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Chick Topics
- Water Heaters
Warm water and a heat bulb will help keep chickens producing eggs through the winter.
- CACKLE HATCHERY We have ordered poultry from Cackle Hatchery for 25 years. They have a nice website, showing good pictures of the various breeds of chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese.
- Waterfowl Website-Metzer Farms
- BREEDS OF POULTRY Photos and breed descriptions of Chickens, Ducks, Geese, and Turkeys on the Oklahoma State University Poultry Breeds website.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
GEORGE W BUSH
We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to
know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is
either against us or for us. There is no middle ground here.
COLIN POWELL
Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image
of the chicken crossing the road.
HANS BLIX
We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been
allowed to have access to the other side of the road.
JOHN KERRY
Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road I am now against it!
RALPH NADER
The chicken's habitat on the other side of the road had been polluted by
unchecked industrial greed. The chicken did not reach the unspoiled
habitat on the other side of the road because it was crushed by the
wheels of a gas-guzzling SUV.
PAT BUCHANAN
To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.
RUSH LIMBAUGH
I don't know why the chicken crossed the road, but I'll bet it was
getting a government grant to cross the road, and I'll bet that somebody
out there is already forming a support group to help chickens with
crossing-the-road syndrome. Can you believe this? How much more of this
can real Americans take? Chickens crossing the road paid for by their
tax dollars. And when I say tax dollars, I'm talking about your money,
money the government took from you to build a road for chickens to
cross.
MARTHA STEWART
No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a
standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price
dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider
information.
JERRY FALWELL
Because the chicken was gay --- isn't it obvious? Can't you people see
the plain truth in front of your face? The chicken was going to the
"other side". That's what they call it the other side. Yes, my friends,
that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay
too. I say we Boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination
that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like
"the other side."
DR SEUSS
Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the
chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
To die in the rain. Alone.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR
I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads
without having their motives called into question.
GRANDPA
In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told
us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.
BARBARA WALTERS
Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the
chicken tell, for the first time, the heartwarming story of how it
experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its
life long dream of crossing the road.
JOHN LENNON
Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together - in
peace.
ARISTOTLE
It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
KARL MARX
It was an historic inevitability.
RONALD REAGAN
What chicken?
CAPTAIN KIRK
To boldly go where no chicken has ever gone before.
SIGMUND FREUD
The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road
reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.
BILL GATES
I have just witnessed eChicken2003, which will not only cross roads, but
will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your
checkbook, - and internet explorer is an integral part of chicken.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the
chicken?
COLONEL SANDERS
Did I miss one?
BILL CLINTON
I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What is your definition of
chicken?
AL GORE
I invented the chicken!
Alert
Poultry Shipping Crisis Puts
Small Flocks' Futures at Peril
For decades, the U.S. Postal Service has been a mainstay of the small flock poultry world. Anyone wanting to ship or receive birds has been able to do so in a dependable and economical way.
Recent events put this long-standing relationship at peril. While the post office hasn't changed the mailing status of poultry, they have recently entered into contracts with Fed-Ex who by policy will not ship live birds. Northwest, another major air mail carrier has also announced that they will not continue to ship live birds. That leaves only three carriers that can help fulfil the Post Office's obligation to ship birds. That additional pressure and the airline industries trend means that there could soon be no practical way to ship live poultry.
The Post Office is obligated to ship the mail which includes live birds. They have a responsibility to require that the companies which they contract with meet these obligations. If a company wants to carry the mail, they should carry all of the mail, not select which pieces they will and won't deal with. Interestingly, several of the carriers that have dropped carrying birds by mail will still carry birds as air freight at much higher prices. If the post office will not live up to its obligation, we feel that legislative action is required to ensure that Post office does meet the ongoing needs of the U.S. citizenship.
This impacts everyone who buys and sells birds by mail - hatcheries, small farmers, 4Hers and FFA members, hobbyists, feed stores, schools, zoos and research centers. If you're reading this alert, it probably impacts you!
Please take a moment and send a letter to your Legislative Representatives and help preserve small flock poultry before it's too late!
- Chicken Shipping Crisis-- Write your Congressmen.
Read the most recent progress reports from Birdshippers
As of Jan. 2005, the situation remains strained and unsettled. This problem will be ongoing.
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