Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[RoseMarie1]

I'm on board with you all except for sky diving. No dang way I'm jumping out of a perfectly good airplane! Kids, risks, etc. Oh hell yes. I did my share of stupid stuff and so have countless generations of kids. And yet mankind is still here. Must mean something.

 

[DaveMorey]

OK, so this may have been asked and answered somewhere in the course of this long thread but I guess I will bring it up here because quite frankly I am too lazy to go back through all the pages to search for it. Anyway, my FF has turned to the consistency of peanut butter. It doesn't smell any different it just has a thick paste like consistency. Is this anything I should be concerned about? My meaties are still chowing down on it like hogs to a trough.

 

[RoseMarie1]

OK, so this may have been asked and answered somewhere in the course of this long thread but I guess I will bring it up here because quite frankly I am too lazy to go back through all the pages to search for it.

Anyway, my FF has turned to the consistency of peanut butter. It doesn't smell any different it just has a thick paste like consistency. Is this anything I should be concerned about? My meaties are still chowing down on it like hogs to a trough.

Bee does hers like this and I do as well. This way we don't have to strain out the water, just scoop it up.

 

[DaveMorey]

Thank you Rose. I thought it would be fine, but found it odd that it changed consistency recently. I did just change to the higher protein crumble. Perhaps that is the cause???

 

[Beekissed]

Thank you Rose. I thought it would be fine, but found it odd that it changed consistency recently. I did just change to the higher protein crumble. Perhaps that is the cause???

Crumble just dissolves into tiny particles when wet, so it makes a paste, whereas if you use things like mash it is a rougher, less peanut buttery smooth paste and more like smashed potatoes. It's all good..just different textures. When you get out of crumble and into the big stuff it will have more texture to it. I find it easier to feed at a peanut butter consistency...makes me feel like a school lunch lady plopping that stuff in the trough.."Here ya go, kiddies! PLOP...enjoy."

 

[Lacy Blues]

I bet every kid with a wagon has tried hooking the family pet to it. My brother and I figured that since we had a husky and they were supposed to be sled dogs (it comes natural to them right?) that we would hook our dog to a sled and go for a ride. Boy did we ever get a ride. You would be surprised how a gentle dog can turn into a crazed beast when scared. We got a ride right through the trees and pucker brush until we fell out. Then we had to find the dog... We used to make our own parachutes and either jump or ride our wagon off the barn roof. No television and active imaginations, but we managed to avoid broken bones and only a few stitches. Kids these days just don't know what they are missing without Tv.

These days, if you behaved like that they'd diagnose you with ADD or ADHD or whatever it is out there and put you on some drug so you'd be a couch potato and brain dead! Poor kids!

 

[Triple Willow]

Oh good golly! I have learned about something I wish I hadn't! The 4-5 ticks I was freakin over the other day could have been much worse! Read this: http://mayalassiter.com/2009/08/seed-ticks-the-scourge-of-the-earth/

Everybody needs lots and lots of free range chickens!!!

 

[TexasLisa]

Uhhhh guys, I have a fear of heights also!

Floating downward was peaceful and beautiful.

Lisa

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Lisa; I have panicked and froze crying before a 30 foot drop before. It's hard for me to jump off the 3ft diving board at the pool. I get nervous being an extra 1-2 feet off the ground. I think mine's a little bit intense. I don't have many fears but this is a hardcore phobia and fills me with sheer terror.

I've been trying to work on it... But little progress has been made. It takes a lot of will power for me to do things like go on ferris wheels.

Oddly OK with roller coasters, however I am terrified during the first 10-20 seconds going up that hill.

 

[TexasLisa]

Lisa; I have panicked and froze crying before a 30 foot drop before. It's hard for me to jump off the 3ft diving board at the pool. I get nervous being an extra 1-2 feet off the ground. I think mine's a little bit intense. I don't have many fears but this is a hardcore phobia and fills me with sheer terror.

I've been trying to work on it... But little progress has been made. It takes a lot of will power for me to do things like go on ferris wheels.

Oddly OK with roller coasters, however I am terrified during the first 10-20 seconds going up that hill.

I understand your fear. You should see me on the roof or on the edge of a cliff. Your stomach goes flip-flop and you wonder if you are in your right mind being up there!!

I love roller coasters and ferris wheels. You are absolutely right about those 10-20 seconds (I thought they were hours). WHEEEEEEE!

Here is an analogy, bad but take it for what it is worth: Have you ever ridden a horse at a full gallop? You have/feel the power of the horse. Same feeling with a motorcycle and I equate both of those to standing on the steps of the plane ready to jump. Exhilarating. Have I convinced anyone yet?

Lisa