Would like input in my new website

[iajewel]

Thank you for the intput.. I stink at spelling so yes.. I will need to ask someone to edit for me. Obviously my spell checker isn't catching it all. As for the pure bred Americana.. It should have been Aracana. I have the ones with tails, only 2 of my birds are rumpless.. so the base of the flock have tails and are THAT variety. Im new to that breed and still sorting out the right names after years of calling them by the wrong name.. I have some bad habits to break.
This is a rough draft, so until I get the lay out.. all the info and things in there I want I wasn't going to do the framed photos ( not knowing yet what colors Im going to use so don't know what frame I will use on the photos) and I only want to do the graphics once.. so waiting until I get all the info in and choose a color scheme before I do that.
Im very grateful for the input Thank you all very much.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Very nice website, I bet you worked really hard on it.

 

[Choctaw Valley Farm]

It is not for Security reasons that folks will not let you come to the farm it is BIO Security reasons it would be like a Doctor operating with out gloves or a mask, We let people come to our farm but not go thought the pens and we don't have anything to hide, but if someone comes to your farm and they have sick birds or if you have sick birds it don't take long to spread the sickness so it is safer just not to let them tour.

You do have a Nice looking Website.

Steve

 

[iajewel]

I agree you never know what someone has at home.. I think at shows its easier to bring home sick birds than allowing someone to walk through your yard. The way things are set up.. and I should get better photos.. is that the pens are in the back yard.. some even connected to the orchard so the birds can help with clean up in the fall. Basically if you walk into the back yard you can see most everything,(actually you can see it from my back steps) then if you walk on the paths made you can see everything. I have rock down as well as the grass kept up and so on.. the birds and rabbits are intrigued into the land scape. not your normal pens. The rabbits are all colony raised also so you can sit in a chair and enjoy them coming up to you, or when visitors come I can close a gate and they are still in a large pen, just not so they can come into contact with people.
The mail man comes into several farm properties a day, and when he brings mail to my door its the back door, so everyday my mail man is to me more a threat then a visitor.. or going to a show.. more a threat then a visitor.
I don't know about everyone else, but I learned proper farm eticate years ago. That includes buying a cheap pair of rubber shoes and keeping them in a bag in the truck. I only use them for farm visits, and I bleach them after every visit. Then return them to the bag. I learned this from a man from Holland that when he visited my farm, he was adamant that he had a pair of boots to use for visits.. This made sence to me and I have done the same thing ever since.

Now.. if they were in typical pens and kept in a non-free range manor where poop etc would build up and pens would need cleaning.. thus have build up of bacteria etc.. then yes.. I would be more worried.

Be as it may, Under no circumstance do I allow anyone into my pens. My granddaughter gets to go in and have "easter egg hunts" but.. thats it.. Me, Bill., Nevy.. and no one else. The birds also get more upset when someone they don't know goes into the pen. They follow us like dogs.. but don't care for strangers. Its their home, so I try and keep it the way they feel more comfortable too.

I do however want people who visit to be able to see the birds, and see how they are kept, how they eat, see their clean water, see any and everything they need to so that if they do decide to take home one of our birds, they are very confident in what they are taking home, not just in the blood lines and over all quality of the bird, but in its health, its growth and its ability to reproduce in a healthy manor as well.
All my worming charts etc are in the brooder house on a big board, easy to see and read for everyone, even visitors.. this has been important to me in cattle, horses, rabbits and now that we are getting more serious about chickens.. we are using the same open door policy including our records.. for anyone who would like to consider our birds.

In short, I think there is a safe balance between farm safety and allowing those who take the time and expense to come visit, the ability to actually visit and feel like family.