Called the butcher

[justmeinflorida]

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Thanks for finding and linking that thread for us, it was very informative and funny too

 

[AngelaClassAct]

Pellets, bird seed, grains (cooked rice/barley/quinoa/oatmeal), beans, lentils, chick peas, egg shells, mixed with some oil, peanutbutter, and eggs to make it sticky. Bake it in the oven and there you have it!

Basically 7 scoops of stuff to 6 eggs, 1/2 c peanutbutter and a splash of oil, mix it up and put it in a greased pan. I make mine in cupcake pans, and I also have a bundt pan that I bake them in. I bake them at 375 for about 25 minutes or so.

 

[clairabean]

We feed them pork. We raise our own pork and beef, so the chickens get whatever we eat. I do make suet type balls for them in the winter, but not often. We get a few weeks of -25*C weather, and they get it then. They also get whatever meat scraps we don't eat, though. Usually cooked. (NOT meat scraps from butchering. Meat scraps from our family.)

I am curious why the reluctance to pork?

 

[ozark_chickies]

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Beef can be fed raw, but I was taught pork had to be cooked, even for animals. I just didn't want to render the pork fat into lard. What I am getting really isn't scraps. People buy it to add to deer meat. The fat I'm getting is the kidney fat, fist size, and larger chunks of pure fat. It is very easy to roll in bird seed. Just roll it and press down over and over and the seed work thier way in, with no cooking.