Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[Peep_Show]

I give the birds alfalfa in the winter. They eat all the leaves. Grass hay has a chance of causing crop impaction if they eat to much of it.

I'd give alfalfa to the meaties.... The calciumhosphorus ration was great for their legs and the alfalfa itself, I believe, worked like an anti-oxidant as the meat was really pure tasting. Nobody mistook them for grocery birds!

When feeding alfalfa make sure to provide lots of grit. I used pigeon grit. Never an impaction problem.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

I'd give alfalfa to the meaties.... The calciumhosphorus ration was great for their legs and the alfalfa itself, I believe, worked like an anti-oxidant as the meat was really pure tasting.   Nobody mistook them for grocery birds!

When feeding alfalfa make sure to provide lots of grit.  I used pigeon grit.  Never an impaction problem.

They say you ca. Use up to 10% alfalfa in a broiler's diet to make the meat have a better balance of Omega 3 fats. Ive read you only have to do this the final 10 days before slaughter to change the fat profile. You can also include alfalfa in layer rations to get better Omega 3 on the eggs and more colorful yolks, but they don't recommend you nclude as much ... I think it's only 2% or 3% for layers.

I've also read studies that say alfalfa can help control undesirable bacterias in the gut of the bird (salmonella, E. coli) because of the way alfalfa ferments.

I use alfalfa pellets in the food I ferment for the birds.

I use shavings on the floor of the coop, I use hay in the nest boxes.

 

[Hinotori]

I use shavings in the coop. Straw in the run to cut the mud. Excelsior pads with shavings over them in the nest boxes.

 

[JDXX]

Dumbest thing people have said..........................Hmm

You need to quit obsessing over chickens, you have way too many....................................


How dumb is that????????????

 

[RachaelS]

Dumbest thing people have said..........................Hmm

You need to quit obsessing over chickens, you have way too many....................................


How dumb is that????????????

 

[winteree]

They say you ca. Use up to 10% alfalfa in a broiler's diet to make the meat have a better balance of Omega 3 fats. Ive read you only have to do this the final 10 days before slaughter to change the fat profile. You can also include alfalfa in layer rations to get better Omega 3 on the eggs and more colorful yolks, but they don't recommend you nclude as much ... I think it's only 2% or 3% for layers.

I've also read studies that say alfalfa can help control undesirable bacterias in the gut of the bird (salmonella, E. coli) because of the way alfalfa ferments.

I use alfalfa pellets in the food I ferment for the birds.

I use shavings on the floor of the coop, I use hay in the nest boxes.

yeah my grams always used alfalfa hay in the birds nest boxes

 

[oldrooster]

Quote:Alfalfa is a hay. You can get grass hay, too. Straw is the left over stems from harvesting grains.

In my area most farmers grow wheat and make hay from the remains but that is just in my area, I have heard people growing barley and rye and doing the same. so you are quite correct, alfalfa is a hay mostly used for feeding smaller animals timothy is known to be great feed for horses.

 

[annelions]

I'm still working my way through this thread, not quite halfway through, but I thought I'd share a dumb thing I heard!

When I was in 7th or 8th grade or so, before I even started keeping chickens, I had a friend roughly the same age as myself. I don't remember how we got onto the topic, but she says, "Chickens aren't birds. They can't fly." At this point, I admit that I didn't realize chickens can FLY either, as well as they do, but even so I knew that penguins and ostriches can't fly and are ALSO birds. I think I finally found an encyclopedia or something to show her that chickens are, indeed, birds. She still didn't believe it.

 

[Nutcase]

Is there no hope left for humanity?

 

[cassie]

Maybe she is a cousin to the woman once I met who insists ducks and geese are not birds either. Nothing will convince her otherwise. She is studying orthinology (sp) yet.