Pellet heads!! What's up today?

Nice out today.
Had to go put a new battery in my daughter's car as the sub-zero temps killed it off. Decent car batteries aren't inexpensive anymore. Something decent is $180, better is like $230. Was going to get a EverStart Maxx for $120 at WalMart then read all the reviews for the last couple years on how they die after a year, WalMart doesn't honor the 3 year replacement w/o a lot of hassle. Went to O'Reillys got one for $180.

One nice surprise when I went food shopping this morning was an 18 pack of large eggs at Walmart dropped from $7.27 last Sun to $5.15 today. Course after the huge fire at a chicken plant last week that killed 100,000 hens it'll probably be back up next week. The article I read about the fire said they didn't expect it to affect egg prices. Really, the loss of 100,000 egg producing hens won't have any effect?

sam

 

Then again, I changed the oil in my truck a month ago. Oil (synthetic) and filter was over 50 bucks

 

Thank you - I've replied on the TG thread so any answers are easy for others to find if they need to.

 

Eh, 100,000 chickens is, forgive me, chicken feed. There are over 300 million egg laying chickens in the USA alone.

Batteries aren't cheap, but at the same time are something you don't want to be cheap on unless you like being stranded and having to replace them every 3 years. In my experience, a good battery should last 7 years unless it is abused or there is an electrical issue with the vehicle.

 

Don't know where you saw these reviews......I had one in my Trailblazer for 6 years before selling it, and it cranked like new. Got great reviews as the best battery to get from Consumers Reports. Seen a lot of positive reviews other places. I just put one in my truck 5 months ago (and it's a BIG battery)........$148 and they install for free. Spins that starter over like a banshee.

I'd like to read all those negative reviews.

 

Sometimes they have a bad run and it creates a bad set of reviews for a period of time.

 

Saw them yesterday on WalMart's site for the battery I was looking at. I was surprised at all the bad reviews cause I put EverStart Maxx batteries in our 2 cars 3 years ago and they've been fine. Figured supply chain, source material and labor issues for the past couple years may have contributed.

sam

 

Have no idea on the chickens, just going by the news stories saying because of the bird flu that the number of hens is lower. No idea how fast the industry recovers from that. Never saw the stores around here having no eggs, just higher prices.

sam

 

Nice to have the space for them, i'd love the area you have.

Mine is like a surgical operation. Into the driveway, into the slot in the garage.

 

I'm not one to normally follow chickens and eggs, but I had to go look it up since I thought for the millions of eggs used not only for breafast, but in baking, that 100,000 should be a fairly low percentage out of the whole. Previous years we've had up to 400 million egg laying hens, so the flue did wipe out a good percentage. Now mind you, it is tough to find a true number because some statistics show that they only count operations with 30,000 or more hens. But the bird flue wiped out 43 million egg laying hens according to the USDA, which is a pretty high percentage.

The bad side to waking up so early in the morning is I have plenty of time to geek out over things that nobody asked, or really cares about - except in maybe an abstract way (such as consumer price)

 

We usually use 4 eggs a day for breakfast. Either fried or omelettes filled with a few items of what we like -- onions, peppers, mushrooms, spinach, chourizo (hot Portuguese sausage) , avocado, various cheeses. So I usually get two 18-packs a week. I have also noticed that the size of the eggs is back to normal. Last summer/fall it seemed like the large eggs were more medium sized.

sam

 

Nice.Free heat.

 

57 here today and muddy. Stove is idling along. Like corn, we get free eggs from the place the corn comes from. The owner of the seed farm raises chickens and always has too many eggs.

 

NICE!

 

My Englander 10-CPM was set up to burn cherry pits as one of the options on the electronics. Too bad I never saw any in my area to try out.....guess you need to live in Michigan, or somewhere near there.