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[pennyJo1960]

wow Pizza costco style here tonight shopping day kills me
I hate shopping I am a speed shopper I want in and out fast as possible

 

[drumstick diva]

I love shopping and get great pleasure, even if the purchase isn't for me. I love the hunt, the battle over the last t shirt in hot pink, or whatever. I am stealthy, and driven to find the "unfindable" - .My specialty is locating items for someone too lazy to shop themselves. Failure is NOT an option. My brother and son HATE shopping. Of course after a rousing battle at Walmart or Target etc. then I settle back for a nice nap.

I hope shopping is considered exercise. Struggling to fit into things that should fit but, don't takes a lot of effort and the three way mirrors are always distorting my 'perfection. But I do not give up. Just today I found a new "Sin City," dvd in blue ray for my son for $ 5.00 at Target and used my $ 5.gift card I had from getting a flu shot there. That's a double bonus to me.

 

[pennyJo1960]

@drumstick diva I have always been get in find what you need get out
my BF is so thrilled his late wife had to peruse every isle his son 34
loves going to stores with me... My major flaw is calling a spade a spade
no grey areas here

 

[perchie.girl]

I hate shopping. except in Home Depot or Lowes. Even then when I want something I do my research before going in the store and pretty much know what I want and where to get it.

I do like going in though and getting ideas for projects and can spend hours doing that.

deb

 

[pennyJo1960]

I spend hours but at home figuring out how I do spend more time at home depot lowe's is not close
I think closest is in Olympia some where or pierce county Bonney Lake 3 hours away almost 4 hours

Just was told east Olympia out on Martin Way 39. miles according to google
guess I am a home depot fan

 

[chickisoup]

Morning!


Thought you might find this an interesting read to go along with your morning cuppa

Inexperience leads to disaster in small specialty poultry flock

Disease and high mortality in a small Midwestern poultry operation of the US demonstrate the consequences of inexperience coupled with the treatment restraints of organic farming, Patricia Wakenell, DVM, PhD, Purdue University, reported at the 2016 Western Poultry Disease Conference.[1]
In her presentation, “Disaster Flocks: When good intentions go bad,” Wakenell reported on a 5,000-bird flock with mortality that at one point reached 50% to 60%. No treatment had been initiated because the farm was organic.
Contacted for help, the university’s Poultry Diagnostic Service found unvaccinated birds. Only a half-wall separated broilers from layers. Although broilers were separated into pens by age, they could jump from one pen to another. Litter was never changed and some had been present for at least 6 months. New hatchlings were in a pen previously occupied by turkeys. Ventilation was adequate, but heat for young broilers was not, Wakenell said.
There were numerous dead broilers and those that were sick had snicking, lameness, diarrhea, stunting, pendulous crops, ataxia, depression and feather loss. Diagnostics revealed reovirus tenosynovitis, infectious bursal disease, infectious bronchitis, Marek’s disease and salmonellosis. The owner refused to depopulate but cleaned out litter from vacated pens and sourced birds vaccinated against Marek’s disease. A second submission for diagnosis, however, turned up aspergillosis, she said.
About 1 month after the university’s initial visit, mortality was occurring in layers. Infectious laryngotracheitis and mycoplasma were diagnosed. The owner resisted total depopulation of the layer flock but depopulated birds on one side of the building.
There has been some improvement, with broiler mortality approaching 40%. However, “the resistance to depopulation, cleaning, disinfection and single-age broiler restocking has made it difficult to find ways to improve the health of the birds,” Wakenell said.
“Small specialty poultry flocks are exploding in popularity, driven by public desire to have local fresh eggs and meat. Unfortunately, many of the farmers are new to poultry farming and do not have training in the basics of biosecurity and disease containment. In addition, public demands for organic products limit the types of intervention that can be used when disease issues do occur on the farms,” she said.




[1] Wakenell P, et al. Diaster Flocks: When good intentions go bad. Proceedings of the 65th Western Poultry Disease Conference, 2016, Vancouver, BC, Canada.



categories: Infectious Diseases Media Watch
tags: disaster flocks, organic farming, poultry flocks, Western Poultry Disease Conference

 

[perchie.girl]

now thats scary

 

[pennyJo1960]

it's ok we have better sense me hope

 

[perchie.girl]

I think the lesson to all is Organic farms NEED to be extra dilligent.... and educated. even if he was a previous producer of non organic birds I betcha his flock was just as miserable.

deb

 

[pennyJo1960]

@perchie.girl I try my level best to practice smart farming I brought the name of my childhood
Halfway Ranch to our home 18 chickens + 7 1 cockerel 17 ft diameter coop and a 4x4x4 bachelor pad
broody pen often in the rain my girls head back in food is always inside the drink cups inside no wild
birds after it all shavings on the floor in the boxes...
treats are given inside although the weeds from garden are spread about the yard roots and all