Washingtonians

[FlyRobinFly]

Hello! I live in Gig Harbor area. Brand new here and brand new to chicken stuff. I don't have any yet but I can't wait!

You're in the best place to learn and enjoy your birds!

 

[Chickielady]

Just think how many chicks/poults will fit underneath Jack though!

he would not set still long enough, big goofy dog !

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Newer person from Granite Falls to the site, hi! Are there anymore poultry shows, poultry swap meets, anything going on soon? Thanks in advance!

 

[Totalcolour]

I'm getting behind on my reading

Totalcolour

Have you had your surgery yet ? if so, how did it go

Still waiting for the MRI so they can locate the exact place and how bad it is. Why does it take so long to schedule these things?

Hope all is going well with you Ron - how's the recovery? Is it as bad as they said it would be?
Coping well? How about sleeping? Someone told me that's the hardest part.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Ugg... what an day it has been already...

Hang in there, Cheryl!

 

[ReiMiraa]

I am in my World Issues class and there is are 2 books i have read: Safe Foods, by marion nestle. and Bringing it to the table, berry wendell.

The Safe foods has science to back it. The Table one plays more on the doom and gloom factor.... but this guys opinion (not scientific) does strike an issue that is ignored in all my agriculture classes.
This class always gets me into a 'rant', but i have no idea who to "rant" to... or what audience would really benefit from it. oh well.
All my classes focus on Sustainability, or talk about the practices of Organic. Even my Conventional and IPM classes don't touch this issue. I have read how all you are practicing sustainable practices in gardening or for a CSA, and its all good. On a large scale or commercial production (even as small as 34 acres) a grower's practice is based on tradition, finances, innovation, knowledge. Firstly driven by $$ then the tradition, then the new methods if it agrees with the finances........ I would love to present this to an MBA professor or student on how to solve the real problem of farming.

Real Sustainability: Agriculture's Dirty Secret.

I think it takes a special kind of person to do "farming". It requires someone willing to take complete risk, full debt. A sane person would look at the financial side of it and call us "crazy". People think farmers are 'rich' because we like to borrow and play with a few hundred thousand dollars. But if $400,000+ are borrowed a year for production, and you only pocket $20-30,000... That puts a person on the same or lower income level than the average american. A business person would bail, but how is this to be fixed? This is the real dirty secret about true sustainability of the american farmer.

 

[SweetSilver]

Yet another "hello" from a new member. We just got 17 new chicks for 4-H this year, and said "goodbye" to a dear old Buff Orp. I left the "night pen" door open, and the raccoons climbed into the day pen using the overhanging trees. I feel so bad, it's all my fault. Poor Petunia, I let her down and now her BFF is all alone. I used to be able to leave the entire coop open for days, for 2 years straight nearly without any trouble, but that changed recently.

So, happy days and sad days. I will never, ever be complacent about that night pen door again.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Sorry to hear about Petunia, but hopefully the new chicks will be safe, and soon provide companionship to the other hen.

Yet another "hello" from a new member. We just got 17 new chicks for 4-H this year, and said "goodbye" to a dear old Buff Orp. I left the "night pen" door open, and the raccoons climbed into the day pen using the overhanging trees. I feel so bad, it's all my fault. Poor Petunia, I let her down and now her BFF is all alone. I used to be able to leave the entire coop open for days, for 2 years straight nearly without any trouble, but that changed recently.

So, happy days and sad days. I will never, ever be complacent about that night pen door again.

 

[Chickielady]

More on salmonella & horses.

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art47137.asp

 

[Chickielady]

Still waiting for the MRI so they can locate the exact place and how bad it is. Why does it take so long to schedule these things?

Hope all is going well with you Ron - how's the recovery? Is it as bad as they said it would be?
Coping well? How about sleeping? Someone told me that's the hardest part.

I hope your MRI goes well, I know it is terrifying for you, I on the other hand would rather NOT FLY !!!!!!!