Beyond The Purple Door...Chat thread.

[chickens really]

All 8 I brought in are doing great. I left her 1 egg.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Okay, I'm just going to jump in here. Your major has gotten my attention. Forgive me if this line of thinking seems a bit far fetched. But, who better to ask than someone majoring in Production Animal Science? So, while I was cleaning out my coop the other day, I got to thinking about just how much poop chickens produce. Which led me to thinking about how if you buy good dog food, your dog poops less b/c they are using more of the food therefore producing less waste. Soooo, what if there was a food made for chickens that would promote less waste? And, what if by doing that, you could eventually produce chickens that produce less waste? And, by extension, what if that same principle could be applied to other livestock? I mean, since it's really the waste produced by livestock that causes the majority of complaints concerning environmental damages that affect the pollution of waterways and air pollution and affects neighboring produce farms. Just how far fetched an idea is this? Or, is it possible it's a concept already being explored?

That is a very interesting idea. Some chicken breeds (Leghorn) have a very good food to production ratio. Meaning for x amounts of food eaten they produce x amount of eggs.

 

[chickens really]

I'm hoping she hatches this egg and hopefully it's all at the same time. I'll definitely try to introduce them to her. Unless she abandons the nest now ?

 

[Susan Dye]

@Susan Dye
Thanks for joining too! Please chat if you want ?

Thanks. I'll try to keep my hairbrain ideas to a minimum.

 

[Duckfarmer1]

I'm hoping she hatches this egg and hopefully it's all at the same time. I'll definitely try to introduce them to her. Unless she abandons the nest now ?

Hopefully she’ll lay more and set on them too?

 

[Don 27]

I could not get a good picture today... But I'm going to let them out to free range tomorrow.

 

[Don 27]

We fertilize our gardens with chicken manure, so why not?

Agree. My 8 chickens don't make much of a difference tho.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I could not get a good picture today... But I'm going to let them out to free range tomorrow.

Sounds good.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Agree. My 8 chickens don't make much of a difference tho.

Try 40 birds?

 

[Don 27]

Is it okay if I join ? I've been looking for an opening in the thread to ask? BTW I love shopping for me or anyone else.

Purple is my favorite color and my sister's and late mothers. We have purple martins out here now and then but, but as many as we used to.

Can you tell me about your purple Martins... Iv been trying to attract some .. One time I almost had one land on my house when a darn house sparrows chased it away... That was the last straw for him. I have heard aluminum houses aren't good for northern climates so I built my own Styrofoam house and my own starling resistant entrance holes to protect the martins. Starlings aren't native and kill purple Martins .

I started my incubator and will bring in the Duck eggs so hopefully something is still alive?

Did the mother abandon them?

Try 40 birds?

Yepp!

That is a very interesting idea. Some chicken breeds (Leghorn) have a very good food to production ratio. Meaning for x amounts of food eaten they produce x amount of eggs.

reminds me of my friend who is a dairy farmer... Very cool Stuff!

Sounds good.

Are the chickens like the ducks in terms of getting them use to a new flock?