets have made their commitments?
How much additional capacity will be needed for 2025 when the supermarkets have made their commitments?
henman
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- pembrockshire
BFREPA say there are enough hen sheds already , and Tesco now say if the public want a low price value egg we will supply it and that's enriched egg, they also say they have to support the farmers who spent millions building enriched production 5 years ago.
porscheman
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If the public and the buyers knew the truth about free range egg production they would probably be happy to buy caged eggs
All these 16,000 , 32000 bird units are really not free range at all , they should close the pop holes and produce barn eggs from them units as that is much cleaner , much more welfare friendly and more efficient
The con job that free range has become will be exposed at some point
All these 16,000 , 32000 bird units are really not free range at all , they should close the pop holes and produce barn eggs from them units as that is much cleaner , much more welfare friendly and more efficient
The con job that free range has become will be exposed at some point
wellingtonfarmer
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- Herefordshire
Exposed in what way. No rules are being broken.
Let me guess you think eggs should be collected in baskets and cows milked by hand
spin cycle
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- north norfolk
because the rules are 'pants'
free range isn't natural for chickens who are descended from jungle fowl....who lived...well
....on the jungle floor.....planting a few saplings on grass fields is nowhere near....be far better in airy deep litter barns with plenty of space to roam
wellingtonfarmer
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- Herefordshire
because the rules are 'pants'
free range isn't natural for chickens who are descended from jungle fowl....who lived...well
And sheep descended from slatted sheds packed to rafters breed to carry multiple lambs then?
spin cycle
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- north norfolk
wellingtonfarmer
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- Herefordshire
and these factory farmed sheep are where exactly
Majority of sheep are lambed indoors and a lot of lambs are fatttened of slats? Probably nothing like the public think where there lamb comes from
Chae1
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- Aberdeenshire
Was a tv programme the other day with a caged hen pecked to bits.
I did think about calling to point out if the hen had been in a single battery cage on its own bullying wouldn't have taken place.
Read a book by a farmer (doug avery) and he requested a caged egg for breakfast at a restaurant! The young waitress didn't understand until he explained the above. She said she'd always eat eggs from caged hens in future!
Daniel
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- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Have you got a link for that, have they rescinded their decision to drop caged eggs?
Daniel
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- Mildenhall, Suffolk
You're on a feed tracker though?
The hens in colony cages are not housed individually, I think there are 80 birds so plenty of scope for pecking. That said I also saw the programme and was not convinced the birds were the same age and unfortunately feather pecking can be an issue in any system.
- Location
- Ardrossan Ayrshire
Not round here.
That is exactly why the large companies offering franchise type system or feed and egg contracts have sued it out to silly farmers because they knew at some point it was going to go bang.
porscheman
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Exposed for exactly what it is , The dirtiest most diseased way to produce eggs
Free Range has the highest mortality by a very long way , Free range use the most antibiotics by along way , Free range have the most disease challenges , Do i really need to go on
Mortality rates should be the main indicator when considering the welfare of any animal
There is plenty of great Free Range producers but the Free Range marketing is completly misleading to the consumer
Free Range has the highest mortality by a very long way , Free range use the most antibiotics by along way , Free range have the most disease challenges , Do i really need to go on
Mortality rates should be the main indicator when considering the welfare of any animal
There is plenty of great Free Range producers but the Free Range marketing is completly misleading to the consumer
Daniel
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- Mildenhall, Suffolk
It is if you use your fatuous standard.
If you put every newborn child in a padded cell, fed it a precisely regulated diet, maintained the temperature at exactly the right level, didn’t let it have any contact with anyone who hadn’t showered in and out of the room etc, you could probably reduce mortality rates to more or less nothing and raise the average lifespan to 120 years.
But it’s a rubbish way to live, same goes for a chicken.
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