EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[Lazy Farmer]

Poor dad
TPF? (the pig farmer)? DH has known his brewery buds years before they started brewing. we are spoiled. All he does is wait on a text saying come and get it.

We feed it as a ration on the side along with eggmaker crum/pell and sometimes mix cracked corn in it. Also since we switched over to Rural King Brand Feed, I noticed ground oyster shell flakes mixed into the feed.. So I stopped offering a side dish of oyster shell on the side as much. But still offer grit.
Too much of one thing (Barley Grain) does a wack job on my birdies bum bums... SQUIRT...

AWESOME! thanks.. Was tired of living in the humidity soaked sheets (fly paper) sticking to my back.. I swear to God I can still hear the generator spitting and popping! Just under 7 days with no power and now I have to learn how to reach for a light switch.. lol. I was cooking dinner in the dark last night and bob flips the switch and says you know we have lights now right?





"and these are just a few of my fav-o-rite things" Sing it with me




I truely laughed out loud! poor dude
AFTER ALL I DID FOR YOU!


Roosters need love too! (OR BBQ SAUCE)

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I was up early?? Yeah...that's it. I was up early.
Perhaps I should correct the father typo.
And roosters DO need love!!!View attachment 1139136
HUG A ROODIE!!! I get chicken face almost every day.[/QUOTE]

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I was up early?? Yeah...that's it. I was up early.

No rest for the wicked is an understatement

 

[Lazy Farmer]

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My secret weapon is home all week!! He took vacation time to fix all of Irma's boo boos..

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I was up early?? Yeah...that's it. I was up early.
Perhaps I should correct the father typo.
And roosters DO need love!!!View attachment 1139136
HUG A ROODIE!!! I get chicken face almost every day.

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Corrected.
What? Chicken face is a wonderful thing.
I'm gonna hug a rooster this morning!!!!

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I get chicken face almost every day.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

No rest for the wicked is an understatement

...If I don't keep up, I get behind. ......Later on I'll be...

 

[Wickedchicken6]

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Your rooster has a tick!!

 

[ronott1]

There are lots of claims but most are anti-science. It is hard to find a university published paper on it... The one I found a few years back said the only thing it might do is make the gut a little more hostile to parasites.

You drastically alter the nutritional values by fermenting. The sugars and starches become alcohol/more sugar. You change the fiber content. It makes more sense to stay with a feed you know the nutritional value of.


Fermented feeds came along with the ethanol industry, The refineries, had all this spent corn/grain and no way to get rid of it so they started pushing what a great feed it was. It is something but not the greatest feed.

Before you know it some pseudo farmers and ex-hippies decided it was the way to feed and it caught on, to the point the large energy companies could now sell the byproduct they could hardly give away in the past..

It is great marketing by the corporate giants!!

Of course, the DIY people came along and decided they could wet there feed and let it set for a few days and it would be the same as the stuff the refineries were selling....Now we have people nuts over a worthless feed that has altered nutrition and not for the better. Anytime there is heat (like in fermentation) something is burned up and nothing is added or gained...


Now, I will be back in a bit, I need to go get a electrocardiogram.

I did read one study that said some nutrients were removed as the bacteria ate it. That could be very bad.

 

[duluthralphie]

I did read one study that said some nutrients were removed as the bacteria ate it. That could be very bad.

Sounds like the one I read, If I recall it was an Irish or English University. I found one from the university of Somalia, but I avoided reading that one. It seemed phony.

 

[ronott1]

Agreed, for me the fermented feed is a weekly supplement, not a daily. When I used to feed it daily back when I first started keeping birds, I noticed they'd get the runs more often so I paired it back to once or twice a week and they seem much happier now.

This is the way to go if using fermented feed or spent grains. It should not be their only feed