Affected by the cold weather and bird flu, the whole of Taiwan has caused a shortage of eggs, and many people have cried out, "It's over!" In this regard, a netizen who is an "egg farmer" posted an article pointing out that "the shortage of eggs after the New Year is afraid that it will worsen", and listed "three major reasons" to explain why Taiwan is short of eggs, and the exposure of the article immediately triggered a heated discussion among netizens.
According to Taiwan media reports, a Taiwanese netizen posted on a well-known forum that he lived in Yunlin and worked as an egg farmer, and posted a number of chicken farm photos. The netizen believes that after the New Year, "the egg shortage time may be longer, and even aggravate the deterioration", frankly because of the price increase of feed, oil, and international freight. Netizens further pointed out that for the animal husbandry industry, the highest and most important is the "feed cost", and corn as the most important ingredient, in the past two years, affected by inflation, the price has risen to the sky, coupled with the soaring freight rate, the cost has also taken off.
Then there is the problem of "egg price", because the DPP authorities "Agricultural Committee" announced that the egg price has frozen up, the purchase price of the place of origin has not changed, recently the netizen called to ask the egg shop in Taichung to inquire about the purchase price, the other party opened him 1 box (20 jin, 1 kg = 600 grams) 700 yuan (NT$, the same below) including freight to Taichung, equal to 1 kg only 35 yuan only, frankly such a price "really unattractive to sell in the past."
In addition, "layer production efficiency changes" is also one of the key reasons, the netizen pointed out that "from the beginning of the chicken to lay eggs, about 6 days of 5 eggs, according to the egg production efficiency is almost 90%, from the second month will be reduced by about 3 to 5% per month" However, due to the big rise in feed, but when the terminal purchase price did not move, the chicken that could have been born for 10 months may be forced to change moulting because it is not cost-effective at 6 months; the chicken that could have been raised for two years will also be for the same reason. It may be kept for a year and a half or even without moulting and then all of them will be caught, so "there are a lot of eggs that the old hen would have laid in the middle to enter the market".
The netizen frankly said that in the case of a large number of chicken farms due to high costs, a large number of eliminated hens sell, naturally will cause the impact of egg shortage, and once the supply chain is broken, it is not so simple to make up for it, the current demand is probably 100 supply 90 situation, the terminal as long as the money to buy, or buy eggs can be used, "because the price of brand eggs, Dongfu eggs is originally more than 1 times that of the general eggs, so their cost tolerance is higher, the hens can grow longer."
However, at present, the international corn and freight continue to rise, feed continues to rise, the price of eggs will not keep up again, I am afraid that the lack of eggs will become "demand 100 supply 80", frankly speaking, it is really difficult to buy eggs at this time, then the impact is probably not only eggs, the entire animal husbandry industry will be affected, and then the problem will slowly appear. (Lin Jingxian/Editor)