Dixie Chicks

[vehve]

Oh yeah, I gotta ask here. Black and blue, or white and gold? I say black and blue, but Karin says white and gold.

 

[buddy phoenix]

Evening everyone.

 

[Mahen100]

Hi, Buddy.

I just finished an early supper. Stir fried some baby spinach and baby kale in olive oil, sprinkled feta cheese on top for salt and more flavor. Ate that with a simple hamburger. Thought I'd better eat up before posts of gourmet food starved me at he computer again today.

What is up with you?

 

[chickisoup]

@vehve
white and gold!

On the bleach thing, I use Oxine. FDA approved here for use in food grade water systems such as milk lines in Dairy barns for sanitizing and keeping water lines clean. I use it (like many folks) to keep my chicken waterers from "turning green" in the summer. I also use it just about anywhere you would normally use bleach for sanitizing. Just as effective, and very close chemically, as bleach but totally safe with the added benefit that it breaks down when exposed fairly quickly once exposed to light into a harmless organic. It appears to be expensive but since a gallon makes A LOT (you mix with water). It also can become a very strong cleaner/sanitizer when activated with citric acid and then will work for decontaminating your coop after a CRD etc. outbreak but that has to be handled with care when using. Oh, and BTW, normal diluted Oxine is also recommended for use in treating respiratory issues in poultry by misting.

 

[Mahen100]

@ vevhe white and gold here

 

[Beer can]

Al, bleach would work, but I don't want to put chlorine into my food chain. That just seems wrong to me. I was shocked to find out that most store bought chicken is rinsed with bleach in the US.

*Edit* I know water is sometimes treated with it, and that it breaks down pretty quickly, but still, not for me.

There is a guy on the documentary Food Inc that FDA wants shut down. He butchers his chickens in a open air pavilion and rinsed them in plan cold water. They say his chickens don't have any bacteria like the store bought factory farm ones do that are rinsed in bleach water, and the Govt. wants him shut down cause they don't think he is sanitary enough.

 

[Alaskan]

Oh yeah, I gotta ask here. Black and blue, or white and gold? I say black and blue, but Karin says white and gold.

Huh??

 

[Amberjem]

Yep, my tractor is 5 x 8 and 25 birds is a crowd by the time they are ready to go

I have raised Cornish X and Freedom Rangers for meat for the freezer and the tractor gives them access to fresh grass but it is not enough to reduce the feed consumption. Fermenting their feed will help to reduce the quantity by a bit. If you are raising dual purpose birds that are males left from your egg hatching, they will be more active but they will need plenty of feed to get them to a good size.

I have a door on the tractor and opening it and chasing them out into a fenced area forces them to be more active but the CX are not too interested in activity. I would like to have a hen raise some CX and see if they behave differently from the brooder raised ones that just want to sit by the feeder and eat. The Freedom Rangers acted more like my regular flock in that they would look for good dusting place and scratch around a bit.

sounds like a interesting experiment.good to k now about the feed........so less active and plenty of food is better for meat birds?

 

[Amberjem]

Evening everyone.

I say black and blue over gold and white @vehve

 

[Amberjem]

in a couple of hours the sun will set. This is the first day long of sun in weeks. We have had partly cloudy or cloudy gray for soooo long. I am just happy we have had sun all day.

sunshine!

Close up of one of the baby bunnies. They look like little rats.

I know the pic quality is not good, but here are all 7 of them. There is one that is double the size of the others. It must've taken after the daddy buck.

loveeeeeeeeeee the pics!