I just found this. VERY interesting! Hope it helps.
http://articles.extension.org/pages/65503/feeding-alfalfa-to-poultry
PS! LOVING BYC for teaching me how to be a better chicken/guinea/duck mom!
Thank you ALL for your posts.
I have a 10x10' dog run covered in chicken wire at the top to keep airborne predators out. That's on the OLD coop. Still trying to get the flock into the NEW coop & then I'll drag that beast of a run over & attach it to the side. At the new coop it will have hardware cloth attached at the bottom...
I have just 2 hens. ONLY 2. This year I learned to keep them in the pen 'till they'd laid their eggs. Funny though, even though I always kept 2 eggs in there marked with an 'X' (seemed to make sure they'd lay there & not out in the woods), I find 3 or 4 eggs a day. Sometimes only 2, but usually...
It gets so cold here I sometimes have to chip the neighbor's dog off my car tire so I can to to the store.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! You made me blow tea out my nose laughing!! And I hear ya there!! 13.5' of snow last winter (my first up here!) and even with no chooks to care for, I had to crawl out at...
I am wondering also about feeding my girls now that they are "in" for the winter. And they are only "in" because there are too many hungry predators up here to let them roam.
They have a feeder full of wild game nugget stuff, I give them a few hand fulls of mealies every morning & evening...
I am new to having guineas.
There was an ad for them stuck on the note board of our post office.
I gotta tell you, I LOVE MY LITTLE PTERODACTYLS!!
I had no idea at all what I was doing, but they are most forgiving. And I love to watch them chase bugs & frogs for mid-day snacks. Anyone thinking...