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    Making Chicken Feed How much salt

    Are you providing a min/vit package in your feed? If you are no salt is needed.
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    High protein feed

    If you are mixing the corn and sorguhm with your feed you should stop feeding that. You are diluting the protien in the feed.
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    How to feed your chickens for FREE!

    B.Bryan : Quote: Excellent idea...produce that would be thrown out!!! I'll start inquiring about it today. Also, bread that would be otherwise thrown out. Also, I just found out that whole oats can be fed instead of expensive commercial feed for hens. A couple tbs. of dry milk in the...
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    cost of corn...

    Quote: That is not true. Any ground animal feed has a shelf life and it is way less then a year. Remember you said feed not whole grains.
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    EEEk! Price increase @ TSC

    Quote: Here's another wivestales I wish would die. The three main reasons for high grain comodities is: 1 a week US dollar. 2 heavy globel demand due to poor yeilds in other countries. 3 comodity traders like to make money when they raise the price. Ethanl has nothing to due with it. Do you...
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    soybean meal

    You can use PEARSON'S SQUARE to figure it correctly. This site has a section on determing your protien content. http://www.lionsgrip.com/chickens.html
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    Right amounts to Pre mix food

    Here is a food recipe. You just have to break it down to 50lb increments. 17% Layer Ration: 965 lb. Shelled Corn 600 lb. Roasted Soybeans 100 lb. Oats 100 lb. Alfalfa Meal 175 lb. Aragonite(calcium) = oyster shells 60 lb. Poultry Nutri-Balancer 2000...
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    is corn as main ingredient good for chickens?

    Quote: Floor sweepings do too!!
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    grains and additives for chicken

    Quote: That is absolutely, positively false. An old wivestale. No grain when consumed will raise body temp. This has been proven over and over and over.
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    What to do with a dead chicken in the middle of winter.

    Do you have garbage pickup. If so wrap in a couple bags then in a black garbage bag. Put out with your weekly garbage.
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    Pig Swig - Egg Withdrawal Period?

    I have brand name wazine 17. Main ingredient is piperazine. It says on the bottle do not give to chickens producing eggs for human consumtion. Like said 14 day withdrawl time for meat chickens and turkeys.
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    Dirty butt chickens ok to eat?

    Quote: Yea why not Steps of prosessing. Kill Pluck WASH ect.
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    Questions about Oat Hay

    You have to weigh the cost verse benifit. I think cost high, benifit low. Unless you have been told otherwise the hay should have been cut in the boot stage. Once it heads out the nutriction value goes down. I can buy hay(any kind) for $3.5 a bale all day long. Oats are 4 to 5 a bushell.
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    HELP! My SS is sick

    I recomend you put this in the Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures section.
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    Grit

    Yes what you bought is fine. I use a sand small gravel mix. Even if you only feed chicken food grit will help digest it better. An example. A guy I know raises meat birds. The 1st year no grit. Butcher told him to use grit= bigger birds. 2nd yr to present he uses grit. He had bigger birds the...
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