Dixie Chicks

[hennible]

@vehve
 that is INSANLY awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean it that is one fine build you threw together in a few days soo impressed come build me some stuff hahahha and I love the pictures they are fine we arent looking for  geographical photo images just real life awesome pictures ppl share so when can I expect ya over to start building hehehe
wow are duckys so hard to raise I had no idea!! another reson not to have em!! and they are messy very very messy!! but omg soo super cute!!!!!!!!!!!

That's why have to buy nutritional or Brewers yeast and mix it in the chick starter. For the first 10 weeks with ducks you need to supplement the B vitamins or they will likely die (if you can't get waterfowl starter) the deficiency causes some nasty problems... A diet too high in carbs can too...

 

[Mahen100]

Jem, I don't know exactly....think weather (warmth) is a factor? She should lead them outside and heard them back in after a bit...a week? dunno. I've had a broodie silkie bring them out about as soon as they all had hatched.


edited to add: Are there any eggs still under her? If there are, and you want her adoptees outside, removing the eggs might help. Otherwise, she's waiting until those hatch.

 

[Amberjem]

they had some jesery giants at the chicken show also and they were so small I woulda figured they woulda been wayyyyyyyyyyyyy bigger then they were but nope.........maybe it had to do with how old they were but they were regular chicken size not giant at all

 

[Beer can]

Pigs are good to have for overabundant gardens.
Super glue on cuts, I use liquid stich, just like super glue but is also antiseptic. I have a couple big warts on two of my big knuckles. Keep
putting off having them surgically removed. I keep them shaved down so they don't crack, but when they do it is painful and takes a week or more to heal. Since I started using liquid stich on them, fill the crack in, stop hurting immediately and heals in one day.

 

[Amberjem]

Jem, I don't know exactly....think weather (warmth) is a factor? She should lead them outside and heard them back in after a bit...a week? dunno. I've had a broodie silkie bring them out about as soon as they all had hatched.

hmmm maybe it's not to overly cold though 55ish........... they are coming out from under her more now....I stuck a feeder and water by the nest box so they can get goodies then dive back under her.............. btw is it just me or is it just soooo wicked cute to see then burrow and dive under the broody?

 

[Amberjem]

Pigs are good to have for overabundant gardens.
Super glue on cuts, I use liquid stich, just like super glue but is also antiseptic. I have a couple big warts on two of my big knuckles. Keep
putting off having them surgically removed. I keep them shaved down so they don't crack, but when they do it is painful and takes a week or more to heal. Since I started using liquid stich on them, fill the crack in, stop hurting immediately and heals in one day.

have you ever tried teatree oil on them?

 

[Amberjem]

That's why have to buy nutritional or Brewers yeast and mix it in the chick starter. For the first 10 weeks with ducks you need to supplement the B vitamins or they will likely die (if you can't get waterfowl starter) the deficiency causes some nasty problems... A diet too high in carbs can too...

awesome stuff to learn... I had no idea........ but I stopped looking into the whole duck thing after the huge messy they can make......are ducks the only ones do that or other fowl have delicate issues like that?

 

[vehve]

Jem, I keep getting invites all over the US, but no one has offered to pay air fare yet... I guess the 2k is a bit steep.

Good thing you guys talked about yeast, I had not remembered to mix that in the feed for a while. We washed all the feeders today, and mixed up a new batch of feed, we threw in a butt load of yeast this time too. The stuff we use is called Progut, it's a animal feed additive yeast. Karin bought a 20kg bag, that should last us pretty long. It costs 17 euros per bag, and according to the bag you should add about 15 grams per kilo of feed. So that one bag should last us for about 1300 kilos of feed. Or about 5 years. I think it will go bad before then though... The stuff is made from brewers yeast. I think I should add some to Hilma's feed too. The dosage is 30g per kilo when the poop is loose, but I might go with a lower dose just to keep up a nice gut flora. Hilmas poop looks pretty nice, so she wouldn't need it, but I don't think it would hurt either. Her diet is about 50% horse feed (some müesli, 16% protein), and 15% canola pellet, 30% wheat, oats and barley (all whole, mostly oats with a bit of barley and wheat thrown in), and 5% linseed crush. The end result is around 16% protein. She gets about half a cup or a bit more of that daily. Pretty high in protein for a pet, but for breeding season and growers it should be nice. She also gets half an apple and a carrot per day, plus as much hay as she'll eat.

 

[Amberjem]

Jem, I keep getting invites all over the US, but no one has offered to pay air fare yet... I guess the 2k is a bit steep.

Good thing you guys talked about yeast, I had not remembered to mix that in the feed for a while. We washed all the feeders today, and mixed up a new batch of feed, we threw in a butt load of yeast this time too. The stuff we use is called Progut, it's a animal feed additive yeast. Karin bought a 20kg bag, that should last us pretty long. It costs 17 euros per bag, and according to the bag you should add about 15 grams per kilo of feed. So that one bag should last us for about 1300 kilos of feed. Or about 5 years. I think it will go bad before then though... The stuff is made from brewers yeast. I think I should add some to Hilma's feed too. The dosage is 30g per kilo when the poop is loose, but I might go with a lower dose just to keep up a nice gut flora. Hilmas poop looks pretty nice, so she wouldn't need it, but I don't think it would hurt either. Her diet is about 50% horse feed (some müesli, 16% protein), and 15% canola pellet, 30% wheat, oats and barley (all whole, mostly oats with a bit of barley and wheat thrown in), and 5% linseed crush. The end result is around 16% protein. She gets about half a cup or a bit more of that daily. Pretty high in protein for a pet, but for breeding season and growers it should be nice. She also gets half an apple and a carrot per day, plus as much hay as she'll eat.

that makes my brain hurt trying to figure out...I admire you doing it but gosh seems like sooo much work... I really need to do my chicken storage cabinet so I can get some metal trash cans and mix some feed up...........I'd like to do a mix of flock raiser and layer feed, with some sort of whole grain...or just do some sorta whole grain mix scratch ....Mostly the girls get lots n lots of greens and veggies and their feed, meat scraps, n sprouted boss.........noone ever seems to have any barley in so I can sprout that

 

[vehve]

Jem, after I made the spreadsheet to calculate feed contents, it's pretty easy to figure out. I don't follow it that exactly, but basically I've got some high protein ingredients and some low protein ingredients. As long as I keep the total ratio about the same, it's pretty easy to mix. The chickens still need some vitamin additives though, and we do give them some meat products to help with any missing nutrients.