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2 calves in 2 weeks
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<blockquote data-quote="Fire Sweep Ranch" data-source="post: 1065215" data-attributes="member: 18809"><p>I know you have found the cause, but I just wanted to bring up the use of chicken litter on fields. This part of MO is the chicken mecca, with houses all over the place (we have a Tyson processing facility within 10 miles, and a George's processing facility within 30 miles - and Georges does a half million birds A DAY, and often on Saturdays!). Chicken litter is a big business out here, with the cost of litter being the same as if you bought commercial fertilizer, which I think is crazy. But everyone puts it on their fields, and you can smell it daily depending on where it was applied. I am not sure if they are just hay fields or fields they graze on, but you would think if it caused deaths, people would avoid it. Out here, there is a waiting list to get it spread on your pastures!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fire Sweep Ranch, post: 1065215, member: 18809"] I know you have found the cause, but I just wanted to bring up the use of chicken litter on fields. This part of MO is the chicken mecca, with houses all over the place (we have a Tyson processing facility within 10 miles, and a George's processing facility within 30 miles - and Georges does a half million birds A DAY, and often on Saturdays!). Chicken litter is a big business out here, with the cost of litter being the same as if you bought commercial fertilizer, which I think is crazy. But everyone puts it on their fields, and you can smell it daily depending on where it was applied. I am not sure if they are just hay fields or fields they graze on, but you would think if it caused deaths, people would avoid it. Out here, there is a waiting list to get it spread on your pastures! [/QUOTE]
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