Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[Triple Willow]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...-illness-claims-more-bald-eagles-in-utah?lite

Something killing bald eagles in Utah.

 

[Beekissed]

I had a real violent book that was pretty disgusting. Hated to waste a perfectly good book so I got a knife out and cut a huge hole in the middle of all the pages then glued them together and now it is used to store things.

Now, that's a real woman!! Don't like it? Turn it into something more useful! The Martha Stewart of the FF thread, TW..that's you.

I'll have to pick up a used Storey's Guide to Chickens and turn it into a coop poop scraper....

 

[Beekissed]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...-illness-claims-more-bald-eagles-in-utah?lite

Something killing bald eagles in Utah.

Almost sounds like Marek's, doesn't it?

 

[Triple Willow]

  Now, that's a real woman!!  Don't like it?  Turn it into something more useful!  The Martha Stewart of the FF thread, TW..that's you.    I'll have to pick up a used Storey's Guide to Chickens and turn it into a coop poop scraper.... 

Repurposing... sometimes redneck style! LOL

Almost sounds like Marek's, doesn't it? 

I'm not real familiar with Marek's. I really need to learn more about bird diseases before I have to!

What breed of sheep is it that you like? Would they be any good for milking? I've never tasted sheep milk...

 

[Beekissed]

Repurposing... sometimes redneck style! LOL
I'm not real familiar with Marek's. I really need to learn more about bird diseases before I have to!

What breed of sheep is it that you like? Would they be any good for milking? I've never tasted sheep milk...

Nah! I never learned about any chicken diseases until I joined this forum and found out there WERE chicken diseases!

Then I learned about them through the Google, but not for my benefit, only to help someone when they listed symptoms.

I still don't intend to learn anything more about any chicken diseases because I don't plan on having any. That's worked for me for the past 37 years and I expect it will take me the rest of the way.

If I ever get a book written it will have a suspicious lack of space devoted to common chicken ailments...because in my flocks they are not common. No one should ever get comfortable with having illness in livestock being thought of as "common". Good health, day after day, year after year, should be "common" and anything other than that should be considered incredibly uncommon, rare, an anomaly, an aberration.

The day I start to thinking of illness as being common to chickens is the day I hang up my egg basket and call it quits.

 

[Beekissed]

Switched out of the cooler and back to the bucket now that my feed is back in the house for the winter. I didn't want to invest almost $50 in a heated bucket and my other heated bucket is being used for the dog's water, so back in the bedroom it is. No worries...it worked out just great last year and it even helped that the feed was nice and warm/room temp on those cold mornings.

I'm glad to get the bulk of that big ol' cooler out of my room! Oh, blue FF bucket, it's good to have you back.....

<<<<<bursts into song.....>>>>>>>>

Now blue FF bucket is the best receptacle
From barns, garages, sheds, and coops.
And you, lady, do not have a pair of spectacles
If you prefer FFin' from glass

Hey blue FF bucket is cheap and disposable
In fourteen years they are decomposable
And unlike my home they are not foreclosable
Freddie Mac? Who's that?

Blue FF bucket, I fill you up
Let's make some feed, let's have a party!
I love you Ol' Blue, I lift you up,
Proceed to feed, proceed to party!

Now I really love how you're easy to stack
And I really love that you're not easy to crack
Cause when feed runs down the sides of the bucky
Well, that, my friends, can get quite yucky

But I have to admit that the hens get smitten
Admirin' at how stinky my feed is gettin'
They gobble it and then jump in the nest and get to sittin'
This feed sure makes 'em feel plucky!

Blue FF bucket, I fill you up
Let's make some feed, let's have a party
I love you blue FF bucket, I lift you up,
Proceed to feed, proceed to party

Now I've seen you in red and I've seen you in yellow
But only you blue will do for me, good fellow
Cause you are the Abbott into my Costello
And you are the Fruit to my Loom

Blue FF bucket, you're more than just plastic
More than amazing, you're more than fantastic
And believe me that I'm not the least bit sarcastic
When I look at you and say:
"Blue FF bucket, you're not just a bucket (No, no, no)
You're my friend, yea (Lifelong)
Thank you for being my friend"

Blue FF bucket, I fill you up
Let's make some feed, let's have a party
I love you blue FF bucket, I lift you up,
Proceed to feed, proceed to party

 

[LindaB220]

The holidays have been treating me VERY well. One of the most peaceful Christmas's I can recall, with beautiful weather and quiet times. I've grown to value these very quiet times, filled with gratitude and warmth towards the Lord at all times. I can't get over how blessed this past year has been and how wonderful it all feels! I feel like the richest person on Earth!

So true!! I feel that I have never been happier.

 

[Triple Willow]

Yep folks, she's crazy. hahahahahaha

 

[Triple Willow]

Nah!  I never learned about any chicken diseases until I joined this forum and found out there WERE chicken diseases!    Then I learned about them through the Google, but not for my benefit, only to help someone when they listed symptoms. 

I still don't intend to learn anything more about any chicken diseases because I don't plan on having any.  That's worked for me for the past 37 years and I expect it will take me the rest of the way. 

If I ever get a book written it will have a suspicious lack of space devoted to common chicken ailments...because in my flocks they are not common.  No one should ever get comfortable with having illness in livestock being thought of as "common".  Good health, day after day, year after year, should be "common" and anything other than that should be considered incredibly uncommon, rare, an anomaly, an aberration.

The day I start to thinking of illness as being common to chickens is the day I hang up my egg basket and call it quits. 

I believe if I had serious illnesses become common it would be time for a mass murder and hit the reset button. lol First thing would be to do some serious cleaning then take a hard look at my chicken keeping practices.

 

[Beekissed]

So true!! I feel that I have never been happier.

Funny, isn't it? The whole world stressin' and moiling about in crazy activity, worrying about this or that and we are sitting here groovin' on peace and calm, standing on the Rock. I'll never get used to that because I used to be one of those ants on that there anthill, moving about in pointless activity and worrying about the inconsequential. The problem with winning the rat race is that...you're still a rat.

Praise God that I'm not running that race any longer and have started a different kind of race!