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    Membranes of backyard eggs vs. store-bought eggs

    Just keep in mind that I'm merely a hobbyist - only started a few years ago myself (see Sig, below). Granted, I have strange reading habits. While I am widely considered a resource on such things by the BYC community, making chicken feed isn't my day job and I don't have a degree in it...
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    Feed Analysis Please

    Economy feeds are often labeled like that - the mill takes whatever is inexpensive and local, combines it with whatever grain byproducts they need to to "juice" the mix into the desired nutritional range (soy meal, alfalfa meal, peanut meal, corn gluten meal, wheat middlins, etc etc etc etc etc)...
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    Feed Analysis Please

    If you wanted to mix the two you can - you will have a feed that's not as good as the first, slightly better than the other (which is perfectly adequate as a layer feed, but not more than that.) I doubt the cost savings mixing the two are worth the effort. Unless the first is substantially...
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    Feed Analysis Please

    The deBuhr Super Coop is the superior feed - better Methionine and Lysine numbers, slightly greater crude protein (which doesn't matter as much as the AA profile). Calcium is fine for moderate egg layers. Prime production breeds will need more. Your free choice calcium (oyster shell)...
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    (Wife and I are fine - its not us)
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Its been a really rough week, no I'm not talking about it; yes, I'm going to try not to be on line until I'm more fit for human society. Pictures, then, we can talk about how the rest of the critters are doing.
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    Making Lemonade [Selective Culling Project - very long term]

    10 made it. One was a late quit. One turkey egg still in the incubator. Pictures (MAYBE) this weekend. Its been a really rough week, no I'm not talking about it; yes, I'm going to try not to be on line until I'm more fit for human society.
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    I occurs to me that you probably think this is a serious question. As I have had a remarkably bad week - one of the worst of the last five years or so - I'm going to hold off responding until I am in a more civil mood. I judge myself not fit for human company presently, and do not want to run...
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    Normal vent?

    I am not a fan of either scratch or BSFL "supplementation". Spend the money on good feed, instead - and when they need enrichment, I just throw the food. They will search out the thrown feed with the same gusto they attack other treats, in my experience.
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    I linked a sizeable study showing increased incidence of Bumblefoot in broilers, attributed to change in fecal consistency and "stickiness", in a diet of 1% Chlorella, and noted the study had its limits. Obviously, there are significant differences between Ross 308s kept in cages on commercial...
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    Assumes facts not in evidence re: both diet and state of relative health. Most assuredly, the local ducks are eating more than primarily algae with bits of bread. and no, in general, bread is not a good diet for ducks, poultry, or much of anything else... On that, we are agreed.
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    they were looking at blood chemistry mostly, few other indicators of chicken health - and as often happens, differing studies can sometimes reach seemingly contrary conclusions. That's when you need to start looking at the differences, see if there is an obvious "why". Often, the rest of the...
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11685776/ Caution, in this study, while there were **slight** benefits at 0.1% inclusion, at rates of 1%, there were already some cautions. They correlated changes in the birds fecals to increased incidence of bumblefoot, which they suspected resulted...
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Not a problem, I have separate facilities, and as long as I wait till everyone is about the same size, I can integrate together.
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Two more hatched. Moving them to the brooder box soon. Total of 7 hatched so far, of the 4 remaining, 2 have pipped.
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