Posts by MJFarm12

Our runt ended up growing as big as a Plymouth Rock, I believe.  Or, as big as any of the Cornish Crosses can get.  I guess she was just a late bloomer.

Quote: Originally Posted by MJFarm12  I've been using kefir as the culture to ferment my turkey feed for 9 white turkeys.  I'm up to week 7.  I lost one yesterday to what I guess was hexamitiasis judging...

I've been using kefir as the culture to ferment my turkey feed for 9 white turkeys.  I'm up to week 7.  I lost one yesterday to what I guess was hexamitiasis judging from the symptoms.  I caught it kind of late, I think....

I tried this (fermenting with the bucket in a bucket with apple-cider vinegar) with my 50 broiler chicks and used one 50# bag of starter in about 14 days.  I fermented the regular feed for a few days and then quit when they had...

Well, ours have all made it through a few weeks of horrid heat.  I decided to separate out the smallest hens to another pen to see if they would gain a bit better without the competition of the bigger more aggressive birds....

Mine is 7 weeks old and about a sixth of the size of the birds that have gained normally.  I've read about runts in Salatin's "Pastured Poultry..." and he thought they were just small because they were from pullet eggs or birds...

My husband and I just bought a farm and began raising some animals.  We have two flocks of laying hens (Rhode I. Reds and Plymouth Barred Rocks)  Two calves, and 54 broiler chickens.  Goats are next. We home school our...

I've got one, too.  I watched her and she hardly even looks at the feed in the pen.  I want to know how to get her to eat.