Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

It's a wet, sloppy mess here right now and nothing but rain in the forecast all week. Weeds are going to get out of hand.

Our rain was pushed back until tomorrow.. it went north of us.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Happy dads day MN dads!

 

[Cebarmlds]

My 17 year old cat just got himself a red squirrel

 

[MagpieDucks]

Are there generally a lot of birds for sale at the Hutchinson show in October?

 

[Cebarmlds]

Pokey hurled squirrel fur during the night, in the house. He just got a chipmunk and ate it so I bet I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow morning.

 

[ketojenn]

Pokey hurled squirrel fur during the night, in the house. He just got a chipmunk and ate it so I bet I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow morning.

 

[duluthralphie]

Are there generally a lot of birds for sale at the Hutchinson show in October?

There are some... depends on your definition of lots..

 

[I Love Layers]

Sold the jersey heifer yesterday, I have to go pick the calf up in October. I went to the ND Board of Animal Health meeting today and I got PT testing waived for instate poultry exhibitors for 2019, so that was cool. My best hen started laying yesterday, first time since I have owned her for about a year so no shows for her this summer. Everyone one is moved out to summer pastures for right now, my knee will be glad to get a day or two off from riding.

Are there generally a lot of birds for sale at the Hutchinson show in October?

I feel like there is a decent number of birds for sale, but it is a lot of the same breed and variety, so not a large selection I guess

 

[holm25]

Sold the jersey heifer yesterday, I have to go pick the calf up in October. I went to the ND Board of Animal Health meeting today and I got PT testing waived for instate poultry exhibitors for 2019, so that was cool. My best hen started laying yesterday, first time since I have owned her for about a year so no shows for her this summer. Everyone one is moved out to summer pastures for right now, my knee will be glad to get a day or two off from riding.


I feel like there is a decent number of birds for sale, but it is a lot of the same breed and variety, so not a large selection I guess

Why on earth would you want them to waive PT testing?

 

[I Love Layers]

Why on earth would you want them to waive PT testing?

In North Dakota there are very few people NPIP certified, in fact I don't know if there are two people who are. There has not been an outbreak in 50 years, and honestly the state didn't realize birds needed to be tested to show until about 10 years ago therr was never a problem, and I can gurantee some counties still do not test. Many states have waived testing for shows under different bylaws, or have taken some action and some of those states include states with a large commercial poultry population.
So yes I was all for waiving it for a couple months, otherwise many people including myself would not be able to show. Currently it was an estimated 1004 birds were not tested, that was without 10 counties reporting numbers, so we would have almost no birds shown. Also because unlike someone who lives in Minnesota we would have to pay on the low side $65 per bird to have a serology test done, because I live farther west my test per bird would actually be around the $135 range. I was either not going to show along with almost everyone else in the state or I was going to push to get this waived.
Seeing as no one opposed including the 5 or more veterinarians in the room, and a representative from the Game and Fish I would say everyone is fine with it.