Comment by XorNot
3 days ago
You're missing the elephant in the room: egg prices are going up due to supply constraints due to flock culling due to the spread of bird flu.
At the scale you're talking about...you have a bird flu susceptible flock. If backyard chickens became really common - like if every second person in a street had them - then bird flu spread would run wild (you'd also vastly increase the number of poultry-human contacts providing a vector for a species jump).
this is a good point. When you have mega flocks at factory farms, you at least have the option to sterilize the farm to stop the spread. If every lot has its own flock, that won't work at all
And inspections/testing/liability.