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  1. Robert M

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    That's the way I feed shells. Don't forget, if you eat clams, you can crush those shells, too. I don't know the calcium content of them, but they make nice grit for the birds. Chickens know when they have "enough" calcium ingested. If you're incubating, you may want to keep she shell away...
  2. Robert M

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    Prudes.
  3. Robert M

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    Quote: Nice setup. Edited by Staff
  4. Robert M

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    You are absolutely right, they will drink that liquid just like water and will get the nutrition that comes with it. Their bodies know what they need. They may not even go to the water trough, unless it's really hot. Try to keep their water cool, as if you were going to drink it.
  5. Robert M

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    LOL. And you're right, it IS bizarre, for sure. And HERE? It's hot.
  6. Robert M

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    Bazaar? Isn't that a flea market?
  7. Robert M

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    If they load up on protein, they will quit eating and won't get fat. (not my advice, others on here).
  8. Robert M

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    Hey, CT, if you're going for weight, don't go high protein, they will get the protein they need and stop eating. If ypou look back a few posts, you'll see where this has been addressed in length. They also discussed milk fermentation. If I remember correctly, it wasn't recommended very...
  9. Robert M

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    Maybe they'll get drunk and lay whole clutches at a time.
  10. Robert M

    Predator Proofing

    There is a product on the market called Rodent Sheriff and it works. But be careful, it won't hurt you but it will open up your sinuses. We bought it.
  11. Robert M

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

  12. Robert M

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    Feeding cattle feed containing cow parts gave them Mad Cow Disease. IMO, feeding chickens their own eggs, at least to me, would be parallel to same.
  13. Robert M

    Predator Proofing

    Absolutely do! Chicken wire USED to be a strong defense before manufacturers got so greedy and out-sourced the job to China, who further degraded it. Now they're doing the same thing with Hardware Cloth. It used to be galvanized, but now it's "zinc-plated". And it rusts, as does the "new"...
  14. Robert M

    The agony of temp drop

    Me, too, but if the yolk sac is ruptured, it's goodbye chickie-boo.
  15. Robert M

    The agony of temp drop

    I used to live in Millington and I know what you mean. I'm on the Western side, by the Patuxent NAS and it IS different here.
  16. Robert M

    Predator Proofing

    You people buying those TractorSupply-type coops may wabnt to take them back apart and put hardware cloth under the plywoos. Dogs, wolves. coons foxes, etc., can chew right through the wood. They got my rabbits that way.
  17. Robert M

    Predator Proofing

    16-18" will do. Then you can split the hardware cloth down the center of a 4' piece, when you turn 6" up at the pen/coop. Hardware cloth is expensive.
  18. Robert M

    The agony of temp drop

    But "too dry" will result in the babies getting stuck in the shell.
  19. Robert M

    The agony of temp drop

    ...100 degrees F Chicken and Other Large Eggs (including Goose) 100.5 degrees F Operating Temperature for Eggs in Automatic Turner Summer Winter* Quail Eggs 99 degrees 98 degrees Bantam and Pheasant Size Eggs 98 degrees 97 degrees Chicken and Other Large Eggs 97 degrees 96 degrees Duck Eggs...
  20. Robert M

    The agony of temp drop

    You can open the incubator. Remember, the hen leaves the nest for long periods of time, too.
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