Minnesota!

[AmericanKraut]

I like it, too!!

 

[Cyrus83]

Ralphie, John Fogerty thinks wolves are cute and cuddly.

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie, John Fogerty thinks wolves are cute and cuddly.

Just cause a person can sing well, does not make one smart...

 

[AmericanKraut]

Sunday Morning Post Part 2..

I tend to agree with the crowd here, on AI.

These are birds living in overly crowded conditions.   I went on line and grabbed a line from a AP story.

[COLOR=FF0000]"Once those birds have been destroyed, the 20 farms in Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas will have lost nearly 1.1 million turkeys."[/COLOR]



That is lots of birds in lots of states. True you can say they are on the Mississippi flyway, but that leaves more doubts than answers in my mind. Why only turkeys?  Why not chickens? There are far more chicken farms in the areas than turkey..

How many of those farm have any opening in their security for a duck to walk into their barns?


I think, so take this with a grain of salt, the source of the infection will be something other than waterfowl.  A common food source, a common hatchery, or even bio-terrorism.  With there being no cases in chickens reported, or backyard flocks, the source being a free flying duck  makes little sense to me.

To further discount my theories, I have to inform you, I am anti-big overly intrusive government.  I tend to think governments first response to anything is to lie, and I know I am more lack than I should be with bio-security.  My turkey tom JJ is like a dog, he greets people as they drive in the yard. He is right there to say hi when they get out of the car. Unlike a dog he does not sit, or lay down on command.  Having to put him down from AI would kill me, him having to be locked up in a little pen would kill him.  So I will continue to do things my way and hope for the best.



AmkericanKraut,  I have 13 CL eggs in the incubator now, If BogtownChick does not have any roosters for you I might, but based on my survival record on CL chicks,  there is a big IF in that statement.  I plan to keep all my girls and only one or two roosters.  I am actually giving the coop my chickens are in now to the CL's next winter ( along with a large covered pen).

I agree for sure. Gotta wonder.

Hey, that'd be great if/when it worked out! I'd be thankful and would do my best to meet your price. I do have a flock limit on quantity before my little town here starts taking note on how many are running around but I'm determined to save room for cochin from Minnie and legbar if a can, creamette!

 

[duluthralphie]

I agree for sure. Gotta wonder.

Hey, that'd be great if/when it worked out! I'd be thankful and would do my best to meet your price. I do have a flock limit on quantity before my little town here starts taking note on how many are running around but I'm determined to save room for cochin from Minnie and legbar if a can, creamette!

I just remembered.. Trippell has a CL rooster for sale. Look back a few pages. This would be a mature rooster and you could get the blue egg gene into your chickens right away...

Tripplell is where BogtownChick and I got our creamettes, so would be same stock. I am not a show person but I think my birds from her are pretty darn nice... I think she did show them but I am not sure.

 

[nordicacres]

My opinion probably won't be very popular, but I disagree with commercial poultry farms. If you take away their dignity to live a life scratching in the dirt, roaming around a pasture looking for goodies to eat, with a reasonable number of birds for the size of the property, then you are just asking for compromised immune systems and problems such as this. However, I am by no means an expert. And by the way, I'm not talking about keeping breeding birds confined to a run. So don't get your feathers ruffled by some random opinion on the internet

My DH's family raises confinement hogs. I think it was one of the saddest moments I can remember when his Grandfather (since passed - who was so proud of his big operation) showed me his hog barns. The smell was unbearable and the pigs were shoulder to shoulder. Of course I was too polite to ever say anything to him, but I swore that we would never do that to any animal.

 

[rainin22]

Rainin22, love the run and raised beds! You could probably have a truck load of black dirt delivered for a lot less than the cost of buying individual bags.

Thanks! That sounds like a better idea. We're in Saint Francis, do you have any ideas on where we could get dirt delivered from?

 

[duluthralphie]

Thanks! That sounds like a better idea. We're in Saint Francis, do you have any ideas on where we could get dirt delivered from?

St. Francis is a huge area.. Are you east or west of 47,, north or south of the town site itself. I know of a place if you are in the NW quadrant.

 

[rainin22]

We are right by the County Market in Saint Francis, near Beef o Bradys =)

 

[duluthralphie]

Ahh.. that is a tad far, I think, for the dirt people I would use,

The place I get that kind of stuff is between Princeton, Zimmerman and Isanti.