Arizona Chickens

[pastrymama]

so Gallo, i was with Laree and one of her cute little spawn yesterday and told her i wanted to start a mealie farm. she was truly horrified(maybe as she knows how much i HATE bugs of any sort but i have to feed these to my spawns frog anyway), but nonetheless, i said, Gallo's page made it look super easy and takes NO TIME! so is it REALLY that simple? you just dump the mealies in a vessle of sorts with bran, feed then some veggies and SET IT AND FORGET IT? if so, i'm in! i simply do not have time to be putting bugs in a 3 drawer thingy and shaking out bugs and doing all sorts of other creepy stuff.

 

[LarryPQ]

Pastrymama has big ambitions, but a weak gag reflex.

 

[Tracydr]

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I'm still working on insurance approval.

 

[Tracydr]

Thanks for the welding store metal shopping place, Mikey.
Isn't today State Fair day?

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

We all have our weaknesses.

Yes pastrymama, it is just that easy. The speed with which they grow and multiply is only limited by the temperatures and how often you feed them. I typically give mine certain kitchen scraps, so they get fed often.

 

[Beckyhsinglsc]

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We give ours carrot peels, banana peels, apples that have gone mealy, and slightly old potatoes. Of course we wash them well first and we buy mostly organic anyway.
What else, Gallo?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Birds went to the fair Wednesday. They'll come home tomorrow evening. So yes, today is a good fair day.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

I do all that stuff too and broccoli and cauliflower stems, old pumpkins/squash, watermelon and cantaloup rinds (not too much at once), the bits of celery that you trim off the ends, trimmed ends of lettuce heads, the outer leaves on a head of cabbage + the core and I'm sure a lot more that isn't easily coming to mind.

 

[Bob's Henhouse]

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Pastrymama, It really is that easy. I feed mine whatever I can get at the 99cent store in a 5 pound bag. Masa, flour, whatever. I don't know if they really like it, but...ummm.... WHO CARES?! I throw them banana peels, apple, potato, lettuce, cantaloupe rinds, whatever, and they gobble it up. I've about 2 bazillion of them now. I really need to clean out their totes, but I'm STILL moving. Hoping to paint the bottoms of the coops today, ( tried yesterday but the sprayer died on me) Wes, my youngest was a big help putting the chicken wire on the bottom half of the fence and folded onto the ground to bury as coyote and dog deterrent. Then need to pile dirt around the bottom of the coops and onto the chicken wire, and HOPEFULLY move the chickens in tonight. They are going to be so PO'd at me for making them stay in coops and runs until they get accustomed to their new digs, and we find out how aggressive the coyotes are, or dare I say, thin the herds a little. I know there are 2 packs that howl at each other in the wash behind the house.

 

[Bob's Henhouse]

Mikey, can I borrow a couple of pounds of ambition, 5 gallons of talent, and a truckload of energy? Very impressive work on the coop, feeder, etc.