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    how to get hens to eat ground soy?

    I don't think we have that available here, but from quick google search it appears to be only 14% protein. we can't feed farmed animals (including black soldier fly/ other insects) to farmed animals here, unfortunately. probably would get away with it handy enough on a home scale, but not as an...
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    how to get hens to eat ground soy?

    nothing wrong with organic soy, I would think, in limited amounts. it is difficult to get them to eat enough field beans or peas to get them to the that high of a protein count. It would have to be 60% peas and beans! I used this calculator...
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    how to get hens to eat ground soy?

    I used seaweed meal in the mix for trace nutrients and free fed oyster shell for calcium. all you really missing at that point is the enzymes that are in the pellets. I have considered a pelleted, but was hoping the mids here might have a low tech/ low effort solution.
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    How can I turn meat bird feed into layer feed?

    is it pelleted? I have had trouble getting hens to eat enough peas to make up that love of protein. if it is milled or pelleted, it might work. The peas we tried were just rolled, so basically halfway milled.
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    how to get hens to eat ground soy?

    we're commercial, but a very small operation. between 60-150 layers at a time.
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    how to get hens to eat ground soy?

    im in ireland. also in the eu there is laws against feeding farmed animals to farmed animals (an overreaction to mad cow disease) and fishmeal isn't certified as free from farmed fish, so fishmeal isn't an option for anything except fertilising the garden.
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    how to get hens to eat ground soy?

    no, in fact I conducted tests in different pens a couple of years ago with lot of different mixes etc. even fermented and sprouted feeds. yes the pellets from the mil have a better performance (partly because the hens cant just leave the soy!). however, its currently at nearly a grand a ton for...
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    how to get hens to eat ground soy?

    we get organic ground soy, and mix with cereal grains (oats and wheat usually) and some seaweed meal, and calcium. We don't really grow corn here, and fishmeal is very expensive here. I have tried making mixes with field beans and field peas to boost the protein but they can't eat that high a...
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    Growing azolla alternatives?

    I just read this Article. It’s about a place that replaced 3/4 of its chicken feed with azola that they grew themselves, and they saw a bump in production and better eggshell quality. I keep a laying flock of 100, and hoping to double this year. I’m in ireland, so I think our climate might...
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    Selling duck eggs - Price?

    do you sell them after washing them?
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    Selling duck eggs - Price?

    I sell them at €5 (5.50USD) a half dozen
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    How were flocks of poultry maintained hundreds of years ago?

    Sure I should have clarified, I didn’t mean the turn of this century, but last.
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    How were flocks of poultry maintained hundreds of years ago?

    Chicken and egg until the turn of the century wet actually a rich persons food. It wasn’t prevalent food like it is today. I can’t speak for hundreds of years ago, but I’ve read a few books from late 1800s and early 1900s when eggs and chicken became more abundant. They fed at that time just...
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    Cluck of the Irish: pints and poultry.

    There’s a few I see around from time to time, but as an overall percentage of the users I’d say we’re a fraction of a percent!
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    Cluck of the Irish: pints and poultry.

    Bit quiet around here, must be an old man’s bar 😆
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