@latestarter, dear sir I never meant you are mean or disrespectful, on the contrary you are quite a civil gentleman.
I meant I was mistaken in the sense that I overlooked what raising large animals meant in your country, Ofcourse now you explained how difficult it is for most of the people out...
18 eggs out of 22 layers. 3 hens went broody this week. 2 are with chicks. And above all my hens have lured a someone esle's rooster so a pretty big rooster for dinner tonight.
Pardon me Sir, for my foolish mistake. I never thought raising cow is such a big thing there because we are keeping cows and buffaloes from generations.
Yeah, dung piles and chickens are match made in heaven. Babul
we manually churn the whey to extract butter which is later clarified to make ghee. the liquid left after churning is called buttermilk. since the churning is done manually whithout using any mordern machine a decent quantity of fat and protein is left in the milk.This buttermilk is...
yeau, harvesting worms is a shock for me. The dung heap of our 15 cows and buffaloes just provide more than enough dung beetles, worms and undigested grain particles. Chickens are also tick specialist doctor occasionally hunting ticks when one or the other member of the herd is sitting or...
We use traditional medicine that is sour butter milk for internal parasites. Believe me it works great. it is also great supplementary source of protein and little fat. We also give it to buffalo calves because worms develope very quickly in their tummy due to rich buffaloe milk. For the winter...
we do not refrigerate eggs here. I have never confronted any medical problem.But we neither leave the eggs for many days.Indian spices and mustard oil are fatal for microorganisms. Nonetheless I think refrigeration may be better option for you.
yeah drumsticks I have heard that those leghorns don't go broody, I fed up of broody hens. But I doubt about their foraging quality my flock is almost completely dependent on free ranging. They go as far as .4 miles foraging. we usually provide them with butter milk when ever it is available and...
thanks Ken and Yorkshire coop,
Actually my birds performe good if you consider the investment. The main problem with them is that after laying regularly for about 20-25 day they will go broody.
I never new that chickens are outsourced from India.But I knew that some Indian blood flows in...
thanks Ken and Yorkshire coop,
Actually my birds performe good if you consider the investment. The main problem with them is that after laying regularly for about 20-25 day they will go broody.
I never new that chickens are outsourced from India.But I knew that some Indian blood flows in...