Y’all. Something terrible happened today. So terrible I need to speak about it. And understand why. I’ve had a bachelor pad for a year without problems today I witnessed a rape of the gang type. 5 cockerel s all raised together. 3 of them turned on my big beautiful Good Shepherd Barred Rock. It...
I failed to mention I do have a tractor. The transfer from tote to container will be a huge undertaking. Have you found a clamp style lid for the blue drums? I don't know how one would get feed out of the little hole on top without the clamp top.
So hubs found me a wonderful little fiberglass house to store my feed. Naturally I need to fill it and found a 2,000lb tote on a pallet. It should last me 6 months. I told hubs we can have it delivered to work so they can put it on a trailer with the forklift. BUT, after I get that trailer home...
I put a half charcoal-ed log into my egg house last year. It just stays in the corner and they peck it whenever they need it. I wouldn't suggest adding it to their feed or forcing them to eat it, unless they ingested a known poison.
After reading the responses, I think it is the feed. I feed Scratch n' Peck which is mainly wheat, lentils, fish meal. There are only a few fish I can tolerate, so I bet that's it.
So, I have a few food intolerances. A few years ago I started buying processed chickens from a local farm, but I couldn't tolerate the meat, I assumed it was something they were feeding the birds. So I kept buying "organic" chicken from the grocery store.
Now that I am an active breeder I have...
You made my month! I thought I would be good at genes since I’m a math brain, but my math brain seems to fail me in biology! Guess I’ll return in a year to tell you how it turned out!
I have a black/silver marans cock bird and a blue/silver marans cock bird, plus lavender Orp hens. I was thinking how beautiful the silver neck would be on a lavender Orp. So I hung out with the kippenger calculator for a while and I'm stumped. I just keep getting black. I know lavender is a...