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RE: Come on get in the truck and ride w/ me - 9/18/2007 9:03:07 AM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3754 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline Here's some that didn't make the catch,but not to worry we won't sent these out to ya. Most likely these died of heart attacks from the food we give them. We grow a 6 lb. bird in six weeks super food. If you see a chicken on his back it was a heart attack. Remember I said they weren't pretty. Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 81

RE: Come on get in the truck and ride w/ me - 9/18/2007 9:05:40 AM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3754 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline A cripple [splayed legs]you may or may not get.No fear if he makes it to the dressing plant they might find her and chunk her out. Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 82

RE: Come on get in the truck and ride w/ me - 9/18/2007 9:07:04 AM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3754 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline Loading the trucks Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 83

RE: Come on get in the truck and ride w/ me - 9/18/2007 9:11:47 AM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3754 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline This fan is used to keep air moving on the birds,got to keep them cool. Chickens can not stant to get hot,they will die. Sometimes in the summer if it's hot you can loose thousands a day. I know people who have lost 15-20k in a day and these people do not help you pick them up,it's on you. Better hope you got a big family or friends to help. Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 84

RE: Come on get in the truck and ride w/ me - 9/18/2007 9:13:42 AM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3754 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline Smaller fan for inside the house,like I said gotta keep that air moving. Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 85

RE: Come on get in the truck and ride w/ me - 9/18/2007 10:08:24 AM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3754 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline What do we do with the dead chickens you might ask. In the 70s we would feed the dead to our brood sows[hogs love chicken dead or alive] then that got brought to grinding halt. Next was to dump them in a field and let the buzzards eat em.That got halted too and we have had a huge drop in the buzzard population here.Next were the pits which were 10,000gal drums that we dropped them in and they were nasty and stank real bad. Finally Clemson came up w/ this idea a chicken composter and that is what this is. Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 86

RE: Come on get in the truck and ride w/ me - 9/18/2007 10:12:11 AM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3754 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline What we do is take some of these hardcakes,which is wood shavings[what we use for litter] and chicken crap that has gotten wet under the waters and caked up hence hardcakes,not to tasty I may add. Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 87

RE: Come on get in the truck and ride w/ me - 9/18/2007 10:17:32 AM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3754 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline We will put a layer of this down and sometimes a layer of straw a layer of chickens and another of hardcake wet it down in this section,which repetes itself till the bin is full usually in 6 weeks. It will buid up a heat to around 150 degrees and compost the chickens in about 12 weeks. Belive it or not this does not smell or draw flies much. Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 88

RE: Come on get in the truck and ride w/ me - 9/18/2007 10:19:47 AM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3754 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline And after a while you move to this bin and all you have left is some bones and a few feathers Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 89

RE: Come on get in the truck and ride w/ me - 9/18/2007 10:23:58 AM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3754 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline See. This stuff grows some wonderfull flowers has bone and blood already mixed in. The litter in the houses is spread on our fields or sold to ferdlizer cos. to make organic ferdlizer. Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 90

RE: Come on get in the truck and ride w/ me - 9/18/2007 10:30:33 AM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3754 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline Now I know that this looks rough and nasty,but this is what the chicken you eat looks like down on the farm. Whether it's Sonny Purdues on some farm in Del. the farms around Gainsville Ga., Calif or Arkansas they are all about the same. I just thought you like to know some of the steps it went through before you picked it up at the Cols. or your local grociers shelf. (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 91

RE: Come on get in the truck and ride w/ me - 9/18/2007 5:44:14 PM    bigghouse Posts: 839 Joined: 7/15/2007 From: MA Status: offline i was wondering with all those creaks u have by if u ever found any bottles in them. exspeccially by the mill!! the poor chickens!!!! 1. they get hatched and live in cramed places 2. they get fead super food to make them fat. 3. they either get a heart attack or get killed. 4. they get turned into furtilizer i'm glad i'm not a chicken!! RIP chickens hope u get the worms out of the hay!! anna < Message edited by bigghouse -- 9/18/2007 5:51:20 PM > (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 92

RE: Come on get in the truck and ride w/ me - 9/18/2007 5:53:31 PM    wonkapete   Posts: 601 Joined: 4/5/2007 From: Mobile, AL Status: offline Thanks for the pics!  Reminds me of Greenville\Georgiana, AL, where my family is from.  I will take pics next time I'm up that way.  My grandfather had 3 chicken houses too.  They are all gone except one, I think.  (in reply to bigghouse) Post #: 93

RE: Come on get in the truck and ride w/ me - 9/18/2007 10:27:34 PM    capsoda Posts: 9832 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline My cousin Charles used to own some production houses. Had to help him one winter when he was startin up. Got super cold over in DeFuniak Springs, FL and my job was to keep the heaters lit all night so the bitties wouldn't freeze and to keep them from bunchin up under the brooder lamps. Raised some chickens myself when I was single and first out of the Air Force. Sold alot of jumbo brown eggs for a buck a dozen to folks or 75 cents to stores. Bought cartons by the bunk and set up a sizing/grading lab with a washer. Had about 200 chickens that I used for laying and sold settin eggs, layin hens and prize roosters around the area. Love them domineckers, new hampshers and plymouths. Sold some real big prize roosters. Did pretty good with them too. Also had some quail for pickling eggs and meat. I got the wife some geese, about 20, no telling how many chickens and ducks.She also had about 60 guineas, a few turkeys, a peacock named Georgie, a couples of reas, 4 emus, 2 goats, 5 horses and a mix of dogs and cats. She also had a canadian snow goose and two wild mallards fly in a stay and a wild albino turkey that came to live with us. They did a write up in the Pensacola News Journal about he. The bird lady of Seminole, Al. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to wonkapete) Post #: 94

RE: Come on get in the truck and ride w/ me - 9/18/2007 10:50:00 PM    capsoda Posts: 9832 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Here are the pics and as much of the article as I could scan and reduce to fit. She said I couldn't eat any of them cause they were pets but a few hit the pan anyway. You can see the reas, the male showing out for the camera and Cindy holding Huey the lead gander. You can also se some turkeys, ducks and a big plymouth rock rooster at her feet. Attachment (1) < Message edited by capsoda -- 9/18/2007 10:55:47 PM > _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 95

RE: Come on get in the truck and ride w/ me - 9/19/2007 11:07:49 AM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Great story Pat.  There is a lot of work that goes into raising animals, I'll stick to the 8 to 5.  I used to pick up eggs we sold at the  store from the egg farm.  Those folks were always working, very long hours.  Cap, I used to raise chickens and ducks.  Kinda got burned out on it and sold and gave away what I had.  Too many people in town  have dogs that are not penned up. Dogs chickens, and ducks do not mix.  Better to get rid of the animals that feud with neighbors when their dogs sport kill your chickens and ducks. Do you still keep all them critters?  _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 96

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