Colorado

[ttclan]

@Coloradochick - thanks...for the answer and the welcome earlier! So glad you got your water back.

We got water back also...took our heat lamp from the chickens and a couple of others to some of the pipes all day...when hubby got home from work he got us up and running again! YEAH for hubbies!

It will be another cold one tonight, but not nearly, thankfully!

 

[coloradochick]

So, I'm having feed issues with the girls, geese, and ducks. I'm trying to save a buck and unfortunately the girls aren't having it. Their feed of choice is Purina. I've tried Ranchway, Nutrena, and the local feed Agland. They hate it. Layena is $17.00 /50lbs here at the co-op. More elsewhere. I hate paying more for the feed but I guess I just have to do it. Is Purina cheaper where anyone lives?

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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Hi Cara! Do you get Poultry Press? There's always feed coupons in it from both Purina and Manna Pro. If you don't get it, you might try and find the coupons online.

 

[coloradochick]

Hiya Gail! I don't get the Poultry Press. I haven't set up our printer yet since we've moved. Plus printing out the coupons uses soooo much of the color ink right?

 

[Mtn Margie]

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Not if you select B/W print mode in your print set-up. How's the boy?

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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Here's their website. It caters more to showing birds, and is $26/year, but you can almost make that back with the feed coupons. I'm pretty sure the Manna Pro Coupons I'm using are $2/bag.

I think there may also be coupons in Backyard Poultry magazine, but I'm not sure.

http://www.poultrypress.com/

 

[Mtn Margie]

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Hi there ttclan! We are up by you, close to Peaceful Valley and Jamestown. . We got 19 inches of snow and it dropped to a balmy 9 degrees. But now I have my shades on and it is sweatshirt weather, for shoveling snow! LOL!

 

[coloradochick]

Hi Margie!!! Well ol'Cal I thnk is feeling his oats so to speak. He grabbed one of my ducks in the pool and wouldn't let go even as she drug him out of the pool so I had to pull him off with a mouth full of feathers

then

Wednesday he pulled my Sexlink out of her nest trying to lay an egg. Again with a mouth full of feathers

Not sure how to curtail this but I haven't seen it since. The little turd. Other than that

he's been a peach

 

[coloradochick]

So you feed Manna-Pro Gail? Is that the Egg-Maker? Do you get that at Wardles or Walkers?

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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I buy it at Wardles, but I checked over at Walkers last summer, and MannaPro was all that they carried, as well. I used to get the egg-maker, but switched a year or so ago to the Gamebird/Showbird Breeder - it has a higher protein content.