Posted on 08/20/2020 1:53:47 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Edited on 08/20/2020 2:02:54 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP)
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“But I feel totally safe with them handling our ballots!”
Exactly why I posted this article. :)
Mother took care of the hens and sold the eggs. We got our chicks in boxes of 100. The boxes were divided into quarters, 25 chicks per quarter. We would would not get straight run, but 2-3 hundred females and some roosters. The roosters were free. We got them in March or April in Nebraska. They were set up in the brooder house under a kerosene fired big mother hen - the brooder. The chicks were ok, but I did not care for the older ones when they became “free run”. The would scratch the soil and ruin my road grading projects.
During the war, Dad would take the eggs to town and bring back the groceries in the empty wooden egg crates. Later, Mosley came and picked them up in his truck.
“Millions of mail in ballots arrive dead...”
Which means they’ll be counted on the Slow Joe side! Grrrr!
Nothing better than growing your own meat chickens.
Processing them? Not so much fun, LOL!
It’s a common practice with poultry. They’re small. They weigh NOTHING and can make the 3 day journey alive. ;)
This was a one-off that a sleazebag Maine Dem is using to smear our President.
Wish we could box up and ship out Socialist Democrats to the Communist country of their choosing, LOL!
“The proposed changes in post office policy haven’t even been implemented yet.”
The Post Office can’t actually FIND the paperwork backing up this claim of thousands of dead chicks, either.
Just a Maine Dem flappin’ her gums, trying to call out our President. ;)
I guess it depends where you live. Here the tractor supply or local feed and seed chicks are poor quality. I ordered barred rocks from Cackle Hatchery and they are healthy and robust. Now others buy chicks from me and other farmers from time to time, but only the Easter chick people buy them from the retailers.
I’ll name my next milk cow, ‘Mary Jo’ in her honor. :(
That situation STILL sickens me. ‘Lion of the Senate’ my @ss. Drunken PERV like 99.999% of Democrat male politicians.
I order my chiks by mail. I drive to the po to pick them up.
Better than feed store birds
How many tens of thousands of chicks were shipped USPS this year?
Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands? Millions?
The people who are into breeding/selling the fancy type chickens that people keep for self-propelled lawn ornaments order them online and have them delivered to the feed/ranch store to be picked up-our local post office is a tiny annex-and no one trusts the postal delivery people here with anything live-they can’t seem to even deliver packages with the contents unbroken-or at all. Most people have chickens to eat and sell eggs-they buy laying hens or chicks from neighbors and others who live nearby.
Well, like I said, it’s not that way everywhere. I buy heritage breeds (Barred rock) for eggs and meat, I do t do “fancy chickens” and we didn’t have any problems with them and our post office ha doing them (in GA).
I’ve received live small lizards in the mail plenty of times. Never received a dead one, even when the package was lost for a week. That package was a bunch of small western desert lizards caught by a licensed friend and stuffed into one of his white athletic socks, then tied in a knot and placed inside a cardboard box. I opened the gift over an aquarium in front of a class of my biology students, to their delight. One by one, the little guys dropped into the aquarium, which I quickly shut the screen top on before they bounced right outta there. I adore tiny western lizards like Tucson banded geckos, side blotch lizards, small species of whiptails, granite night lizards, Yarrow’s spiny lizard, etc.
Chicks can only survive 2 days without food. Even one day delay with the staff shortages and the crazy amount of mail right now - would contribute to their deaths.
How cute
Appreciate, Sesen such replies from those ‘in the biz’ and appreciate them.
still, I wonder if a ‘deep clean’ in a PO location didn’t contribute- in just the opposite of the Dem/media meme.
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