Sierra Mountains-Gold Country-Foothills

[sherylreno]

BOSS=Black Oiled Sunflower Seeds for extra protein.

 

[Flowers of Abba]

I'm pretty sure I'm opting out of corn this year. I'm adding BOSS, but wondering what else will up their heat?suggestions welcome!
Costco still has organic layer crumble so is time to stock up.

We started the trench Out to the coops. My dd and I made it 25 feet and pooped out. Maybe we will make more progress tomorrow


Now I'm off to candle the basque eggs in the mini

 

[AxisOfBeagles]

Sunflower, got it. Thanks Reno.

Abba - why opt out corn this year? Cost?

 

[Flowers of Abba]

. Their layer and our table scraps are currently organic. We are off of gmo food unless I maks a whoops somewhere. So since I process sometimes we are trying to keep the chickens clean food as much as possible.

 

[AxisOfBeagles]

Bravo to you. Non GMO is how we feed as well. Our birds free range, and spend a lot of their day in the compost bins, so grain feed is really just additive. We buy a non-GMO, no soy blend from WA state, the chickens love it - corn is like crack to them.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Hi everyone

 

[AxisOfBeagles]

Hey there hangtown - mighty cold this morning!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

yes we ended up with about a foot here at 3400 feet east of placerville.
18 as of 1/2 hour ago.
gave the chickens heated water but no one wants to come out lol.

 

[AxisOfBeagles]

How did everyone do with the cold snap? We got about 6" to 8" on the ground here (outside of Nevada City) last Friday night, but it was the cold snap the following couple days that really put the pinch on. New water line to the chickens burst, then the well head froze. But all's well that ends well. Gave the chooks a whole bale of rice straw in their run and upped the feed - they weren't very interested in their usual foraging grounds cuz of the snow. Egg production fell by at least 50% - but hopefully will pick up again with this warmer sunny weather.

 

[AxisOfBeagles]

Sierra / Gold Country folks: does anyone know of any grain mills here in the region where one can get modest bulk grains for making homemade layer feed?