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My car wasn't made locally, either. I have looked everywhere for one manufactured here in southwest Oklahoma and the closest I could get to it was the tires.
And those were made from oil.
I'm such a fraud.
Few, if any of us, gets absolutely everything from local sources. That doesn't make reducing the supply circle any less valid. I only buy a car, (used, I can't afford a new one, and not sure I'd buy one if I could. My '98 Suzy wagon gets 35 MPG.) or a computer once every few years (this one in 2003). I buy food all the time. Less, over time, as I produce more of my own. To me, that makes it more important to obtain locally. Likewise with anything else I buy a lot of.
Jeff, I hope you succeed in your goal of making Cornish X sustainable. The way they're usually raised, they are not. My hens I mentioned before made it about a year and half before they started dying. I knew nothing about them at the time, so I'm sure yours will do better than that. But don't you find it ironic that you're basically trying to get Cornish X's to act and live like heritage/dual purp birds? Why not just raise red broilers, they're meaty enough, less than CX, but more than most DP's, butcher at 12 weeks, active foragers, and you can keep them around, as they're naturally healthy and will easily live a normal lifespan, like a DP? I'm considering trying that myself, and keep the best ones to re-breed, and hope I get a sustainable, re-producible stable strain, eventually.
LOL.... well ironic yes. But economically I wouldn't be able to do it I don't think. By the time I do everything and need the mass amount of breeders to produce the chicks I need then it may not be economical to do so. I'm also seasonal, and I would have to maintain that breeding stock throughout the winter... most places hatch year round or for as long as they can.
It's more just to see how these birds really are beyond their expected 8 weeks. I've almost tripled their lifespan, so far by not doing all that much. I believe my long term goals would be able to produce a bird that was able to procreate and offer them for sale for people wanting just a small flock of 10-15. That would be very economical for a someone to do, also it's easier to take care of 15 birds in the winter compared to about a hundred or so.
I like to raise chickens too.... LOL... it's nothing more than a project to have a little fun. If I do stumble across something that I like, I will use it. However if I don't, I'm sure someone else could use the information or breeding stock from my little experiment. Plus not to mention, I'm too stubborn not to prove the expectations of these birds do not have to stop at 8 weeks.
I don't know... thanks for the good luck...
My car wasn't made locally, either. I have looked everywhere for one manufactured here in southwest Oklahoma and the closest I could get to it was the tires.
And those were made from oil.
I'm such a fraud.
Few, if any of us, gets absolutely everything from local sources. That doesn't make reducing the supply circle any less valid. I only buy a car, (used, I can't afford a new one, and not sure I'd buy one if I could. My '98 Suzy wagon gets 35 MPG.) or a computer once every few years (this one in 2003). I buy food all the time. Less, over time, as I produce more of my own. To me, that makes it more important to obtain locally. Likewise with anything else I buy a lot of.
Jeff, I hope you succeed in your goal of making Cornish X sustainable. The way they're usually raised, they are not. My hens I mentioned before made it about a year and half before they started dying. I knew nothing about them at the time, so I'm sure yours will do better than that. But don't you find it ironic that you're basically trying to get Cornish X's to act and live like heritage/dual purp birds? Why not just raise red broilers, they're meaty enough, less than CX, but more than most DP's, butcher at 12 weeks, active foragers, and you can keep them around, as they're naturally healthy and will easily live a normal lifespan, like a DP? I'm considering trying that myself, and keep the best ones to re-breed, and hope I get a sustainable, re-producible stable strain, eventually.
LOL.... well ironic yes. But economically I wouldn't be able to do it I don't think. By the time I do everything and need the mass amount of breeders to produce the chicks I need then it may not be economical to do so. I'm also seasonal, and I would have to maintain that breeding stock throughout the winter... most places hatch year round or for as long as they can.
It's more just to see how these birds really are beyond their expected 8 weeks. I've almost tripled their lifespan, so far by not doing all that much. I believe my long term goals would be able to produce a bird that was able to procreate and offer them for sale for people wanting just a small flock of 10-15. That would be very economical for a someone to do, also it's easier to take care of 15 birds in the winter compared to about a hundred or so.
I like to raise chickens too.... LOL... it's nothing more than a project to have a little fun. If I do stumble across something that I like, I will use it. However if I don't, I'm sure someone else could use the information or breeding stock from my little experiment. Plus not to mention, I'm too stubborn not to prove the expectations of these birds do not have to stop at 8 weeks.
I don't know... thanks for the good luck...
The only thing I'd like for you to consider is that we determined it was far more environmentally friendly to make one delivery per month to 75 people where they live in our CSA plan than to have 75 people drive 40-70 cars 2 1/2 hours to where we live. You don't have to agree of course, but we actually did make the decision that we thought was most environmentally responsible. The same concept applies if/when we participate in a farmers market in Athens or Atlanta...customers are already there, so we take the goods to them. End result, one vehicle makes the long journey, not many.
