Carl's Miracle
PLEASE HELP THIS FAMILY!

THIS IS CARL'S MIRACLE WAITING TO HAPPEN!

Carl Stevens, resident of Garrison, Missouri, lost his sight January, 2004, after more than a month long battle with Strep B Pneumonia. Somehow his optic nerve became damaged during his battle to survive this tragic illness. Carl has total darkness all the time and cannot even tell if it's day or night. He was told by specialists in St. Louis, Missouri, Baltimore, Maryland and Houston, Texas that no treatment was available for his diagnosed Ischemic Optic Neuropathy. They all gave him absolutely no hope to ever be able to see again! He thought he would never be able to see his children now ages 14 and 17, grow up. This family and many of their friends and relatives have never given up their faith that Carl's sight would be returned to him.

Carl heard about the miraculous story on NBC one day about a child that was born blind and was able to get his eyesight back by traveling to China for the stem cell treatments. We researched the story and Carl has now been accepted to go to a hospital in Hangzhou, China for Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Transfusions. He will be the first adult to participate in this case study. This will be done through http://www.stemcellschina.com/ and http://www.beikebiotech.com/. The doctors in China have already had miraculous results with this treatment in several children from the U.S. The treatment costs over $25,000 and is not covered by Health Insurance.

Carl will be accompanied to China, by his brother-in-law, for this treatment, which will require a month long stay in China. They will leave from Houston, Texas on December 25, 2007 and return January 25, 2008. Carl's wife, Vickie, is not able to go with him as she is currently undergoing Chemo for her Breast Cancer Battle. Upon returning home, Carl will require follow-up treatments in a Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber for 5 days a week for many months. The approximate cost for this treatment is between $15,000-$25,000.

DONATIONS

You may make a donation to the "Carl Stevens - Medical Fund"
At any Bank of America;

Or mail your donation directly to;
Carl Stevens - Medical Fund

PO Box 106

Taneyville, Missouri 65759

Thank You Carl & His Family Humbly Thank You for Your Support & Your Prayers!

You can send a personal message to Carl & His Family at this e-mail address:
carl_vickie@carlsmiracle.com

Animal Trading Day @ Arcola Feed

Come check out what your local neighbors have for sale!

We're hoping one day to be as big as the Montgomery County Sale that happens twice a year in Conroe. But to get there, we gotta start somewhere. So we're having a sale on November 10th, 2007 from 9am to 4pm at the Arcola Feed Store (6215 FM 521, Arcola, Texas - 281.431.1014).

Want to be a Vendor? Call Arcola Feed and get your vendor numbers. It's Free!!

Birds Available For Sale

Currently, we have the following birds available for sale. any questions, please don't hesitate to give us a call.

pair of silver laced polish, $25 for pair.

buff orpington hens, $12 per hen. we have two available:

d'uccle rooster, $15

pair of ameraucanas, $15 per pair.

Bantam polish cross pullet

we also have dozen eggs for $2.25

poultry wire for $19

deck blocks for $3.25

Beaumont Fair Open Poultry Show

October 13, 2007

This was our first poultry show in which we showed our birds. On the advice of our tester, we decided to show our mottled houdan hen (pictured on right). Of course, Puffy Wuffy being Buster's favorite girl, we also took her. She is a white crested black polish. We'd never been to a show and we only had two weeks to prepare. We got some insites on what to do here http://http://p098.ezboard.com/fbackyardchickensfrm33.showMessage?topicID=11.topic.

We went the night before and spent the night in beaumont. Luckily, the hotel allowed pets and we brought our birds in to do last minute crest washing, toe nail cleaning, etc. The birds normally free range and so their crests were pretty dirty. i couldn't get it to be white. next time, i'm planning on using a blueing agent.

The judging started at 9am, so we drove to the fair, registered our birds and had them in the cage by 8.30am. There were probably around 200 birds there with most of them being bantams. Our birds were large fowl (standards) and with not many of those birds there, we had a good chance of winning. Looking around at the birds there, i was amazed at how beautiful they were. Penciled birds and partridge birds, the lines on their feathers looked like they had been drawn. There were bantam polish there also, and the crests on those hens were spectacular to look at. I spoke to the gentleman who breeds those birds and was promised a call when he was ready to cull. It would be amazing to get that line into my birds. I also learned about different breeds and to my amazement, how dark a real Rhode Island Red roosters are. Instead of that reddish color, the true RIR roo is almost black. I definitely hope to get some culls from the people who brought those birds also. I hope to be able to sell more truer breeds than what is being produced at alot of the hatcheries.

Having a 5 year old, his main focus was not the chickens but the fair. After patiently waiting for me to look at all 200 birds, we went and looked at the rabbits, pigs, and cattle and then ended up at the petting zoo. Buster got to feed goats, lambs, zebras, donkeys, llamas, and saw emus and ostriches. Then we headed on to the rides.

By the time we got back to the poultry barn, they had finished giving out the ribbons and we had missed the presentation. We arrived to find a blue ribbon on the cage of the mottled houdan hen and a trophy by Puffy Wuffy and the judge presented us with a check for $26.50.

All in all, we had a great experience and look forward to the next show that will be held at Texas A&M in January. We hope to bring out houdan and polish back along with some wyondottes, frizzles, silkies, phoenix and creles.

Do you have birds you'd like to show? Come out and show off your birds! Entry fee at the beaumont show was only $1.50. And there are always alot of people at these shows who have so much knowledge and are eager to share information or answer any questions you may have.