From MARCIEROSE@aol.comMon Sep 18 01:00:44 1995 Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 12:46:46 -0400 From: MARCIEROSE@aol.com To: JPOPENOE@aol.com, sanet-mg@amani.ces.ncsu.edu Subject: Re: chicken candling query. Dear JPOPNOE, I often see posts like yours on various boards. I'm glad their are "chicken novices" out there (better than being a "novice chicken," heh? ;-) I have to ask, are you aware of Cooperative Extension and the resources available to you? Have you called your local Cooperative Extension office? Your tax dollars at both the county and federal level support these information dissemination efforts. A good basic book on all poultry is Raising Poultry the Modern Way by Leonard S. Mercia, a former Vermont Extension agent. It is published by Garden Way, a division of Storey Communications, Inc. It's probably available from the feed store where you bought your chicks/feed; any book store could order it for you. It has a section on making a candling light for home use. Candling is use to see if an egg has been fertilized or has a blood spot in it. Good luck! We need more new aggies on any scale. Remember there are no dumb questions. Marcie PS to Sanetters RE: where does food come from - another consequence of our urbanization is the lack of awareness by the general public of the Cooperative Extension Service. I know "trolling for clients" is not what everyone wants to do in an era of declining budgets. However (pardon the pun) this is a classic chicken-and-the-egg argument. Maybe it's time for Extension to reach out to potential farmers. Those folks already in agriculture are usually aware of Extension but the 3rd generation of (sub)urbanites are not. As these people show an increasing interest in small town America, they will need sources of education.