Heritage Large Fowl - Phase II

[Wisher1000]

Can you post pictures of that pen he's in?

I was admiring that, myself! I would love to see more pics of that!

 

[3riverschick]

Need a prebiotic too for best effect. A prebiotic settles upon the surface of the G.I. tract. They form a proper sediment on which the probiotics settle. You can have probiotics without prebiotics but the whole "biotics" thing works better if the probiotics have a prebiotic foundation.
Best,
Karen

 

[Arielle]

Quote: BSF?? Ahhh Black Soldier FLies.

Quote: LOLOLOL Georgina is a sheep---SHeep do well on the thin barked birches; horses have cleared every tree in their space and where they can reach over the fencing. Looking for a controlled selction and keep some trees for fire wood in future years.

The pen where the sheep have been for two years is almost cleared and ready for seeding!! We tried the girdling techniqie in another area-- NOT ONE TREE DIED!!! Everyone leaved out last spring. Leaves smothered the grasses I planted in the years before. Of course the SS loved digging thru the leaves and ate what little grass was left.

It is a process.

 

[RedRidge]

Quote: Bottom two pics was prior to breeding pens being finished but you can see the inside this way.
The second pic shows what it looks like early in the morning just before the sun comes up when it's below freezing - basically the vinyl clouds up for about half an hr each morning as the sun comes up.
The only time I cover the front of the pen (and I use a tarp for this), is when the temps got below zero here - which hardly ever happens.
The two sides and top half of the back have clear vinyl during the winter that is attached with heavy Velcro so I can roll it up on days above freezing. I take the vinyl off all together after March.
The bottom half of the back is a flip down door on each pen for accessing nesting boxes.
The lower half of the partitions are removable to make bigger breeding pens if breeding more than a trio for instance I have a rhodebar cock and 4 RIR hens in a double right now).
Then in the late spring and summer I take out all three partitions and use the entire thing as a grow out pen.
Because the back faces west this also provides a little shade in the summer by having the lower half of the back in plywood flip down doors.
I have also since added a cheap, plastic gutter on the lower, back (west) side... this directs the roof water to the south and collects in a stock tank - keeps the back 6" of the pens dry this way when vinyl is not down but it's raining. Haven't had any trouble with rain from any other directions.
I use pine pellet horse bedding in and around the pens to keep them easy to pick out and to keep my foot paths mud free.

 

[RedRidge]

What is BSF?

Black Solider Fly larvae

 

[Arielle]

Who else has pictures to post??

 

[Beekissed]

Now, that's one wide and beautiful bird!!! Eye candy all the way! Love all that space between the legs.

 

[gjensen]

Red Ridge, that is a good looking bird, and nice pens.

I would be proud of him to. It is a privilege to work with nice birds.

 

[hellbender]

LOve a red bird!!

BSF?? Ahhh Black Soldier FLies.


LOLOLOL Georgina is a sheep---SHeep do well on the thin barked birches; horses have cleared every tree in their space and where they can reach over the fencing. Looking for a controlled selction and keep some trees for fire wood in future years.

The pen where the sheep have been for two years is almost cleared and ready for seeding!! We tried the girdling techniqie in another area-- NOT ONE TREE DIED!!! Everyone leaved out last spring. Leaves smothered the grasses I planted in the years before. Of course the SS loved digging thru the leaves and ate what little grass was left.

It is a process.

Well...there's your answer! Get some goats. If a tree is 'girded' by goats, it does die! They do the job from as far up as they can reach (on hind legs), right down to the roots...especially fruit trees. I have my 'good' treed protected by electric fencing.

By the way, often, a girded tree will leaf out the year after the act but will almost certainly die by the next season. If you leave even the slightest bit of the cambium layer, the tree can live a while but will eventually die due to disease.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Need a prebiotic too for best effect. A prebiotic settles upon the surface of the G.I. tract. They form a proper sediment on which the probiotics settle. You can have probiotics without prebiotics but the whole "biotics" thing works better if the probiotics have a prebiotic foundation.
Best,
Karen

Thanks for that. Do you have a recommendation?