Breeding Delawares to the Standard of Perfection

[LindaB220]

They literally used to offer it instead of water! The article in the ink above suggests only doing that for half their liquids.

The classic Feeding Poultry book talks about dairy for poultry quite a bit. The book is available to read free online, with keyword search. Do you want a link? Or can you google it?

Link please

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

I will PM you the name/# of the barrel guy (he's in Aumsville) and info on the barrel lifter after Gary gets home from work tonight.  We also purchased heavy duty plastic barrel liners from Uline as we had some old questionable barrels given to us from an uncle who raised gamecocks for 40 years and needed to use them last season.  We use the grains for ourselves as well and felt better about having a liner in them.

I found some liners when I looked into it before and I think they are a great idea myself. But sourcing affordable barrels was problematic.

BTW, we are switching from Payback feeds to Union Point Custom ... in your neck of the woods. It's going to be a price bump ... Dad had finally negotiated a much better price for the Payback feeds which is increasing the difference more than I like, but this way I'll have better luck selling my soon-to-be GMO free / soy free / corn free eggs. And the new recipe has some extra nutrients for breeders, babies AND ducks ... inspiring more confidence and less confusion on our end.

Union Point sells a scratch a lot like what you do with your barrels. For a pretty penny!

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Link to the access page for a free online version of the 2nd edition of the classic poultry book Feeding Poultry, by G. F. Heuser

http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009110299

annnnnnd, just because I'm nice like that, a link to the index page for a keyword search of the text for the word "milk" ...

http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/...p;seq=11;start=1;size=10;page=search;orient=0

For lots of reasons, I think this book is especially useful for us farmyard chicken keepers.

Pertaining chicks ... clips from the links in the above search ...

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• p.162 - 15 matching terms
  
  • …on of milk and meat scrap as sources of animal protein. A study of 36 early trials reported from various experiment stations17 showed all in favor of milk. The maximum benefit frommilk is obtained during the first 2 months of the chick's life.18 The Connecticut Station19 reported that milk feeding …
  • …eeds. Milk in any form adds palatability to a ration and therefore tends to increase the feed consumption, which in turn is likely to increase growth and egg production. MILK FOR CHICKS. Milk as a part of the chick ration has resulted in many benefits. The early experiments on the feeding of chicks …
  • …on of milk may be due to the im- provement of the mineral intake, especially sodium, chlorine, and calcium, in which grains are deficient. Milk proteins, composed chiefly of casein, lactalbumin, and lactoglobulin, are of excellent quality and easily digested. They function efficiently in supplying t…
  • … that milk feeding made the chicks less susceptible to disease and hence lowered mortality, particularly where the chicks were raised in confinement. A special value of milk, previously important, was its effect upon coccidiosis.21 This disease is caused by a protozoan para- site which develops and …
  • …ts of milk feeding to chicks were due particularly to its vitamin value. Probably the riboflavin is the most impor- tant vitamin. The North Carolina Station22 indicated heavier mortality in a meat-fed lot, as compared to a milk-fed group, in which the losses were due to vitamin A deficiency. In gene…
  • …ral, milk fed to chicks has proved to be beneficial when compared with rations containing no milk.23 However, satisfac- …

 

[LindaB220]

Link to the access page for a free online version of the 2nd edition of the classic poultry book Feeding Poultry, by G. F. Heuser

http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009110299

annnnnnd, just because I'm nice like that, a link to the index page for a keyword search of the text for the word "milk" ...

http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/...p;seq=11;start=1;size=10;page=search;orient=0

For lots of reasons, I think this book is especially useful for us farmyard chicken keepers.

Pertaining chicks ... clips from the links in the above search ...

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• p.162 - 15 matching terms
  
  • …on of milk and meat scrap as sources of animal protein. A study of 36 early trials reported from various experiment stations17 showed all in favor of milk. The maximum benefit frommilk is obtained during the first 2 months of the chick's life.18 The Connecticut Station19 reported that milk feeding …
  • …eeds. Milk in any form adds palatability to a ration and therefore tends to increase the feed consumption, which in turn is likely to increase growth and egg production. MILK FOR CHICKS. Milk as a part of the chick ration has resulted in many benefits. The early experiments on the feeding of chicks …
  • …on of milk may be due to the im- provement of the mineral intake, especially sodium, chlorine, and calcium, in which grains are deficient. Milk proteins, composed chiefly of casein, lactalbumin, and lactoglobulin, are of excellent quality and easily digested. They function efficiently in supplying t…
  • … that milk feeding made the chicks less susceptible to disease and hence lowered mortality, particularly where the chicks were raised in confinement. A special value of milk, previously important, was its effect upon coccidiosis.21 This disease is caused by a protozoan para- site which develops and …
  • …ts of milk feeding to chicks were due particularly to its vitamin value. Probably the riboflavin is the most impor- tant vitamin. The North Carolina Station22 indicated heavier mortality in a meat-fed lot, as compared to a milk-fed group, in which the losses were due to vitamin A deficiency. In gene…
  • …ral, milk fed to chicks has proved to be beneficial when compared with rations containing no milk.23 However, satisfac- …

I dearly love these old links. Now I can look up my own. Thanks so much.

 

[bmvf]

Thanks for the link!

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

No sweat! There is also a guy selling reprints of that book on Amazon ... Sometimes reading online can get tedious or be unreliable, so it can be useful to have a hard copy for reference.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0972177027?pc_redir=1401263680&robot_redir=1

 

[bmvf]

No sweat! There is also a guy selling reprints of that book on Amazon ... Sometimes reading online can get tedious or be unreliable, so it can be useful to have a hard copy for reference.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0972177027?pc_redir=1401263680&robot_redir=1

Yeah, for some reason I prefer a hard copy of a book instead of reading the book on the computer. I doubt a Kindle or other type of computerized book would be much better.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Yeah, for some reason I prefer a hard copy of a book instead of reading the book on the computer. I doubt a Kindle or other type of computerized book would be much better.

For me the Kindle is much better. I have a very hard time with "real" books. I love them ... used to work in publishing and was a librarian, too ... but holding books is tough for me, as is following the lines of type on paper. I do much better with internet or kindle copies. It is so awesome we have the choice now. It had gotten to the point where I could hardly read.

 

[LindaB220]

For me the Kindle is much better. I have a very hard time with "real" books. I love them ... used to work in publishing and was a librarian, too ... but holding books is tough for me, as is following the lines of type on paper. I do much better with internet or kindle copies. It is so awesome we have the choice now. It had gotten to the point where I could hardly read.

I have 2 NOOKs and 1 KINDLE. I bought the Kindle because I could download free books from Amazon Prime but the Nook is so much easier to navigate. Hummm

 

[finnfur]

Yes please! Send the info!!! And info on the barrel grabber thingy! We've got lots of tractors and a lite forklift.

When I called the feed mills to ask about small scale grain storage the answers were ... aggravating!

Here is what we use for grain storage ;

They are food grade retired olive barrels - I paid $12 each but have seen them much higher. They have a screw on lid with a seal and are air/water tight.
I mix DE in the grain as I put it in barrel -
For picking up barrels just store four on a 48x48 pallet- strap - and you can pick them up with any forklift type arrangement- I have one that goes on 3 point hitch of our compact tractor
http://www.agrisupply.com/pallet-forks-3-point-2000-lb-capacity/p/72511/&sid=&eid=/