Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

Tom - Your body would create antibodies for that strain of the virus. Just like the common cold that we can get over and over again because the virus mutates.

Here are DH's numbers. Of course, they are always changing and some #'s have been rounded. 7.8 people per one thousand of Canada’s population will die in 2020, with approximately 40,000,000 in our population; 7.8 X 40,000,000/1000 =312,000 This 312,000 is Canada’s deaths predicted for 2020. The tota...

There are lots of coyotes here; we hear them yipping quite often.

Thank-you. I will keep you posted.

I have a RIR, Scrawny Scarlett, that I have separated from the flock because she was getting pecked and still has a fairly bare neck. She is now company for the old docile cochin, Anna. Although Anna does let Scarlett know who eats first. Twice this week, I have witnessed Scarlett doing a funky back...

Farrrier - Bumblefoot was included with our introduction to keeping hens. With ours, it is usually caused by a cut in the foot that gets infected. We're on a century old farm, and with that, there can be broken glass where the hens dust bathe. And I've gone through their yard with a metal detector a...

Yup that's about it. Someone we know has a relative in Washington State who said that when Trump is re-elected the COVID cases will all disappear because it was a hoax! Seriously! Up here, the news media is really stoking the fear of covid flames. Last night DH was doing some arithmetic with the %a...

Got my Snackyard order today; it is the dried Black Soldier Fly meal worms. Yay! The hens liked them; I mixed them in with their scratch. I did a price comparison with Chubby and there is not enough of a cost difference, so I would order from Snackyard again. Knowing that the farm is in Cambridge an...

We did our own 20 birds this year as well as 9 turkeys and 4 cockerels. It's not a fun job, but like Tom we know where they came from and what they were fed. I don't miss them either. Meat chickens are a nasty lot. And I don't miss having to get 3 different buckets of feed ready - between the meat c...

Interesting thanks for the info. I looked into Enterra in BC a couple years ago, as they produce a black soldier fly meal I wanted to use as an animal based protein source for my quail and other birds, but they were only selling in 500 pound totes , a bit more than I wanted. That Gallus feed supple...