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    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Keep Your Feed Costs Low?

    Feral Chickens should have feral nests with feral eggs somewhere no? Seems to me time to find these nests and get a feral omlette for your efforts ! We got yardbirds that wander here as well, it's not too uncommon to have to hit the brakes because someones birds decided to wander into the...
  2. Ascholten

    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Keep Your Feed Costs Low?

    I say the same thing when I feed mine beetles. It's a bit too early in the season but I usually put out several bug lamps that I modified with a jar on the bottom of them. The beetles hit the grid, get stunned and fall into the jar in the bottom, I then daily, or every other day if I forget...
  3. Ascholten

    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Keep Your Feed Costs Low?

    The chickens will bang them into the ground, drag them smash and bust them up and eat them... oh and lets not forget the tug o war when another chicken sees one with it too... I found a rats nest in my compost heap, pinkies, fed them to the chickens, same thing, THAT was gruesome.
  4. Ascholten

    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Keep Your Feed Costs Low?

    Bigger grasshoppers can kick you too and it can kind of hurt. The ones out here get pretty big, and you can't get up to them that easy, they will take off, so what I do is, I hit them with my laser in the head / eyes, blind them, then I can walk right up and grab them and feed to the...
  5. Ascholten

    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Keep Your Feed Costs Low?

    There is a fairly large farmers market out here. I get their bad stuff from them. By bad, meaning it got dropped, smashed, busted open etc etc. I explain that it's for my chickens and composter and they are generally more than happy to let me haul away with it. It saves them the trip to the...
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