She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[NTBugtraq]

People would laugh if Stephen Harper farted too, but no one knows who that is

lolz, hence why I didn't use his name....;-]

 

[scflock]

I had to google it

 

[WalnutHill]

EEs!?

One of my EE roos is around 9 lb, some of my new backyard EEs are filling out like White Rocks. I do hope they are a decent dual purpose, I would love not having to buy chicks!

 

[NTBugtraq]

If you could only get people to understand organic food, it would be a miracle. Those tend to be the same people who think chickens are vegetarian.

I keep a flock of 170+ layers and sell non-certified-organic, non-certified non-GMO eggs, as many as my hens can lay with a demand for many more. We used to have 400+ layers and couldn't meet demand. Same with turkeys...I raised 35 the last few years, doubled to 70+ this year. I have no idea how many turkeys I have right now. They are not organic, they are just heritage breed (Bourbon Red, Bronze, Narragansett). I can't raise enough to fill all requests. I have people driving from Indianapolis and Chicago for turkeys as I can't ship them for Thanksgiving.

Kickstarters are pretty cool, we bought into the "Coolest Cooler" campaign which was a resounding success. We will get ours eventually...

I will never cash in, I dream things up and promptly forget them until the next time I remember them...then forget again.

Lolz, legally I am not allowed to have more than 100 layers without quota, nothing to do with land size. I am legally allowed to process 300 meat birds for sale without quota, and cannot sell any that are processed outside of a provincially certified processer (who takes my ID down a reports how many I have had processed.) So my limitations are imposed by our stupid quota system. Only chickens are on quota, so perhaps next year I will look into other bird breeds. Like you, I am organic, not certified anything, and enough people are happy with my production to make it viable.

 

[NTBugtraq]

I had to google it

Well, Harper farting might actually be more funny since Obama is more real...Harper would likely look around as if to say; "Who farted?"

 

[sideWing]

Maybe it was just mine. I sold 4 boys, and they were big. She called 2 days later to see if I had any more

Because the pudding is delicious!

One of my EE roos is around 9 lb, some of my new backyard EEs are filling out like White Rocks. I do hope they are a decent dual purpose, I would love not having to buy chicks!

Not having to buy chicks for meat birds?

 

[WalnutHill]

Lolz, legally I am not allowed to have more than 100 layers without quota, nothing to do with land size. I am legally allowed to process 300 meat birds for sale without quota, and cannot sell any that are processed outside of a provincially certified processer (who takes my ID down a reports how many I have had processed.) So my limitations are imposed by our stupid quota system. Only chickens are on quota, so perhaps next year I will look into other bird breeds. Like you, I am organic, not certified anything, and enough people are happy with my production to make it viable.

Quotas suck. Are they trying to protect the commercial farmers, or limit potential "health risks" from small farms?

I don't participate in our national farm assist plans, which go so far as to pay farmers NOT to grow crops in order to stabilize prices by regulating supply. Go figure.

There are no limits to my sale of eggs as long as I sell directly to the consumer, and not to retailers or wholesalers.

For poultry, I can sell a thousand a year of my own raising and processing without permits. This will be my biggest year ever with around 125 birds for market, both chickens and turkeys. I can sell as many as I want live...and do sell a LOT of them live.

 

[scflock]

One of my EE roos is around 9 lb, some of my new backyard EEs are filling out like White Rocks. I do hope they are a decent dual purpose, I would love not having to buy chicks!

I was wondering if my EEs had any rock in them. 3 of the roosters were enormous, and the woman that bought them loved them. It seemed a shame to do that to such a beautiful bird, but if you're going to keep a lot of chickens, there's always going to be a lot of roosters. I love seeing a CL ad for "Americana rooster, beautiful. $25" with no pics, then I throw up an ad of 4 beautiful EE roosters for 20 bucks. His ad is still up there

Well, Harper farting might actually be more funny since Obama is more real...Harper would likely look around as if to say; "Who farted?"

That would be funny as crap if I had any idea what you were talking about. I'm just putting Hillary in the place of Harper, and it makes sense

 

[WalnutHill]

Because the pudding is delicious!

Not having to buy chicks for meat birds?

For meat birds or layers. I hate raising Cornish cross (though I do love eating them). If I can raise a nice dual purpose I'd rather do that.

 

[NTBugtraq]

Quotas suck. Are they trying to protect the commercial farmers, or limit potential "health risks" from small farms?

I don't participate in our national farm assist plans, which go so far as to pay farmers NOT to grow crops in order to stabilize prices by regulating supply. Go figure.

There are no limits to my sale of eggs as long as I sell directly to the consumer, and not to retailers or wholesalers.

For poultry, I can sell a thousand a year of my own raising and processing without permits. This will be my biggest year ever with around 125 birds for market, both chickens and turkeys.

Well, for now I can't challenge quotas, I don't have the spaces or experience. But it does suck, and its definitely a way to protect "big business"...if people can buy mine at C$10/Kg, why would they buy grocery store crap for C$11/Kg? Worse, our stores have just the one type of bird...so we will eventually have to educate ppl that different birds taste differently...that concept has been forgotten in Canada. The same is true of eggs. I am not restricted in the quantity of eggs I can sell, only how many layers I can have, so 100 will give me more eggs than I think I can sell from my farm gate. Of course not being able to sell off farm means I likely wouldn't want more than 100 layers, but it is a poke in the side reminder to not try to make money as a farm...thanks to our .gov...