Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[Shadrach]

Besides the dining area of our local diner being closed, not a thing has changed here. Aside from “out-of-towners” coming here and buying up all our Toilet Paper!! I don’t know anyone that has it, knows someone that has it or even knows OF someone having it here!
We are a very small rural/farming community. Less than 60k in the entire county I believe. So strangers kinda stick out. Local stores pretty much know everyone, at least by face, so they have started to refuse sale to anyone that’s from outside of the community. I guess it got pretty bad. The owner said he had someone come down from Nashville and try to buy just about all the toilet paper in stock! After that they stopped sales unless they know/recognize you or someone vouches for you.
I wonder if anyone else on here, that lives out in the country, has noticed a lot of strangers driving around their area? A neighbor told me he spoke to some people that think that they can just come out here to “survive in the country” if it gets bad in town and they were here looking around! I think people believe that they can just escape the city and just come out to our farms to “survive”! I hope that’s not true and that’s not the case. Cuz they’re gonna have a very rude awakening if it is! Most land owners around here do NOT take kindly to trespassers.

Not much like that happens here because of the road block checks.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Where are you in VA? If you post a request on your state thread (Where Am I? Where are You!, under "Forums,") I'll bet you'll find someone with an extra rooster.

Thanks. I want them for eating though.
Not sure that Joe Neighbor would appreciate me asking for young roos under 6 months so I can practice my dispatching and processing skills.

I figured if I had an incubator it could reduce my need for picking up meat chicks at the PO or being reliant upon grocery stores. I've got a decent sized Aussie Roo and a dozen hens but all of my hens are young, save a for 2 non-broody older girls.
All these years in chickens and I'm ashamed to say I've always relied on my broody hens to do the work. Which, until now has worked out great.

I am considering some of these in case I do get a full bodied roo out of it for the future and the rest for the freezer-
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/p...rd-surprise-chickens-10-count-baby-chicks-sbp

I've raised the CX meat chicks before but relied on local processors. Not sure how my ninny self could handle doing a large group of them in one day.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

...though, now you have me thinking...wonder if someone local on here could come over and help me.
Aka, do it all while I watch from a distance.

 

[sdm111]

...though, now you have me thinking...wonder if someone local on here could come over and help me.
Aka, do it all while I watch from a distance.

I know all about that. Everytime my wife says can WE

 

[MROO]

Thanks. I want them for eating though.
Not sure that Joe Neighbor would appreciate me asking for young roos under 6 months so I can practice my dispatching and processing skills.

I figured if I had an incubator it could reduce my need for picking up meat chicks at the PO or being reliant upon grocery stores. I've got a decent sized Aussie Roo and a dozen hens but all of my hens are young, save a for 2 non-broody older girls.
All these years in chickens and I'm ashamed to say I've always relied on my broody hens to do the work. Which, until now has worked out great.

I am considering some of these in case I do get a full bodied roo out of it for the future and the rest for the freezer-
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/p...rd-surprise-chickens-10-count-baby-chicks-sbp

I've raised the CX meat chicks before but relied on local processors. Not sure how my ninny self could handle doing a large group of them in one day.

Looks like a plan to me. And as far as "harvest" goes, I'm a softie, too. I think mass-processing is the ONLY way I could do it, so they'd all run together. I couldn't have a memory attached to my dinner, like ,"This guy really fought" ... or "This one was easy," or "This one looked me right in the eye, first! "
In fact, when sending anything out for processing, I plan to request group packaging - all drumsticks, all breast, all wings, etc.; for the same reason ... no individual identification!
My sister is a dairy farmer, and whenever I pick up beef, I always ask if the meat was "A name or a number?" Numbers, I;m okay with. They're pretty anonymous. Anything with a name was a Guernsey - and I handled all of them as calves, for the 4H program. Nope, can't eat a lady I bottle fed or halter broke ... well, with one exception. I'd have had NO problem stew-beefing "Pudding" ... she was a nasty PILL ... but I missed that chance. Dang!

 

[MROO]

I am considering some of these in case I do get a full bodied roo out of it for the future and the rest for the freezer-
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/p...rd-surprise-chickens-10-count-baby-chicks-sbp

At $1.50 a bird with free delivery to TSC ... and they'll even bring them right out to your vehicle? Works for me!

 

[MROO]

I wonder if anyone else on here, that lives out in the country, has noticed a lot of strangers driving around their area? A neighbor told me he spoke to some people that think that they can just come out here to “survive in the country” if it gets bad in town and they were here looking around! I think people believe that they can just escape the city and just come out to our farms to “survive”! I hope that’s not true and that’s not the case. Cuz they’re gonna have a very rude awakening if it is! Most land owners around here do NOT take kindly to trespassers.

They've closed our State park and the big Boy Scout Reservation just down the road to all campers. From what I hear, they're patrolling regularly to keep squatters out of the cabins and woods. It hasn't been an issue, yet, but they're keeping an eye on things as this mess ramps up around here. My cousin lives in a southern beach town where all rentals have been banned. Unless people can show that they are actually a homeowner or are year-round residents, they can't stay!

 

[MROO]

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My brother lives in Shreveport. He's been trying to get his house there ready for sale for the last two months. Now that it's ready to go into the hands of a realtor, he can't leave! On top of that, the Easter tornadoes were only 30 miles away from him. I know that's forever away for a tornado ... but not to a worried little sister who just wants him HOME!

 

[sdm111]

My brother lives in Shreveport. He's been trying to get his house there ready for sale for the last two months. Now that it's ready to go into the hands of a realtor, he can't leave! On top of that, the Easter tornadoes were only 30 miles away from him. I know that's forever away for a tornado ... but not to a worried little sister who just wants him HOME!

That's about right with the house. Itll workout just gonna be a little while.
Yeah the tornados were pretty bad I dont think people were thinking it was gonna be that bad.

 

[Folly's place]

It snowed today, but nothing stayed on the ground. It was pretty coming down!
Here in the frozen north we don't have many tornadoes, and that's wonderful! With the Covid19 news, there wasn't all that much coverage about it, and what i saw looked miserable. So sorry!
Mary