Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[colburg]

Oh I know all about those stinky chicken rows...my family has property in North Georgia (lots of stinky chickens around that area) I think I wouldn't mind having a pig...I'll have to read up on it (Ham & eggs..Mmmmm)

Pigs can make the hair fall out of your nose! LOL Too many in the wrong place... just bad! LOL I'm thinking about getting a couple in the spring. Depending on what's happening around here by then. Ya never know!

Pigs aren't that bad. I raised 2-4 every year from the time I was 10 till I graduated high school. They're kinda like chickens, just don't keep em cooped up(just a decent size pen will do), and there's really no smell.

Pigs can make the hair fall out of your nose! LOL Too many in the wrong place... just bad! LOL I'm thinking about getting a couple in the spring. Depending on what's happening around here by then. Ya never know!

Keep in mind...pigs will eat chickens...dead or alive!:cd

SOMETIMES. A couple years ago my Dad picked up 3 4-H hogs that didn't go on the sale truck($50ea for 250-300lb'ers, he got a steal). 2 dozen chickens went in and out of the hog pen, shared their feed, pecked the pig poop, and even took naps on the hogs, and never was a chicken eaten.

 

[hellbender]

Pigs aren't that bad. I raised 2-4 every year from the time I was 10 till I graduated high school. They're kinda like chickens, just don't keep em cooped up(just a decent size pen will do), and there's really no smell.
SOMETIMES. A couple years ago my Dad picked up 3 4-H hogs that didn't go on the sale truck($50ea for 250-300lb'ers, he got a steal). 2 dozen chickens went in and out of the hog pen, shared their feed, pecked the pig poop, and even took naps on the hogs, and never was a chicken eaten.

Sometimes is absolutely true but more often than some might think. Also it's a fact that domestic hogs have eaten humans and that too is more often than commonly know.


GOATS: I have 4 Saanen dairy goats. I make cheeses of various types and feed the whey to the birds. Lots of times, when I have enough cheese or don't feel like messing with it, I feed the milk to them. It's good for them and they love it!

 

[Triple Willow]

They do eat flowers, though they only had access to some wildflowers along the front fence line.....no one plants flowers where chickens or sheep can get to them unless they want to waste a lot of time and money.  I fenced off the back and side yards and planted all my pretties in the front yard.  You can have both worlds but not in the same place! 

True. My goats kept me in trouble when I was a youngster. I had one that would run in the house when she got the chance. I can hear it echoing in my mind now... "Get that goat out of heeeere!" LOL

 

[BCMaraniac]

What a cutey!!!! No, we don't mind a bit....nice scenery is nice scenery!

Very nice buck!!!! Wish we still had big ones like that around these parts....too heavily hunted here now and the deer are all scrubs, even the does.

Like Bee said.....Very nice buck!!!! The deer ain't so bad either!

 

[Regin]

True. My goats kept me in trouble when I was a youngster. I had one that would run in the house when she got the chance. I can hear it echoing in my mind now... "Get that goat out of heeeere!" LOL

 

[Triple Willow]

Pigs aren't that bad. I raised 2-4 every year from the time I was 10 till I graduated high school. They're kinda like chickens, just don't keep em cooped up(just a decent size pen will do), and there's really no smell.

That makes sense.

SOMETIMES. A couple years ago my Dad picked up 3 4-H hogs that didn't go on the sale truck($50ea for 250-300lb'ers, he got a steal). 2 dozen chickens went in and out of the hog pen, shared their feed, pecked the pig poop, and even took naps on the hogs, and never was a chicken eaten.

Your dad did get a steal! Wish I was that lucky!

 

[Triple Willow]

Like Bee said.....Very nice buck!!!!  The deer ain't so bad either!

hehehe ditto!

 

[Beekissed]

True. My goats kept me in trouble when I was a youngster. I had one that would run in the house when she got the chance. I can hear it echoing in my mind now... "Get that goat out of heeeere!" LOL

My sheep did that once and I didn't know they had followed me inside until I heard the tap, tap, tap of hooves on linoleum behind me...I turned around, they suddenly realized where they were, the eyes went wide, they spun around and bolted right through the glass on the storm door. Crash, boom, bang!

Funny ol' sheeples...

 

[Angelicisi]

I just raked up a ton of leaves and stuffed the coop lol this is temporary.

Their coop has a riversilt base with sand (3 inches or so) on top. Easy as pie to rake into a pile and wheel to the cold compost pile

 

[Triple Willow]

My sheep did that once and I didn't know they had followed me inside until I heard the tap, tap, tap of hooves on linoleum behind me...I turned around, they suddenly realized where they were, the eyes went wide, they spun around and bolted right through the glass on the storm door.  Crash, boom, bang!     Funny ol' sheeples... 

hahaha Funny! Oh my goat knew what she was doing! She would come in bucking and farting and bouncing off the furniture. LOL