I live in the bird flu hot spot here in Northwest Iowa and I do have fifteen half grown layers but they don't leave the tight little building they live in. No way will I let them go outside. I have a pad filled with disinfectant outside the door, that I step in every time I go in and that is only once a day for chores. Every time I look in there I hope there aren't any dead ones.
They don't really know what is spreading it but it must be an extremely hot virus. These chicks were destined for the fair this fall but that won't happen and I wouldn't be surprised if the show ban becomes permanent.
One feed mill that I have hauled corn to on occasion went from producing 2200 tons a day to 850 tons now. This mill makes feed for a ton of turkeys along with hog feed. A 6.5 million bird laying facility four miles away from here is sitting empty. I was planning to haul corn to them from a couple of fields two miles away but it looks like the corn will travel at least twelve miles now.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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