Chickens and livestock?

[chickengeorgeto]

Thanks for the info everybody. I'm getting lots of other livestock info down at BYH. I don't know how some the older generations made it without some of these great resources.

I hope you are using a communication resource called sarcasm.

If not, I don't know how the younger generation is ever going to get to be the older generation if they follow some of the hair brained ideas that a few folks tout today for fun and profit.

This is especially true for the worst of the bad ideas that some few try to pawn off on the younger generation by calling it "Sustainable Agriculture."

 

[centrarchid]

I hope you are using a communication resource called sarcasm.

If not, I don't know how the younger generation is ever going to get to be the older generation if they follow some of the hair brained ideas that a few folks tout today for fun and profit.

This is especially true for the worst of the bad ideas that some few try to pawn off on the younger generation by calling it "Sustainable Agriculture."

Now, now there. Sustainable means you can continue the process for more than a few of years. I would like to think in terms of multiple human generations. Rules are it must not degrade environmental quality either locally or down stream/wind and also be done at a profit. Many of the old farts actually engaged in it. Somehow the knowhow was lost as farming went from smaller diversified operations to large scale monocultures where reliance upon relatively natural ecological systems was replaced by the temporary ability to produce crops by overriding limitations normally set by nutrients, water and pests. Latter is sustainable so long as energy is cheap, nutrients likes phosphates are easy to get, and your pesticides actually work. All three of latter are in trouble thus needing some research to rectify.


If you are into gamefowl as I suspect your are, especially as done prior to the 1930's, then you are at least familiar with some of the techniques that are employable for sustainable small scale production.

 

[marvun22]

I hope you are using a communication resource called sarcasm.

If not, I don't know how the younger generation is ever going to get to be the older generation if they follow some of the hair brained ideas that a few folks tout today for fun and profit.

This is especially true for the worst of the bad ideas that some few try to pawn off on the younger generation by calling it "Sustainable Agriculture.

Not sarcasm, just phrased it wrong. I meant that this website and others have really helped me raising poultry. I just meant to say how helpful this website is.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

That is what I though, have a good day and may your chickens only die of old age.