This is a wonderfully weird thread. You know, I heard that somewhere, chicken were being fed ground animal remains and that in about 50 generations they would become meat- eating. Kristinn At 15:08 15.6.2000 +0000, you wrote: >Well I don't give up. And I have been calling around today. > >The farmes run everything here in the same coporation. >I called them and they said > >-"We don't sell weat seed in good years because then we use it for bread >but in bad years you can buy it for animals" > >??????! > >Another one said: -"you can buy half seed" >I said to to make half seed you use whole seed? Can't I buy whole seed? > >?????????????? > >Next one said -"You can't buy corn because of the import regulations. The >Norwigian goverment want us to sell more of our own produced weat" > >-"So I can't buy corn because you want me to buy weat and I cant buy weat?" > >-"Well there's a place you can buy second hand..." > >What do you call organisations like that in the states. Gangsters? > >Next problem is to slaughter them. Thats against the law to. I have to >take them to a place ten hours from here if I'm going to sell them for a >restuarant who wants them. And this is Norways second biggest city. >But I'm not giving up. > >Brian >My chicken is big silver wyandottes. >We have to keep in touch. > >Ola Andersson > > >>From: "Brian Trout" <btrout@desupernet.net> >>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org >>To: <pianotech@ptg.org> >>Subject: Re: Living i nowhere?? (Ola, re: chicken feed / wheat) >>Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:49:02 -0400 >> >>Hi Ola, >> >>Nice to see there's another chicken owner on the list. I can't remember a >>time (in recent history) of more than a couple of weeks I haven't had at >>least a couple of chickens. I like them. They're just about right for me. >>They don't bite, they don't kick hard enough to break anything like a leg, >>and with the right setup, they almost look after themselves. And when one >>dies, I don't need a major piece of farm equipment to deal with the carcass. >> >>You mentioned not being able to buy 'weat' seed. If you're thinking of the >>same thing we would call 'wheat' in the US, and you can buy it as feed, you >>might even try planting some of that. I don't know what they do to it in >>order to sell it for feed. I suspect they might not do much but dry it. >>It >>probably wouldn't work if they ground it in any way, but I don't know why >>they would. (Whole wheat berries are good for chickens, and they probably >>keep better than ground meal.) It might be worth a try. I don't know if >>you might need some sort of treatment or inoculant to help with germination >>or virus type problems. But, hey, feed is cheap. Might be fun just to see >>what might happen. >> >>Good luck. >> >>Brian Trout >>Quarryville, PA >>btrout@desupernet.net > >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com >
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