Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[Triple Willow]

Hey,  What constitutes a hermit?  Don't you have to be solitary?  Bee, don't you have a DH and kids or other family around??

I don't know if a hermit can have an associate or not. lol

 

[Triple Willow]

i just have their crumble going for my quail and it does have meat in it but has yet to smell bad it just smells abit sour...glad to know the sour is an ok thing

How well do your quail like it? I keep thinking about doing some quail.

...or chuckar because they are bigger.

 

[Angelicisi]

I have a batch of 22 now @ 3 weeks and doing a batch of 50 in January

Have any of you ever grew meaties during the winter?

 

[BCMaraniac]

Have any of you ever grew meaties during the winter?

I grew some earlier this year in January/Feb/March.....

 

[KuroKitsune]

How well do your quail like it? I keep thinking about doing some quail.

...or chuckar because they are bigger.

my younger 10 that hatched mid/late august love it but their parents who hatched in april aren't to thrilled...they've eaten some but havent made it through 1 serving where as their 10 chicks are on their 3rd or 4th serving and they really like it

 

[Triple Willow]

my younger 10 that hatched mid/late august love it but their parents who hatched in april aren't to thrilled...they've eaten some but havent made it through 1 serving where as their 10 chicks are on their 3rd or 4th serving and they really like it

I guess the change takes getting use to.

 

[Triple Willow]

You guys that have done meaties in the winter, do they do as well as the rest of the year?

 

[MEMama3]

I can see somebody liked the Golden Girls.  LOL

Yeah, my daughter and I are fans. We're naming our spring chicks after the actresses.

 

[keepmumsane]

Well it's not leaking. Condensation is the problem. I hope it was just a fluke because of the weather.

We have this problem in our wood shed .. the man said building paper would help.

 

[Beekissed]

How much FF do you offer per layer each day? I can never figure out how much I should give. They free range all day, but still clear the bowl no matter how much I put out. Do you offer more in the winter?

You'll have to judge by body condition, as there is no set standard on amounts to give for chickens...at least, not with any accuracy, as all flocks and breeds are different in their nutritional needs. If your birds run like a fat lady(rock side to side instead of scissoring the legs), cut back on rations. If they run like a young girl(good, long strides like scissors) your fine. If they look too thin, up the rations. Slender is perfect for layers. For winter, you can let them get a little more plump than slender but I wouldn't let them get too fat. If you have BOs it's a foregone conclusion they will be fat, so not much you can do with that breed to regulate the feed without hurting the other breeds.

Right now, I've got 13 LF breeds getting 4 c. of FF as their forage has finally played out for the year. If you live somewhere warm and with good forage still, you may not need as much feed. This summer I was feeding 14 LF on 1 1/2 c. of FF per day...so you can see that the feed amounts vary widely according to season and number of birds, with their individual nutritive needs according to availability of forage and the type of feed being given.

I'm with you Bee, hate the cell! I don't have a wonder phone, only an eight dollar from Wal Mart. I only got it because a girl friend pitched a fit til I got it. When I'm away from the phone I don't want to be bothered! Having to listen to other people's conversations every where I go stinks too. And my cell is so small it can be lost so easily. I was drug into the computer world kicking and screaming by my son and brother. I am glad to be doing this right now but I resent the whole lot of time that is lost to sitting in front of the **** PC. : (

Yes...the Ol' Bat(my mother) had a cell phone forced upon her by one of my sibs and it has come in handy now and again because there are no phone booths in town now, but that's all we use it for..just for traveling and such. Cells don't work out where we live and even if they did, we wouldn't give up our land line and switch to the headache of a cell phone.

I too cannot stand to sit in a restaurant and listen to a loud exchange over the phone...if I had wanted to hear that I would have asked for the table next to the kitchen or the pay phone. I also cannot bear to be eating a meal with someone who lays their phone on the table and picks it up every two seconds to text someone else. How rude is that?? I saw a young woman come into a place the other day with a baby and toddler in tow...the baby got relegated to the floor in his little seat and the toddler was left to climb into the booth on his own, while the mother texted and kept her phone close to her like a treasure. All the while they ate, the baby was ignored and the toddler was too..as the woman gave her full attention to the phone, with the occasional irritated remark to the toddler when he spoke to her or needed something. I've come to hate the cell phones as the name seems quite accurate...people are imprisoned by them.

Oh boy! Last night we had a heavy frost, got down in the 20's. (It's 35 now.) The new coop/run has a metal roof and it is dripping in the coop AND out in the open run, condensation all over it! And dang it, I wanted it all covered so it would be dry! Any suggestions???

Yep...let it happen as you cannot help it with temp fluctuations and a metal roof. Nice, deep litter to absorb the drips and good ventilation in the coop and that's about all you can do.

Hey, What constitutes a hermit? Don't you have to be solitary? Bee, don't you have a DH and kids or other family around??

No darn hemorrhoid and the kids are all grown and flew the nest...just the Ol' Bat(the mother) and I.

We live out in the sticks and I don't get to town much, so I nearly qualify.

A hermit (adjectival form: eremitic or hermitic) is a person who lives, to some degree, in seclusion from society. That's me! Didn't used to be, but for the past few years I've been pretty much a hermit and loving it! Spent too much of my life serving the public and dealing with people every single day, so seclusion from it all is like a dream from which I don't wish to awaken.