Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

Holding classes is a great way to "sell" you young roos too

 

As our goat population increases and my contemplation on starting up a small scale piggery I started researching all sorts of alternative feeds and came ac cross an amazing site.

http://www.feedipedia.org


This site lists just about every edible plant and tree. It provides nutritional information as well as experiences with feeding them to various animals including poultry.

Its been a real eye opener for me.

Several years ago, when living in the Philippines, one of our sows got out. She was a monster size Great White named Wilma. Our tankal (pig pens) were free standing and we had no way to corral this big girl back into her pen. I was really upset at the thought of having to crash tackle her and then carry her back with half the village helping.

Dante, Bernie's brother, who was building our bamboo fence at the time had sold us the pigs when they were about 1/3 the weight. He saw the commotion and them walked up to a tree locally called Ipil Ipil. Leucaena, as it is formally known turned out to be candy to a pig and Dante led her back into her pen within minutes. It was a revelation but one that I did not act upon at the time. The experience did however replay many a night when I was unwinding from my day and heading towards sleep.

When I came across this site I entered Ipil into the search box. I learnt that its a very fast growing legume with protein content north of 20%. It is not ideal for chickens but can be a major part of a goats diet.

Analou planted 100 seeds this weekend.

We had recently planted 12 Malunggay Trees as well - after reading feedipedia we added 20 more.

Check out trees and shrubs that are available to you.

 

feeding your birds their poop

http://www.feedipedia.org/node/66

 

thats sad. i have read several articles about using chicken poop in silage in small proportions that worked very well on ruminants