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

[hippiestink]

 

[ronott1]

I feed something that Southern States calls Flock Balancer 20% Booster to my older birds. I've always fed starter to chicks, until this last bunch of 4. The Flock Balancer is 20% protein, so I decided to try it. I put it in the blender for a week, then fed it as it comes from the bag. No problems of any kind.
Bag tag says "A complete feed for growing and mature poultry and waterfowl"

I have been feeding hatched chicks purina flock raiser and used to grind it for the first week. For the last hatch, I did not grind and they did fine. Even little chicks can eat fairly large crumbles. I would grind the flock raiser for bantams though

 

[BantyChooks]

They currently have two bowls full of apple peels and cores because I am making and canning applesauce. They're well and truly sick of it.

 

[hippiestink]

They currently have two bowls full of apple peels and cores because I am making and canning applesauce. They're well and truly sick of it.

My chickens are SO SICK of cabbage pieces that were ravaged by cabbage worms.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

My mom needs to get a new one herself, at the price it would take to repair hers and do needed maintenance it just would be more cost effective to spend the cash on a new machine. Hers is a Singer model from the 90s so she'd love to get an upgraded one with a zipper foot included! I grew up with a toy Singer to learn and play on, so this would be my first real machine.

I am headed to mine to see. Been about 4 mo's since I used it.

 

[BantyChooks]

My chickens are SO SICK of cabbage pieces that were ravaged by cabbage worms.

Our birds can swap for a bit.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

They currently have two bowls full of apple peels and cores because I am making and canning applesauce. They're well and truly sick of it.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

HOOMAN!

 

[hippiestink]

I am headed to mine to see. Been about 4 mo's since I used it.

Mom was always in the habit of yearly maintenance on her machine but when my youngest brother was born she didn't have the time to even use hers, much less take it to the mechanic to be oiled and tuned up. I'll have to source a person here, but luckily there's a sewing and yarn shop in our village that I could visit and ask about it.

Pretty much all the women in my family are handy with a needle of some kind. Grandma was a seamstress, my aunt is great at cross stitch and crochet, my mom went to school for fashion design and so is really good at sewing, so I picked up embroidery and sewing and crochet from them.

At least now I don't have to wait for Husband to take me to Leuven to get fabric anymore, because I found an online shop with a decent selection. They also sell notions and other things so it's pretty much one-stop shopping!

 

[hippiestink]

Our birds can swap for a bit.

My birds will have plenty of time to get sick of apples and pears and stone fruit when we move to the new place, since I want to put their run out in our orchard we plan on putting in. I love canning fruit so to have my own trees will be so exciting, and the birds can get at any bugs that go after the windfall. Johnny is mean enough to chase off any squirrels that might get some shifty eyes, though I have yet to see anything other than hedgehogs and neighborhood cats out at the land.