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Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?

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310 points greenie_beans | 1 comments | 19 Feb 25 21:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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crocowhile ◴[20 Feb 25 15:12 UTC] No.43115639[source]▶
The egg price is due to the H5N1 epidemics, which also means that this is the least indicated time to get a backyard chicken. The US should have dropped battery caging, like the rest of the world did 15 years ago.
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MostlyStable ◴[20 Feb 25 19:11 UTC] No.43118797[source]▶
California, which dropped battery caging years ago, has been on of the states most hard hit. The real reason is that the US doesn't vaccinate it's chickens, which it mostly doesn't do because if it did, it couldn't export to several countries.
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cassepipe ◴[20 Feb 25 19:35 UTC] No.43119102[source]▶
Can you tell more ? Why does vaccination prevents export ?
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1. tredre3 ◴[20 Feb 25 23:47 UTC] No.43122102[source]▶
> Most U.S. trading partners won't accept exports from countries that allow vaccinations due to concerns that vaccines can mask the presence of the virus.

For what it's worth, America also bans vaccinated poultry imports. There were talks by the USDA to relax the ban when it comes to live animals, but I don't know if it passed.