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Excellent sentiment.

Me, too. All summer long. Though I'll leave it to the experts as to whether or not I have any issues.

I tend to agree. But have you read the warnings on the flip side of the water hose wrapper? Lead! I sometimes wonder how much lead my chickens are ingesting because I water them right out of the hose.

Oh, I hear ya'. I even get to the point where I start thinking that I can't even be sure that food grade plastic is safe.

Maybe you could tell her they aren't from the fodder system. I don't have any fodder/sprouts right now and all the fruit is in the fridge, but if I drink any juice, the fruit flies (2-3) start buzzing my face and glass. It's driving me crazy! This has been going on for a month or two and...

Peanut hay. I was looking at this the other day online. Is this hay that makes regular peanuts that we buy in a bag from Planters Peanuts? The ones I was looking at were called peanuts, but looked like they had an unfamiliar pod with peas in it. What kind of peanut hay are you talking about...

Someone somewhere wrote on a forum here or elsewhere that they trap mice in the chicken house (somehow?) and then chop them up and feed them to the chickens. EW! All I can think is ... Disease? Hanta anyone? And some mice carry salmonella, right?

Well, that was written so that I could LOL. Thanks for the laughs. Glad you know how to save your sanity. At least you've got lots of rye to experiment with!

I so identify! This should be my tagline. But you said it first, so you can have it.

I don't feed mold. Some do. Is it safe? Their chickens don't fall over dead, but I'm still not comfortable doing it.

You lucky dog! So, really, you could just go out with a pair of scissors and trim a very little off the top for your chickens every couple of days? At least until the snow flies and then in the spring, too. Wow.

I was thinking of the stuff I've got around here to sprout and was thinking about sesame seeds. They usually get ground up in our feed at 2#/cwt, but that's in our chick/starter feed and not the layer feed ... not that layers wouldn't do well with sesame ... it's just that we usually only buy...

If you've studied the pastured poultry info, you've probably already seen the 5-30% info, right? You know, where they claim that pastured poultry can get up to 30% of their feed intake from the pasture. Up to 30% on my pasture, field, meadow, whatever, is more likely around 5% unless it's a...

As a moderately experienced small-scale winter sprouter (till sprouts are green and 2-4 inches tall, sprouted in spring water) of wheat for my chickens, I decided to try to prove that it's not worth my time. A couple of interesting pieces of info were found. Example one -- from the famous...

I only do it as a winter substitute for foraging. Nothing really "replaces" foraging in my way of thinking. (How can you replace the rich finds of roots, bugs, seeds, and stuff that they dig up while foraging?) Growing a few greens in the kitchen sunshine is just a way to get some...

Yes, because it's about the only way I can think of to get the hens some fresh greens in the dead of winter when snow is covering all the grass. It's almost always wheat grass that I grow. Once I found out the benefits of wheat grass, I started trimming a little off some for me each day. It's...