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    Free Range danger

    For those of you that free range... along with predation , etc. have you considered the dangers of your birds being infected with Bird Flu from contact with wild birds and /or their deposits ?
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    S L O W M O T I O N !

    Ever since the switch over to the new and improved (?) version of this site ... each time I go to the next topic posting it took ..... F O R E V E R to load the page. Now, it not only takes ... F O R E V E R, but today , now every third time the screen goes totally...
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    PO and chicks

    If you will be ordering chicks next year from your favorite hatchery , please take note ... The Post Office Service just announced cuts to mail delivery that will trim $3 BILLION and the closure of 250 mail sorting locations. Mail deliveries are expected to be delayed by at least a day or...
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    Price to raise a chicken ? FUNNY MATH at it's best.

    Sign of the times... I saw an add for a great priced bank owned small farm very close to town on a nice paved road with custom homes for neighbors, so we whent to check it out. Add... Great 2000 sq ft. farm house on @5+/- acres with hay barn and 8 stall horse barn, fenced and cross fenced...
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    Mustangs and Eagles

    Yesterday, we drove through a large and isolated Indian Reservation in the Pacific North West. We saw 3 herds of mustangs, one herd had 20+ another about a dozen and another 7 horses. We stoped for lunch at their casino, then visited their gift shop where we saw many eagle feathers for sale...
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    Ponder this...

    only feed costs for my latest batch of 25 Cornish X chicks ... Current feed cost at $16.29/ 50 lbs. /20% protein bag / 50 lb = $0.325 / lb.. Total feed consumed by 25 straight run chicks for 30 days = 110 lbs x $0.325/lb = $35.75. Total Dressed carcass meat per chick at 30...
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    cost of corn...

    This is for all of us to take note and make plans now... In the news... the wholesaale price for corn has risen better then 50% this year already. Cotton prices are skyrocketing. Gas prices have gone up by about $0.55/gal in the last few months. With all of the unrest and governments falling in...
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    Greener Pastures

    After 3 surgeries on my right knee last year , and the very high temperatures sapping all of my streangth due to comming down with diabetes. I need to find greener pastures with minimum predators for free ranging, mild temperatures, low humidity, very few biting...
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    Combat the Congressional Grinsh

    Congress still hasn't passed an Federal Operating Butget for this year which is 2 1/2 months overdue. The stopgap bill passed last Dec.3 expires on this comming midnight Saturday . All Federal Government employees are required to report for work on Monday Morning and will then be sent home. This...
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    Metal shed for coop

    Does anyone raise chickens in one of those metal shed kits? How hot does it get inside of it in the summer, cold in winter compared to the outside temps?
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    Chicken Tour in the City

    Last Saterday, my wife and I took our 3 1/2 year old grandson on a Coup de Jour tour of keeping chickens in the City of Vancouver, Wa. Vacouver allows keeping hens only and as many as you wish so long as there is no complaints from the neighbors. There were 15 households represented in a...
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    Chickens from USA to Russia

    At a joint news conference Obama stated that USA is finalizing a deal with Russia to sell processed chicken to Russia. Watch prcies to rise for chicks, processed chicken, and feed. Supply and demand !
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    Interesting Chicken Purine and acid levels and gout

    Most of our routine blood lab tests do not include for uric acid serum levels. The higher the level number of purines and acid levels the more suseptable one becomes to painful gout flairups. In regard to chickens, the meat is considered moderately high in purines (rates between 100-400 mg of...
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    In the news... organic and "orthorexia" (sp)

    I just turned on the local TV noon news... " people who are so tuned in to "healthy" " organic" foods suffer from orthorexia (sp) . They not only suffer in the pocketbook but also malnurishment symtoms akin to anorexia as well ..." . If "orgaic" foods are taughted to be more healthy over...
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    Become an Urban Farmer in Your Own Backyard

    Yesterday, while at the Doctor's waiting room, I came across an article , pictures and all in an older Sunset magazine. It seams that this failed home loan officer in the SF bay area wanted to be an urban farmer that doesn't leave a large carbon footprint deep in his heart ... so he got his...
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    Coq au Vin many not be Organic anymore

    According to Associated Press ...there is a major pest invasion by the European Grapevine Moth (Lobesia botrana) since last September in the Napa Valley, California that threatens the wine industry. This pest as well as viruses was most likely braught in by suitcase smuggling of selected...
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    A Mouthful for Self Sufficiency

    For anyone ready to try their hand at 'self sufficency' here's a little tid bit. It's from an old book published in 1947 called Southern Crops. One chapter deals with the amount of food a farm family of 5, two adults and 3 children would eat. Based on a plan by Clemson University. Product...
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    Free trip causes extinction

    We got an oportunity for an all expenses paid trip to Oregon for six days. We had 21 6 week old Cornish X and noone to care for them on short notice. We just baught a 95 pound lamb from a neighbor that I butchered. Available Freezer camp accomodations were 14" x 14" x 12". Only me...
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    Bugs

    I keep seeing a lot of people claim that their free range chickens feed on grass and BUGS. In my backyard ( no grass or weeds as I garden with Roundup and 72 Redwood trees and numerous junipers on 2 acres of house grounds) or 20 acre pasture ( winter and spring only) my chickens would starve...
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    Organic and Economy

    A friend of my son in law's is a manager of the meat department at a local grocery. He tells me that there is now a noticable downturn in the organic meats and vegatables purchases at his store. They are now throwing away unsold products and are starting to order less for the foreseeable...
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