Post by Gorignak on Aug 16, 2012 6:37:19 GMT -5
We raise French Production Muscovy ducks, along with our personal hybrid breed of chickens, yet to be named. Now that we are raising Dexters, we see an added value of the poultry as they disassemble each pile of manure as fast as it appears. Our poultry has been a valuable source of income, and we operate 3 -300 egg incubators from January thru August. I met Olga through one of our chicken ads on Craigslist.
I plan on taking our poultry out into the pastures with portable "chicken tractors" to rotate with the cattle.
www.jmhatchery.com/index.php
......start with these people. Most hatcheries in the US have deteriorated in quality over the past 10 years. This company's poultry can be marketed to the "natural food" crowd for a very fair price. THIS HATCHERY IS FOCUSED ON A PRODUCT THAT SELLS, AND IS WELL THOUGHT OUT....HIGH QUALITY.
Rather than starting a new thread, I have added this next part to the original, and added "rabies" to the title.
Bad news for Boone, Searcy, Carroll, and surrounding counties in Arkansas. We are having a rabies outbreak, and it bears close watching by cattle owners. We have had 3 cases of rabies in cattle, and over 70 cases in skunks, raccoons, cats and dogs.
The skunks are especially problematic to a cattle operation. Skunks stay hidden by burrowing in the densest brush piles and places like junk piles and rock piles. At night, they scurry around pastures digging worms, grubs, yellow jacket nests and other insects. When it gets dry.....they home in on the cow manure piles that are full of fly larva and shelter grubs underneath. The manure is in areas that cattle frequent, and the rabid skunk will bite the animal on the leg. The bite is often undetected.
Proper management of the manure from the outset can be accomplished with poultry. My manure is scattered as fast as it is produced....Chickens, Banties, Muscovy Ducks, and to some extent Guineas, work from dawn to dusk in the pasture.
I am more than willing to reply to queries on "how to" concerning raising and marketing. Just PM me and don't get dismayed by a lack of rapid response....I will bunch up the queries and answer them as a batch, covering all topics.
hoping for rain............Mike
2" on Thursday.....settled the dust......Mike
I plan on taking our poultry out into the pastures with portable "chicken tractors" to rotate with the cattle.
www.jmhatchery.com/index.php
......start with these people. Most hatcheries in the US have deteriorated in quality over the past 10 years. This company's poultry can be marketed to the "natural food" crowd for a very fair price. THIS HATCHERY IS FOCUSED ON A PRODUCT THAT SELLS, AND IS WELL THOUGHT OUT....HIGH QUALITY.
Rather than starting a new thread, I have added this next part to the original, and added "rabies" to the title.
Bad news for Boone, Searcy, Carroll, and surrounding counties in Arkansas. We are having a rabies outbreak, and it bears close watching by cattle owners. We have had 3 cases of rabies in cattle, and over 70 cases in skunks, raccoons, cats and dogs.
The skunks are especially problematic to a cattle operation. Skunks stay hidden by burrowing in the densest brush piles and places like junk piles and rock piles. At night, they scurry around pastures digging worms, grubs, yellow jacket nests and other insects. When it gets dry.....they home in on the cow manure piles that are full of fly larva and shelter grubs underneath. The manure is in areas that cattle frequent, and the rabid skunk will bite the animal on the leg. The bite is often undetected.
Proper management of the manure from the outset can be accomplished with poultry. My manure is scattered as fast as it is produced....Chickens, Banties, Muscovy Ducks, and to some extent Guineas, work from dawn to dusk in the pasture.
I am more than willing to reply to queries on "how to" concerning raising and marketing. Just PM me and don't get dismayed by a lack of rapid response....I will bunch up the queries and answer them as a batch, covering all topics.
hoping for rain............Mike
2" on Thursday.....settled the dust......Mike