Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[flockanuts]

Getting some really pretty snow right now...drove home this evening on some greasy roads, so it was sure good to get home to a warm fire. Love this place! We are so very blessed. I hope everyone is tucked into warm houses and riding out this storm well!

Hey, Bee. After about 2 miles on my dirt/gravel road, mine were the only tire tracks on the road. It had already snowed about 1 1/2 inches in about 2 hours!!!

Please tell me that tomorrow is the first of April!!!!!

 

[Beekissed]

Hey, Bee. After about 2 miles on my dirt/gravel road, mine were the only tire tracks on the road. It had already snowed about 1 1/2 inches in about 2 hours!!!

Please tell me that tomorrow is the first of April!!!!!

April Fool's ....

 

[flockanuts]

April Fool's ....

 

[beverly evans]

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Thanks for caring! My son, who lives in Mexico and I seldom see, came up for a couple of days, then left today for business in Michigan and will be back in another few days. I am a hoarder of sorts who answers to no one so needless to say, I had some serious straightening up to do. I didn't get much done but by avoiding the internet I did do something. This is addicting and I find myself on here for hours when I should be doing something more productive. I am very anal as they say and think I have to read all the entries in a thread instead of skimming thru them. Time consuming to say the least! Hope everyone had a good New Year's. I hatched in my incubator the day after Christmas 25 baby chicks with a hardy 21 still doing well. They are so adorable. I sit and watch them in my den in a big tupperware tub. My favorite Christmas present!

 

[Triple Willow]

I think my main stays are going to be Delaware, Columbian or White Rock,   Light Sussex for my meat birds.  Mix the first 3 with sussex hen.  Both Delaware and Sussex grow pretty big and the Sussex has large breast size.  Same with Speckled.  I was just trying to keep it white or mostly so.  Dominique is small.  I hear good things about Buckeye as meat but too cold hardy for my 8b heat zone.I was going to do white dorkings because of fabulous meat taste but it's fragile and slow growing.  I don't know much about the others.  I am going to buy a couple of production red roo to breed red sex links with my 4 white bird hens.  I think all my choices are  good egg layers.  Light sussex lays more than speckled.   Hope this helps.    


edited: additional    Definitely a black sex link with BA x leghorn not sure about the other.  I'm not perfect on this.  I made a comment on the sex link thread and got a verbal slapdown from the main guy.  It is a good thread and his first entry has a ton of into of different links.

Thank you Linda! That stuff is interesting. That's one of the cool things about chickens -the short time it takes to produce more. I would like to see what an Australorp crossed with a Leghorn or Ancona would do as a layer. I just can't see my huge Aussie roo breeding my poor little Leghorns or Anconas. What about an Ancona roo over Aussie hens? I'm gonna have to try that if the girls will go for it. I wish I had room for lots more chickens! lol

You ought to try some Buckeyes. They might do better than you think. This past summer we had quite a bit of 100 degree weather with humidity high (70+%) and mine did fine. I got mine from Meyer and really like them. There are also breeders on here that sell them. The two roos I have are pretty nice in my opinion.

 

[Triple Willow]

My birds will jump down off that roost if they even think they are going to get fed....they are always hungry.  I don't know that I've ever owned a chicken that wasn't always "hungry".  I wouldn't worry too much...your gals seem VERY well fed. 

Going to dip below the zero here in a couple of days too.  I may feed dry then...and again, I may not.  They seem to clean up the food before it can freeze anyway so I'll just play it by ear. 

Went to Good Will today as I was needing a "new" purse and found a leather Carryland brand, didn't even look like it had ever been used....$2.50!  LOVE a bargain! 

It's cold here too! One day this week the high is supposed to be 10'F/0'F at night Today I fed my birds dry feed - walked in te run and poured the feed in the feeder then walked on in the coop to check for eggs, turned and nearly every bird passed by the dry feed and followed me into the coop looking for some FF!

 

[Beekissed]

Yep...that's like serving poop after the FF. But mine will STILL eat it...they just aren't as enthusiastic. They will peck at it a bit, choke on the dry feed, walk around looking for the good stuff and then resign themselves to eating the tasteless, dry stuff.

 

[Triple Willow]

Yep...that's like serving poop after the FF.  But mine will STILL eat it...they just aren't as enthusiastic.  They will peck at it a bit, choke on the dry feed, walk around looking for the good stuff and then resign themselves to eating the tasteless, dry stuff. 

Yep, mine always follow me around to be sure I'm serious first. LOL

...they make me feel kinda bad and I think about the feed I'm wasting. lol

 

[BCMaraniac]

Yep, mine always follow me around to be sure I'm serious first. LOL

...they make me feel kinda bad and I think about the feed I'm wasting. lol

Mine got regular feed today along with the leftover black-eyed peas and fried cabbage......and are bracing to the low temps that are coming.....

 

[Triple Willow]

Mine got regular feed today along with the leftover black-eyed peas and fried cabbage......and are bracing to the low temps that are coming.....

Mmmm fried cabbage! ...I'm ready for spring!