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Re: Take action now to save mail order shipping of poultry.
- To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Take action now to save mail order shipping of poultry.
- From: Scott Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org>
- Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 14:27:58 -0600
- In-reply-to: <LYRIS-101940-6648-2001.08.14-13.38.02--pci#permaculture-inst.org@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Newsgroups: permaculture
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