Went brain dead at the farm store and ended up buying 100lbs of crumble food. Normally I'll buy mixed grain food which I then ferment. Can crumbles be fermented? Is there any benefit to doing so? Thanks.
Update for anyone interested: I spent a lot of time watching chicken TV (our term for sitting on the tailgate watching our flock).... turns out Mr.Cecil wasn't getting sexy with our chickens. It looks like when one of the chickens is blocking access to his favorite feeder, he solidly steps on...
Apologies if I don't reply to this properly (I'm still learning).
We've had a couple cold dips in the area recently so your birds should be pretty hardened off by now. When it does dip below normal temps, I make sure to give high protein foods (scrambled eggs mixed with bacon fat, etc and I...
Greeting from Oatmeal, Texas! Located solidly on the rockiest soil-less hill in the area, Northwest of Austin by about 35 minutes. Every single day I fight to keep my turkey hen (Hensley) out of my onions and potatoes. I am an old chicken lady at the ripe age of 33. Maybe I'm biased, but my...
Thanks for the responses. Definitely disappointed. Cecil has done a good job protecting and herding my chicken ladies until recently. We weren't planning on eating the turkeys, rather having them as lovely little additions running around eating acorns and gobbling. Going to try tweaking some...
What a bummer. I did what I thought was due diligence regarding raising them together and the only mention of possible issues was in regards to Blackhead disease. So now here's a question: let's say I separate these two from the chickens and give them their own space. Will the the Tom mate the...
Hello!
I've got two Bourbon Reds, a male and female, ~ 6 months old. They were raised with and currently housed with my flock of chickens, everyone spends their days roaming free.
Tom Turkey (named Cecil) has been gobbling and strutting for ages now but today I looked out and saw him on top...
Hello, Katie from Central Texas! Never in my life did I think I'd become a chicken lady buuuuuuut here I am.
I currently have a flock of 26 chickens and 2 Bourbon Red turkeys.
Let's see, we have:
- RIRs
- Sex Links
- Domoniques
- Easter Eggers
- Wyandottes
- Brahmas
- Some sort of production...