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  • From: Scott Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Take action now to save mail order shipping of poultry.
  • Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 14:27:58 -0600


I agree with the sentiments expressed below but in practice it hasn't worked here in New Mexico. The only local hatchery went out of business last year due to lack of high enough volume and high taxes on his business. Our only source of chicks has been from large hatcheries. Our attempts to find breeds that still have the brooding instinct has thus far not produced any results. We have tried breeds, like the Rhoad Island Red, and others which seem to loose interest in setting after a day or two. I attribute this to them having lost this basic instinct over many generations of incubation in an incubator instead of under a mama hen. Meanwhile we are ordering over forty chickens a year for meat and layer replacement.

Until there is a consistent local supplier or we find a good brood hen or hens we are dependent on shipping our birds in.

Scott

At 12:25 PM 8/14/01 -0500, you wrote:
I don't know that I agree with opposing this ban. Lack of access
to air shipping is likely to spark the development of local
hatcheries. All things considered, local hatcheries and even
setting your own eggs and hatching your own chicks are much more
"green' and sustainable it seems to me than a few large
hatcheries shipping little birds around the country by air plane.

Robert Waldrop, OKC
http://www.bettertimesinfo.org





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