Recent content by rog1111

There is a local company that sells a mushroom growing kit that uses used coffee grounds that they collect from Peets and other coffee shops as the substrate for the mushrooms. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread. If you really want to get into the coffee grounds thing, I...

I seem to have this problem. Is there a way I can lessen the bullying so that they all use the roosts and one or two don't try to escape to the nesting boxes?

I just had the same experience. I switched from the Modesto Milling organic layer pellets to the Modesto Milling whole grain layer and the chickens started going through it a lot faster. My chickens are eating the whole grain food much, much faster. Every other factor is the same. The weather is...

I get raw beef marrow bones at the butcher for my dog to chew on. They cut the bones on the band saw into 2-inch pieces. I now have a collection of 2-inch bone rings that the dog has chewed everything off of and out of. It seems like this would be a good source of supplemental calcium for my...