grain

It is winter here in New York. My flock has been cooped (pun intended) up inside for the past month and a half. They are going through food like crazy and not laying eggs. I need a solution to this and I found two options, fermenting feed and growing fodder. I already have the fermenting process...

Hello all, Just checking in on what you guys have found your chicks love, especially fruits, veg, grains, herbs...anything that can be relatively inexpensive and/or even better: grown in my backyard!!! 🍅 🌽 🌶🥒🍎🥬🍓🍍🍏🍌🥕🍒🥭🍈

My hen normally has layers. I just bought a very large bag of grain from a local farmer, in the shop, but very cheap, 5 euros for 10 kilos. It looks to contain crushed corn, whole barley, it is quite dusty. I think my chickens poop goes wrong when I feed it to her, even a small amount. So I am...

Hello there, I was interested in an animal nutrition consultation, but sadly, no self respecting animal nutrition consultant will take a guy with several dozen ducks on his property seriously. I run a medium sized poultry farm in East Tennessee and I feel less than amazing about feeding them...

Hi friends! So we have a real “hippie” homestead situation here at Bamburgh Farms!! Lol We have a flock of about 35 chickens, 5 ducks & 3 Nigerian Dwarf doelings (and previously a goose named Horace as well! ) that all live in harmony, free ranging and eating, drinking and bunking together on...

Hey Y'all! I recently scrolling through Pinterest and found a post about making your own chicken feed. I have a lot of questions regarding this subject, as I have never heard of anyone doing this before. How do I go about making sure the feed is nutritionally balanced? What is considered...

G'day all I have been raising poultry of one type or another for over a decade. Mainly just backyard stuff as I've mostly lived on smallish town blocks. I particularly like raising egg laying ducks like Khaki Campbells but currently have a few bantam chickens. I am particularly interested and...

Can ducks eat this? If so, what is the purpose? There are sunflower seeds in it, is that safe for ducks? I'm looking for something new to expand my duck's diet to give them something different along with their usual crumble feed! :) thanks...

My family and I just recently acquired a couple of chicks we plan to grow and breed. They are supposed to be some sort of red sex linked chicks and seem to be about a week to a couple of weeks old. Primarily I am a plant guy. I love growing fruit trees, nut trees, flowers, berry bushes...

I know typically you want the high protein count, but does anyone feed grains to the meat birds? How does it change the taste and texture of the meat, if at all? What grains would you recommend?

I am five weeks into my first twelve bird flock of barred rock. It has been a blast watching them grow and seeing how much fun my kids are having feeding and watering them. They are all getting huge now and we are very excited about moving them out to their coop soon and in anticipation to that...