Move the FF so its nit under the heat lamp. And it sounds like the chick might be panting because its to warmI am giving my fermented feed to my chicks, but the heat lamp is drying it into a hard lump before the chicks can even try it & I am having some trouble with pasty butt. I lost a chick this morning. It had been 'panting' (opening & closing its beak over and over) for hours. I have no idea what was wrong. I made sure it got some water with acv but it passed this morning.
It would be simply lovely. What if you don't like me as much when we meet in person?You'll spend the whole way home calling me names like hick, redneck, hillbilly, idiot, backwoods and stoopid.....
yep it needs to be away from the heat and the panting sounds to me like they're too hot. You can hold a warm paper towel on their butt for a few minutes to soften that up so it will come off. IF you don't get it off it will kill them. They have to be able to poop and if they can't they will die. Normally they don't get this when eating fermented foods from all i have read because their probiotics. I used yogurt in mines food before I started doing the ff because I have 2 of them with pasty butt. But you can't leave left overs of this yogurt mixture for a while in those high heats or if will sour for sure.
I am giving my fermented feed to my chicks, but the heat lamp is drying it into a hard lump before the chicks can even try it & I am having some trouble with pasty butt. I lost a chick this morning. It had been 'panting' (opening & closing its beak over and over) for hours. I have no idea what was wrong. I made sure it got some water with acv but it passed this morning.
Tell him that there are people on here who recorded feed consumption and costs comparisons of when they feed dry to when they feed FF and found that they feed almost half what they feed dry when using the FF. Almost half the cost of their normal feeding....half. That's a lot of money when you think about it adding up. So you pay half the cost you usually do for your eggs, your chickens live longer, healthier and more productive(yes, even more eggs than normally produced) lives, the eggs taste better~by far!, the coop stinks less and needs less cleaning.
If that ain't worth pouring some water on the feed and waiting a bit, I don't know what is!
If he doesn't want to make you a trough, just get his tools and head outside..and do it in front of him. Nothing will make a man move faster than a woman headed to the outdoors with his tools.If it doesn't, build your own trough. There is no man around here building mine...I do all the building of things that need doing here and you can too. It takes absolutely no skill to work a drill and a sawsall. I can attest to that!
And, yes, you can dish out several day's worth of feed and leave it for them...it will actually be safer than when you used dry, as the mice don't seem as attracted to the coop now that dry feeds aren't being scattered all over the floor and crevices and I've not seen them be able to get a speck of this FF as the chickens eat it so quickly and thoroughly.
