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[Chirpy]

Glintgee - Welcome to BYC!

We got some good rain from that storm but no high winds or hail... thankful about that!

 

[alpinefarm]

I ran across this just now on a BYC thread:

"Raw, or dry beans, contain a poison called hemaglutin which is toxic to birds."

The same discussion indicated that sprouted or cooked beans are fine.

 

[aussieheelr]

Hello all! Is there anyone that has a broody breed pullet that they don't want near the western slope? Or if you breed them let me know. I'm not in a hurry but lookin!

Pure or mix breed doesn't matter to me, just would like a little lady to hatch some eggs some day. Free or purchase, PM me!

 

[Rockpile99]

Thanks for the info Alpine,

I'll start cooking the bean mix. I had read on a different forum that cooking/sprouting the beans also allowed for a better absorption of the protien so it sounds like that is the best use all around. Unfortunately I don't think cracked beans sprout very well.

They stated specific human uses, but I'm assuming this would translate to chickens and other consumers of grains & legumes also.

The research continues...

 

[alpinefarm]

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I will likely have bantam cochin pullets to share from my mille fleur flock, but not till next spring. Probably longer than you want to wait!?

 

[mylilchix]

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Rosemary, Jim's contact info is:

Twin Peaks Seed & Grain LLC
2060 County Road 28
Longmont, CO 80504
303-772-7333
[email protected]

Just another plug for them. A friend of mine has been getting grain here for a while now and has never had any problems. She raises chickens, goats, cows, sheep, and horses. She'll be ordering soon, and I'm hoping to try some grain from her order.

Sonja

 

[mylilchix]

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We're over in the front range, but I have a standard buff cochin I wouldn't mind parting with.

Sonja

 

[aussieheelr]

sonja,

let me see how today goes. I'm meeting with someone in Grand Junction today to look at a Buff Cochin and some bantams (unk breed on the bantams so we'll see) this afternoon after work!!! I have family in Littleton so if I fall in love with Cochins I might have to take you up on her.

Thank you so so much

 

[mylilchix]

Sounds good!! I've fallen in love with the cochins too. I have one standard blue roo, white, red, gold laced, and buff hens. I got a pair of bantam in February, and hatched 5 bantam babies a month ago. I have 5 standard buff pullets right now, so I wouldn't mind parting with one or 2. I'm waiting to see what my banty babies do before I make any decisions with them. My cochins have been consistent layers and good mamas.

Sonja

 

[zavierchick]

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I hear ya'! 13 windows out in our house, my garden is little stalks of nothing, I can't even see the driveway for the pine branches and cones that are down, the siding on our north side looks like the outside of golf balls, my 6 month old roof is shedding chunks on the lawn - holy buckets, what a storm!! We were up camping at Golden Gate Canyon and didn't get a thing. Not even a drop of rain. But there was the most gorgeous sheet lightning, which from up there seemed neat, until I got down here the next morning and saw what the outcome of the "pretty" lightning was - oy! My folks, bless their hearts, came over here at 11 pm to check on the chickens LOL! The girls were just sitting on their roost, being very quiet, didn't make a peep even when my dad flashed a light on them - he said he thinks they were scared squawk-less