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Speaker 1: handle here, and since it is Friday, it is time
Speaker 1: for Foody Friday with Neil, Sabaiedra and Me coming up
Speaker 1: right after this segment. It's asked handle anything, which is
Speaker 1: always fine, all right, Neil, Yes, we do Foody Friday.
Speaker 1: I have a very deep philosophical question. Oh boy, since
Speaker 1: birds are killing us now right, well, it's or we're
Speaker 1: on we're on pandemic. Yeah, yeah, So what's going to
Speaker 1: kill us first? The chicken or the egg?
Speaker 2: Oh boy, that's that's what you want to lead with. Oh,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know. I do know that
Speaker 2: one of the questions that I've been asked a lot
Speaker 2: lately is how come egg prices are going up. One
Speaker 2: of the reasons is the Avian flu. The second is
Speaker 2: just you know, economic inflation right now, and that's where
Speaker 2: we are. But the the avian flu has been a
Speaker 2: huge part of it. You know that they have to
Speaker 2: proactively kill a lot of egg laying hens because of
Speaker 2: concern about the avian flu. So if one gets it,
Speaker 2: then to protect other parts of the flock, they actually
Speaker 2: have to destroy it.
Speaker 1: Going back to my joke, which turns only out to
Speaker 1: be half a joke usually is yes, sometimes a quarter
Speaker 1: of a joke. You would think that because of the
Speaker 1: culling of the flocks, I mean the destruction of entire flows, millions, millions,
Speaker 1: Why aren't the the chickens that are used, you know,
Speaker 1: the cooking chickens, eating chickens. Why aren't they affected like
Speaker 1: the eggs?
Speaker 2: Okay, there are two types of chickens. So the hens
Speaker 2: that lay the eggs are egg laying hens. The other
Speaker 2: chickens that we eat or you're going to get your
Speaker 2: rotissey chicken. And those prices aren't going through the roof
Speaker 2: or anything. They are roasters. They're two different chickens. And
Speaker 2: not only are they two different chickens, but they are
Speaker 2: raised differently as well. So the hen laying or the
Speaker 2: egg laying hens tend to be in migrant they're in
Speaker 2: tighter quarters, they're older because you're using them for long.
Speaker 2: You're not killing them for meat. Now you're killing off
Speaker 2: the roaster chickens at a young age six eight weeks
Speaker 2: whatever it is, and so they're not living long enough
Speaker 2: to often catch this. Plus they're not in the migratory
Speaker 2: paths of certain birds that are carrying the disease over,
Speaker 2: so it's not hitting them. It hits them a little bit,
Speaker 2: but it doesn't hit them to the degree. So it's
Speaker 2: not passed along to us in any way, shape or form,
Speaker 2: because they're not being destroyed the same way. So you
Speaker 2: can still go out and get chicken or you know,
Speaker 2: we had the Super Bowl, people were going out get
Speaker 2: chicken wings. Totally different situation. The birds that the hens
Speaker 2: that are laying the eggs are around much longer, they're
Speaker 2: in different quarters, and they come across other birds depending
Speaker 2: on where they are. And you know what's nuts. I mean,
Speaker 2: we're down to I don't know, one hundred million egg
Speaker 2: laying birds right now or something. We almost have to
Speaker 2: have one egg laying chicken per person in the United
Speaker 2: States to be at the.
Speaker 1: Normal rationships three times.
Speaker 2: But isn't that insane? Like it takes. That's about what
Speaker 2: it is. It's somewhere around three hundred and let's say,
Speaker 2: eighteen three hundred and twenty million hens, and we're around
Speaker 2: one hundred and some odd million righting.
Speaker 1: But you know you're right, For example, you still get
Speaker 1: the rotisserie chicken. We talked about that earlier this morning
Speaker 1: at Costco, And the other day it was at Costco,
Speaker 1: because I'm always at Costco, and I know you buy
Speaker 1: a rotisserie chicken, it's still five bucks and they give
Speaker 1: you a thermometer.
Speaker 2: They throw it in.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a loss leader of course for them, of course,
Speaker 2: but it is. People do get confused when they say, well,
Speaker 2: aren't we killing off the chickens? And how come we're
Speaker 2: able to get decent prices When you look at eggs.
Speaker 2: We just paid nine dollars or something for eggs at
Speaker 2: the local grocery store for a dozen eggs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 2: That's nine bucks.
Speaker 1: What should they be? What? What considering inflation.
Speaker 2: Around three dollars?
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: Fifty Yeah, I mean that that could still be Yeah,
Speaker 2: that would probably be about the norm, maybe maybe even
Speaker 2: a little lower. They can be very inexpensive when we
Speaker 2: are in complete balance.
Speaker 1: So how long does it take to bring back the
Speaker 1: flocks to the point where we hit normal production?
Speaker 2: You know there, I've seen different and red different different
Speaker 2: timelines as to what it would take. But we're definitely
Speaker 2: not going to turn it around overnight. I mean you're
Speaker 2: looking at I was reading about someone breaking down how
Speaker 2: a lot of people want to start their own little
Speaker 2: egg farms in their in their backyard. A lot of
Speaker 2: people are doing that, and they're even saying don't buy
Speaker 2: an adult chicken or hand to raise them from chicks,
Speaker 2: to control their environment and how they're raised in all
Speaker 2: of those things. So it does take to get to
Speaker 2: maturity to start laying eggs does take some times. And
Speaker 2: of course you know that's part of the egg laying
Speaker 2: processes as well. They're just not eating them, they're fertilizing them.
Speaker 2: And and when you have a shortage, now you're using
Speaker 2: some of those eggs to create more.
Speaker 1: You are you using less eggs in your life? I am?
Speaker 1: I am?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we go. I've got an eight year
Speaker 2: old boy, so and I love eggs. I think eggs
Speaker 2: are a cheap, easy protein and you know, and they're tasty.
Speaker 2: So but yeah, I eat a little less eggs these days,
Speaker 2: just you know. But we we still keep them in
Speaker 2: the house. They're still there, all right.
Speaker 1: Neil, Oh, tomorrow you do the Fork Report.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm broadcasting live tomorrow from Morongo Casino Resort and
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Speaker 1: And I'm not going to share with you. But Neil
Speaker 1: and I are in the midst of putting together a
Speaker 1: broadcast together that we have never done. And I'm talking
Speaker 1: about that, yeah, that one. Okay, okay, all right?
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