North Carolina

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

This was posted on the Bragg Wives recipe page, but it intrigued me so thought I'd ask on here.
This is from a supermarket egg.
She thought it was a double yolker, but the white "yolk" wasn't liquidy it was more hard.

Is it an egg within an egg? Or just some anomaly from the gmo feed and stress of battery cages? Anyone seen anything like this before? It's new to me so I was wondering what it was. Thanks

This does look like an egg inside an egg.......but hard to be sure from pictures.

Another idea with the "register all flocks".....they know who to tax for egg and meat
or bird sales. They have no way of protecting flocks other than to kill flocks near
any suspected flocks. Also this may include all "pet" birds like parakeets and such
since they can get AI as well. Yet with all this the state "still" has not stopped folks
from taking birds across the state lines for shows and sales....now how is that protecting
our flocks?

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

All of the articles about the AI have stated that flocks within 10 km (about 6 miles) of any positive flock will be TESTED over a period of time, not destroyed. Unless we get hit really hard, I don't see them changing that.

As to what you can do to protect your birds...make sure they don't get access to wild birds, including flyover poop dropped. Here, we'll be putting up bird netting on eaves and anyplace else any bird could enter my chicken houses. That's step one. The breeding pens will be able to be tarped to stop flyovers. The chicken houses that open to pastures..well, those birds are out of luck. They'll be confined to indoors. I can't tarp the pastures unfortunately. I will have to reduce some of the flocks to accommodate that. So then I'll start sprouting grain for them to replace some of their foraging. And increase my mealworms for them. It won't be the best way to keep them, but hopefully it will be temporary.

As far as the registration, I've had to fill out Ag survey reports for years. No problem. In fact, I was flipping through a 1922 farming book that was my grandfathers just yesterday, and found one of his notices of reporting just yesterday. Dated 1938. The department of Ag has been tracking what they can for a long, long time. I almost let myself get talked into the tinfoil mob's fear, but backed off it. It has never been a problem for me. Not even when my flock was depopulated in 2012 for MG. Disease control IS important.

Sorry I've been away. My mother died on the 14th. I've been with my Daddy, helping him make the transition. Hardest thing I've done in my life was leave him yesterday to come home.

 

[BuckAlorp]

So sorry for the loss of your mom, my heart and prayers go out to you and yours, good luck to your daddy.

 

[Katieboosmama]

Sorry I've been away. My mother died on the 14th. I've been with my Daddy, helping him make the transition. Hardest thing I've done in my life was leave him yesterday to come home.

I am so sorry for your loss. I will keep you and your Father in my thoughts and prayers.

 

[Tikkijane]

Interesting.. glad I ran across this post and saw this.  I checked the site out and it said that an online registration form will be available by August 1.  I guess it is to be used to notify poultry owners if a farm nearby or whatnot gets a positive for the AF.  Although it does make me leery to register something on a government website cause they're always trying to do something to track the people in this country...

And, it feeds into a federal database. State I understand. Federal, not so much.

 

[Tikkijane]

All of the articles about the AI have stated that flocks within 10 km (about 6 miles) of any positive flock will be TESTED over a period of time, not destroyed.  Unless we get hit really hard, I don't see them changing that.

As to what you can do to protect your birds...make sure they don't get access to wild birds, including flyover poop dropped.  Here, we'll be putting up bird netting on eaves and anyplace else any bird could enter my chicken houses.  That's step one.  The breeding pens will be able to be tarped to stop flyovers.  The chicken houses that open to pastures..well, those birds are out of luck.  They'll be confined to indoors.  I can't tarp the pastures unfortunately.  I will have to reduce some of the flocks to accommodate that.  So then I'll start sprouting grain for them to replace some of their foraging.  And increase my mealworms for them.  It won't be the best way to keep them, but hopefully it will be temporary. 

As far as the registration, I've had to fill out Ag survey reports for years.  No problem.  In fact, I was flipping through a 1922 farming book that was my grandfathers just yesterday, and found one of his notices of reporting just yesterday.  Dated 1938.  The department of Ag has been tracking what they can for a long, long time.  I almost let myself get talked into the tinfoil mob's fear, but backed off it.  It has never been a problem for me.  Not even when my flock was depopulated in 2012 for MG.  Disease control IS important.

Sorry I've been away.  My mother died on the 14th.  I've been with my Daddy, helping him make the transition.  Hardest thing I've done in my life was leave him yesterday to come home. 

So sorry, Hollow. {{hugs}}

 

[Miztruder]

All of the articles about the AI have stated that flocks within 10 km (about 6 miles) of any positive flock will be TESTED over a period of time, not destroyed. Unless we get hit really hard, I don't see them changing that.

As to what you can do to protect your birds...make sure they don't get access to wild birds, including flyover poop dropped. Here, we'll be putting up bird netting on eaves and anyplace else any bird could enter my chicken houses. That's step one. The breeding pens will be able to be tarped to stop flyovers. The chicken houses that open to pastures..well, those birds are out of luck. They'll be confined to indoors. I can't tarp the pastures unfortunately. I will have to reduce some of the flocks to accommodate that. So then I'll start sprouting grain for them to replace some of their foraging. And increase my mealworms for them. It won't be the best way to keep them, but hopefully it will be temporary.

As far as the registration, I've had to fill out Ag survey reports for years. No problem. In fact, I was flipping through a 1922 farming book that was my grandfathers just yesterday, and found one of his notices of reporting just yesterday. Dated 1938. The department of Ag has been tracking what they can for a long, long time. I almost let myself get talked into the tinfoil mob's fear, but backed off it. It has never been a problem for me. Not even when my flock was depopulated in 2012 for MG. Disease control IS important.

Sorry I've been away. My mother died on the 14th. I've been with my Daddy, helping him make the transition. Hardest thing I've done in my life was leave him yesterday to come home.

I'm glad I joined BYC because otherwise I would not have known about registering my flock on August 1. I agree that disease control is very important.
So sorry about your loss. I completely understand.

 

[Brownflock]

What site did you read this info from! I did hear this on the news. I am not interested in this kind of involvement. This is the same as a hobby for me and I am not inviting government help.

 

[BHep]

What site did you read this info from! I did hear this on the news. I am not interested in this kind of involvement. This is the same as a hobby for me and I am not inviting government help.

Check out the state website...It is state wide for the protection of our chickens...hobby farms and commercial farms. Millions of chickens have been destroyed this year due to AI...it is no joke.

 

[SemperChicken]

Check out the state website...It is state wide for the protection of our chickens...hobby farms and commercial farms. Millions of chickens have been destroyed this year due to AI...it is no joke.

Well, I'm kind of in the same boat... I understand the purpose of "registering" and the state just wants to be able to inform owners if there's an outbreak, but I am not sure what I think about all that. I feel like it's really no business in the government to know whether or not I have chickens in my backyard. Call it paranoia, but this country has really taken a turn for the worse in the past several years (much the reason why we have debated on doing a tiny home after the kids grow up).

Am I the only one who feels like it would be intruding for the state and government to know that I have chickens in the backyard of my own home?