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What’s your favorite Egg color?

  • Brown

    Votes: 10 12.3%

  • Dark Brown

    Votes: 20 24.7%

  • Blue

    Votes: 41 50.6%

  • Green

    Votes: 27 33.3%

  • Olive

    Votes: 15 18.5%

  • White

    Votes: 12 14.8%

  • Off-white

    Votes: 7 8.6%

  • Cream

    Votes: 10 12.3%

  • Other - please specify

    Votes: 7 8.6%

  • WE ARE STUCK WITH THIS POLL

    Votes: 16 19.8%
  • Total voters
    81
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rjohns39 said:
It's showing up in other places. Some counties and towns are exercising mandatory Euthanasia, even if the flock tests negative, so in response, people are moving their flocks to other "safe" places.

Cy I love your optimism.
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Yeah.... It's a problem.
And then there's the whole migratory bird vector issue...
 
I discovered that the NPIP program requires a minimum of 30 birds over 16wks of age to test.
It's a pain. A major pain for me with barely 6 breeders. But I'm going to push for enough birds to do it. I'll probably have them test in August and then I can handle the affairs from afar.
 
Cyprus said:
I discovered that the NPIP program requires a minimum of 30 birds over 16wks of age to test.
It's a pain. A major pain for me with barely 6 breeders. But I'm going to push for enough birds to do it. I'll probably have them test in August and then I can handle the affairs from afar.
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Nationwide? That doesn’t seem right.
 
It gets way more complicated than people think. I've seen plans where if AI is detected all birds within a 200 mile radius get killed. Both Purdue and Tyson pushed for that plan as they know that even though their employees are prohibited from having birds, many do. I once worked with a guy who spent a summer working for Purdue, he absolutely will not buy poultry in a store. On $12/hr he'll spend $80 on a home grown turkey. Wild bird vectors are real, but when you send a swat team to kill off family pets, families react... Well badly. Isolate, test, destroy and replace would largely eliminate that issue,but for many "They are just birds"...
 
rjohns39 said:
It gets way more complicated than people think. I've seen plans where if AI is detected all birds within a 200 mile radius get killed. Both Purdue and Tyson pushed for that plan as they know that even though their employees are prohibited from having birds, many do. I once worked with a guy who spent a summer working for Purdue, he absolutely will not buy poultry in a store. On $12/hr he'll spend $80 on a home grown turkey. Wild bird vectors are real, but when you send a swat team to kill off family pets, families react... Well badly. Isolate, test, destroy and replace would largely eliminate that issue,but for many "They are just birds"...
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Meanwhile, if you did that in the dog world with Parvovirus the chances are good the big guns behind it would have a real bounty on their heads...
 
rjohns39 said:
I once worked with a guy who spent a summer working for Purdue, he absolutely will not buy poultry in a store. On $12/hr he'll spend $80 on a home grown turkey.
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I no longer will eat turkey or chicken unless I raise it myself.
Cyprus said:
Meanwhile, if you did that in the dog world with Parvovirus the chances are good the big guns behind it would have a real bounty on their heads...
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It’s speciesism plain and simple.
Personally I will never voluntarily get a dog or a cat. I don’t care for them.
 

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