Egg Recall
August 22nd, 2010Via: AP:
Two Iowa farms that recalled more than a half-billion eggs linked to as many as 1,300 cases of salmonella poisoning share suppliers of chickens and feed as well as ties to an Iowa business routinely cited for violating state and federal law.
until we started getting serious about doing it, i never realized how HUGE it is to really, really know where your food comes from. our hens just started laying last month, too. we raise rabbits, tend a large garden, and own a dairy cow, and these things have literally changed our lives.
tiresome as it may (or may not) be for those who haven’t got there yet, all your ranting about food security/barter/anti-establishment action is so spot-on…
Congratulations! I’m expecting my first eggs in about a month. I started raising my hens in mid-April, at about 2 days old. The main concern I have is the feed, so I’m spending extra money on the organic stuff because what’s the point of having them eat regular chicken feed when it’s most likely to be tainted with GMO crops? But I’m also raising black soldier fly grubs in a Biopod composter, which is great way to recycle the kitchen scraps into something the chickens go crazy over!
I don’t know that there has been anything of late in my life as satisfying as having chickens that lay eggs. Go out to the coop and presto, there is a nutritious meal.
@Mangrove – I had a struggle with my chickens eating organic “layer pellets.” They wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole. What a waste. Am getting powdered feed from my Amish farmer who thinks non-GMO is more important than organic. Since the chickens eat this, I am satisfied with his thoughts on the matter.
I also sprout mung beans and grow sunflower seeds (which they can’t get enough of).
Alas, my one remaining Aracuna (who lays green eggs- three others are Buff Orpingtons) I think is done laying her green eggs. Sob.
My sister bouught me the DVD “Natural History of the Chicken.” It’s up on you-tube. Check out the factory farms. Disgusting. I love the “beak to beak resussitation.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkxO91TLKVg
Forgot to add that eggs, unlike other proteins, don’t need to be refrigerated (learned that from a coworker who went to Italy and from a woman in Colorado) but once in fridge must stay there. Mose keeps 5 gallon buckets of eggs in basement.
I will my own chickens as long as I live.
Am busy planning a well insulated coop for this winter. Two by fours with wood on each side, with paper bricks in the middle for insulation. My chickens have rafters they climb into, 6 feet up. There’s just a plastic roof up there. Any ideas?