The Middle Tennessee Thread

[DMRippy]

Hey all, I was researching the egg law and found the article below. Does this mean that I don't have to pay the $50 fee??

https://ag.tennessee.edu/cpa/Information Sheets/cpa188.pdf

I CALLED the TDA last year to ask about this. I called them FARM FRESH EGGS that is what the UT flier I read said it was called..... He said "I don't know what you are talking about. You have to have a license to sell eggs. You can't candle them or grade them that is OUR JOB." It is $25 permit. He sent me the paper work. BUT the first time I read it we should have been exempt. So I guess they CLEARED it up and now it is a little less muddy? The government makes my skin crawl. The less they know the better sometime. You never know what is coming.....

 

[DMRippy]

Well I started out with 12 hens and now down to 6. I have 1 hen that has been chosen to carry on this flock of Marans, talk about culling down. She has consistently been dropping these bombs and color has yet to fade. Sitting in the coop at 5:30 in the morning trying to figure out who it is was not an option. I have them all penned up tonight separately so I can see who is responsible for this egg then it is time for a leg band. Not to bad for Cuckoo Marans late in the cycle as you can see the others have faded.

Those are some light eggs. My cuckoos never laid eggs that light. Even at the end of their laying cycle. Yeah you need to keep just the one. I have found the ONLY thing you can do to improve your birds is CULL HARD..... VERY HARD. It hurts sometimes too.

 

[pickledchicken]

it's just more white chili and chicken cheese quesadillas I guess Donna it would be silly to keep the others. The guy I got them from won't tell me anymore about them from the looks of he didn't do anything with them.

 

[DMRippy]

it's just more white chili and chicken cheese quesadillas I guess Donna it would be silly to keep the others. The guy I got them from won't tell me anymore about them from the looks of he didn't do anything with them.

What do you mean he wouldn't tell you anything? That would send up red flags to me. Do you have ANY chickens with yellow legs? You need to test mate them before you breed them. LOTS of cuckoos have come from BRs. I just got chicks from a breeder in TX and 1 had yellow legs SO they all get tested. To get yellow legs to express you need two copies. One from Mamma and one from Daddy. If I got 1 chick with yellow legs the daddy passed it off to 1/2 the chicks and the mamma carrying it will pass it to 1/2 the chicks you have a mess. I you cross them with a yellow leg breed and you get ANY yellow legs they are not PURE and it will come back in the next generations. Say you breed them and you don't test. IF they have it they will pass that off to half the chicks. Then you breed those chicks together or back to the parents and BOOM you have YELLOW LEG Marans you can't sell as Marans.

I am not keeping ANY roos from that batch UNLESS one is FABULOUS and not carrying yellow leg genes.

 

[DMRippy]

Now that I have read the WHOLE thing. The TDA has NO AUTHORITY to REQUIRE a license for you to sell eggs from you own flock on a small scale. BIG scales YES.

 

[pickledchicken]

Donna I had around 19 chickens when I got started no yellow legs anywhere everybody has nice pink leggs. I don't feel they have anything hidden in them I just don't feel like he worked on egg color at all.

 

[pickledchicken]

Butch you still needing hens I might have about 5 for ya I'm gonna make my final cut on these cuckoo's.

 

[wife89]

Donna

I CALLED the TDA last year to ask about this.  I called them FARM FRESH EGGS that is what the UT flier I read said it was called..... He said "I don't know what you are talking about.  You have to have a license to sell eggs.  You can't candle them or grade them that is OUR JOB."  It is $25 permit.   He sent me the paper work.   BUT the first time I read it we should have been exempt.  So I guess they CLEARED it up and now it is a little less muddy?  The government makes my skin crawl.  The less they know the better sometime.  You never know what is coming.....

Now that I have read the WHOLE thing.  The TDA has NO AUTHORITY to REQUIRE a license for you to sell eggs from you own flock on a small scale.  BIG scales YES.

 

Thanks!!!! I had to read it a few times to "get it". Crazy ...... The way things are going it scares me... Creeps me out really.....

Oh and my Cuckoos...Dark brown eggs!!!! Just what i wanted!!! And one of them loves to lay double yolk!!!

 

[Cinny]

I dont know about the withdrawal period.... i dont eat my egg much. From what i understand it is the same ztuff they use on human so personally i dont worry about it. I ahve to pick up grains mon or tuesday and the and then again on friday i think. It is a big bottle. I just use a dropper and put no more that three drops on the back of the neck directly on the skin. You might want to look up the withdrawal period.

Just read an article talking about ivermectin in "Practical Poultry" November issue.....it says since it's not licensed for laying poultry but for exotic birds and pigeons....,although it is commonly used for poultry. In answer to your question about withdrawal it says due to lack to testing toxicity in poultry you need to use a minimum seven day egg and 28 day meat withdrawal. Hope this helps.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: Almost NOTHING is for chickens. Everything just about is OFF Label when used on chickens. Some things like denagaurd have been used overseas for decades on chickens and have directions on the label for chickens..... just not in the US.