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    Grain Fed Rant

    Are mega feedlots like this one unethical, immoral, cruel? As BSartist rightly points out, we're all entitled to opinions. However, we're not entitled to our own facts. If these cattle are here for 6 months, as other posters pointed out, then, at the very least, where is their opportunity...
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    Grain Fed Rant

    The podcaster at this site http://sshomestead.com runs a brewery and feeds the bi-products to his animals, particularly his pigs. They seem to thrive on it. As an aside, it seems that once you're over 1,400 posts on this site you are entitled to act crassly and engage in snotty attacks on...
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    Grain Fed Rant

    No, I'm certainly no cattle expert, but what I do know is that dried manure solid-based bedding is standard practice in indoor enclosures. What I was particularly responding to was herfrds defense of outdoor, ConAgra-type feedlots. What really interests me, though, is how someone like herfrds...
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    Grain Fed Rant

    At least threads like this help crystallize one's own thinking. I think jnntefend's point is more than fair: A restaurant, grocery store, or any part of our industrial food system that markets a product as USDA grain fed beef is saying more than just what the animal eats. It's an associative...
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    Need Advice

    Sounds like she's heading in a good direction. And, as you mentioned in your first post, infection is the main concern now. In my opinion, you're doing everything you're supposed to. If you haven't before needed to look out for infections in chickens you may want to do some searching on this...
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    Need Advice

    Since you're probably going to be treating the wound for 7-14 days, you'll want to trim back as much as will allow you easy access to the wound. (Imagine that there will be times when you're cleaning the wound by yourself and you'll need to hold the bird with one hand and apply treatment with...
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    Need Advice

    Your instincts are spot on. I'd trim the feathers away from around the wound so that you can have a better view of the wound and have easier access as you apply whatever ointment you're using (my choice is to cleanse with a saline solution and then dress with Neosporin). As for the wound's size...
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    Feeding Flies and Using Fly Attractant

    I'm interested in trapping flies and then feeding them to my six-chook-strong pastured laying flock. I don't have a fly problem, but where there is feces there is the occasional fly, right? I found the below year-old YouTube video (see the 1:45 minute mark) describing feeding chickens flies...
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