We live fairly close to town. Have fenced property. The rest we watch for, but we're planting sunflowers and elderberries around the fence line. That will help
I planted mine Monday and added more last night. Going to do more this weekend. Planted sorghum. Will plant corn soon. Looking to buy oats to plant this weekend.
Chickens love fish. At least mine do. I buy then herring, salmon and anchovies as treats in occasion. My mother-in-law chickens go to her lake where the nesting beds are and they fish for themselves! 🤣 They love worms, my chickens love when I turn the dirt in my garden. It's a worm fest.
We've had trouble finding cat food too. Had to go off brand. That's not pleasant. I didn't have enough of the old to transition them to the new cheaper food. They were sick for a couple of days. This time I'm stocking up every time I go shopping and am pre mixing it. We used to buy broken bags...
That's where we're getting it from bird food. The huge bags of blank oil sunflower seeds. I have several heads of mammoth I saved from last year plus a few others, but I want a massive think privacy fence of sunflowers. I had a garden patch my grandson dropped almost any entire mammoth head into...
I've heard soy plants are good. We're planting the sunflowers around the fence line, blueberry bushes. I had two and they died last year from neglect on my part. I broke my hand in July and had them in big containers, planned on transplanting in the back yard and they died. They didn't get...
With the current events and talk of no fertilizer. The fear of losing animal feed is real. So I've been researching going through all of my homesteading books trying to find ways to feed my chickens and keep them healthy and producing with no layer pellets and no grains. I have found a few...