Subj : Re: Tariffs = Lower Price
To   : AARON THOMAS
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Sun Mar 23 2025 01:32:00

AT>There's a lot of statistical information involved with all of this. Statistic
  >y the chickens in Canada are less cramped, statistically they're less likely
  >spread a virus, and statistically there's less migratory birds in Canada, but
  >at's too many statistics to swallow. But despite all these statistics, it's s
  >l statistically impossible for bird flu to not exist in Canada while it's "ra
  >ntly infecting American chickens."

As I just mentioned in the previous message, we are also guilty of
keeping most of our egg laying chickens in cramped cages, so I was
wrong to suggest otherwise earlier. That's changed a bit over the
years and I wasn't up to date.

And as far as the bird flu thing goes, I think that the vast majority
of migratory birds prefer your climate to ours since these birds
are generally from other far away countries and not our regular
ones that travel North and South to avoid winter..  (Snowbirds?)  B)

That said, it could well be our North/South birds that do pick
up avian flu and bring the odd case back to Canada. We do have
some of it here but not in the numbers you appear to get there.

I say that like it's nothing up here.. We had one egg farmer in
British Columbia who had to kill 30,000 hens due to that, and our
totals are edging into the millions, but they say that down there
you've lost at least 20 million hens to it so maybe the numbers
are not so much a result of climate, as I was thinking, but just
how many farms there are that can be hit with it..

I know.. I'm wobbling between two different possible causes and
either or both could be correct.

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