Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[BCMaraniac]

Do you have a link for this contraption Bee?

Found the link for you:

http://www.premier1supplies.com/detail.php?prod_id=120893&criteria=brooder

 

[jmandawn]

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This is Chuckie. As you can see Chuckie is a Pit Bull and also a chicken protector. Chickens like to run inside of his igloo dog house and "hang out". They will even jump up on his back when he is laying down. We introduced the chicks to him from the very beginning and they bonded. Wonderful Dog!

 

[Angelicisi]

Ahahaha Mmmmm grape nuts

You know, after having breakfast for dinner...I realized that Grape Nuts cereal looks a heck of a lot like my chicken crumbles.

:/

 

[Angelicisi]

More chicks loving the FF.... we process our 8/9 week olds Monday that were raised from day one on FF and free ranged from 2 weeks, can't wait for a chicken dinner we grew
Look at the stink eye this Runts got for a bully sibling lol

 

[Beekissed]

Perfect picture!!! What weights did you have on your finished group?

 

[RoseMarie1]

I would love to see your designs when you have them completed! I think it's a logistical problem for many who are feeding the FF when it comes to feeders, clean out, large capacity and just where and how to implement feeding wet feed into a coop environment. With your talent you ought to be able to show us some workable solutions on this issue.

I'll tell you of a neat little product I found in a Premeir1 mag the other day and I called the company to see if it gets warm on the upper surface..and it does. Not as warm as the underside but still warm enough. Let me post a pic of it...it's called a warming plate for chick brooding and they also have a nifty nipple water bottle that sits on it, just right. I'm thinking it would be efficacious to set the FF on top of this plate to keep it warm and also keep it out of the shavings. The plastic is textured for good footing, easy to clean and would even keep feet warmed. It comes with a domed lid that can keep them from roosting there at night.

It's fully adjustable to the suitable chick height and goes all the way down to one inch above the floor. It's supposed to take the place of heating lamps for a safer brooding and they have sizes for 20 chicks and 50 chicks. $42 for the 20 chick size and the nipple water is $5. Neat, huh? Could even be used in the opposite way~flip it~ to keep FF warm in the winter as well as keeping water thawed out.

WOW that's really cool!

 

[Angelicisi]

I will do live and dead weights Monday when we process

Perfect picture!!!  What weights did you have on your finished group? 

 

[Beekissed]

WOW that's really cool!

Where you been so long, Rosemarie? We miss you!

How's you? How's the winter coop and deep litter going at your place?

 

[RoseMarie1]

This is Chuckie. As you can see Chuckie is a Pit Bull and also a chicken protector. Chickens like to run inside of his igloo dog house and "hang out". They will even jump up on his back when he is laying down. We introduced the chicks to him from the very beginning and they bonded. Wonderful Dog!

We have had so many of these until it's not funny and we have NEVER had any problems at all with them being aggressive to anyone. They really do get a bad rap and it DOES matter how they are raised and if you are mean to them because they will be aggressive if they are raised wrong. So tickled for you that you have you a GOOD chicken dog and it wont let nothing at your chickens either. We had one that looked like that and it was a female. Her name was Sally. She had a batch of puppies and we had dogs running out our ears. lol

 

[RoseMarie1]

Where you been so long, Rosemarie? We miss you!

How's you? How's the winter coop and deep litter going at your place?

I've been here, just haven't posted anything.

Getting better Bee slowly but surely. This congestion is hard for everyone to get rid of that gets this mess.

Oh I was JUST out there this evening working around and tossing more into the roosting area. It is mega deep out there in their roost now since I added some more to it. I let the girls out to free range and one of those roos to. He didn't know how to act being back with his girls. He's roosting with them tonight and I had to really look to find him at dusk when I went out to close their back gate.

The wind was blowing pretty good but not too cold so I hope I do ok being out in it today and it doesn't make me worse. Had some stuff I needed to get picked up that was out there like limbs and such.