Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[Beekissed]

Took some pics of the meat chicks today..they are 2 wks and 2 days old and today was the first day they really went out from the coop and tried to forage a little, though they have been out of the brooder for a couple of days now.

 

[Triple Willow]

I think my chicks must be pms-ing today. They ate like little pigs. Every time I turned around they were hollering for more!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Well, I know I have a legit reason for wanting a cheetah. Historically they are the most domesticateable of the big cats and pharohs used to gather them as kits from the wild use them in hunting and coursing like greyhounds. Small and docile enough to not kill you... Still one of THE most incredible animals in the world. There's less risk in owning a cheetah than most exotics. I'm crazy... But not so crazy as to want tigers and **** anymore! XD Too much work.


The Ameraucana chicks are spending 24/7 outside. I made them their own little coop out of a box on it's side wrapped in plastic raised on bricks and it stood up to some crazy heavy rainfall we got. Warm and dry inside. They've been getting FF for the past two months... They'll keep on getting it until they join the flock where the layer pellets are just more practical because I scatter them so they can forage. Have to weigh nutrition against enrichment.

But today I gave the layer flock some pickled veggies from the bottom of this all natural pickles jar. Carrots, garlic and bell peppers. Honestly, it could be enough to call those their worming for the spring for all I know! (I will probably still mix up a Thing later.) They loved em!

 

[wolfpup]

Took some pics of the meat chicks today..they are 2 wks and 2 days old and today was the first day they really went out from the coop and tried to forage a little, though they have been out of the brooder for a couple of days now.

What beautiful little chicks - nice to see them settling down in the sunshine.

I started off my very first batch of fermented grains yesterday - this morning when I got up I took a peak and had massive big fat bubbles on the top of the liquid and when I stirred it - it fizzed up like lemonade

Cannot wait until tomorrow when I try my girls on the new mix. I am sure they will love it.

 

[tjo804]

Took some pics of the meat chicks today..they are 2 wks and 2 days old and today was the first day they really went out from the coop and tried to forage a little, though they have been out of the brooder for a couple of days now.

Okay this may be an oddie question, but I have been accused of that before.

We got chicks for our grandaughter on 3-13
Yesterday Pics



DH is sure if I leave them out in this coop with only a heat lamp they will die from the cold (low's in low to mid 40's)
If I fashioned a door on the coop could they move in permanently / safely? They still occupy his hobby room inside the house at Night.

This was purchased as a transition brooder it will NOT be their grown up home!

 

[Triple Willow]

Okay this may be an oddie question, but I have been accused of that before. We got chicks for our grandaughter on 3-13 Yesterday Pics [COLOR=B22222]DH is sure if I leave them out in this coop with only a heat lamp they will die from the cold (low's in low to mid 40's)[/COLOR] If I fashioned a door on the coop could they move in permanently / safely? They still occupy his hobby room inside the house at Night. This was purchased as a transition brooder it will NOT be their grown up home!

Cute pics! Reminds me of one mom took of me. When I was little I would get up and go outside early in the morning. Mom opened the back door one morning and took a pic of me in my pajamas, socks, hair a mess and I had my goat tied to a tree trying to milk it. She was not a milk goat and I'm sure hadn't had kids in a long time and wasn't cooperating at all! I'm just glad it wasn't a billy goat! hahaha She got me another time, I had been making mud pies and was out in the front yard laying on this old Collie dog we had having a conversation with him I'm sure. Again, in my pajamas but at least that time I had my house shoes on. ha! My poor mama couldn't keep up with me and could not keep me clean.

 

[Triple Willow]

Sounds crazy but sometimes I'd like to go live in south America or Africa.... Sometimes it feels like I would take civil war over modern society. :\ There's nowhere much else in the world where you can just OWN land and it's YOURS... And if you want a road, you don't pay the Great Government to build it, you just build a frickin' road... And you grow what you want keep the animals you want and let bygones be bygones... It's a crazy concept but it appeals very deeply to me.

I think the US back in the 1800's (minus slavery, plus women having equal rights) would have been wonderful!

 

[LindaB220]

Well, Mexico is central America... And Mexico's the worst of both worlds! Never wanna live there! But heck, I sure do love the idea of living in the bush in like Venezuala or something....

People often tell me I'm the type of person they feel like they could dump in the jungle with a big knife and I could make it out alive. XD

Heck, I'd last 5 maybe 10 minutes.

First thing I would do would be cut myself with the knife.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Lol, Linda! I grew up in a conspiracy theory house. My mother was a nutjob back then and could be defined under the categories of Crazy Preppers (you know, the ones who keep 6mo of food in their house including MREs, a bug out bag in the bedroom, and are actually convinced that any day now they will be on the run because "the government".) In any case my days as a kid were spent outdoors with wilderness survival books for fun. I would play at building miniature forest shelters, finding wild foods, stashing them away from scavengers, cooking in the sun, finding water, and learning to identify plants. That was my every day life for me. And it sounds silly for that to be good practice for survival techniques but the truth is it is waaay more than most people get. I learned how to build the shelters structurally sound, I know almost every native edible plant, the water finding techniques still work, etc. And now a days I know the basics of trapping, plus I can butcher an animal and shoot a bow and arrow.

Sometimes I feel like I was really just born into the wrong place or time! XD

 

[Triple Willow]

@ChocolateMouse... Sounds like a wonderful and pretty normal childhood to me, except I was playing cowboys and Indians. Of course I always had to be the Indian, no question. lol Look at all the great skills you got for free. I hope you pass those skills on to as many people as you possibly can. Most people these days would die if they got locked up in a grocery store. lol I bet there are a lot of people that would pay good money to have you teach them what you know.