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    Making Lemonade [Selective Culling Project - very long term]

    Its improving. Should be back to my old self shortly.
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    Fermented feed vs crumbles/pellets

    your understanding and patience is appreciated. I will link the study (late) next week, expecting the new machine in the next couple days, will take a day to set up.
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    Fermented feed vs crumbles/pellets

    Sure, that's what BYC is for. There's a study I wanted to link, but until my computer is replaced and I have access to my old hard drives, anything that requires more specific knowledge than the general info tumbling around inside my skull will have to wait. There is, for instance, a...
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    Roofing choices for covered run?

    A 7' width would allow you to span the top with "cattle panels" attached at either end to the chain link upper bar. Then cover that with either plastic or canvas tarp or nylon shade cloth. The arch, under tension, provides lots of support, with some flex for wind loads. You will need metal...
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    Fermented feed vs crumbles/pellets

    There is a "perfect protein (Ideal Protein)" theory of chicken (and other critter) feeding, based on providing a balanced array of amino acids to minimize waste. Its a good theory, so far as it goes, but it arose at a time when Methionine couldn't be directly measured, and there were some...
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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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