California - Northern

[EZFarms]

okay so someone asked earlier what the interview would be about that i want to do. i gave a short answer cuz i was busy but now im not. anyway i want other peoples views on proposition 2 regarding battery hens. im doing my English research paper on it and i already have one interview from a professor on campus but i want one or more of your opinions. message me or comment here if you would like to be part of it

 

[dldolan]

okay so someone asked earlier what the interview would be about that i want to do. i gave a short answer cuz i was busy but now im not. anyway i want other peoples views on proposition 2 regarding battery hens. im doing my English research paper on it and i already have one interview from a professor on campus but i want one or more of your opinions. message me or comment here if you would like to be part of ii

I was confused, so looked it up as November's Prop 2 was about a Rainy Day fund. I see this was passed seven years ago, so I totally forgot that it was this long to full operation. Being about to turn around, lie down, stand up and extend their limbs seems like a bare minimum requirement to me! From Wikipedia:
Proposition 2 was a California ballot proposition in that state's general election on November 4, 2008. It passed with 63% of the votes in favor and 37% against. Submitted to the Secretary of State as the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, the initiative's name (as with others such as Proposition 8) was amended to officially be known as the Standards for Confining Farm Animals initiative. The official title of the statute enacted by the proposition is the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act.
The proposition adds a chapter to Division 20 of the California Health and Safety Code to prohibit the confinement of certain farm animals in a manner that does not allow them to turn around freely, lie down, stand up, and fully extend their limbs. The measure deals with three types of confinement: veal crates, battery cages, and sow gestation crates.
Having been passed by the voters on November 4, 2008, the key portion of the statute became operative on January 1, 2015. Farming operations had until that date to implement the new space requirements for their animals, and the statute now prohibits animals in California from being confined in a proscribed manner.

 

[lualshannon]

okay so someone asked earlier what the interview would be about that i want to do. i gave a short answer cuz i was busy but now im not. anyway i want other peoples views on proposition 2 regarding battery hens. im doing my English research paper on it and i already have one interview from a professor on campus but i want one or more of your opinions. message me or comment here if you would like to be part of ii

I was confused, so looked it up as November's Prop 2 was about a Rainy Day fund. I see this was passed seven years ago, so I totally forgot that it was this long to full operation. Being about to turn around, lie down, stand up and extend their limbs seems like a bare minimum requirement to me! From Wikipedia:
Proposition 2 was a California ballot proposition in that state's general election on November 4, 2008. It passed with 63% of the votes in favor and 37% against. Submitted to the Secretary of State as the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, the initiative 's name (as with others such as Proposition 8 ) was amended to officially be known as the Standards for Confining Farm Animals initiative. The official title of the statute enacted by the proposition is the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act.
The proposition adds a chapter to Division 20 of the California Health and Safety Code to prohibit the confinement of certain farm animals in a manner that does not allow them to turn around freely, lie down, stand up, and fully extend their limbs. The measure deals with three types of confinement: veal crates, battery cages , and sow gestation crates .
Having been passed by the voters on November 4, 2008, the key portion of the statute became operative on January 1, 2015. Farming operations had until that date to implement the new space requirements for their animals, and the statute now prohibits animals in California from being confined in a proscribed manner.

Hi DiDolan, Thank you! Your comment expresses my sentiments 100 % !!! Several years ago, I was invited to accompany a friend who was going to an egg production facility. I could only bear to be in the building for couple of minutes only. The sight of the unfortunate chickens crowded into small cages, and their sound was simply the most horrific nightmare I have ever seen. I will not forget it as long as I live! Seven years seems like a plenty of time for the egg farmers to make the required changes, which I hope they all abide the law. The birds are still in cages with couple more inches to be able to move a bit. Egg prices went up a bit, but, I believe it is well worth it. Lual

 

[Happy Chooks]

Came home from work to find the valve on my Chicken Fountain has failed and there was water just pouring out the stupid thing. Sooooo not happy at the moment. Sent them an email. We'll see what they say. There's no way for me to fix it or replace the valve. The only option is for them to send me a new one and I'm not sure they will.

Customer service is great with them. I had one of the hooks break, and he sent me a new one even though I offered to pay for it.

 

[HighStreetCoop]

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Good to know. He emailed back last night and said to flush the whole system out and see if something got caught in it. Not sure what could have, since I haven't removed the red cap since I installed it a few weeks ago, but I'll do as I'm told and see what happens.

 

[HighStreetCoop]

Quote: Hi DiDolan,

Thank you! Your comment expresses my sentiments 100 % !!!

Several years ago, I was invited to accompany a friend who was going to an egg production facility. I could only bear to be in the building for couple of minutes only. The sight of the unfortunate chickens crowded into small cages, and their sound was simply the most horrific nightmare I have ever seen. I will not forget it as long as I live!

Seven years seems like a plenty of time for the egg farmers to make the required changes, which I hope they all abide the law. The birds are still in cages with couple more inches to be able to move a bit. Egg prices went up a bit, but, I believe it is well worth it.

Lual

I got INTO it with a guy from Alabama in another section of the forum. He was ranting about how California is breaking the law by having higher standards. Um, no. We're saying comply or peddle your wares elsewhere. Nothing illegal about that at all. And then he started in bagging on California in general and after dropping some actual stats about his state, I had to cut myself off from looking again before I got myself banned from the forum.

 

[TheKeeper]

This is the neatest coloring - and, yes, looks like is going to be a silver partridge silkie (x CCL I think)

 

[TheKeeper]

This funny girl for sale: $10

I hatched her from an egg on 8/30/14. The eggs were from Papa's Poultry (Jeff) in Redding - a mixed pen with silkies, sizzles, & frizzles.
She is a cuckoo frizzled silkie. Very nice barring for a girl.

Nothing wrong with her - I need to make room for some showgirl peepers & future seramas.
I am in Fairfield & will be traveling to Roseville on Friday midday.
Thanks!

 

[attimus]

Any one hear those loud booms yesterday? Low test jet? Artillery fire? Blasting at the Ferguson rock slide? These are a few of the speculations. Sounded like thunder with no clouds in the sky. My birds didn't seem to bothered by it. It seems to be on everyone's minds today. A lot of looking up.

 

[chiqita]

I got INTO it with a guy from Alabama in another section of the forum. He was ranting about how California is breaking the law by having higher standards. Um, no. We're saying comply or peddle your wares elsewhere. Nothing illegal about that at all. And then he started in bagging on California in general and after dropping some actual stats about his state, I had to cut myself off from looking again before I got myself banned from the forum.

good girl!
its a good time to look at your chicken systems. we are redoing the humidity system in the dicky, the san jose hard water got to it Im a bad water buyer <<...