Farming and Homesteading Heritage Poultry

[flitter]

I'll sure try to get that on vid for you, Linda!

I'd love to hear that, too.

 

[qball53]

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Me too Bee I wanna hear it. Where should I look?

 

[Beekissed]

I'll post it here when I get it done. Right now I'm wrestling with the worst episode of herniated disc I've ever had, so I'm even having someone else feed the chooks....it will probably be next week before I can get this video. Those meat chicks will be old enough to let out of the brooder by then and integrated with the layer flock at 2 wks of age. I'll do the "call" before I let them out to see how they respond.

 

[finnfur]

I'll post it here when I get it done. Right now I'm wrestling with the worst episode of herniated disc I've ever had, so I'm even having someone else feed the chooks....it will probably be next week before I can get this video. Those meat chicks will be old enough to let out of the brooder by then and integrated with the layer flock at 2 wks of age. I'll do the "call" before I let them out to see how they respond.

Cant wait for the West Virginia "REBEL YELL" - this going to be good ?
Hope ya feel better soon

 

[Beekissed]

Cant wait for the West Virginia "REBEL YELL" - this going to be good ?
Hope ya feel better soon

Naw....just sounds like a rooster! Thank you..I hope this goes away soon too, as I have many, many, many spring projects that need starting.

 

[LindaB220]

I'll post it here when I get it done. Right now I'm wrestling with the worst episode of herniated disc I've ever had, so I'm even having someone else feed the chooks....it will probably be next week before I can get this video. Those meat chicks will be old enough to let out of the brooder by then and integrated with the layer flock at 2 wks of age. I'll do the "call" before I let them out to see how they respond.

Get better Sweetie.

We can wait.

 

[Arielle]

Received word yesterday from Chis McCathy that my 25 buckeye chicks are enroute. Chris advised to feed at 27%+ protein feed with animal products for the first 8 weeks. Very different from the chick starter at 18% that my oversized Cornish crosses are eating and those 2 are 3 times the size of my one buckeye. Maybe that is why.

Figured to supplement with extra eggs and fishmeal. Other ideas??

 

[uphilljill]

Congrats on the Buckeye chicks!

I know you've been wanting these for a while.

 

[Fentress]

Received word yesterday from Chis McCathy that my 25 buckeye chicks are enroute. Chris advised to feed at 27%+ protein feed with animal products for the first 8 weeks. Very different from the chick starter at 18% that my oversized Cornish crosses are eating and those 2 are 3 times the size of my one buckeye. Maybe that is why.

Figured to supplement with extra eggs and fishmeal. Other ideas??

I like to give them natural foods from day one. I dig up a plug from the clover plot or anywhere from the pasture/yard and give it to them whole, roots and dirt. They like eating the fine hair like roots and scratching through the plug for anything they can find. I don't like bored chicks. On of the reasons I prefer broody hens. I will also dig up worms for them or anthing that I can get me hands on.

 

[Beekissed]

I do the same thing for my chicks so they can pick fine grit from the clump, eat on the grass, and get inoculated to the microbial life in the soils on which they will be living when they can best form antibodies against them, which is the first 2 wks of life.

Farmers used to do the same thing for piglets instead of giving iron supplements they would give them a couple of shovel fulls of sod and it worked like a charm and made for healthier pigs.