Red Hen
"so could i soak my rabbits food and feed it to my chickens?...or even my poy belly pigs pellets..there must be protein in the pig pellets...so would that be better than the rabbit pellets?"
Only if you are feeding the big cubes to your flock. I soak cubes (timothy blanced ones) with warm water for my 34 year old horse. It is his main source of hay in the winter. He is on a low NSC ( carbs and sugar diet).
Under the idea some folks feed rabbit alfafa pellets and or cubes to the flock. Alfafa is a good source of protien. If the pellets are small enought you may not need to soak them depends on the size of the hens. Try a small amount and see if they like them soaked.
My flock turned up beaks at my cubes.
I grow turnip greens and rye grass for mine in the winter. This year plant on starting up more greens for them in the basement and set them out for them. I am a advid about winter sowing my crops so guess need to add more milk jugs for the peeps.
Deer food plot is perfect mix for winter nibbles for your peeps.
"Greens also known as Brassicas are a combination of annual rape, kale and turnip that will provide an abundant mass of green leafy plants that are very attractive to deer in the fall and winter months. Many hunters will add Deer Greens in small quantities (2 lbs. per acre) to a fall mixture of grass and clover to provide a fast growing, attractive component to their mixture. Deer Greens become even more attractive after a frost because the sugar content becomes more concentrated. Deer greens work well by themselves or make a great addition to a mixture. "
My flock wipped out the winter area so need to cage areas for winter grazing for next year. I have one area fenced off from my horse and peeps so can pick greens for them.
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