Here is my recipe book for feeds I make using the most economical sources available locally. Here you would use corn
F B D G E H
TO MAKE 100KG chicks grower hens baby adult goat
grower chicken turkey game game
game birds birds
soy meal (kg) 12 2 0 10 0 0
Fish meal (kg) 8 8 0 20...
I actually like the diet. Based on what they eat "in the wild" it is pretty much a natural diet. I also repurpose eggs as feed. What a horrible waste if you dont.
I incubate a lot of shipped eggs and most are non starters - they go to the pot, boiled mashed and fed to the quails, chuckar and...
i have had terrible luck trying to get australorps but i wont give up. my other option is to get my pommy orpingtons to learn to speak with an aussie accent
Sadly I have given up my pursuit of Australorp eggs for my Christmas hatch. Come spring I will be hassling here to buy good quality eggs
If I cant get some decent eggs by April I am going to build a magabator in my apartment, get 1000 hatchery eggs, hatch them and give them away as show...
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I have been in search of Australorp eggs for some time. Everytime I try to procure them, something goes wrong - from predators eating the flock to the breeder selling off the day before I ask to 36 eggs destroyed by USPS.
So I will give it a go here.
I am in SoCal. I need 24-36 fresh...