Glenda Heywoodo
Songster
FEEDING GRASS TO CHICKENS.
Glenda Heywood
YOU NEED TO CUT THE GRASS IN SMALLER SIZES FOR THE CHICKENS TO EAT.
Chickens when free ranging do not goble long pieces of grass,
as they do when in captivity of the chicken housed flocks are.
...
Grit in its use is not the factor in this information.
The grit is in the gizzard which is NOT the crop,
where the feed eaten by the chicken goes FIRST..
The way this works is the chicken keeps stuffing long pieces of grass in its beak and this goes to the crop.
In the crop it continues to wind around and around and makes a laege hard ball of grass.
Then the chicken can't get rid of it.
. Thus one needs to do crop surgery on the bird.
If you are not strong enough to do the surgery your self,
then the only thing is finding a vet to do the surgery.
And vets usually charge any thing over $100.00 to do this SURGERY.
Which I have done many times as having pouter pigeons they eat grains and some of the grains are not small enough to go thru the crop hole to the gizzard.
So because I did not have money to spend on vets,
I learned how.
YOU have to take in consideration that I was raised up on a working farm in the 40's thru the 80's and learned to be sufficient in my work.
The crop surgery really is not hard and had a fellow from Georgia call me one nite at 1:30 in the morning and give him and his wife a walk thru the surgery on a very expensive large fowl cochin.
So it is do able and necessary if that is what has to be done
I have a nice version of it given me by a friend and it is some what easy to do and very safe.
The surgery procedure is on BYC
Put my name and crop surgery into browser here and it should come up.
You shoul find the article on CROP SURGERY.
Now back to
Hay and alfalfa
I always hung a piece of baled alfalfa wrapped in a piece of chicken wire from the ceiling to 12-18 inches from the floor.
Very good for the chickens as they pick the leaves off the stems.
restock when it is just stems.
Fresh alfalfa is good as it is small leaves and the chickens do eat it.
Hay perse' is not much on it if not alfalfa.
That is why people use it for beding as it is stems mostly.
ANY QUESTIONS JUST ASK HERE.
I would appreciate comments
Glenda L Heywood Cassville Missouri
Glenda Heywood
YOU NEED TO CUT THE GRASS IN SMALLER SIZES FOR THE CHICKENS TO EAT.
Chickens when free ranging do not goble long pieces of grass,
as they do when in captivity of the chicken housed flocks are.
...
Grit in its use is not the factor in this information.
The grit is in the gizzard which is NOT the crop,
where the feed eaten by the chicken goes FIRST..
The way this works is the chicken keeps stuffing long pieces of grass in its beak and this goes to the crop.
In the crop it continues to wind around and around and makes a laege hard ball of grass.
Then the chicken can't get rid of it.
. Thus one needs to do crop surgery on the bird.
If you are not strong enough to do the surgery your self,
then the only thing is finding a vet to do the surgery.
And vets usually charge any thing over $100.00 to do this SURGERY.
Which I have done many times as having pouter pigeons they eat grains and some of the grains are not small enough to go thru the crop hole to the gizzard.
So because I did not have money to spend on vets,
I learned how.
YOU have to take in consideration that I was raised up on a working farm in the 40's thru the 80's and learned to be sufficient in my work.
The crop surgery really is not hard and had a fellow from Georgia call me one nite at 1:30 in the morning and give him and his wife a walk thru the surgery on a very expensive large fowl cochin.
So it is do able and necessary if that is what has to be done
I have a nice version of it given me by a friend and it is some what easy to do and very safe.
The surgery procedure is on BYC
Put my name and crop surgery into browser here and it should come up.
You shoul find the article on CROP SURGERY.
Now back to
Hay and alfalfa
I always hung a piece of baled alfalfa wrapped in a piece of chicken wire from the ceiling to 12-18 inches from the floor.
Very good for the chickens as they pick the leaves off the stems.
restock when it is just stems.
Fresh alfalfa is good as it is small leaves and the chickens do eat it.
Hay perse' is not much on it if not alfalfa.
That is why people use it for beding as it is stems mostly.
ANY QUESTIONS JUST ASK HERE.
I would appreciate comments
Glenda L Heywood Cassville Missouri
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