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I put my roosts in hangers so they are removable. It works great for cleaning. Just pop them out and then back in. I have to add another high roost because the pecking order affects who gets to be on the higher roost so I am going to add another one at the same height.

F food processor!

Just wanted to show some pics of my RIR & Welsummer mixes. They have been on fermented feed for 3 months and they are 5 months old!

Just fyi on my experience: tried to make the liquid and screwed it up and had big chunks. I don't think I boiled it long enough. I now make the powder. I cut the bars of Zote soap into small chunks and put them in my ninja food processor and it makes it pretty small. I mix the bar of soap, 2...

I do the same! I use the mexican soap I get from a lady at the flea mall here. Zote It works great and smells good too! It is the first powdered soap I have used that doesn't leave spots on my close. Shredded soap, Boraz and arm & hammer washing soda

Yes! You can ferment layer pellets in just water in a couple of days. I know the more experienced "fermenters" will chime in. I have been fermenting grower crumbles for my soon to be layer flock for a couple of months.

Don't throw it out! How bad does it smell, cause fermented feed is supposed to smell sour! Go back in this thread I know bee has talked about the smell and helped others that have thought theirs went bad. Some days my chickens eat all I give them sometimes they don't , it doesn't mean it is bad...

Bee, You could take a preorders to get the start up money and if you wanted to do spiral bound I have a little machine that does it if you wanted to do the first 50 or so that way. You print them & mail them to me and I could spiral bind them. I am sure the small feed stores would want to carry...

it's worth a try if it is you just move them. Mine didn't die all at once it was more the mold & most survived. I am still working out the kinks. Tomorrow I am cutting a huge whole in my lid & gluing landscape fabric to it. to give more ventilation and keep out the fruit flys that are driving me...

If you have a place to you could keep the mealworms in the house. I would prefer mine to be in the sunroom with all my other 'small' farm supplies but that is were it is humid. I have them in the living room at the moment but this winter they are going back into the sunroom. I don't think the US...

I tried sprouts, but it is just to humid here right now. I am going to wait till it cools down a little more and try again so I am not growing sprouts with mold! I so wish I had a basement, but we are too close to the ocean.

The beetles don't fly and I haven't had any escape! the lid on my container keeps them in and they have so much food available I don't think they have any reason to look to escape.

They are much cheaper online. I got 1000 for $13 on amazon.

I do it in a single container. an under the bed storage unit with holes drilled in the top. Put in oatmeal or wheat germ some carrots or celery put in mealworms and wait. Change vegetables out as often as your climate requires to keep them from molding. I waited to long and will spend some time...

I just really laughed out loud!!!! Thanks I needed cheering up!

I did put 2 drops of dawn dish soap in my water to help with 'possible' worm problem. It was something I read on byc that bee had posted and others. I don't know if it will kill good bacteria also, but it is supposed to strip the worms of there outercovering so the birds digestive systems can...

I have read a lot of your posts on different things, and I think I understand what you are saying. I am not saying that my garlic concoction didn't work, but I am still willing to give some other things a try. I am hoping that the garlic worked great and and that is why I saw the poop with a...

I just cleaned the coop. I do sand in the coop because it is raised with a wood floor and it is very humid here. I did find one poop with worm evidence in it. Should I put some soap in there water? Will dawn dish soap work?

I gave my birds some garlic on Saturday because my two youngest birds, buff orpingtons, have combs/wattles that are sometimes pale and other times really red. They are 12 weeks old. People on the buff orpington thread keep suggesting worms, but I don't think it is worms & I didn't really want to...

Anyone know a good source for barley grain? my local grain mills don't carry it.