Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[Kassaundra]

Good evening

Love the zig-zag spider, one of my absolute favorites.

 

[zinia8]

Love the zig-zag spider, one of my absolute favorites.

It hung out on the chicken coop for about 2 days then guess it moved on. Tons of bugs and spiders here. My daughter actually kept a grass spider in her room in a bug box all summer one year. Then after it died she set it in resin then turn into a necklace. She is spider lover drives her boyfriend crazy. Ok that was totally off topic so back to chickens and FF......been feeding ff since october last year been going well chickens seem to enjoy it.
My 9 month old SS pullets that started laying a 6 months quit laying went into molt this month is that normal?

 

[Beekissed]

I have a bird just coming out of molt and one that just started. My young pullets have molted twice this year...just little molts but they just finished up their second one for summer/fall. They haven't started laying yet and are just coming up on 7 mo. of age.

 

[RoseMarie1]

Beautiful pics, Kassaundra!!!! Poor TW...probably peeing into her shoes right now.

K, you would have loved the variety of spiders I got to see on my flowers this spring....I never saw such a variety and so very pretty! Some of them looked like crabs and were yellow, some orange, etc.

Like this one...




Here, TW....something you might enjoy: http://www.spiderzrule.com/crabspider1.htm

lol y'all bad ;-)

 

[RoseMarie1]

Wouldn't that be nice if they would all lay at once at 6 mo! Unfortunately, they don't all come into lay at the same age, even if they are the same breed and born at the same time. I've got 4 pullets(2 different breeds from the same hatch) at my house who are 7 mo. old next week and nary an egg. When I had a true working flock, that was the cutoff age....if they hadn't laid by 6-7 mo. they were soup. Now it's not quite so crucial that everyone come into lay at a normal age for maturity because I'm not selling eggs and trying to feed 3 hungry boys.

But, we are moving into winter and though yours and mine will start laying eventually and some may lay very well, not all will lay consistently due to it being the winter months, when the shortened daylight hours affect hormone levels.

Some people force the birds with light in the coop and fool the hormones~ that is one option.

OH YES it would be nice! I FINALLY got the most eggs today that I haven't gotten yet and I have 15 hens. We got 9 eggs today.

Although 2 of those were teeny tiny ones so they'd really count as 1. So I think 3 of those Aussies have FINALLY started laying. The RIR's hens are laying some nice sized eggs now.

 

[RoseMarie1]

Well Bee the supplement the lady told me about that her family was on, (I think I told you about it) lol) anyway is WORKING to clear this mess outta my lungs! PTL! The name in case anyone else is interested is N-ACETYL CYSTEINE and I found it at www.puritan.com buy one get 2 free.

She said her family of 6 was on it since Feb. and none of them have been sick since! I started it on Monday of this week and I am spitting hunks out.

Sorry to be so gross but wanted to show you how well it's working.

Hubby also started taking it and he said he thinks his sinus is better in the mornings. Life Extension had a write up about it when I googled about it. That's a magazine that talks about vitamins and such. Just sooooo excited that it's working!!! Didn't get the meds filled again because I was hoping and praying this would work and it is.

 

[Beekissed]

Yay for hunks!!!!

I'll have to keep that supplement in mind. Just a quick search of the compound really turns up various wonderful uses for this drug, ranging from respiratory illnesses to cancer. Is it costly? Might see about getting some for my son who seems to keep a cough all winter long now that he's out on his own and eating bad foods all the time.

ETA: Very NOT costly, I've found. Thank you, Rosemarie, for this cool little tip....we'll call it a RIP(Rose Tip)!

 

[RoseMarie1]

Yay for hunks!!!!

I'll have to keep that supplement in mind. Just a quick search of the compound really turns up various wonderful uses for this drug, ranging from respiratory illnesses to cancer. Is it costly? Might see about getting some for my son who seems to keep a cough all winter long now that he's out on his own and eating bad foods all the time.

ETA: Very NOT costly, I've found. Thank you, Rosemarie, for this cool little tip....we'll call it a RIP(Rose Tip)!

LOL

puritan had a buy 1 get 2 free and I got 3 bottles of 60 caps for 21 with shipping I believe it was. Maybe there was some change to.


www.puritan.com

 

[BCMaraniac]

LOL

puritan had a buy 1 get 2 free and I got 3 bottles of 60 caps for 21 with shipping I believe it was. Maybe there was some change to.


www.puritan.com

I just love those kinds of sales.

 

[RoseMarie1]

I just love those kinds of sales.

me to.