Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[GregnLety]

My sister's first husband and father of my oldest nephew had open heart surgery today. Positive thoughts and prayers please. He was a good friend of mine long before he married Cara. He is currently in ICU but came through the surgery good.

 

[Ponypoor]

My sister's first husband and father of my oldest nephew had open heart surgery today. Positive thoughts and prayers please. He was a good friend of mine long before he married Cara. He is currently in ICU but came through the surgery good.

Sure hope all is good going forward

Sending best wishes

 

[Ponypoor]

Unfortunately not. I broke it when younger and only thought it was sprained so I wrapped it and kept going. The break didn't heal correctly. The stupidity of youth is having it's revenge

sorry your ankle is acting up, take it easy, and be careful

 

[Ponypoor]

90/10 Rule

I have just responded to the Cracked Corn article today. They quote the 90/10 rule when providing treats to chickens. I thought that perhaps a visualization of what that means might be useful.

Here is a bit of a copy of what I posted.

Chicken feed rates are most commonly expressed in studies as weight or mass not volume. Most of these studies were done to measure the delivery of antibiotics in feed. Despite that they do give a starting point to determine how much your chicken eats per day.

If we use a study done by B.B. Buck in 1985 they categorized feed consumption as a % of body weight.

So if we look at a 3.5 lb chicken, say a Polish or a Leghorn hen, they consumed 6.7% of their weight by day in feed. Let's convert lbs to ounces in order to make determining 10% easier. 3.5 lbs × 16 = 56 oz x 6.7% = 3.752 ounces of feed per day. That is about 3/4 of a cup.

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10% of that would be 0.3752 oz of corn or no more than a palm-full per day.

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Let's look at a bigger chicken, your typical layer. Not a dual purpose bird like an orpington, just a standard hen say around 5 lbs. In the study, a 5.5 lb chicken consumed 5.0% of their body weight. 5.5 lbs × 16 = 88 oz x 5.0% = 4.4 oz feed per day. That is approaching a cup of feed.

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10% of that is 0.44 oz of corn or again, no more than a palm-full per day.

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As you can see despite increasing the size of the chicken, it is still about a palm-full of corn per day.

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Oh don’t tell my gang this! I only give all 13 of them 2 handfuls a day!!!

If they knew all of them could have their own handful, I will never hear the end of it!!

On a more serious note I am glad I am not over indulging them.

 

[GregnLety]

3rd cup of randy and it's miraculously feeling much better

sorry your ankle is acting up, take it easy, and be careful

 

[GregnLety]

3rd cup of randy and it's miraculously feeling much better

Brandy, stupid autocorrect

 

[RoyalChick]

Yay! Maggie held on to the coveted slot by the wall tonight.
The night vision camera really shows her incoming black tail feathers better than even direct vision in daylight.

 

[Ponypoor]

I finally managed to caught a video of Gastounet being terrorized by Chipie!

She really is evil- starts by cooing and acting all nice and then she turns on him .

Wow yep she is very bold! And half his size

 

[Ponypoor]

Brandy, stupid autocorrect

Hmmmm is it the autocorrect ?

Would that be mums recipe?

 

[GregnLety]

Brandy, stupid autocorrect

The brandy is having no effect