Recent content by Dead Rabbit

Beautiful. Please do a current update. With productivity details. Thanks

I Like this fella. Anymore like him?

Any pics

What's their egg production like?

The progeny of breeding hybrid to hybrid is still a chicken and will out produce anything else you mentioned. In quality and quantity.

Any pullets for sale from that dec hatch?

Any more of these sbel available

Excellent!! I'm born and raised with fowl 43 yrs strong now. And I never heard such terminology as "roo" used for a brood cock, cockeral, stag etc till I visited these poultry sites on line.

Sorry I don't go for that "eating based on a caloric need" statement. I've read that here on this site numerous times but experience I've seen speaks otherwise I Definitly don't go for that "evolutionary path" statement

When I was serious about feeding, I sure would have loved to find them high protein oats. Only oats I ever fed were racehorse oats. Whole oats. Not steamed, crimped, rolled. I believe in keeping the germ intact. I believe the labels read 8-12% depending on brand and location purchased

NOOOOOOOO!!!! Lol. But my serious feeding methods are from times past. I transitioned to layers only and even quit seriously raising bantams 5 yrs ago. So my feeding methods greatly simplified. Before that feeding was a detailed science. I could enjoy my fowl a lot more with out sweating...

The value is in whole corn. But.......For a layer Fock a high calorie food means nothing more than fat. Unused calories convert to fat. Layers won't burn off enough calories to stay in top shape. Hence the fat found on 3-4 yr old layers. Fat is not only unhealthy but can cut down on...

Every oat I've ever fed was 8-12% protein. There is a hulless variety that has much higher nutrition value, but I've never even seen these much less fed them. Fermenting grains up their nutrition value not lower them. But I quite fermenting oats 10 yrs ago. I found just soaking them did just as...

I know oat protein varies according to location, but I've never known them to be near that high in protein. Even when fermented I never knew them to jump that high. I was quite a fan of whole oats for fowl but I would soak them for a couple days before feeding. It helped with the digestion of...