Is Purina chicken food awesome? it looks like a lot of you use it. I wouldn't feed my dog Purina, so I just sort of wrote the rest of their stuff off.
Purina is fine for animals that eat corn. I wouldn't feed anything made by Purina to my dogs either. But Purina's chicken feed works as well as most brands. I have been using Excel brand, and haven't noticed any problems. It really helps to feed the chickens any and all the food scraps from the kitchen. Little to nothing goes down my garbage disposal anymore. Things like leftovers, and food that is left on a plate is all fed to the chickens. We also let the girls forage in the backyard. I have always expected to not get the best feed to egg ratio at my house. I have been collecting many of the rarer breeds of chickens. These often don't lay as well as production egg layer will. I am okay with this difference. But I am now finding that I am going to need more reliable layers, if I want them to pay for their own feed. So I am going to adjust my flock once again.
Last night after everyone left I was putting the meat birds back into the run, and all the girls decided that they wanted to play in the yard. So I let them out for a little bit. Well I thought I had all the hens back in the run, when I heard squawking in the back yard. The puppies found a couple of the girls hiding out in the back side yard. The hens came running and I let them back into the run. That was all but the last hen. She decided to get on top of the run. Then she went over the wall into the neighbors yard. This hen is fairly new to my house and still doesn't like me, so there was no way that I was going to catch her without some help or a net. With less than 15 minutes until the store closed here in town, I managed to go and buy a larger fishing net. You should have seen the expression on the clerks face when he ask me what kind of fishing I was going to do. I had to tell him I was after chicken fish. 
Any how, I got back home 5 minutes later, only to have the hen jump into another neighbors yard. They were home and out in the yard. I think that they had a party going on. A large group of young men came out, and I passed my new net over to them, and they caught my flighty little hen. By the time I got her home she was sure that she was going to die. So I held her and petted her head for awhile, and she seemed to be relieved to be back home in the run.
So I now own a chicken catching net. I wish I had bought it years ago now.
And think how handy that will come in, if Salmon ever spawn in your yard.
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit,
for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man.
All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.
― Chief Seattle
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit,
for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man.
All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.
― Chief Seattle
This is also the coop he thinks would make a great dog house (oh, no it won't!), LOL!
