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CarlaCo
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So if all these fancy vitamins are needed, what did homesteaders and farmers feed their chickens a hundred years ago?
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Those chickens were not the same as what we have these days. they were also eaten at a young age.So if all these fancy vitamins are needed, what did homesteaders and farmers feed their chickens a hundred years ago?
Yesteryear's chickens didn't produce a 2 oz egg 300 days a year, from a bird that weighed only 5 pounds. If you take a modern chicken, which has been bred to produce lots of eggs with as little food as possible, and give it yesterday's feed (tossed scraps etc), the chicken won't get the nourishment it needs. For example, calcium is an electrolyte as well as egg-shell maker. Similar for all the other nutrients, especially those in the vitamin pack and the make up of the amino acids . So, you get a malnourished bird who gets sick "trying" to produce at the rate it was bred to.So if all these fancy vitamins are needed, what did homesteaders and farmers feed their chickens a hundred years ago?
It didn't link to a recipe--do you have a recipe, or were you just referring to the OP's recipe from the youtuber?https://www.palousebrand.com/
I use this company for many of their products. Lowes has food-grade buckets and gamma lids. Grains should be pre-frozen for 3 days, thawed for 3 days, frozen again for 3 days - to break bug cycles, before long-term storage. If you live in a cold-winter climate - you could take advantage of nature's freezer. Just protect your supply from scavengers, while doing it.
In your buckets - layering in a few bayleaves also helps.
Whether you feed a commercial feed or not - having a recipe like this written down, is a good idea - in case for some reason, commercial feed becomes unavailable.
Our great grandparents chickens weren't the same chickens we have now, 100 years ago the best you could get out of a White Leghorn (the most productive breed we have) was 120 eggs a year. Even the worse egg producer breeds we have do better than that. Trying to raise today's fowl like my great grandfather did would be like forcing a pregnant mother on a 500 calorie a day diet, something bad will happen. Today's chickens are 3 and 4 times more productive than 100 years ago.So if all these fancy vitamins are needed, what did homesteaders and farmers feed their chickens a hundred years ago?
The OP asked for a resource for bulk, split peas. That's what this is. I don't have a resource for bulk flax seedIt didn't link to a recipe--do you have a recipe, or were you just referring to the OP's recipe from the youtuber?
Hi! It was easier for them because most had more animals than just chickens, also had pasture. They would barter for grain or grow their own, the rest was chickens having a natural food source and leftovers from the pigs, horses etc.So if all these fancy vitamins are needed, what did homesteaders and farmers feed their chickens a hundred years ago?
they let them fend for themselves and ate them frequently.So if all these fancy vitamins are needed, what did homesteaders and farmers feed their chickens a hundred years ago?