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[sewandgrow]

Id do serious things for 20% pellet. Maybe try to talk up kings?
I think avacado is a pit and skin issue? Rubarb is a big nono. The love tomato and strawberries fresh corn and will seriously kill your children for pea plants ( the plant over the peas. I gave up on peas they went to herculan feats to get at them. ) they like carrot if they are bord and seem iffy about squash.

I have heard if the plants are big they can survive chickens . If your tomatoes grow 4-5 feet tall you can let them debug. As long as there is no peas...

The 4H Poultry leader when my grand daughter had her chickens said that the roosters had a problem with too high a feed & shouldn't even be given the amount in lay pellets/crumbles that it could cause the roosters to have a leg issue. I house my chickens in breeding pens so everyone gets the same feed plus the supplements I use. I haven't noticed a problem. I do see the red line down the roosters legs but am assuming that to be a fertility/breeding line.

 

[sewandgrow]

Make sure your chicks have grit if you are feeding them treats. You can buy chick grit at the feed store or make sure they have access to sand with little rocks in it (not fine play sand).

I keep a Tupperware full of playground sand in the incubator/brooder room (my front porch by any other name...LOL). I give it to the chicks along with plain yogurt chopped scrambled eggs. I have tried other food treats like fresh strawberries thinking they would love the red but they didn't even bother with it.

 

[caychris]

I keep a Tupperware full of playground sand in the incubator/brooder room (my front porch by any other name...LOL). I give it to the chicks along with plain yogurt chopped scrambled eggs. I have tried other food treats like fresh strawberries thinking they would love the red but they didn't even bother with it.

Can you give me a recipe (proportions) for that. Sounds interesting. Any particular variety of plain yogurt?

 

[Audio51]

My brinsea spot check came and aperently the battery is dead. Also looks l ike the kids did a good job cleaning the kitchen and threw away all the packaging. I hope its just the battery.

woke up to a golden quail runing in and out from under the eggs carton in the bator. NICE! Im always amazed at their tininess! Even when the hatches are small it feeds the addiction. The family is happy i have promised to turn off the bators when the baby comes. I havent told them Im plotting to conspire with this thread for getting more birds instead!

Have a great day everyone.
Kandi

Yeah for the quail! Maybe I will go ahead and hatch the ones I get with my Genesis, then just find homes for them. They sounds too adorable to pass up! Mine will be Bob Whites though.

Are there any vegetable/fruit scraps that I should not feed to chickens?

People tell me they will devour my garden if I let them so I'm planning on giving them treats from the garden on but not letting them loose in it.

Avocado is the only one that jumps to mind, but I think it's the pit/skin.

Quote: Yeah!!!!!

Quote: Thanks! Me too. Not sure how many I will get.. She was planning to set them herself and had been colecting, but something came up and she can't set them. She is sending me all she had prior to shipping yesterday for just the shipping costs. Then I will just pay her for whatrever hatches since some were already oilder than she felt comfortable shipping normally. I ams so happy to get a chance to hatch more. These will NOT be broody chicks though...I'm not risking that again! These pictures are of the one survivor from the last batch. Definitley looking like a pullet!

. But I do have a question. See the little extensions off the tail feathers? Are those normal?

 

[Audio51]

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What is the red line?

 

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My hens seem to prefer the strawberry tops over the berried themselves.

 

[PetRock]

Will do I was watching them pretty closely when they were outside and it looked like they were picking up some from the dirt but I will be sure to have some handy.

I put some sand in a shallow container in the brooders with the chicks. They love it!

 

[PetRock]

The 4H Poultry leader when my grand daughter had her chickens said that the roosters had a problem with too high a feed & shouldn't even be given the amount in lay pellets/crumbles that it could cause the roosters to have a leg issue. I house my chickens in breeding pens so everyone gets the same feed plus the supplements I use. I haven't noticed a problem. I do see the red line down the roosters legs but am assuming that to be a fertility/breeding line.

I know a Langshan breeder who had problems with a cockerel's legs because the feed he was eating was too low in protein.

 

[ronott1]

I know a Langshan breeder who had problems with a cockerel's legs because the feed he was eating was too low in protein.

A lot of Heritage Breeds need more Protein.

20% should be fine but they really need some animal protein too.

 

[chrissyr]

I just got a request for chicks, but if I had a mama hen who could "nurse them".

I'm hoping they meant, as in take care of them and not actually nurse them. No mammary glands here kids.
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