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I had been wondering why Pepper no longer seemed to be laying. Sienna had started laying, but only intermittently, but Pepper seemed to be in good health, with a bright red comb, and her vent and behaviour showed all the signs of being in lay. Earlier today I heard her squawking but saw that...

Bittersweet morning. I let the girls out to find Penny (my gold-laced Wyandotte) missing. After calling and searching for her, I found her lethargic and sleeping in the nest box. She seized and died not long after - not sure what happened, as she showed no signs of being ill yesterday. And then...

One of my girls just graduated from pullet to hen today! A somewhat small egg, with a tiny blood smear, poor girl, but I'm so proud of her! This is Pepper, my silver-laced Wyandotte and the mama (well, not really mama) of that egg!

@pdirt : Yes, the galvanized is unfavourable, so I ended up buying stainless steel kennel feeders, but they are only a temporary solution. I will try the gutters when we build our next expansion! We just finished a run extension, and I'm in the process of digging out (for the resevoir) and...

Great idea, @mamahenAtlanta ! I ended up buying a few 16oz hanging bowls (http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GDVUFA/ - I made sure it was stainless steel, not galvanized or anything with aluminium) and hanging them throughout so my LF and bantys both get to eat.The gutter does does a lot...

I stop fermentation when it's done or when I can't use it up at the rate it's fermenting (usually on ridiculously hot days like we've been having here in San Diego) by keeping my feed in the fridge - then again, I only ferment a gallon at a time, which I find is plenty if I replace what I've...

Oh, and before he gets on my arse about it because of selective reading, I'm not saying that amino acids are a component of fats or carbs, just using them as an example of the products of fermentation.

Vitamins are just a name for groupings of organic compounds (organic as related to life, not in the hippy sense) and are different for every animal. When I ferment, I am fermenting whole foods, not crumble, and I still provide dry feed free choice, garden vegetables, and table scraps, and let...

Wasn't commenting on the palm (only the first one talked about palm) but the fact that their diet doesn't consist mostly of grains, as you keep stating. Much of it is plant matter and different types of insects seasonally. Even ignoring Feathersite, which states the harmfulness of most grains on...

Read above articles. And, yes, there are jungle fowl from the seaside, who also ate various shellfish, and jungle fowl from deep evergreen forests. None of them subsist on a diet of 75% readily-available cereal crops. There is also disagreement on whether the domestic chicken was bred from...

Although, if you do want to compare the diets of jungle fowl and domesticated chickens directly (as well as the effects of selective breeding for size, laying ability, energy, etc.), this is a fascinating article. I am assuming that commercial diets have similarly been adapted for better...

Diet of red jungle fowl: http://198.170.104.138/pjbs/2000/1024-1026.pdf Diet of green jungle fowl: http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/NDG/BRKGreenJF.html Diet of jungle fowl in SE Asia...

Uh, nope. Most of their diet is bugs, some fruit, vegetation, and they foraged for seeds, which aren't in as great abundance, and anything they can scratch from a jungle floor. Tell me where they're supposed to find GRAINS in a jungle? Cultivation of grain is a human practice, and they certainly...

Probably not. It looks like a hay feeder =\

3rd paragraph down in the post you quoted.