"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[foreverlearning]

When I was onTN there were two things I especially liked. One: there was a $500 fine for littering, but the cool thing was if you reported the litterer, you got the money. With every person on the road looking to make an easy $500, there wasn't any littering. Even the country roads were pristine and no prisoners picking up trash. Two: they started a program where if you were able bodied and were on welfare you had to be in a skills training program. Your attendance and progress went to the state. The state had subsidized day care for your children while you trained (no excuses) and helped with bus transportation. I think it was 18 months that you had to get trained and onto a paying job. If you did not comply you were cut off welfare and your chdren went to Children's Services if necessary. They were very serious about going to work if not disabled and getting it up was NOT a disability. It really worked.

I wish it was like that now! I lived in a city a couple of years ago that all you had to do was pop out a kid or have a hand written note saying you were unemployed. Then you had to turn in a hand written paper with 5 places you looked for work in the past month. The end of the month I got a flood of people asking me if I would sign their paper saying they came to me for a job app. I would always tell them no, but if you want a job I'll find something for you here. I only had 3 people say yes out of 4 years managing there. I had too many cashiers at one point when someone said yes, so I paid them full time to come in once a shift to clean the bathrooms and take out the gas pump trash. I was shocked at the number of people that wouldn't work given the opportunity. Believe it or not the best employee I ever had was the first one that was a felon single mother. She was always trustworthy and the first time she said she had daycare issues I told her to bring her kid to work. We set up a playpen behind the counter and cleared a shelf in the walk-in cooler for her food. Because she was a felon it was near impossible for her to find work, I had to fight the city just to hire her. They had a law in the city preventing the hire of felons in city limits.

 

[MicheleC]

So this is my little Delaware pullet, don't know if her leg is broken or dislocated. She hops around on one leg. My question is, if she's eating and drinking, doesn't seem sick or depressed, should I cull or let her be? It's been this way about 2-3 weeks. It's not an option to bring to the vet, but don't want her to suffer....

 

[bugglesmommy]

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/usda-allow-china-process-chickens-ship-back-u-214500281.html

Do I even need to say it?

 

[foreverlearning]

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/usda-allow-china-process-chickens-ship-back-u-214500281.html

Do I even need to say it?

 

[Ron Skekel]

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/usda-allow-china-process-chickens-ship-back-u-214500281.html

Do I even need to say it?

Wow!! Ok I might have to raise meaties now!! Trust the government! the same government that says its safe to eat seafood after the BP spill and corexid is safe.

 

[Ron Skekel]

So this is my little Delaware pullet, don't know if her leg is broken or dislocated. She hops around on one leg. My question is, if she's eating and drinking, doesn't seem sick or depressed, should I cull or let her be? It's been this way about 2-3 weeks. It's not an option to bring to the vet, but don't want her to suffer....

Kountrygirl would be able to help you. I think you can splint it she would be able to tell you how. If she doesn't come on tonight she'll be here tomorrow.

 

[1MrsMagoo]

Wow!! Ok I might have to raise meaties now!! Trust the government! the same government that says its safe to eat seafood after the BP spill and corexid is safe.

Scary stuff. I mean our current broiler industry already adds arsenic to their feed to make the meat pinker: Lord knows what the Chinese will feed them!

 

[PrimroseMom1]

Scary stuff. I mean our current broiler industry already adds arsenic to their feed to make the meat pinker: Lord knows what the Chinese will feed them!

All of this is CRAZY!!!!!!i don't eat USA chicken without certifications of purity on many levels. I have seen what bad conditions can exist for "free range". Which certainly not what this thread would call free range. I can promise I will not eat Chinese chicken and never again will i eat Chinese crayfish. X2 on BP seafood. And what about the Japanese nuclear plant that continuously leaks radioactive waste into the ocean? Tuna anyone? Opps. Wait. Tuna is already full of mercury anyway.

 

[foreverlearning]

I am starting to like my over pooping meaties more and more now. I didn't think I would consider another batch after this one because of how messy they are even with free ranging, however now I am planning my next batch in the spring. Seems the only way to be safe is to grow and raise your own. Now only if I could find a banana tree... My kids are obsessed with them and Mexico is starting to use GM trees to combat bugs and spoilage. From what I have read they are mixing them with genetics of bell peppers (to keep longer) and pesticides (for the bugs). I also wish we had a pick your own berry farm on my side of the state, I hate growing blackberries and raspberries as they seem to reach out and grab you.

 

[Ron Skekel]

Scary stuff. I mean our current broiler industry already adds arsenic to their feed to make the meat pinker: Lord knows what the Chinese will feed them!

Real scary I buy certified organic an I know it doesn't mean The Bird was treated what I consider a humane life.