Dixie Chicks

[hennible]

Not really it's extremely complicated you need to buy "eggs shares" and they need grading and inspections and monitoring and such...

 

[Amberjem]

I wonder if this is how @Alaskan keeps warm when their isnt a fire ? hehe

 

[hennible]

If not AL needs one

 

[Amberjem]

I hope you didnt take that offensively @Beer can , NY laws they just seem to be getting more n more twisted up...but I find it hard to understand how ppl are throwing their personal liberties away

 

[1kluckychik]

what kinda orps?

buffs......They are all hatchery quality birds; not what we want to keep. Once our good chickens start laying, we will breed, and keep.....some!!
ok bbl taking bubba outside to play for a bit!

 

[Beer can]

Not really it's extremely complicated you need to buy "eggs shares" and they need grading and inspections and monitoring and such...

Grr! Anyone here can sell eggs from their house and many do. Meat has to be inspected. There is a organic grass fed beef farm in our town, and they do their own butchering, and hold a workshop once a year to help others get into it too.
Ever watch 'Food Inc'? There was a guy on it butchering his own organic free range chickens and he has to jump through hoops, they keep trying to shut him down. He said when tested his packaged chicken has less bacteria than the chicken sold in stores that are dunked in a chlorine bath at the big slaughter houses. The FDA doesn't like his open air building he uses to butcher and he only rinses them in clean water.

 

[hennible]

No I haven't seen it but I think I'll put it on my to watch list... The egg thing here is just bureaucratic and weird... Selling to a middleman who retails for you is one of the bigger no nos... And this eggs share BS has something to do with the market not being "flooded with too many eggs"

 

[hennible]

Hey where is @vehve
Only remember like one post from him today...

 

[Alaskan]

Does anyone use heated waterers? I was wondering if you use them in the summer as well, just unplug them? And is the plug removable, or would it just drag on the ground? Thanks! Have a good day!

Quote:
I have tried many different heated waterers.

they all bust and/or don't work well enough.

I have said this a bunch of times, but here we go:

I have busted everything I have tried EXCEPT:

a black rubber feed pan, with a stock tank de-icer in it.

Pick a stock tank de-icer that is safe to run dry (some bust if run dry) and is safe to sit on rubber.

The stock tank de-icer is strong enough that if the power goes off, and it ends up in a solid block of ice, it can actually thaw the entire block back out.

Quote: x2 The fish tank heater is made to always be wet (so it will bust if run dry) and is usually made to keep the fish tank water pretty hot.... like in the 60s or something like that.

The bird bath heater is only supposed to keep the water ice free.

 

[hennible]

@Outpost JWB
I miss your heated water question here's one that I use it's for horses

But like Alaskan said it'll probably break...
Here's my stock tank heater ( this little buggers good enough for 500 gallons )

Both turn off automatically when it's above freezing they just run enough power to keep the water wet.
The two of them together cost over 100 bucks...
And by the way when my horse bucket breaks it'll be Alaskans fault

Edit to add that that water was fresh yesterday, the ducks just blew their noses in it a lot already :/