Arizona Chickens

[City farm]

You can use unpasteurized apple cider vinegar with the mother as a starter.  Braggs is a common brand found in many supermarkets.  The Walmart here has also been carrying it.  Once it's fermenting you don't need to keep adding vinegar.  There is a whole (huge) thread on fermented feed:
I love it when you guys post things that are easy to get to.
My DH Figured out who is laying the light brown egg. It is Faith our EE. I was hoping she would give me green eggs. Somebody said that if their ears are brown, they lay brown? Huh? So our silky, Karen has blue ears. Blue egg??

  https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/644300/fermenting-feed-for-meat-birds

 

[Demosthine]

how is your hen doing?

I did the bath for her and she seems better afterwards. She definitely feels like she has an egg developing in her, but I don't think it's far enough developed to be ready to lay yet. It's down farther, like between her legs, as opposed to close to her vent. I dried her off, left her inside for a few hours and then put her back in the coop. Happy as a lark, so far.

I wish to start feeding my girls fermented feed. Where can I get mother or starter, will yeast work? I am looking for the instructions. Still working through the threads. My grandmother grew her own, I must have been 5 or 6 when she stopped.

The best condensed version I found is at Natural Chicken Keeping. I think it may have been mentioned earlier, but it's the source I used and it worked well. The referenced thread on here has a lot of really good reading, but can be quite intimidating to tackle. For the vinegar with mother, I found a bottle at Target for about $6.

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

I wish to start feeding my girls fermented feed. Where can I get mother or starter, will yeast work? I am looking for the instructions. Still working through the threads. My grandmother grew her own, I must have been 5 or 6 when she stopped.

You can use unpasteurized apple cider vinegar with the mother as a starter.  Braggs is a common brand found in many supermarkets.  The Walmart here has also been carrying it.  Once it's fermenting you don't need to keep adding vinegar.  There is a whole (huge) thread on fermented feed:

  https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/644300/fermenting-feed-for-meat-birds

Thanks, I have Braggs, use that for the starter? Or dose the unpasteurized apple cider vinegar has the mother in it? I will have to read the label. I will go to the thread. Thanks again.

 

[Mama Hen Chris]

Not the best pics but thought you would enjoy.

These are the chicks I got from beehappy (not the buff orpington) They will be 4 weeks old on Wednesday

l-r splash orp, blue orp, 2 blue marans


It's a bird, It's a plane, it's super chicken








Remind you of a scene from I Love Lucy and Harpo Marx?

 

[squeakyballs]

Wow Mama Hen Chris, those pictures are AMAZING! Are you a professional photographer?

Edit: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/618538/submit-your-chicken-page-for-the-picture-of-the-week-pow Do it!

 

[Arizonachicken]

Great pics, Mama Hen Chris! When did you get them?

 

[Mama Hen Chris]

Wow Mama Hen Chris, those pictures are AMAZING! Are you a professional photographer?

Edit: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/618538/submit-your-chicken-page-for-the-picture-of-the-week-pow Do it!

Nope, just an amateur. I just like taking pics. Tried to open the link..says there is an error.

 

[Mama Hen Chris]

Great pics, Mama Hen Chris! When did you get them?

I picked them upon the 16th of Dec. I am thinking I have all roos and they will be heading back to Katie's house for an exchange. My almost 3 weeks old buffs have more feathers and no combs.

 

[squeakyballs]

Hmmm... the link is just about how to submit your picture for the POW on the mainpage. I don't know how to link it correctly... it should be one of the top search results for "POW"

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

Mama Hen Chris! Looks like the Chicken Tango, they have the posture and the look down