Building Chicken Coops

Is the Republican idea of Guns in church just a tad bit looney tune?

Lately I am beginning to wonder about these Republicans...first this and then the Republican running for Senate in Nevada telling people to barter with poultry for health care. Oh and then the Racist law in Arizona over immigration. Has anyone begun to think there is something wrong with this picture, it even makes Sarah Palin look mainstream!

poultry skin infection?what is it?antibiotic?please help ?

i have 1 cornish x rock hens shes 8 weeks old . i notice a skin infection running along his tail. it's red . i apply some antifungal cream and ointment. a few days later the dry skin started to peel. but know it's still their again it's really red the skin (kind of like a rash)but it also has some purple dots

.shes actually eating and drinking water,
I dont want to kill it because shes so sweet and im not a cruel person.

How to get started at raising quails?

Just got a trio of what seems to be Italian quails, (Been to a poultry auction it was ace !) in addition to my trio of Hybrid chicken hen i've had for 12month. I need to know if i need to re equip in Pen, Run, feeder and what food to feed them etc...

What is best treatment for skin allergy, excessive licking and sometimes smelly ears in springer spaniel dog?

My Vet has prescibed predisone 25 mg for 52 lb. dog. To be taken periodically for what we think is an allergy. Vet said to give dog break from meds, then resume in a month or so. It takes about 6 weeks for the dog to develop symtoms again. Tresaderm is prescribed for the ears. I also use a preventitive ear Flush.
He eats Maximum Nutrition Lamb and Rice for adult dogs, 2 to 3 cups a day. He is somewhat lethargic now, could be due to the time of year - winter - which means we don't go out on as long of a walk as in summer. But the licking has caused his hair to be brown on paws. I am told this is due to an ensyme in the saliva. He is white and liver and tan normally. When he is allowed to run free outdoors he will eat duck, horse and chicken droppings and eggs from our free range poultry. He will go after and eat toads, squirrels and anything he finds. Now it is winter, so those "treats" are not available to him. So tell me; Is he lacking something in his diet?

Looking for a less common type of fowl/poultry?

I'm getting chickens soon, which is neat, but I'm also looking into something more... rare. Interesting. I would prefer if it could be kept with chickens, in a large coop/run area. But I understand that may not be possible. That's alright.
I was thinking maybe Peafowl or quail?
I have five acres, some of which is wooded, but still a large yard. I would prefer no free-roaming, but it's OK with me, as well.

health problems in poultry?

I thought my chicken was crop bound as she did a strange head dance so the info i got from the WEB was to give her olive oil orally i did this using a hypo but a lot of oil missed and went onto her neck feathers
Now she has lost all her feathers on her neck is this caused by the olive oil or some other problem
aslo instead of being crop bound she has a large lump to the side of the crop she is a bit sad but still runs around the garden sometimes

What do you think As immigration enforcement takes hold, jobs begin to open up to less-skilled Americans ?

If this is to long skip it.
Immigration hawks have been on a winning streak lately. An unprecedented surge of public outrage at the prospect of amnesty for illegal immigrants led to the defeat in June of the Senate immigration bill and the probable end of President Bush's dream for comprehensive immigration reform. And that was merely the latest in a series of victories for supporters of tighter controls, including the Real ID Act of 2005, the Secure Fence Act of 2006, proliferating enforcement efforts at the state and local levels and a new package of modest but meaningful enforcement measures announced last month by the Department of Homeland Security.

What of the results? Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told The Times that "there will be some unhappy consequences for the economy out of doing this." While the enforcement climate is still too new to show results in government data one way or the other, Chertoff's prediction doesn't appear to be playing out. On the contrary, there is extensive anecdotal evidence that enforcement is actually having its desired effects: More illegal aliens are going home, leading to improved conditions for American workers and communities.

The first consequence of stepped-up enforcement is attrition of the illegal population -- a steady decrease in the total number of illegal aliens as more people give up and go home. Attrition is the real alternative to amnesty, and we're seeing it work.

The Arizona Republic ran a story last month explaining how migrants were leaving the state in anticipation of tough new immigration rules. Public radio station WBUR in Boston reported that "in the midst of the debate about immigrants coming to America, something unusual is happening in Massachusetts: Brazilian immigrants are quietly packing up and leaving." And the Chicago Tribune, reporting on the Pennsylvania town at the forefront of the resistance to illegal immigration, has written that "over the summer, when Hazleton officials created the nation's first ordinance aimed at driving away undocumented residents, thousands of people apparently packed up and left."

Far from having "unhappy consequences," these developments are improving the economic bargaining power of less-skilled American workers. The Rocky Mountain News reported that in Greeley, Colo., "the line of applicants hoping to fill jobs vacated by undocumented workers taken away by immigration agents at the Swift & Co. meat-processing plant . . . was out the door." New England Cable News reported that only after a raid on a plant making leather goods for the military in New Bedford, Mass., were Americans and legal immigrants able to get hired. As one new employee said of the raid: "In a way, you know, it's sad, and then in a way it's good because at least it gives people that were not employed for so many years . . . a break to be able to work and support their families."

When illegal aliens were removed from a Crider Poultry plant in Stillmore, Ga., the Atlanta Journal Constitution and the Wall Street Journal documented the benefits to local workers. The plant raised wages significantly, began offering free shuttles from nearby towns and provided free rooms in a company-owned dormitory. For the first time, Crider sought applicants from the state unemployment office and began hiring probationers and men from a local homeless mission. And, as the Journal noted, "for the first time since significant numbers of Latinos began arriving in Stillmore in the late 1990s, the plant's processing lines were made up predominantly of African Americans."

Better enforcement doesn't result only in economic improvements. While there is an ongoing scholarly debate about the overall crime rates of immigrants versus the native-born, there's no doubt that tougher enforcement has had a notable effect on gang activity. In an upcoming study, my Center for Immigration Studies reports that using immigration law against gangs has helped bring about a 39% drop in gang activity in the Washington suburb of Fairfax County, and Dallas police report a 20% drop in the murder rate as a result of the same initiative.

Of course, the consequence of uncontrolled immigration that most ordinary Americans see is what political scientist Peter Skerry calls "social disorder." Hazleton offers a good example: While cleaning graffiti from her building, a local locksmith told the Tribune that "about the same time the ordinance passed, the whole tone of the street changed. Virtually overnight, it was a totally different place."

As recent enforcement victories are sustained and expanded, we can begin to document the benefits in other areas: less stress on hospital emergency rooms, less-crowded classrooms, slower growth in government social spending. But the results we've seen so far are clear: We can get illegal aliens to return home, and doing so will improve conditions in American communities. Why didn't we start doing this a long time ago?

Mark Krikorian is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that supports tighter controls on immigration.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-krikorian24sep24,0,6872271.story?coll=la-opinion-center

Benefits of not eating red meat?

There seems to be a lot of problems with eating processed red meat and I want to quit eating them.

What could be the potential benefits in the long run? Also is poultry like chicken considered red meat as well?