Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[Beekissed]

That's good to hear! I was hoping that no permanent damage was done. As I understand it, the castor oil acts as a stimulant on the skin's surface, causing more blood to come there.....could be that it helped circulation.

I love watching roos "find" food for the ladies...oh, if only human males would want to fatten us up like that!

 

[Windy Bay Farm]

That's good to hear!  I was hoping that no permanent damage was done.  As I understand it, the castor oil acts as a stimulant on the skin's surface, causing more blood to come there.....could be that it helped circulation.

I love watching roos "find" food for the ladies...oh, if only human males would want to fatten us up like that! 

I truly believe that the CO made a big difference in helping minimize the damage to his comb. Once I get pics, you'll see that it isn't nearly as bad looking as what I thought it would be. Considering when I first seen the frostbite, it was mostly black and I figured he would lose the entire top of his comb. A lot of the red appears to be back, at least most of it just below the tips anyway.

 

[Triple Willow]

Good morning everybody. Hope you're all doing well.

Ran across a old book posted on another thread, pretty interesting.

http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?...view=1up;seq=15;skin=mobile#page/n14/mode/1up

I read a few pages and found some interesting info about finishing meat birds on milk and ground corn. Buttermilk was even better, of course. I even saw that fermenting feed was mentioned. Something I didn't know, they use to implant meat chickens with hormones too. It tells about how the rooster's comb/wattles would lose color and shrink. I guess it took a while to see that hormones given to animals meant for food would effect the people eating it.

 

[BCMaraniac]

Good morning everybody. Hope you're all doing well.

Ran across a old book posted on another thread, pretty interesting.

http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?...view=1up;seq=15;skin=mobile#page/n14/mode/1up

I read a few pages and found some interesting info about finishing meat birds on milk and ground corn. Buttermilk was even better, of course. I even saw that fermenting feed was mentioned. Something I didn't know, they use to implant meat chickens with hormones too. It tells about how the rooster's comb/wattles would lose color and shrink. I guess it took a while to see that hormones given to animals meant for food would effect the people eating it.

Hormones were used to caponize roosters.

 

[Kassaundra]

Posting some recent "bed time" pics b/c I hate opening this page and seeing the "feet" pic staring back at me

 

[Triple Willow]

Hormones were used to caponize roosters.

Oh, okay. Good morning. How are you today?

 

[Triple Willow]

Ohh Kassaundra, you know you want to suck on those toes! hahaha

...perdy pics btw.

 

[TexasLisa]

Morning Everyone!

Kassaundra, did you change your avatar again? I like it! I love the pictures!

Hope everyone is feeling better.

Lisa

 

[Triple Willow]

  Morning Everyone!

Kassaundra, did you change your avatar again?  I like it!  I love the pictures!

Hope everyone is feeling better.

Lisa

Good morning Lisa.

 

[Kassaundra]

Morning Everyone!

Kassaundra, did you change your avatar again? I like it! I love the pictures!

Hope everyone is feeling better.

Lisa

Yes, it was a self portrait I took this week. I had not ever done self portraits and really wanted to experiment w/ low key w/o studio equipment. This was one of my two favorites. The other one reminds me of an old world painting. I specifically wanted to do pig tails in my portrait, and after I was finished I had to go to the store and just kept the pig tails in, and kept getting sideways looks from people, you'd have thought they had never seen silver (well 1/2 silver) pig tails!!! lol lol lol