Eggs and Chickens in Haiti

Did you know? It takes about 48 days on average to raise a meat chicken to maturity; however, Haitians consume over 100,000 metric tons of imported chicken meat from the United States, Brazil and the European Union.

Here is a simple diet and fitness tip for you... Adding protein to your diet, something as simple as eating boiled eggs (ze bouyi) for breakfast can help you lose weight naturally. Read this...

Did you know? Eat that meat WELL DONE and you may have just increased your chances of CANCER... Watch the video...

Haitians in the Diaspora beware... The chicken in your Subway chicken sandwich might not contain very much chicken meat at all... A recent study conducted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has found that the sandwich chain's chicken meat contains about only about 50 percent chicken DNA -- or about half as much as fresh chicken from a supermarket.

There is fear growing among Haitian consumers of a 'PLASTIC chicken' out there and, because of that, many consumers are making the switch from imported boxed frozen chicken to the live Haitian chicken (poule pays / poule dur)... Do they have a good reason to be scared? Keep reading...

The majority of eggs being imported into Haiti are shipped and maintained in a condition that may be dangerous to Haitian consumers. Read this...

It's sick chicken season in Haiti... Last week, I lost 8 of my 12 chickens in the back yard and it made me feel sorry for all the Haitian men and women from the countryside who earn a living raising chicken... I just found out lots of chickens across Haiti get sick and die each and every year... "Maladi Poul" Haitians call it...

Here is something you don't read about everyday... 8 Haitians and 2 Dominicans have been arrested by Dominican authorities for importing chicken INTO the Dominican Republic... Apparently... Chicken OUT of DR is GOOD... But Chicken INTO DR... that's a NO NO...

READ THIS... The importation of chickens and eggs from the Dominican Republic into Haiti has greatly diminished... In the case of eggs, imports from DR decreased by 86.3%... If that is the case, it means Haiti is producing a lot MORE eggs these days to meet demands...

GOOD NEWS... Poultry farming is on the rise in Haiti... More chicken and more eggs being sold in Haiti are coming from Haitian poultry farms than ever before... There is no denying that this is a great business opportunity...