FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

[subhanalah]

A diagram of what process?

the nutrients traveling through the bird and turned into an egg?

 

[pdirt]

We're having silky babies!! I just candled an egg and I heard, "Cheep! Cheep!" from inside the egg!

THis is so cool :

 

[Tumbleweed Farm]

We're having silky babies!! I just candled an egg and I heard, "Cheep! Cheep!" from inside the egg!

THis is so cool

:

Aww, I love Silkies. Congratulations! How many are you expecting?

 

[subhanalah]

We're having silky babies!! I just candled an egg and I heard, "Cheep! Cheep!" from inside the egg!

THis is so cool :

Aww, I love Silkies.  Congratulations!  How many are you expecting?

when's the due date?

 

[Tikkijane]

We're having silky babies!! I just candled an egg and I heard, "Cheep! Cheep!" from inside the egg!

THis is so cool :

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SQUEE! Babies are SO much fun!!

 

[jerrey]

Hear, Hear. Can't imagine the thought!!!!

yes

 

[Tikkijane]

I have a hunch that EE (what I've read on BYC) and Americaunas (my own experience) may tend towards a genetic tendency of thin-shelled eggs. We have one Americauna that needs a special diet (lots of kefir) to produce thicker shells and if she goes off the kefir, her shells get thin. She gobbles down egg and oyster shell like it's going out of style. My hunch is that she is better able to extract calcium from the kefir than the shell products. Our current batch of FF is layer feed, complete with oyster shell and her shells are still thin. I'll make kefir again here soon and I'd bet money that her shells get thicker again.

Interesting you mention this. One thing I've observed for a while is that out of the 20ish EEs I've had, only the blue egg layers had calcium issues. And they were/are the ONLY birds that have ever had calcium issues. Everyone else does just fine. So that has kind of confirmed my thinking.

Another good source of calcium is to feed back their shells.

 

[Beekissed]

Interesting you mention this. One thing I've observed for a while is that out of the 20ish EEs I've had, only the blue egg layers had calcium issues. And they were/are the ONLY birds that have ever had calcium issues. Everyone else does just fine. So that has kind of confirmed my thinking.

Another good source of calcium is to feed back their shells.

Someone in another thread mentioned that this is a genetic problem with those breeds and nothing to do with nutrition, which I can believe. A lot of folks complain of that issue with those breeds even though they are throwing the calcium down them all the time.

 

[Tikkijane]

Progress report of meaty chicks, 2 wks old...

 

[Tikkijane]

Someone in another thread mentioned that this is a genetic problem with those breeds and nothing to do with nutrition, which I can believe.  A lot of folks complain of that issue with those breeds even though they are throwing the calcium down them all the time. 

*nods* Makes total sense. Obviously, something with their calcium transfer/processing is wonky. I wonder if breeders have the same issue.