Many folks like elevating their very own chickens.
“We have lots of chickens actually,” Kelly Thompson of Weatherford mentioned. “We have about 30 right now we raise for meat and for eggs.”
Thompson and others are watching the information of the chook flu outbreak intently.
“We all talk about that,” Thompson mentioned. “We talk about being careful. Being a little bit safer. When you are working with animals on a regular basis you are always cleaning up after yourself. You are always making sure you are washing your hands after you handle your animals.”
Grateful to have her personal eggs, however she would not suppose the chook flu will trigger increased costs on the grocery retailer.
“I think if the producers of chickens don’t use this as a way to really increase the prices I don’t think we’ll see a big hike because it’s such a small percentage of the birds that are affected right now and we’ve been through this before,” Thompson mentioned.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller agreed.
“This facility is less than four percent of their production so there won’t be any spike in egg prices,” Miller mentioned. “Eggs are totally safe. Poultry is totally safe to buy and eat.”
Miller added chook flu spreading to dairy cows in Texas and 6 different states should not have an effect on dairy costs both.
“All that milk was destroyed,” Miller mentioned. “Again, it’s a very small percentage of, less than one percent, of the overall milk production that had to be destroyed. So, it’s not going to affect the price of dairy products at the grocery store.”
Still, some individuals are involved and Thompson mentioned that raised curiosity in native eggs.
“We’ve had a lot of friends calling asking can we get eggs from you instead of the store,” Thompson mentioned. “We have a lot of our neighbors that used to not sell to outsiders that are now packaging up and selling because people have a little bit of a fear building.”
