For almost nine decades, Mr. Viola raised flocks of the finest pigeons he could buy, trucking them hundreds of miles from the city for the enormous thrill (and the less enormous monetary reward) of seeing them race home again.
To evaluate the prevalence of resistance in domestically raised flocks, the CIPARS abattoir component added Campylobacter spp. surveillance in chickens in 2010.
Throughout southeast Asia, the widespread practice of rural families raising small flocks of chickens in their backyards brings wild birds into close contact with domestic poultry, which are in close contact with humans.
The raising of flocks for their fleece was one of the earliest industries, and flocks were a medium of exchange in barter economies.
It ceased production in April 2003 and as best we can determine by hatchery records, it raised 12 flocks during the study period with a maximum flock size of 3,000 birds and total production of less than 36,000 broilers.
However, in our classification of other poultry, we did not differentiate between those farms that raised turkey flocks and broiler flocks alternatively in the same house (with full cleaning and disinfection between flocks), from those farms that also have year round permanent breeder or egg layer flocks.
They "run a band" — the local term for raising a flock —of about 900 ewes, both the Navajo-Churros and the fatter Rambouillet breed.
Its readers were probably more interested in how to make her Crab Apple Rosemary Jelly or, for that matter, her Curried Walnut Chicken than in raising a flock of their own Araucanas and Buff Cochins, but they couldn't have helped noting Stewart's endorsement of chicken-keeping.
When ethologist Konrad Lorenz famously raised a flock of geese in the 1930s, they "imprinted" on him, following him around and treating him like their mother.
