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    Silver Laced polish + Rhode Island Red mix?

    Beautiful. Please do a current update. With productivity details. Thanks
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    HOUDAN AND POLISH CROSSES

    I Like this fella. Anymore like him?
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    HOUDAN AND POLISH CROSSES

    Any pics
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    Friesian Fowl Q&A Discussion Thread

    What's their egg production like?
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    Best Egg Layers

    The progeny of breeding hybrid to hybrid is still a chicken and will out produce anything else you mentioned. In quality and quantity.
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    Buy it Now - Sapphire Hatching Eggs 12+

    Any pullets for sale from that dec hatch?
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    Buy it Now - Sapphire Hatching Eggs 12+

    Any more of these sbel available
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    Comment by 'Dead Rabbit' in item 'California Grey'

    How did this cross do?
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    The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

    Excellent!! I'm born and raised with fowl 43 yrs strong now. And I never heard such terminology as "roo" used for a brood cock, cockeral, stag etc till I visited these poultry sites on line.
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    Protein Content

    Sorry I don't go for that "eating based on a caloric need" statement. I've read that here on this site numerous times but experience I've seen speaks otherwise I Definitly don't go for that "evolutionary path" statement
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    Protein Content

    When I was serious about feeding, I sure would have loved to find them high protein oats. Only oats I ever fed were racehorse oats. Whole oats. Not steamed, crimped, rolled. I believe in keeping the germ intact. I believe the labels read 8-12% depending on brand and location purchased
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    Protein Content

    NOOOOOOOO!!!! Lol. But my serious feeding methods are from times past. I transitioned to layers only and even quit seriously raising bantams 5 yrs ago. So my feeding methods greatly simplified. Before that feeding was a detailed science. I could enjoy my fowl a lot more with out sweating...
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    Protein Content

    The value is in whole corn. But.......For a layer Fock a high calorie food means nothing more than fat. Unused calories convert to fat. Layers won't burn off enough calories to stay in top shape. Hence the fat found on 3-4 yr old layers. Fat is not only unhealthy but can cut down on...
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    Protein Content

    Every oat I've ever fed was 8-12% protein. There is a hulless variety that has much higher nutrition value, but I've never even seen these much less fed them. Fermenting grains up their nutrition value not lower them. But I quite fermenting oats 10 yrs ago. I found just soaking them did just as...
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    Protein Content

    I know oat protein varies according to location, but I've never known them to be near that high in protein. Even when fermented I never knew them to jump that high. I was quite a fan of whole oats for fowl but I would soak them for a couple days before feeding. It helped with the digestion of...
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    Protein Content

    Sir the main reason corn is used so heavily in animal feeds and now human foods is because it's cheap. Easy to produce,. Readily available. And easy to "transform" into other ingenious products. There is value to corn. Whole dent corn, or even more so other types of corn. But it's over fed...
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    Protein Content

    Exactly. There is enough corn in the layer ration. Why add more to the overall diet? Corn is good for carb loading. A typical layer Fock does not need carb loading. I'm all for feeding whole grains. Like I said, I've delved into very complex feeding regimes. If one wants to feed whole...
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    Protein Content

    If you fed nothing but a 18% layer and nothing else, you would do just fine. They would be healthy, and produce very well. Scratch is mostly garbage and empty calories. I don't even waste time using it. Me personally, when running a layer flock, I prefer a 15-16% layer ration. But then I feed...
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    How much starter feed?

    Just me but I suggest you bump the protein up before winter. Do it as soon as they start to molt. Then after they feather back out and they have no more blood feathers, than ease back on protein levels. Or not. Up to you. Personally I'm more a fan of feeding soaked whole grains in the...
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    How much starter feed?

    Yes sir you are correct. That is a common method with gamefowl. You want them To grow slow and strong. Generally it was practiced of bumping protein levels up to 16-18% once you put your brood yards together. And during moult up the protein the same. This method works well with gamefowl. No...
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