WooHoo
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Topic: WooHoo
Posted By: shameless dude
Subject: WooHoo
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2018 at 12:18am
| gots a call from the Omaha Police Dept last night...says they have confisticated a bunch of roosters in the city, they wanted to know if I wanted them? I told them to bring them on up, i'll take them all! we gots grubs in our yard and that is what they really like! plus it'll gives our last lonely goat sum company! I love them chicky's around the farm! we ain't seen no coons since 3 were hit by a vehicle all at once a couple months ago! prolly will gits to see a few rooster fights too! |
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Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2018 at 6:13am
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Now that you have yard birds, you're not going to piss, bitch, and moan about the way I do it are you? Most everybody around here that gets a new chicken start telling me how wrong I am for growing commercial and how it's cruel. ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2018 at 11:09am
| Ok how close is the chicky pen to the stockholders. |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2018 at 11:53am
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Gotta have at least one stewed dinner. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: caledonian
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2018 at 3:52pm
| Talking about raising commercial chickens down there in Georgia ? Cosco is putting in a chicken processing plant at Fremont Nebr. They have been trying to round up local farmers within a 75 mile radius to put up buildings & raise chickens for them . The public here in Nebr is just raising hell about it. Don"t want any commercial chicken raising facilities in their area at all. How's the public accept it down there ? |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2018 at 7:28pm
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It depends on who you talk to. If it's there farm kids that grew up on or around the farms they don't complain. The yuppies that want to live in the country but don't want the country there, they don't like it. Yeah we have a bunch of farms here. Broiler chickens is Georgia's biggest cash crop by far. We're the broiler capitol of the world was the last I heard. Most of the people that complain here (and probably there to) have never stepped foot on a farm but they can tell you everything you're doing wrong because they watched some documentary on YouTube showing the "atrocities" that the "monsters" cause those chickens to put up with. I think it's absolutely one of the best jobs to have. You're a livestock farmer on a contract basis so you're getting paid as long as you do what you're supposed to. I grew up on a pullet farm and I saw and learned things that most people will never know anything about and my girls are doing the same thing. It's where I learned how to work and they'll learn the same way. If they grow a 4 to 5 lbs bird and I had a chance I'd jump with both feet. That's what I'm doing here. Building 6 50x600 ft houses for Pilgrim. If they're bigger than that I might think a little more but a 4 to 5 lb bird can be grown in around 35 to 42 days. ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2018 at 11:08pm
| awwwww….Tyler...this isn't the first I've had chicky's, been raising them off and on for about 60 years! and the parents and grandparents had them too! just that eventually the coons diminish my populations here! we've been without them most of this year, and i'll surprise the old lady....oooops….I mean the loving wife next spring with a new batch! I love watching them outside, might even tame a few! I do wanna gits sum more ugly guina's again. we went for a drive last sunday, found someone putting up 4 big ole chicky raising buildings not far from us. appeared to be about 60x300 ft each in size, was surprised that they were being built of all wood. no steel buildings anywhere near them. |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2018 at 5:26am
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Yup all wood up to 66 ft wide here. I've heard of some 80 ft wide in Alabama that is steel girders but I've never seen them. Kinda strange they're just 300 ft long. They haven't built any 300 ft houses here since the early to mid 80's. Might be breeder houses though. They're usually smaller than broiler houses ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: caledonian
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2018 at 7:28am
| Thanks for the info thendrix . |
Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2018 at 9:14am
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Somewhat along the same line, a company from Minnesota has come in hear Benton Township, Eaton County, and wants to cover 700 acer with solar panels on good farm land. The people living in the area, are not happy about it. The only farmers that like the idea are the ones that will have their land bought up. The thing that bothers me the most is that Michigan ranks 47th of the 48 continental states of available sunshine. If this goes through then this solar system will be sold to some electric company, which I'm sure will make our electric rates go up. Why don't they put these solar panels where there is a lot of sunshine? Then just put it on the power grid. Just venting a little. Dusty ------------- 917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express" |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2018 at 10:42am
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Only reason I can give you is it makes to much sense and lines the wrong ones pockets ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2018 at 11:16am
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Those chickies are the BEST eatin,,,,,,,when they get to run around on the ground and feast on bugs of every color. They get all that yellow/orange fat in em,,,,,,OH SO GOOD eatin!! With all them dogs you got Shameless, how come you don't have you a good coon dog?? Let him/her loose around the farm and they'll take care of them coons!! Yeah, all them dooo-gooders want stuff, but no where near them!! ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2018 at 11:34am
| my dogs chase them coons when they see them! same way with the foxes too! maybe these chicky's will coax sum more coons to the road, everyone knows they can't cross any road without being tagged by a vehicle! lol |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2018 at 1:55pm
| Them solar panels work better in the cooler areas |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2018 at 8:30pm
| Caledonian...there were 5 farmers here in our county that wanted to build chicky buildings for the Cosco chain, 3 out of the 5 were voted out, and one just gave up after his family received death threats! Cosco wanted to put their plant in by the town of Nickerson, and the people there chased them out! they then approached Fremont, and Fremont (they said illegally) annexed some farm ground into the city, no pre-talks or meetings, didn't even tell the land owners about the annexations until it was finalized. then the did the eminate domain thing on the ground, then gave Cosco the land to build on! real crooked dealings going on with that company! part of this story is in print, some of it is gossip at the local watering holes. just condensed down. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2018 at 12:35am
| We gots Rose Acre Farms here. Last I heard they was the largest egg producer in the USA. 1 son worked for them 25 years. Gots farms all over the states. I hot some chicken poo put on some dormet Alalafa one year. It had been a marginal stand. Next 2 years it the best hay I ever raized. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2018 at 1:23am
| maybe i'll just drop my last goat off at Tom's place, it'll have lots of company there, and i'll just gits more chicky's! |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2018 at 8:37am
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Hey Shameless get you some of those Guinies from babies and time they get up regular size they will be the best alarm system you can buy,,,,and keep them coons at bay til you can run out with the shotgun,,,,,
 ,,,leastways,,thas what I heard down at the barbershop,,,,,,, |
Posted By: TMiller/NC
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2018 at 7:14pm
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Thendrix, I have a friend that raises chickens for Tyson, he says the odor from the houses smells like money!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2018 at 9:09pm
| yep...Joe...we've had them before, they are really fun to watch, and they mess with the dogs too! one day they was sitting on the fence by the highway, you'd a thoughts they was watching a tennis match watching the cars go by! only thing I hated about them, they'd rat me out coming home late! lol |
Posted By: caledonian
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2018 at 10:38pm
| Yeah Shameless this chicken thing has gotten to be almost like a civil war. Lots of hard feelings. I've heard those rumors about Cosco also. |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2018 at 7:21am
He's exactly right! Smells like $.056 per lb. on the foot and $10 a yard when it's headed to a hay field!  I don't know about there but here I've heard Tyson can be hard to deal with. ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
TMiller/NC wrote:Posted By: TMiller/NC
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2018 at 8:18pm
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thendrix, He was growing for Case Farms, and switched to Tyson, don't know for sure but I think he built 2 more houses when he changed. Might of been Case didn't need the additional chickens. He has 4 houses grows 100k at a time. |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2018 at 3:25pm
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We also have 4 as of right now. 2 are 40x300 and 2 are 40x400. We grow 72,000 at a time. Soon we'll have 6 50x600 houses and we'll grow 232,000 per flock. ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2018 at 2:41pm
| That will be a lots of chicken poop to spread some where. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2018 at 4:35pm
| how you gonna catch all them, to puts into the crates? |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2018 at 3:11pm
| hire the amish, that's what they do around here |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2018 at 6:22pm
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Th company sends a crew with a Moffet lift, 4 tractor trailers with cages, and 7 or 8 people to catch. They drive all the birds to one side then turn the lights down. When it's dark the birds sit down because they can't see where to go and the catchers walk through and pick them up. Takes them 6 to 7 hours to catch 70,000 this way ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2018 at 10:51pm
| holy buckets...whew! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2018 at 10:53pm
| &$@*^$(%@^%7 COONS! they got my new bird last night! guess i'm gonna hafta live trap them again and maybe take them over to the new chicky barns! |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2018 at 4:35am
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I would think if you gots that many coons around the place,,you could put an ad in the paper advertisin "Huntin By the Day" startin at ,,,,say,,,,,$25/Day/Gun. You could call it "practicin for the hunts" and make you some serious money,,,,,??
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2018 at 8:33am
| Game Parks won't lets me do that...already tried! I did tell the great white deer hunters they could also shoot all the coons, coyotes, and foxes they see! the highway gits most of the coons, and the last week it gots 4 of them! ain't seen no foxes for awhile, I think they moved on as there ain't no more rabbits to be found here anymore. the coyotes are still in the area, but they can't jump this fence. have a coon hunter across the road that runs dogs, and I always gave him permission to hunt them coons every year, until I found out he was planting coons out there so he would have plenty to hunt! he no longer gets to hunt this property because of that! I live trapped several earlier this year and took them up to the stockholders place and another buddy's place and across the river to IA. |
Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2018 at 8:40am
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Your buddy is a coon hunter or he is not that much of a buddy. ------------- 917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express" |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2018 at 9:23am
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Shameless if you eats the chickens the coons are SOL and your full. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2018 at 5:56pm
I think Shameless already let the coon get the chicky so it's eat coon or road trip to somebody
 else chicken pen. So who is the first he will come to ???????????? |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2018 at 9:19pm
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Bait that tap with a 3 chocolate donuts out of the $1 bag at Dollar General then give him some 2200 ft/sec lead poisoning. Guarantee he won't come back. And if he does, give him the damn chicken ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2018 at 12:38am
| i'm gonna hafta make/build a chicky run with a chain link cover on top I guess! we both love the chickys running around the yard all day long, just hard to keep them safe at night even inside a building! guess i'll hafta build a new nesting hut too! |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2018 at 7:44pm
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The coons are as full of shenanigans as anything around, you included. The seems where the wire edges meet needs to be good. I built my mother a little 10 x 20 pen shed. We used chicken wire on 3 sides and the wire had a good overlap in the middle. So only tied it every foot. But after some years something was getting in dining on chicken and leaving again and no wholes anywhere. Darned coon got his nose in between the 2 wires of overlapping wire and the rest followed. But one night he over eat or something and I got there with shotgun before he got away. Yes cheap cost a few chickens should of put another 2x4 in the side and stapled the overlapping wires down. But in my defense I was lucky the old man got new chicken wire as all wood was "reclaimed" as well as tin roof. Maybe you need to get county government
to build chicken pen, if your a keeping critters they catch. The Fruit Loops here are talking $30 or $40 million for a new animal shelter here. |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2018 at 1:29pm
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Something was getting our chickens when I was 13. I ended up following a sparse blood and a feather once in a while trail out to the road by the end of the drive way. Went and got a flash light shined it in the culvert as no light shown thru from other side. Sure enough orange red eyes staring back, 3 rounds of Thendrix 2200 ft/sec lead poisoning (.22) later no red eyes. Nailed a 12 and 8 ft 2x4 together and pushed out the biggest striped polecat I ever seen. No more Chickens lost.
------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |