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26th Annual BBHC pow wow http://www.bbhc.org/events/powwow.cfm Custer's Last Stand Re-enactment http://www.custerslaststand.org/ 48th Annual Eastern Shoshone Indian Days Powwow www.wind-river.org 90th Annual Crow Fair http://www.drumhop.com/CrowFair.html You're welcome to join us in the festivities496Views0likes0CommentsRe: Pet Food Recall
Deb and Ed M wrote: 59022 wrote: http://www.outoftheearth.com/petfood.htm "Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) carried in pig- and chicken-laden foods may eventually eclipse the threat of "mad cow disease". The risk of household pet exposure to TSE from contaminated pet food is more than three times greater than the risk for hamburger-eating humans." BSE & TSE gives me the willies.... It's a good thing my sheep & bison eat only grass, that we know has never been fertilized nor sprayed. They give me the willies, too, because high temperatures don't seem to kill it. But your "organic" grazing isn't preventing your animals from being exposed - the disease is caused by a thing called a "prion" - it's not a bacteria or a virus. Deer get a similar prion-based disease called Chronic Wasting Disease (and the Human form is called Kreutzfeld-Jacob Disease)......and I'm not sure if they can share that with your grazers or not....but it's something to be aware of. Basically, the prions eat holes in the brains of their victims. NOT a nice way to die. Deb If you remember the BSE outbreak in UK? They burned the carcasses with diesel fuel and then buried them in a lime filled pit. Neither the diesel fuel nor the lime destroys the prions. Only incineration in a kiln at 1400F will destroy it and the vets knew it. Pity the poor farmers whose ground water supplies will now be contaminated when these pits leach.450Views0likes0CommentsRe: Pet Food Recall
Deb and Ed M wrote: 59022 wrote: http://www.outoftheearth.com/petfood.htm "Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) carried in pig- and chicken-laden foods may eventually eclipse the threat of "mad cow disease". The risk of household pet exposure to TSE from contaminated pet food is more than three times greater than the risk for hamburger-eating humans." BSE & TSE gives me the willies.... It's a good thing my sheep & bison eat only grass, that we know has never been fertilized nor sprayed. They give me the willies, too, because high temperatures don't seem to kill it. But your "organic" grazing isn't preventing your animals from being exposed - the disease is caused by a thing called a "prion" - it's not a bacteria or a virus. Deer get a similar prion-based disease called Chronic Wasting Disease (and the Human form is called Kreutzfeld-Jacob Disease)......and I'm not sure if they can share that with your grazers or not....but it's something to be aware of. Basically, the prions eat holes in the brains of their victims. NOT a nice way to die. Deb Actually I'm very aware of this. Most were from Rocky Mountain Sheep whose bones layed fallow upon the ground for nearly a hundred years. Deer and other critters ate of the bones for the calcium. If you research it deep enough you'll find CSU (read APHIS) had it contained to a small area above Ft. Collins, CO to and thru the North Platte River Valley (Wyoming). But, for some reason the captured deer were released - the disease began it's spread. Fortunately, we keep a close eye on our grazers and there have never been these ancient sheep grazing within 150 miles of us.451Views0likes0CommentsRe: Pet Food Recall
http://www.outoftheearth.com/petfood.htm "Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) carried in pig- and chicken-laden foods may eventually eclipse the threat of "mad cow disease". The risk of household pet exposure to TSE from contaminated pet food is more than three times greater than the risk for hamburger-eating humans." BSE & TSE gives me the willies.... It's a good thing my sheep & bison eat only grass, that we know has never been fertilized nor sprayed.449Views0likes0CommentsRe: Pet Food Recall
Only one of the two plants had USDA inspectors. www.fsis.usda.gov/Fsis_Recalls/index.asp I don't believe it's a requirement to have them for pet foods, only for products for human consumption. I spoke to my vet today and he said do not feed anything but kibble, even if the retailers offer you newer canned foods that aren't part of the recall.443Views0likes0CommentsRe: Links to Traffic, Road Construction and Highway Conditions and Other Helpful Sites
FIRE INFORMATION http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/lg_fire2.php http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/fireplots/rme2006211_0300.jpg http://www.nifc.gov/fireinfo/nfn.html http://www.inciweb.org/incident/364/376Views0likes0Comments
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