California - Northern

[liz9910]

My Oldest DD runs a Meat sales table in Mountain View each Sunday. She comes home with a lot of Fruits and Veggies each week that the other vendors give her.

I do buy a head of Cabbage or two and a big bag of Kale each week. I also give them Boss and cat food with Salmon and fish meal each day, so they are very spoiled chickens.

That's great that she brings you fruit/veg for your chickens, I'm going to check out my local supermarket for the marked down fruits/veg, bet I can score my chickens some treats.

I have given my flock alfalfa hay - 1 flake and it took them a couple days to polish it off. They went nuts for it. I've tried to find the pellets at TSC but couldn't find them. Backyard poultry recommended them for winter when they can't get enough greens.

That's good to know, never thought about alfalfa hay. I bet your chickens went crazy scratching that around!

 

[liz9910]

This Spring, when I have a lawn in the back yard again, I plan on letting them out in the late evening in groups. They are fenced out of the back yard now.

I do have an area where I can fence them off, need to get busy on that or lock them in their run. My backyard is also very poop-tastic right now.

 

[cherylcohen]

What kind of chicks do u have available

Depending on what hatches... unsexed and will be 2 weeks old at show... tolbunts, mille fleur leghorns, jubilee orpingtons, & lavender marans

 

[OR4-hmom]

Just a thought on alfalfa hay, probably no different than the corn and soy used in feeds but there is a GMO alfalfa. I've got part of a bale I don't know what to do with. I didn't know there was a round-up resistant alfalfa.

 

[lawatt]

My Oldest DD runs a Meat sales table in Mountain View each Sunday. She comes home with a lot of Fruits and Veggies each week that the other vendors give her.

I do buy a head of Cabbage or two and a big bag of Kale each week. I also give them Boss and cat food with Salmon and fish meal each day, so they are very spoiled chickens.

it's funny, because i live by myself (well, with cats and chickens), I don't seem to generate enough vegetable scraps to really be shared by a flock of 13 -- so i routinely buy them kale or spinach, and plain yogurt, plus they also get black sunflower seeds and/or freeze-dried mealworms and/or organic cracked corn in the afternoon when i'm putting them back in their coop.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Laura - how is your girl doing?

 

[lawatt]

Laura - how is your girl doing?

still a bit mopey-looking, but she did eagerly eat some cracked corn out my hand -- and the weather here is truly bizarre: in the course of about 90 minutes it's gone from low 50s & overcast/misty to pouring rain to now windy and brightly sunny, and *cold* -- the temp has dropped 10 degrees in less than an hour -- and forecast says there's a chance of snow flurries up here on the mountain tomorrow. hope the chicklets all snuggle up together to stay warm!

thanks for asking!

 

[Miss Molly]

Chooklet...hope your birthday was wonderful...

 

[ChickNmamma]

I usually ask if I can collect loose alfalfa off the ground at the feed stores around the stacks when I go in to buy chicken food. Usually they say "sure" - I just make sure I don't collect anything that looks or smells moldy. Next time I have to bring a bigger bag, those plastic shopping bags don't hold much. I have used it for the nesting boxes - but they love it so much they make a mess - so I just put it out for them to eat.

 

[lawatt]

and Chooklet, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! sometimes i'm a little slow on the draw...