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[oesdog]

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Annaraven Layer pellet and poultry grain are all I can get. Other than the chick food but they are way past that and it was making omlet ill cause she was not getting enough B1 and B2 which is in the Layers pellets!!!! -

What do you mean by other?

Oesdog

 

[quercus21]

Morning/afternoon people,
Coffee's hot, and maybe a cheese omelet for breakfast.
Drizzling right now with a forecast of clearing later today.

chics in the sun: Nice looking bird. It's a Blue Plymouth Rocks you say? I have no idea what breeding stock goes for. We purchased the Speckle Sussex for $15.00 a bird. They were about 3 months old. There is a guy that comes twice a year for eggs from us. He doesn't have a roaster but a whole pile of broody hens. So we let him help himself to the eggs for free.

oesdog: I feed our birds the majority of the time a layers mash. Right now, with them molting they are getting a broiler mash. My birds do the same thing, toss the feed around and looks like they only eat the "good" stuff. It seems like they do it when 2 things happen, to much "treats" or the feed is getting old. This time of the year, they get a couple of handfuls of cracked corn and sunflower seeds and/or left over rice or noodles etc. right before they roast. With winter coming I want to "fatten" them up a bit. Right now, they learn to expect it. In the warmer weather, it's not everyday, but random days. I purchase the feed in 100lbs lots. Usually it last a few months and when it starts getting to the bottom of the barrel, they start fussing with it.

Random question: do you put your chili of noodles?

Showtime tomorrow, have to move wood up to the house, overall clean the shop today.

Enjoy the day.

Kaj

 

[oesdog]

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- I think you mean Roost not roast???? -

Thanks but I don;t get big bags of feed at all and it only usually lasts 3 weeks tops!!!!! So it doesn;t get "old" . Maybe what you said about treats might be the issue. The babies get lots of things the others don;t get to biuld them up and so they get things like Yogurt and banana, Porradge and rice and kitchen left overs. They get Fish a lot cause of Omlet needing it. - I just think they should be fatter or at least a wee bit bigger then they are????? I can feel the bones in Blue when I lift him but then again maybe that is the way he is?????????? Drumstick was like that for months when I got her and she laid every day like clockwork - then June she had this major Molt and went virtually naked all over!!!!! Now she has her feathers back and is massive!!!!!!!! I can hardly lift her she is soooo fat!!!!!!! Maybe its just their age and the babies will fill out like Drumstick did this year. This is only Drumsticks second year so she is young yet. Onlt a year / 18 months older than the babies. She would be 2 and a half years old tops! She is RIR/PR though.

Thanks anyway - hope I get something sorted out.

Oesdog

 

[quercus21]

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I "was" hungry?..........................

 

[chics in the sun]

Oesdog - it does sound like they may be getting a few too many treats. Just like a little kid - they are filling up on other stuff and not eating their dinner!

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YOU HAVE to KEEP the broody leghorn - - -

but how attached are you to the grown production red and the OEG ? ? ?
How many roos did you hatch ??
When can you add onto your run . . .

Of course I will keep the Leghorn!! Not only is she a great broody/ mama, when she's not doing that she lays like clockwork!! I am not attached to the PR, but "belongs" to my BF's youngest daughter. She would be crushed if we got rid of her. No OEG here - the other four grown ones are the EE (don't tell my BF that I am not that attached to her, either - that is the one he bought for me as an 'Ameraucana' after I realized the Leghorn was not, in fact, an 'Ameraucana'; the Barred Rock - she's like a puppy; and the Olive Egger, which I just love - she is so sweet and cute with her feathered legs and puffy cheeks; and of course the lovely Madame Marans. Who also lays almost daily!!
I hatched two roos, I believe. The woman I got the eggs from said $5 for the pullets, but that seems low for breeder stock, sexed chicks. I think I'll ask $7, and give them a roo if they want one.

I have just a little more room behind the coop that where I could add on about another 16 square feet or so before having to take the entire thing apart to make it bigger. That would be my THIRD addition!

The other option is to link up a run area to the chain-link fence and modify the coop to make a bigger roosting area. What I really want to do sometime is find an old 60's or 70's Volkswagon van shell and turn it into a coop. That would be so cute - I'll call it Hippie Chick farm.

Well, time to get to work. Notes to write, calls to make. Have a great Friday!

 

[chics in the sun]

And Kaj, Chilli goes over cornbread around here. Noodles sound good, too, though.

 

[Sissy]

Good morning Flock tenders Im just catching up with all the feed talk,
when mine get fussy I give them yogurt. and they love it.
but they also get a mix of Purina layena pellets and corn .
chix in the sun thanks for the good vibes
but I think my silkie is just sitting to be sitting,

So she has 5 days to hatch or get off the nest.

Has anyone used kitty litter for the base of the coop before
the wood shavings go down with stall dry.over a wood floor?
I was thinking it may be an easier clean up due to the kitty litter clumping up.
any one ?

 

[math ace]

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This sounds like the best option !

 

[chics in the sun]

Sigh.................................

I promised myself I was done building the coop. Again.

 

[Sueg4332]

THOUGHT i'D JOIN IN THE CONVERSATION
I have chicks this morning. EEs or probably call them barnyard chicks from colored eggs. My neighbor rhode Island red kept coming down. Looks to be 8 or so hatch this morning. There all different colors. Have some BCM eggs in there too . I kept the humity up so I dont know if they will hatch are drown. I usually dry hatch them.
One more cup of coffee and I have to get busy.
My hens have quit layer also. My friends too
Sueg from California