Eggs

[diver64]

But, do they?
I wonder how many of those toxic chickens get sold to pet food companies and are what's called 'chicken" or "chicken by-products" on the ingredients label?

IDK, he seemed pretty serious and the FDA isn't someone to fool with on something like that.

 

[sean donato]

I used to deliver boxes to several egg operations and pick up eggs at another for a WalMart DC. The egg places were some of the largest on the East Coast. I got to talking to the dock supervisor at one of them and asked who bought all of the chickens after they were done laying and he said no one. The chickens were so toxic after all the anti biotics and hormones they received to produce eggs that the FDA made them incinerate the chickens and bury the ashes.

I doubt that was anything thats happened recently. There are very strict laws regarding treatment of feed stock animals, from the FDA/ USDA and withdraw/ wait periods that must be observed after any treatments happen.

https://ask.usda.gov/s/article/Can-antibiotics-be-used-when-raising-chickens
This article is dated by today's standards, but information is pertinent non the less.
https://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/questions-answers-antibiotics-chicken-production/
all the laws/ regulations are fairly easy to look up.
Regarding egg layers, they are rarely kept past a first molt periods, seems what is done with them can vary depending on the operation. I haven't found any information that they are incinerated, rather killed then composted, or sent for meat uses, ie dog food etc.

 

[muddstopper]

I used to deliver boxes to several egg operations and pick up eggs at another for a WalMart DC. The egg places were some of the largest on the East Coast. I got to talking to the dock supervisor at one of them and asked who bought all of the chickens after they were done laying and he said no one. The chickens were so toxic after all the anti biotics and hormones they received to produce eggs that the FDA made them incinerate the chickens and bury the ashes.

Bull hockey. Cambell soup n Newport Tenn buys non productive, laid out, chickens by the truck load. there is also a plant in Concord NC that buys old chickens by the tractor trailer load. I forgot the name of the facility, but I have watched them run them thru by the hundreds, with Mexicans catching them and hanging them on a hook conveyor by the leg as they run inside to be slaughted. All this talk about chickens being drugged and hormones is a crock of bull. That reminds me of everyone saying young black girls growing big ****s because blacks eat so much chicken.

 

[diver64]

Bull hockey. Cambell soup n Newport Tenn buys non productive, laid out, chickens by the truck load. there is also a plant in Concord NC that buys old chickens by the tractor trailer load. I forgot the name of the facility, but I have watched them run them thru by the hundreds, with Mexicans catching them and hanging them on a hook conveyor by the leg as they run inside to be slaughted. All this talk about chickens being drugged and hormones is a crock of bull. That reminds me of everyone saying young black girls growing big ****s because blacks eat so much chicken.

Not "Bull Hockey". I'm telling you what more than one plant and/or shipping supervisor told me at a several commercial egg farms in 4 different states in the SE. Believe me or not, IDK.

 

[Okie]

I heard a rumor that the AMISH LOTTERY is now up to 4 DOZEN eggs.

 

[muddstopper]

Not "Bull Hockey". I'm telling you what more than one plant and/or shipping supervisor told me at a several commercial egg farms in 4 different states in the SE. Believe me or not, IDK.

I am not going to say that some birds are not destroyed in the manner you describe, but I have stood on the loading docks of companies that are turning chickens into soup and dog food. So as for believeing you, I dont think so. Commercial chicken houses can house from 250,000 to 500,000 chickens at a time. All those chickens are the same age and stop laying at about the same time. Thats a whole lot of meat to turn into ash. Gassing and burying spent hens also isnt a economical use of spend birds, not to mention the amount of land needed to bury 1/2million birds a year, every year, for as long as the farmer is in business. A lot of those birds are rendered and turned into oil for animal feed, I suspect those are the birds you are being told are incinerated and buried, which is false. Another large portion of the birds are being cooked and ground into feed stock. 500,000 chickens make a lot of oil and feed stock, way to much to simply burn them into ash, and those birds are being replaced on a rotated schedule of around 80 weeks. Birds are replaced according to egg weight more than age since eggs are sold according to weight, and the goal of the farmer is to sell the most egg weight compared to the amount of food fed.

Definition of Spent Hen​

A Spent Hen is a term used in the chicken and poultry industry to describe a laying hen that has reached the end of her productive egg-laying cycle, typically around 72 weeks of age. At this stage, the hen’s egg production decreases significantly, and she is considered to be of lower economic value for egg production. Spent hens are often culled and processed into various poultry products or used for pet food and other byproducts, contributing to the sustainable and efficient use of resources in the poultry industry.
https://chickenpets.com/glossary/spent-hen-chickens-poultry

 

[diver64]

I am not going to say that some birds are not destroyed in the manner you describe, but I have stood on the loading docks of companies that are turning chickens into soup and dog food. So as for believeing you, I dont think so. Commercial chicken houses can house from 250,000 to 500,000 chickens at a time. All those chickens are the same age and stop laying at about the same time. Thats a whole lot of meat to turn into ash. Gassing and burying spent hens also isnt a economical use of spend birds, not to mention the amount of land needed to bury 1/2million birds a year, every year, for as long as the farmer is in business. A lot of those birds are rendered and turned into oil for animal feed, I suspect those are the birds you are being told are incinerated and buried, which is false. Another large portion of the birds are being cooked and ground into feed stock. 500,000 chickens make a lot of oil and feed stock, way to much to simply burn them into ash, and those birds are being replaced on a rotated schedule of around 80 weeks. Birds are replaced according to egg weight more than age since eggs are sold according to weight, and the goal of the farmer is to sell the most egg weight compared to the amount of food fed.

Definition of Spent Hen​

A Spent Hen is a term used in the chicken and poultry industry to describe a laying hen that has reached the end of her productive egg-laying cycle, typically around 72 weeks of age. At this stage, the hen’s egg production decreases significantly, and she is considered to be of lower economic value for egg production. Spent hens are often culled and processed into various poultry products or used for pet food and other byproducts, contributing to the sustainable and efficient use of resources in the poultry industry.
https://chickenpets.com/glossary/spent-hen-chickens-poultry

Ok.

 

[StihlPotlicker]

I am not going to say that some birds are not destroyed in the manner you describe, but I have stood on the loading docks of companies that are turning chickens into soup and dog food. So as for believeing you, I dont think so. Commercial chicken houses can house from 250,000 to 500,000 chickens at a time. All those chickens are the same age and stop laying at about the same time. Thats a whole lot of meat to turn into ash. Gassing and burying spent hens also isnt a economical use of spend birds, not to mention the amount of land needed to bury 1/2million birds a year, every year, for as long as the farmer is in business. A lot of those birds are rendered and turned into oil for animal feed, I suspect those are the birds you are being told are incinerated and buried, which is false. Another large portion of the birds are being cooked and ground into feed stock. 500,000 chickens make a lot of oil and feed stock, way to much to simply burn them into ash, and those birds are being replaced on a rotated schedule of around 80 weeks. Birds are replaced according to egg weight more than age since eggs are sold according to weight, and the goal of the farmer is to sell the most egg weight compared to the amount of food fed.

Definition of Spent Hen​

A Spent Hen is a term used in the chicken and poultry industry to describe a laying hen that has reached the end of her productive egg-laying cycle, typically around 72 weeks of age. At this stage, the hen’s egg production decreases significantly, and she is considered to be of lower economic value for egg production. Spent hens are often culled and processed into various poultry products or used for pet food and other byproducts, contributing to the sustainable and efficient use of resources in the poultry industry.
https://chickenpets.com/glossary/spent-hen-chickens-poultry

well, if that didn't come from Bookface, I don't know if its reliable. .

 

[muddstopper]

well, if that didn't come from Bookface, I don't know if its reliable. .

Nobody has to take my word for it. The information is out there if one cares to look.