Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[Triple Willow]

Where in the world is everybody at? Did y'all go to Vegas and leave me at home alone?!?

 

[Triple Willow]

I do my art on and off haven't been working on it for awhile since my computer is currently broken and I lost my pen for my wacom tablet I got for my birthday. Will do more ehen my finacial situation improves and I can replace the pen and defective computer parts. I also occassionally do commissions.

I checked out your work too. You've got talent for sure. Did you do your avatar?

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Well! I give up trying to go through the 30 pages I missed.

We have a new problem in the yard. A horrible grey tabby with a blue collar (no tags) has begun to visit my yard every morning. Normally my coop door just stays open every morning to no incident so the birds can get up at dawn without me... No longer. The cat scares the animals so much they all start running and when the chicks try to escape they slip through these tiny gaps in the fence that I can't even locate and then get picked off. I only have two chicks now.

If I find that cat it's going down. I'll either catch it and sick my killer husky on it, send it home covered in spray paint, or send it off to the APL. If I can find the owner they're paying me damages for their illegally roaming cat eating my legally confined chickens! The other cats keep their fat butts out of my yard or they get bit by the dogs. Not this one, it just jumps up on the fence and laughs as the dogs jump trying to get at the cat. I am starting to seriously resent cats.


I did end up eating my hen. She was very good. I had to hunt around for a coq au vin recipe that wasn't created for use with modern broilers/fryers. :|

And one of my hens (my last golden buff) is causing a serious issue with the chicks. She keeps grabbing them and throwing them. She has terrorized the chicks so much that they won't feed with the flock. I have taken to standing there with a stick and giving the Golden a good WHACK (no mercy there!) when she gets close to the chicks eating, but the stick moving scares mama and the chicks too and they all take off. Golden is a food hog so she always comes back before the chicks do and then the chicks never come back either because she's there or because of the stick. :| The golden has even chased the chicks around and they run chirping in terror. Copper (mama) is the bottom of the flock so she can't do anything. It's sad. Any suggestions? The flock is on FF now.

Darkangel; I have a Wacom too! It's been a while since I did any commission work but I used to draw hardcore all the time. Now that's kind of petered off...

 

[Triple Willow]

@ChocolateMouse... It sounds like me and you ought to have a cookout and serve a couple hens! ...and maybe cook up a cat for the chickens! I had to take my pullet and chicks out yesterday after another pullet(s) killed then ate one of the chicks heads clean off! Have you got a live trap for the cat?

 

[armorfirelady]

And one of my hens (my last golden buff) is causing a serious issue with the chicks. She keeps grabbing them and throwing them. She has terrorized the chicks so much that they won't feed with the flock. I have taken to standing there with a stick and giving the Golden a good WHACK (no mercy there!) when she gets close to the chicks eating, but the stick moving scares mama and the chicks too and they all take off. Golden is a food hog so she always comes back before the chicks do and then the chicks never come back either because she's there or because of the stick. :| The golden has even chased the chicks around and they run chirping in terror. Copper (mama) is the bottom of the flock so she can't do anything. It's sad. Any suggestions? The flock is on FF now.

When my tots were younger but in with the big girls I made a small structure from scrap wood that ad slats that only the chicks could fit thru. Thats where the tots were fed. That way they could eat in peace and also gave them aplace of refuge if the big girls were being miserable towards them.

 

[BCMaraniac]

Hi Lacy. Yep, mouse-sized snacks. I guess I wouldn't ever have to worry about mice unless they came out at night. I really don't think it was a predator. I thought about that pullet having a hard time when I put her back with the flock. I hate that, she's always been my favorite ...if I'm gonna have one.

I got her and the babies out this morning when I found the one dead. Got to fix them a better place tomorrow. I thought about putting one of the nicer pullets with them. I don't know how that would work. Thought about bringing her and the chicks in for the night. Wish I lived close to Bee, I bet she's got some extra chicken diapers. HAHAHA!

This is off topic, but I was wondering if any of you have seen a chicken with a mouse? I have always read that they will kill small mice. The reason I ask is that I noticed one of my Black Copper Marans shaking something and dropping it, then picking it up and shaking it, and dropping it. Over and over. She was near the area where I feed, and by the time I got to her I saw she had something very dark in color......then I saw the long tail.....she was eating a mouse. I don't know if she killed it herself or if she found one that one of the cats killed and left lying on the ground. First time I have seen that.

 

[waltandlori]

This is off topic, but I was wondering if any of you have seen a chicken with a mouse? I have always read that they will kill small mice. The reason I ask is that I noticed one of my Black Copper Marans shaking something and dropping it, then picking it up and shaking it, and dropping it. Over and over. She was near the area where I feed, and by the time I got to her I saw she had something very dark in color......then I saw the long tail.....she was eating a mouse. I don't know if she killed it herself or if she found one that one of the cats killed and left lying on the ground. First time I have seen that.

I saw my chickens chasing a mouse and boy where they flying! Both the mouse and the chickens, note chickens didn't get it. I saw them with a foot long snake doing the same as they do with a worm, one will get it then another take it away and so on.

Walt

 

[Triple Willow]

I don't know but I have heard that they will kill mice, small snakes, sometimes large snakes, lizards, etc. Buckeyes are supposed to be really good mousers. I hope they don't kill chicks too!

 

[Triple Willow]

When my tots were younger but in with the big girls I made a small structure from scrap wood that ad slats that only the chicks could fit thru. Thats where the tots were fed. That way they could eat in peace and also gave them aplace of refuge if the big girls were being miserable towards them.

Years ago people use to make a similar thing out of tobacco sticks. Tobacco farmers always had plenty of tobacco sticks which are just maybe 2"X2"X4' really hard sticks they hang tobacco on. My mom told me about it then I believe I saw one on an old movie. Yours looks nice!

 

[Darkangael]

I checked out your work too. You've got talent for sure. Did you do your avatar?

Yes I did, its a combination of 3D and digital painting.