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Calcium toxicity is progressive - but that also means it will take a long time, particularly in laying hens - before you can find evidence of it internally, much less externally. I feed in a way I don't recommend, which results in my roosters getting about 1.6-1.8% more calcium per feeding than...

Beleive it or not, a cabbage is much more like an apple or a carrot than a watermelon or a honeydew. The 10% thumb rule is a good fit here. Also, cabbages are cruciferous veggies. Cruciferous (cross-like, a reference to the leaves, I believe. I've a black thumb, gardening isn't my passion)...

Couldn't find the post I was looking for, so I'm seeking hard data. {Survey - everyone please participate}. Thank you, sincerely thank you @Shadrach , for calling me on that assumption. Wish I could find the old poll.

Its a funny way of asking. Given the number of posts asking about feeding BSFL, Grubs, Mealworms, and the like - and how easily those dehydrated, nutrition dense sources from a bag can imbalance a diet, I'd be very hesitant to list "bugs" in any definition for fear do doing more damage than...

Selecting for an example which in no way represents the experience of the very vast majority of backyard owners and then crying "fowl" (haha, I see what I did there) is misleading. The vast majority of users on these forums don't have feral flocks of free range birds. Most seem to have a...

Yes, I had mine done recently. One of the limits of home grown feed recipes is that you can't have any idea where your plants fall, relative to averages. And many useful species change over the season and seed development, become more or less nutritious, and sometimes focusing anti nutritional...

Two part answer. Maybe three part. One) You have to understand what your bird's target diet is. Two) You have to know what its getting from its complete feed Three) you need a source of reliable (or at least consistent) information about the nutritional value of whatever you are feeding as a...

As @Percheron chick says above, anything not a complete feed is a TREAT. It doesn't matter if its considered "healthy" in moderation or not - its a potential source of dietary imbalance. Why 10% by weight? First, its a "thumb rule", it doesn't fit every example perfectly, nor is it intended...