Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[BCMaraniac]

HA boys! hehe One of my nephews put a little plastic snake down the back of my shirt and I didn't know it. After I got home it fell out in the floor and scared my mom to death. LOL I thought it was real too. I snuck up behind it and grabbed it - plastic! LOL

When I was little....four maybe, I went out on the front porch late one evening, and picked up a big pinching bug very carefully by the body, then took it into the house where my sister(12 yrs older) was standing at the sink washing dishes with her back turned to me. She was wearing shorts, and I put that bug on the back of her leg. She screamed, and I thought she was going to kill me. My brothers thought is was hysterical. They were older than me, but younger than her. They have told that story for years.

 

[dolfi]

Can anyone post a picture of boss and red wheat. I'm at the market and have no idea what it looks like.

 

[Beekissed]

BOSS~ Black Oil Sunflower Seeds




Red Wheat~

 

[dolfi]

Thank you s

BOSS~ Black Oil Sunflower Seeds Red Wheat~

Thank you so much

 

[Triple Willow]

When I was little....four maybe, I went out on the front porch late one evening, and picked up a big pinching bug very carefully by the body, then took it into the house where my sister(12 yrs older) was standing at the sink washing dishes with her back turned to me.  She was wearing shorts, and I put that bug on the back of her leg.  She screamed, and I thought she was going to kill me.  My brothers thought is was hysterical.  They were older than me, but younger than her.   They have told that story for years.

HA! You had a mean streak early on! hahahaha

 

[BCMaraniac]

I guess so TW...either that or I just got it out of my system early on.....LOL

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Well, my chooks are in the garage again for a bit. Well below negative temps again and insane windchills in the -20's and lower as per usual. Next year I will by a bale of straw, not hay, just for them and simply load the coop down with a foot of good clean, dry bedding. They have about 8 inches of bedding layered with poo right now doing the whole DL thing but it seems to get really cold in there still. I think having tons of clean straw will make it less drafty (my coop is loosely built) and they could stay in there... As it is I just don't have that.

Maybe providing them with extra light, heat and food will bring my girls into laying, though! I have some birds laying occasionally but nobody is laying well and so 3 eggs a week from my flock of 8 is pretty typical. I will leave the lights on late every night.

 

[Beekissed]

I had six from nine today, so this cold snap is working in my favor...every time the temps drop, the egg production rises. Warms up a little, the eggs drop off. Crazy thing but others are reporting the same thing.

It's 5* here right now with a windchill of -7 and supposed to just keep getting colder. I can hear the wind picking up out there. On these subzero nights I've been turning on a heat lamp in the coop just for kicks and giggles. They don't seem to need it but it makes me feel like if they wanted they could roost on that warm spot. My coop has so many open areas that it doesn't actually hold heat like other coops would, so that the only warmth the light generates is right in front of where it's located.

It's something to be said for an open air coop that none of the chickens are showing any frost bite, even with the heated dog water dish in the coop...it's sitting right next to an open to the outside place in the coop.

 

[armorfirelady]

We to have below zero temps here. I put out some more hay today in both the coop & the old run. During the day they tend to stay in the old run. I think its because its up against the garage and protected from the wind. Plus it gets full sun. At night they poof up triple their size & cuddle. I have no heating lamp so they need to keep themselves warm.

 

[Beekissed]

Can you imagine if you were still dealing with that doll house coop? What a nightmare! I often wonder what folks are doing with those things in these temps and snows when the birds have to stay confined to those small spaces. I feel sorry for mine in the space they are in right now and plan to expand in the spring....they each have 8 sq. ft. but that ain't much when you have to be in it all day long every day because of bad weather. That's why we always tell newbies that the 4 sq. ft. rule goes out the window when chickens have to remain confined in that space for long periods.