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You can use a heat plate. Premier makes one that works well and is less expensive than the Brinsea one.Chickencanoe~could you please explain how you do this. I've often thought it weird to leave a light on 24\7 . Do you keep the temp at a certain level for the dark periods?Are they indoors ?I've kept them in the garage with a light until they were feathered out enough to go out,but I'm curious how you do this. I know the broody raised chicks are acclimated better but as of now we haven't done that yet. BTW, I'm over near KC so similar climate as yours. (thanks)
A few months ago I was going crazy trying to find a good organic non gmo feed that wasnt going to cost me an arm and a leg to get shipped here. Then I decided to try the organic feed at my feed store and it was $38 for 50 lbs. And I was unimpressed with the quality of the feed and the eggs. And I came to the conclusion that people have been feeding non organic for years and years with no ill effects and I'm not going to drive myself crazy and spend tons of money for mediocre feed. Plus I would rather feed my chickens naturally with free ranging.Now I feed southern states all grain for $15/50 lbs and I ferment it and they love it and are doing great! And now that the snow is melting they will get most of their food from free ranging. And also from what I will be growing in my garden.
Thats just my opinion and I respect anybody that can afford a good organic feed, but for me the only feed available was way over priced and not any better than the conventional feeds
Interesting expression!We say "Don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water." around here.Good information there....I've never heard of this Camelina meal either.
Every bite of FF is filled with large quantities of active, live and growing prebiotics and probiotics, so no need to add the dried probiotics to the feed. These have the added benefit of being FREE.
This does sound like your best option. It's what I'm going to do. I won't be able to free range a lot but will do other things like sprout and have growing beds in the run. Covered of course.