➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

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I can't insert a quote on my computer. :barnie. So I am inserting this one here, now from my phone, so I can copy it.
rebrascora said:
A number of people here on BYC have lost birds to Fatty Liver Haemorrhagic Syndrome after feeding Scratch and Peck and other similar whole grain feeds. I appreciate what you are saying about them not liking pellets but if you had brought your children up to have the option of fries every day and then you stopped the fries and only gave them boiled potatoes or rice, they too might turn their noses up. Sometimes you have to dish out tough love.
Those whole grain feeds provide a nutritionally balanced diet but the aggregate nature of them gives the chickens the opportunity to pick and choose which bits of it they want to eat. Many will choose the high carbohydrate bits like corn over the healthier higher protein lentils and end up not getting a balanced diet as a result. These feeds also lend themselves to a lot of waste as the birds bill out the feed to find their favourite bits and can attract rodents to the overspill.
The fines (the powdery component) which contains the essential amino acids, minerals and vitamins also often get wasted or not enough gets consumed to meet the nutritional needs of the bird. Apparently caged pet birds like parrots are also prone to Fatty Liver problems because of their seed mix feed allowing them to pick and choose in the same way. The worst of it is that you pay a premium price for these feeds and they are not necessarily doing your hens any favours. I have heard that fermenting them helps improve a more uniform uptake, if you wanted to go down that route. Fermenting feed provides benefits of probiotics and bio availability of nutrients and is very simple to do.... there are severel very good threads here on BYC about it.

Best wishes

Barbara
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KikisGirls said:
Sports bra works perfect.
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Excuse me, ma'am. Your chest is moving in an unnatural way. I'm afraid that you have an alien infecting you. :eek:

:lau

Friend's wife has a Chihuahua permanently attached to the crook of her left arm. She cooks, cleans and drives with it there. He was looking for a surgeon to separate the two.
 
RUNuts said:
Excuse me, ma'am. Your chest is moving in an unnatural way. I'm afraid that you have an alien infecting you. :eek:

:lau

Friend's wife has a Chihuahua permanently attached to the crook of her left arm. She cooks, cleans and drives with it there. He was looking for a surgeon to separate the two.
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My last chihuahua who never weighed more than 3 pounds passed 2 years ago at the age of 16. I was supposed to be done with little bitties but was gifted this boy.
Grandma insisted I have him. :barnie

Grandma is one you don't say no to.
:barnie
She did give me the bator so I couldn't exactly refuse the pup.
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