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2007-03-02 Iraq

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Posted by Bobby 2007-03-02 06:19|| || Front Page|| [12 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 US poultry imports? The Iraqis can't grow chickens? There must be more than meets the eye, here!

Breeding stock to improve Iraqi chickens in terms of meatiness and egg laying, perhaps? I see that they aren't allowed to be resold in the local markets.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-02 07:37|| 2007-03-02 07:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Kurdistan and Turkey have been hard hit by the more virulent strains of bird flu. More here.

Posted by mrp 2007-03-02 07:53|| 2007-03-02 07:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Short course at Rantburg U. Thanks.

Posted by Bobby 2007-03-02 08:24|| 2007-03-02 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Outskirts of Moscow last week, Turkey and Kurdistan this week, Don't look good folks.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-03-02 09:40|| 2007-03-02 09:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Raising chickens isn't as easy as most people think. It takes about five months for a newly-hatch poult to reach eating size. If you grow your own eggs, it's one per day per chicken, max. A chicken will brood between eight and fourteen eggs at a time, with about 80% hatching. There are more than 400 different breeds of chickens, with some doing better in some locations than others. Chickens need a certain amount of lime in their diet, or the eggshells are too thin and crack. They also need small gravel to work in their gizzard, helping digest food. Chickens are also susceptible to about 800 different infections, including a half-dozen that can be passed to humans, and vice-versa.

I think we're going to see oil exports grow slowly but steadily throughout the rest of this year. A friend of mine works for a company that has people over there. Apparently they're laying pipe to move oil out of the fields into the refineries or export hubs. There's also work being done to build larger storage facilities at both of Iraq's deep-water ports, and the plans for a pipeline to Kuwait to move oil to Kuwait's terminals. Production from Kurdish fields is expected to double in the next 18 months, mostly shipped through pipelines in Turkey.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-03-02 14:31|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-03-02 14:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Op's done be read the Egg & I but don't worry, it ain't that hard if you keep after 'em.

/Ma Kettle

Posted by Shipman 2007-03-02 17:20|| 2007-03-02 17:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Ship - when I was about 14, my mother ordered 400 poults from Sears. We had chickens coming out our ears. I learned a LOT about chickens, fast. I also got pretty tired of chicken, in any form. We'd always had a couple of dozen Rhode Island reds, along with a dozen or so turkeys, so poultry wasn't "new" to me. I just hadn't realized until we got 400 of them at once, how much work they were.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-03-02 19:57|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-03-02 19:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Ha! Yeah, raising chickens for fun and profit has been with us for awhile.

Posted by Shipman 2007-03-02 20:19|| 2007-03-02 20:19|| Front Page Top

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