“My eggs are too expensive to eat; instead, people come to me to buy one egg to hatch in the hope it will be a male which they can cross with their indigenous hens,” said a woman.

The following report is by the United Nations – in an article titled, “First Person: ‘My eggs are too expensive to eat’ (and that’s a good thing),” published on February 11th, 2024:

Over 80 chicken rearers in Anosy region have so far received the possibly life-altering birds, which originate in India but which are now thriving in Tanzania. 

FAO brought eggs from the East African country to hatch chicks in Madagascar. 

Lucette Vognentseva, one of the new owners, spoke to UN News at her home in the town of Ifotaka.

“I received five chickens, three females and two males, from FAO last November and so far, two of the hens have laid 46 eggs. The other one is yet to produce.

These are Kuroiler chickens, and they are good for laying eggs and for meat. They are better than our local chickens because they grow faster, are bigger, produce more eggs and are more resistant to harsh conditions.  

I can sell one of my eggs for 2000 ariary [$0.45] which is four times more than the value of a local chicken egg. My eggs are too expensive to eat; instead, people come to me to buy one egg to hatch in the hope it will be a male which they can cross with their indigenous hens. This will improve the stock of their chickens and will be more profitable for them.

Some people want to bring their hens to be impregnated by my cock, but I do not accept that as I cannot be sure that their chickens are not carrying diseases; mine are fully vaccinated and healthy. 

Lucette Vognentseva holds one of the chickens bred from a Tanzanian egg. Courtesy: UN News/Daniel Dickinson

They live in the coop that I built and do not roam free like the birds of my neighbours, and I have to buy special food from the market as they cannot go searching for their own.

They are domesticated animals who now recognize me. I am able to tell when they need feeding or want water.

My advice to other farmers who are considering these foreign birds is to be courageous; this pure breed from Tanzania makes more money. My plan is to increase the size of my brood.

In the village, people have taken notice and are coming to me for advice about how to keep these birds. I have become known as the ‘foreign chicken woman’.” 


AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[5] The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want. [6] The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

Proverbs 21:5-6

I mention this because this greed is the same greed that destroyed the United States; introducing GMOs and gene-edited slop that is nowhere near as healthy, but produces more volume and therefore a higher price tag with it, and eventually, as it did in the U.S., the fake stuff became the normal and the real, clean, unadulterated food became expensive and practically criminalized because big business lobbied and bought-out the government. And at the same time these GMO chickens are now being allowed to intermingle and breed with the regular chickens, thereby by making these frankenstein hybrids.

Please, my fellow Africans, do not fall victim to the same things that plagued and destroyed us…

Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

Leviticus 19:19; Deuteronomy 22:9

Though we are not under the Old Testament anymore, we can still can glean wisdom and knowledge from it. In this case, don’t mix your GMO chicken with the real chickens: keep the real chickens pure, or whatever sort of livestock or crops.


[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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  • Jeremiah 17:10-11 KJV
    10 I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
    11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

  • I, for one, marvel at the creation God has made and are amazed at his unique ways. His infinite creativity and complexity fascinate me yet scare me too when I think of the heavenly creatures. I mean even the four bound Angels in the great Euphrates River, bound and created specifically for to kill a third part of man. Wow.

    It blew me away, the first time I ever, read the LORD created both Peace and evil,

    Isaiah45
    7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. 8Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it. 9Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth.

  • Proving the curse on Canaan still at work since Ham sinned against his father, Noah. Which can only be broken through salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ. Which proves all the KittyCats missionaries ain’t of the LORD and they ain’t got no temporal nor spiritual sword for if they had, the curse would have been lifted.

    Kitty got caught being a knockoff and not the real deal. lol

    Praise the LORD GOD JESUS and all the Glory to him, for he revealed this to me and not of my own understanding, AMEN!

  • It amazes me that a free range pastured chicken egg in Africa costs around 11 cents. At the grocery store we pay around 70 cents per egg. Why is that?

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