Commercial Egg production

[RoostersCrow]

Settin'_Pretty :

...The growing conditions just aren't as bad as most people make it out to be. ......

At least you have finally acknowledged that the conditions are bad. How bad is debatable but at least having acknowledged the problem one can acknowledge the need for change.​

 

[ncgnance]

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Everything I've ever read about composting says NOT to use meat, meat byproducts, dog and cat feces, and dairy products. I don't see how rotting meat would make good fertilizer. Besides, that may be how anthrax and other diseases get into the soil and lay dormant, sometimes for years. I do NOT want dead meat laying on my land. That's why God made buzzards and possums, for cleanup. Burning is another good option. My 2 cents...

 

[Settin'_Pretty]

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At least you have finally acknowledged that the conditions are bad. How bad is debatable but at least having acknowledged the problem one can acknowledge the need for change.

What do you mean finally?
If you have a better way, then implement it, billions of people depend on the food.


**edited to remove inflammatory remarks. Keep it civil and on topic**

 

[Colored Egg Farmer]

Candeling is not just for fertal. You should candle all eggs. When you candle you can find the smallest cracks. You can also find bloods and rotten eggs. You can even check for the freshness of the egg by looking at the air cell while candleing. I candle my backyard chickens at home to make sure my customeres have the best egg posible and that i'm not going to have a blood in my food.

 

[Colored Egg Farmer]

anyone have any more questions?

 

[silkieluver_07]

yep the chicken house spreads the whole bodies over the field and it REEKS!

as for my friend, she can't stand to eat our eggs cause she hates how dark yellow the yolks are. she cant stand that they came out of my chicken's butt! if she doesn't know the chicken personally, she will eat the egg.

 

[patandchickens]

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The chief and almost only reason that composting instructions for gardeners say not to add meat is just that it attracts rodents, raccoons, dogs, etcetera. Which are generally frowned on in cities and suburbia

Composted hot and properly, there is next to no risk involved.

Anthrax? Nah. There is only going to be anthrax in bodies if the critters died of anthrax. Which in most of the country is pretty much a non issue. Botulism (which you may be thinking of) spores can develop on animal carcasses in anoxic environments (although a proper compost pile should NOT be anoxic) but they ALSO develop just as well on *vegetable* matter there, it's an equal-opportunity fungus

Composting (like, actual composting, like in piles of used bedding -- not just spreading carcasses over fields which in many places is illegal) is actually a recognized, common, and pretty GOOD way of disposing of agricultural carcasses. It does not pollute the air as burning does, and it recycles as much nutrients as possible from the bodies to use as fertilizer on fields.


Pat

 

[Colored Egg Farmer]

anyone have any more questions?

 

[Wolf-Kim]

What does your farm do with the dead birds, CEF? Why do you use this method? Is it regulation?

-Kim

 

[RoostersCrow]

Settin'_Pretty :

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At least you have finally acknowledged that the conditions are bad. How bad is debatable but at least having acknowledged the problem one can acknowledge the need for change.

What do you mean finally?
If you have a better way, then implement it, billions of people depend on the food.


**edited to remove inflammatory remarks. Keep it civil and on topic**​

The path to improvement has already been identified. I will state it again... Provide more space for the birds. The mechanism for getting onto that path will have to be regulation. (Yes.... Despite my distaste for government interference... in this case... I am advocating it to to curb the market forces that have led to the acknowledged bad conditions that currently exist.)

Market forces have no conscience. They can only be held in check by society setting standards and insisting they be adhered to. So yes ... goverment regulation will be required. Enforcement will be needed because there are always those who have trouble adhering to the rules.


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