Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[RoseMarie1]

It's cool and overcast here today...fall is comin' on. I wish I had done some meat chickens this year but it's too late to even get into them right now. I'm going to skim the locals to see if anyone has some meaty roosters they are looking to get rid of cheap, bring them home and clean out their systems with some FF, then kill the meaty roos.

I think I'll do that once or twice a month until I have a good bit of chicken in the freezer. A person can get roosters around here for $3-$5 sometimes and that's probably cheaper than I could raise them myself, so it should work. I'll dust them down with ashes or something similar, coat their legs in castor oil and give them a dose internally, keep them confined to a cage the first few days with some FF and then let them out with the flock on free range for a couple of weeks and get their systems cleaned out.

Good idea Bee. I just hope you have an extra pen so yours don't get anything from them.

 

[Triple Willow]

LOL yep I know that humid to. lol that's funny! We just got a tiny shower BUT I'm hoping we get much more through the night since we soooo badly need it. 

We had monsoons earlier but we could use some rain now too. Grass is drying up and it is dusty. The weatherman has called for rain off and on for two weeks but none yet.

 

[Triple Willow]

Bee or somebody, can you give me the lowdown on egg binding... signs and what you do for it? Thank you much!

 

[Beekissed]

Good idea Bee. I just hope you have an extra pen so yours don't get anything from them.

You know I don't worry about all that silliness!

Biosecurity...

I've got immune systems that will stand strong and that makes all the difference in the world.

 

[armorfirelady]

Got Ferment?

Excellent pic! Could I use it in a book someday?

Absolutely!!

 

[RoseMarie1]

You know I don't worry about all that silliness!

Biosecurity...

I've got immune systems that will stand strong and that makes all the difference in the world.

That's true Bee, I didn't think of that. Man it's hard to remember all this stuff.

 

[Beekissed]

Absolutely!!

I see your flock has grown!!!

 

[armorfirelady]

Absolutely!!

I see your flock has grown!!! 

Yes by 4. I'm technically over my limit by 2 but the neighbors don't mind and the 4 PRs look the same to visitors so I think I am ok.

I got the 4 tots from a fellow BYCer in May. I like the different colors of them. They were so much fun when they were little, the BR and BCM are still to young to lay but the EE & BCM/EE Mix are. Its fun having blue eggs

 

[Beekissed]

They look great! You are going along quite nicely with your flock!

 

[armorfirelady]

Thanks. I've finally realized less is more, they are so simple to keep and easy for me to get hen sitters when all they need to do is feed at night. They have solar sensor end pop door so it's made life very easy especially on those cold winter mornings