Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[perchie.girl]

Quote: seems to catch up with all of us at some point ..l age is a number it is my
attitude that keep me pluggin away never have to grow up right

I turned sixty one this year.... I am going to take early retirement at sixty two. Its just me No spouse or signifigant other... never have had one. I hate living with people even family. So when i get to move back home I wil be able to turn back to my art and sculpture and raising critters and writing and just sitting and "being".

I have had family tell me I need to face reality. Reality is too.... complex. My home, as crumbled down as it is, is paid for.... My reality is the critters and the desert and listening to the air.

As a writer I am going to need to step out of the ""Real World"" in order to finish...

deb "who is rambling this evening'

 

[pennyJo1960]

@perchie.girl I am right there with you I divorced in 1991 tried one more time 24 years
later that went bad almost before it started and am single again never thought I would
want to live with others till my best friend and his son stepped back into my world
they have their rooms I have mine.. I have the master and the room next to it for sewing
with my machines, and a private bath

 

[chickisoup]

Animalia

New technology my put an end to the gruesome deaths
of billions of male chicks
this is an article from this morning's Washingon Post. Very interesting read. Looks like a Texas company
may have developed an economically viable alternative to "macerating" of male chicks that is even more
practical (and profitable) than what the Germans and others had come up with to date. This looks to truly
revolutionize the egg, as well as the hatchery, industry which could ultimately have a real benefit for us in
several ways.
I can also see it putting the small commercial egg producer out of business as it would surely bring the unit
prices down. Of course the ultimate benefactor will be the birds themselves. I have been closely studying
how the EU and the rest of Europe regulates and otherwise controls the production and welfare of their
livestock, and particularly their poultry producers, and next to them we are absolutely barbaric. There is
a lot of info information out there but one I find particularly "enlightening" for the uninformed is a
Michael Mosley video "Truth About Meat" the BBC and being run on PBS (yes, I know, but they do have
some great stuff too, usually from the British) on the Frontline program. It is very well balanced and
very thought provoking. It is a study on the current worldwide meat production and consumption and what
it's projected expansion means for the future and it does touch on the American practice of using antibiotics in feedlots but this was
produced in 2014 so it was filmed prior to our VFD initiative began implementation.
Anyway, just some things to "chew on" along with your weekend coffee. Enjoy.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ions-of-male-chicks/?wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

 

[duluthralphie]

Animalia

New technique may prevent the gruesome deaths of billions of male chicks

this is an article from this morning's Washingon Post. Very interesting read. Looks like a Texas company may have developed an economically
viable alternative to "macerating" of male chicks that is even more practical (and profitable) than what the Germans and others had come up with
to date. This looks to truly revolutionize the egg, as well as the hatchery, industry which could ultimately have a real benefit for us in several ways.
I can also see it putting the small commercial egg producer out of business as it would surely bring the unit prices down. Of course the ultimate
benefactor will be the birds themselves. I have been closely studying how the EU and the rest of Europe regulates and otherwise controls the
production and welfare of their livestock, and particularly their poultry producers, and next to them we are absolutely barbaric. There is a lot of info
information out there but one I find particularly "enlightening" for the uninformed is a Michael Mosly video "Truth About Meat" the the BBC and being
run on PBS (yes, I know, but they do have some great stuff too, usually from the British) on the Frontline program. It is very well balanced and
very thought provoking. It does touch on the American practice of using antibiotics in feedlots but this was produced in 2014 so it was filmed prior to
our VFR initiative began implementation.
Anyway, just some things to "chew on" along with your weekend coffee. Enjoy.


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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ions-of-male-chicks/?wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1​

Why would you want to limit duck deaths just when we are starting to get them under control? It is like trying to keep the polio virus alive.

 

[chickisoup]

Why would you want to limit duck deaths just when we are starting to get them under control? It is like trying to keep the polio virus alive.

Good point!!! fortunately this only addresses chickens produced primarily for egg production.

 

[pennyJo1960]

isn't this why we candle eggs also we can tell if fertile but how many can say what sex at that point
might be cool if we could

 

[BantyChooks]

Good point!!!  fortunately this only addresses chickens produced primarily for egg production.

Ohhh no..... Ralphie got you too??

 

[chickisoup]

isn't this why we candle eggs also we can tell if fertile but how many can say what sex at that point
might be cool if we could

Candling does not identify the sex of the chick. The Germans and others are working on ways of in ova sexing but there in itself lies the problem. It means first,with their methods the eggs must be incubated, even for a short time, thus you are destroying a developing chick which is both an economical waste of time and resources, requiring human interventionto destroy the otherwise viable chicks. (Again, an animal welfare issue)
This new method is able to determine, they say, with a 90%+ accuracy the sex of the chick right after it is laid allowing the unwanted male ova to not only be sorted out but able to be sold as fresh eggs and/or put into the commercial food packaging stream.

(BTW-have you seen the videos yet of how we macerate the live day old male chicks? I wouldn't watch if you've just eaten)

 

[chickisoup]

Ohhh no..... Ralphie got you too??

I LOVE my NEIGHBORS duckies

She just yesterday offered them to me, again, and again, I just looked at her asked if she had fallen, again,
by sliding on the duck poo on her grass .

 

[pennyJo1960]

do not want ducks here either

no ducks!!!!!!!!!!!!