PSA: chicken sales

[Allsmiles]

Got rid of my chickens about a month ago.

 

[41mag]

I pray this stuff gets sorted out real soon ! If they cant , we are going to be in some serious mess !

 

[ARCman47]

In all seriousness I hope this is an isolated event and doesn’t spread. It is a very important industry in the state with a lot of families depending on it.

I tell you what man, we're all on pins and needles around here

 

[KSouth]

We got 18 hens but winter time isn’t that great on eggs laying. Still getting 4-6 a day.
If you need someone to take a few chicks off your hands I’ll drive to you. I could use 5-10 more.

I got lucky then. I sold 25 Birds last Saturday and got good money for them. My hens are still laying some but the cold grey days have them slowed down some. I got 21 chicks in the brooder too.

 

[Dice]

THIS! like anything else they can think up, is Trumps fault. You heard it hear first.

 

[rbstern]

I work for a poultry company. Please keep all these people in your thoughts and prayers. The infected farm was in the edge of Elbert co. If this **** cannot be contained it will potentially cripple GAs biggest industry. Since you seem to "know" about poultry operations and conditions tell me about it. What do you call the "overuse" of antibiotics?? A company is in business to make money, therefore they would in most cases treat sickly birds with an antibiotic. Just as you would go to the doctor when you're sick and get medicine. Whats shady about some in the industry, are the ones that market "organic" **** and you're paying 5x the price. "Yard chickens" and game birds are an issue because they're out in the open, exposed. So when wild birds or waterfowl transmit a disease to them, that's where cases start to happen.

Can't see how that's the problem: How would yard chickens spread the disease to commercial chickens?

 

[ARCman47]

Can't see how that's the problem: How would yard chickens spread the disease to commercial chickens?

People that have infected yard chickens near someone's farm. Airborne. Also, a break in bio security on some farms where a farm helper had been around backyard birds, ducks, geese ect.

 

[Allsmiles]

Can't see how that's the problem: How would yard chickens spread the disease to commercial chickens?

Backyard chickens cut into commercial sales and that is how they are a problem. Except it costs more to raise backyard chickens that the eggs they produce.

 

[ARCman47]

Backyard chickens cut into commercial sales and that is how they are a problem. Except it costs more to raise backyard chickens that the eggs they produce.

It's not as much about "table eggs" around here, as it is broilers. The majority of hen houses around here are broiler breeders, which supply broiler hatching eggs. There are a minority of "table egg" producers around here

 

[wolfmanrogers]

If you’re a grower in the poultry industry it’s a life of indentured servitude, barely better than the terrible life of the birds.