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What do you mean by this? Camelina has been grown for thousands of years in Europe as food for people and animals. Back to Roman times. It has Omega 3 properties that canola does not. (This is in Wikipedia so heaven forbid there is more to know! I would love to if you care to share) Are you...

OK, let me rephrase... If I wanted to inoculate with L. acidophilis, I could use yogurt, If I want to inoculate with L. pentosus, what would I use?

Cool Beans!!!! Now Acidophilis is yogurt. What is Pentosus? (off to check google)

I'm with you on this - I'm not worried, actually, about what was in the bucket previously, I'm worried about the crud that leaches out of the plastic is things are stored in it long term, and I'm not that worried about it. But the thing is I can go to practically any fast food restaurant and ask...

Yes... but I discovered a couple lice afterwards... I need to get on them with some ashes next weekend, it seems. :( They aren't infested or anything (I checked and never saw any a month ago). Seems a shame because they are such great layers, but likely they will be dinner in a month or so...

Nothing about fermented feeds other than that's what these chickens are fed.... but I wanted to share my photos of the kids catching our chickens for my 3yo's birthday! https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/821177/chicken-chasing-at-its-grandest

Quote: What does POL mean? Oh, and I've read good things about Cochins - What opinions do people have on those?

Did I mention that we have the two ISA browns still, and they travelled to the city with us this past week? I've been moveing their very small cage daily (12'), and just feeling so guilty that we are going to take them back to their larger run this coming weekend. This morning I decided to take...

Sounds like James and Pepper would be great playmates! Our old girl Indy is a little permission the past two days, I think she feels good after a big bath and wash that took away all her winter underfur finally. She feels pretty. Perhaps another year of maturity and Pepper will settle. He has...

Bee - what beautiful birds!!! I hope to have a flock one day that looks as good as they do! All different colours! And then maybe I could even have them free range if I can convince my pup not to chase them! Right now he's good if I keep an eye on him. He needs a little training, though. If...

It's just making my day that the chickens are perking up! Please keep us posted! Do you have photos? It would be nice to have before/after photos. Bee - I never got far enough on your 'Road Less Travelled" thread to find out how many of your rescued flock survived. What is their current status?

Mine had the choice of grass or the wood ashes, so maybe that's why they used it ?!? Or maybe they just were deperate !

What wonderful news!!!! And the more good food and water they get, the healthier they will be!!! Could you find a plant pot/something chicken sized and about 3-4" deep and fill it with ashes so they can bathe themselves in it? I did that with ours and they loved it!!!

Only mildly related to formula feed... We brought our two ISA browns back to the ciy and put them in our garden that is infested with slugs. We think - Excellent! solve our slug problem! They think: What are these icky slimy things? When I moved the tractor this morning there were tons of...

I like the vinyl gutter idea, but I also found that vinyl gutters are supposed to be highly toxic. Flexible vinyl products are supposed to be the worst too (http://watoxics.org/healthy-living/healthy-homes-gardens-1/factsheets/vinyl). Just something to know if you are planning to eat your eggs...

Sorry, I'm not usually emotional like this and figure we all have out time to go. For some reason I'm unusually emotional today (and 2 unrelated surprises smacked me in the face today too - joy!). Sorry to sideswipe this thread. I also lost a child (in an accident - he was 14mo old), and...

That is a refreshing attitude around here. Thank you Bee. It;s rarely verbalized - the puttnig into perspective of how to figure out that time when the good days for the animal are so far outnumbered by the bad that it is no longer worth living. It's even tougher to be the one to decide that for...

If you want see https://www.facebook.com/WillowWildeEscape where I try to keep relatively up to date on our progress.

Wonderful!!! What a luxury shower! We bought a 2.5 gallon hand pumped weed sprayer and will use that on occasion for a shower - but the bowl works just as well, particularly for hair. I would love to have a hand-pumped well. Do't know of anyone who has them anymore, but I grew up with one in...

I use dog food bowls! hard plastic style. I know some people use eaves/gutters. Interested in other ideas...