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    Need good recipe for gluten/soy free feed

    Animal protein "are very efficient in correcting the deficiencies in the proteins of [other feedstuffs]. It doesn't matter much what sort of animal protein is used as far as what species it is from. Bugs work as well as mammals work as well as fish work as well as birds work as well as reptiles...
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    Need good recipe for gluten/soy free feed

    Soybean oil meal combined with grain is a good substitute for animal protein. I've been looking for many years for a different plant-based alternative and have not found one that is practical. Duckweed or algae might be for some people; I have some of the right kinds of each on my pond but lack...
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    Need good recipe for gluten/soy free feed

    Since the nutrient value of feeds varies so much and testing isn't very practical for the volumes needed here, you might consider a cafeteria-style feeding system. That is where each feedstuff is offered separately from the others - more or less at least. Some aren't very practical to offer...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    The cloth diapers don't stink at all more than disposables. Using the green mountain directions for cloth and a diaper genie (emptied often) with disposables. So far, anyway. The babies aren't eating solid food yet. They get about half mother's milk and half formula. I know formula fed babies...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I very rarely consider that it might go down in price. I consider it a yes or no decision. If it happens to still be there the next time I go, it is another yes or no decision. I do consider that non-clearance items might have a lower price later. Some stores will sometimes put a thing a little...
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    Need good recipe for gluten/soy free feed

    How many chickens do you have? I have a new (hm, different) old textbook. 1951. It explains more than my other one. Between them, I might be able to help if you want to make your own. I don't know about commercial options for your situation.
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    Feeding frozen eggs back to your birds?

    I eat them myself. I figure the shells didn't crack until the egg was too cold for microbes to be a problem. Since I rinse them and put them into the pan while they are still frozen, and cook them quickly, there isn't time at moderate temperatures for anything to grow enough to be a problem...
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    Parenthood Thread

    We didn't do Santa. For gifts, we favored experiences rather than things. It was not exclusively so but they were common and popular gifts. Examples: Homemade tickets to an afternoon of swimming or ice skating or bowling, craft classes of various kinds. Going to the zoo is a popular date choice...
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    Best and Worst Books You Had to Read in School

    The best was Silas Marner. Most of my classmates didn't like it but I liked the historical fiction aspect. And Shane Tate, until I had to write about what the teacher saw in it instead of what I saw in it. One of my all time favorite books, Alas, Babylon, was often assigned according to the...
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    Heat source. Too many opinions. Gotta quit FB.

    I quit some years ago for similar reasons. I handle that issue by using the telephone, mostly. Even if they don't have a website, I can usually find a phone number or can see enough of their page to get that much. Sometimes, such a place just doesn't get my business. I will go further and/or...
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    Why do you raise chickens?

    To take care of them. I miss taking care of livestock like I did growing up on a working farm. All the aspects: deciding what they need, figuring out how to give it to them, choosing which and how many to get, naming them, tending them, watching them interact with each other and their...
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    New to raising chickens – what essential supplies and equipment do I need?

    In order of hierarchy of needs (like Maslow's hierarchy of needs): Air (not as flippant as it looks*) Variable warmth if baby chickens** Water, a water bowl or waterer Food, a feed bowl or feeder Grit Space Other flock members Shelter from predators*** Shelter from weather*** A roost A nesting...
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Generally, it is not less dollars no matter how you do it and even if you don't count all of the costs - like any of the costs of the land, fences, trucks for bringing feed, your time and such. Some people find it well worth the cost because of things like knowing how well the cattle are...
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    Help! Need to refurbish inherited coop!

    That should do very well. Another thing you can do for them is add "clutter." That is anything they can use to break up their lines of sight. Things they can go behind or hop up on. Like a couple of straw bales stacked on each other or stumps or lawn chairs tipped over or a pile or teepee of...
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    Help! Need to refurbish inherited coop!

    Most are done wrong. Bare minimum space, not even bare minimum ventilation required by different systems. They are usually designed by people who know how to build sheds and they add nest boxes and a roost. Or by people who might have looked up the dimensions required by commercial chicken barns...
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