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  1. Winter Creek Coop

    Successful 100% forage diet experiment (long post)

    I think the healthy side is probably true but there can be exceptions. We caught our chickens devouring nearly an entire giant piece of styrofoam that someone had lost on the road and it had blown into our pasture. Our eggs may be a little extra fluffy for a few days 😁.
  2. Winter Creek Coop

    Successful 100% forage diet experiment (long post)

    I think the experiment is still good. You are not doing a wild/feral bird expereiment but a forage experiment. Maybe that’s a good rule to operate under. If they have interrupted forage for more than one day then you supplement a survival ration. We have not terribly uncommon ice storms here. If...
  3. Winter Creek Coop

    Successful 100% forage diet experiment (long post)

    Hahahha. Exactly. It helps with the oddball names when the kids help. We also have Snake Squeeze, Lardo, and False Lardo. Snake Squeeze was rescued by the kids with a pitchfork as it was already being squeezed to death. Lardo is just a fat chicken and False Lardo just looks like her. 😂😂😂
  4. Winter Creek Coop

    Successful 100% forage diet experiment (long post)

    First of all great post and experiment. We built new house on our place and built a new coop at the new house site which is about 125 yards from our old house. We had several chickens that roosted in our pecan tree down there. All of those chickens but one lone fat black Cochin moved to the new...
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