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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (30 children)

Geez this country is really obsessed with eggs. Almost like it's some kind of hard addiction.

At this point, I'm astonished no one has come up with some kind of synthetic egg that looks, acts, and tastes just like the real thing.

It appears a hen needs about 115g of feed a day to produce one 50g egg, so the product yield is less than half the input, plus all the other overhead like conditioned living space, water, antibiotics, lobbying for ag-gag laws against animal rights activists... I bet someone could come up with a more efficient way to make an egg. They could even call it something like "Aeg(TM)" which could have some cute marketing meaning.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (8 children)

It appears a hen needs about 115g of feed a day to produce one 50g egg, so the product yield is less than half the input,

That's surprisingly efficient.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Not only that, they also reduce organic waste, they help keep some pests at bay and they fertilize the soil for you

The little town of Limburg, Belgium offered 3 chickens to 2,000 households as an experiment in 2010 to cut down on household waste. Belgian officials have reported that the chickens are a huge success, organic waste has been cut in half and the families have gained a supply of free, fresh eggs.

We should be bringing back keeping animals at home, chickens for sure at least, ducks are loud cunts.

Then someone should open a business that butchers the chicken for you, so you don't have to get your hands dirty even.

i grew up in post soviet era central europe, collecting all the vegetable scraps and even eggshels onto a bowl while cooking then taking it out back and giving it to chickens was the norm.

[–] Trigger2_2000 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Peacocks are what you need my friend. You'll think ducks are very quiet quite soon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Nothing like something that sounds like a woman screaming to really liven up the neighborhood. Beautiful plumage, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

We had a neighbour a few houses over get one. Never saw it, but I certainly heard the fucker.

He didn't last long.

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