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Give those new pullets some Johnny Cakes!

Yes, Kefir has the greatest amount of beneficial bowel flora and it's converted the lactose into a digestable form. Buttermilk, etc. all do the same. But here's the deal on raw milk: Raw milk contains an enzyme called Lactase in it, and lactase allows a person to digest lactose. Funny, isn't...

This has been done before. The risk of disease is just too high. A few years ago there was a guy that extolled the virtues of this system too. Then his birds started dying. Black soldier flies are great! I just wish they were more common here. I had some going for a while. Then the nasty flies...

If you have meat that is starting to smell a bit off, cook it somehow before feeding it to the birds. In fact I'd not give them any raw meat. While it's true that they will eat a dead sparrow or something that has been sitting around (I saw one eating a rotten dove's head yesterday :sick ) I...

Just want to jump in here about the milk feeding: fresh raw dairy milk is not the same as what you get in the cartons in the store. The milk in the cartons will upset their stomachs a bit unless it's fermented some way into cheese or yogurt or kifir, even buttermilk, first. Fresh, raw milk has...

I do that. With my own bird's seeds. There's always lots of good seeds left when you dump out the old so the chickens get the extras and love them. But I only have two cage birds now so it's not a lot.

I too ended up using a liner in my concrete pond. I'll never mess with concrete again for ponds.

And long enough that I don't want to get into the whole thing. Just hate to let that statement stand. Sometimes I have such a big mouth.

Correction: Because they think it helps worm them. There are those that think this and those that don't.

I've forgotten who I ordered my Comfrey from but Clays link is as good as any! Be sure to get the Bocking like in that link. Those are the ones with sterile seeds. You propagate them by root cuttings. As for the distillers grains, a number of years ago a local distillery started making a horse...

As is comfrey and mealworms. I grow mealworms and wow are they easy. But I'd guess crickets are too, I've no idea. I do have comfrey growing now, the kind that makes sterile seeds so it doesn't take over the world, and it does great.

Many just burn the thorns, etc. off them. But that's work and I'd rather they were just able to do it themselves. I love prickly pears though hehe. I'd probably do it for me but not for the birds.

Yes. The best way is to plant whatever on the other side of the run fence. That way they can get part of it through the fence but not destroy the whole plant. Comfrey, tomatoes, whatever. And of course the fruit trees can be in the run and unprotected once they're big enough and established.

It was concrete when flourishing and no real dirt, just decomposed leaves and plant matter that never was cleaned out. Things did wonderfully with no care at all. About 5 feet across. Most was only a foot deep but the center is an old septic tank so it goes down 4feet or so. Now, it's back to...

About the minnows, I've had a medium sized pond that recieved no attention at all for some years and the minnows were still flourishing. It never gets cold enough to completely freeze it and the pond does have a spot that's pretty deep, around 4 feet so I suppose they go down there when it gets...

Nobody ever expects the Spanish Inquisition! :lol:

I don't mean little swimming things. These guys are the size of large crickets and very, very aggressive hunters. I've sat quietly by the pond and watched closely. They're vicious! Edit: I know what you're saying though. The problem is that the vicious things are already big, so I need to add...

If you get the "feeder" goldfish you can probably just drop them in there. They are raised to be hardy and in horrid conditions. I plan to do that soon. I tried minnows but as I have dragonfly larvae in there, they got eaten. Need bigger fish in there.

LOL Oh sorry! Commercial business, well of course you'd figure in labor! I was thinking more along the lines of the backyard person. oops.

Sometimes we overthink things. If you figure in your labor for a lot of jobs, then you're losing money depending on what you pay yourself. The way I figure it, I wouldn't be making any money if I were NOT doing these things, so it's all profit to me. I never figure in labor. If I had a job and...