http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/01/10/2014/food-failures-how-to-spoil-your-food-and-eat-it-too.html
With all the talk here on fermented feed, I heard this today and thought others might be interested.
Reading one of the other threads debating feed and health and me being somewhat new to chickens, how are everyone else's chickens doing? Knowing how other people's chickens are producing would help me and possibly others qualify the health of their own birds.
How many egg laying hens by...
After reading Joel Salatin's book I bought everything in his recipe for chicken feed but end up with a question. The recipe calls for corn, roasted soybeans, oats and a few other ingredients including Fertrell Nutri-Balancer and Thorvin kelp. The Nutri-Balancer is small granules and the kelp...
We just butchered a hen that was an obsessed feather picker and was I shocked at how fat she was. We butchered many roosters from this year class in the summer and fall and they had some fat where you would expect.
This hen was coated in fat, everywhere. She had blobs of fat between her...
We live in a very wintery area and our chickens had to move into the barn for the winter. So they would have grit and other good stuff that comes from soil, I dug up a couple hundred pounds of sod/soil from our meadow.
They get about a ten pound lump every week and love eating the grass...
We recently tried switching our chickens from a prepared chicken food to a recipe including roasted soybeans. Our co-op ordered us roasted soybeans and our chickens will not touch them and these are birds that will eat anything.
In researching, there is much mention of roasted soybeans...