Heritage Large Fowl - Phase II

[hellbender]

THanks ROn.

I"ve connected with a local breeder and he is definitely leary about finding the right homes for this breed, CBR. Tough dogs. I read the long bio designed to turn away inappropirate homes and it made me fall in love with the breed more. lol

Waiting for the right pup is tough-- have plenty of crates waiting for her. . .4 currently available , as other 2 are used by the chickens now !! lol THe dog collars still hang on the fence and the crates stand empty . . . .

Excellent choice and you are very lucky to find a good breeder close to you.

 

[thedragonlady]

No, I'm not Vcki but I'm free at the moment. Just google stock dog registries and you will get info for at least three. I would recommend The American Stock Dog Registry but nothing wrong with The National Dog Registry that I'm aware of.



EDIT: I suspect you could feed your chickens something close to 100% fish meal and the eggs would likely taste like...eggs. Wouldn't want to think about what it might do to the birds' alimentary systems. Right through a screened door.

Some of you are aware of MY feeding program and only a few have given it favorable reviews...but that doesn't matter. I have healthy long-lived and very productive birds with more folks seeking to buy our eggs daily.

Ron , your birds get better feed than most of have access to. It all sounds a bit grim in the production, but the end result is very healthy animal protein.The proof is in the pudding: your birds live a long time, and produce well. Who can argue with that ?

 

[Yellow House Farm]

what is it?

 

[thedragonlady]

Dragonlady, why is it that you specifically only use the Wazine once?

I use Wazine twice at a two week interval. The only parasites that Wazine gets are roundworms which chicks pick up at hatching. Valbazan and Safeguard get all the other parasites, plus roundworms.Since my birds free range, they are constantly eating earth worms, which carry gape worm too. I've been running my own fecals for 40 years, and it lets me know just what to worm for.Amazing that a relatively healthy looking bird can be carrying a huge parasite load, but they really bloom when you knock the bad guys out.;

 

[3riverschick]

~~right homes for this breed, CBR.
what is CBR?

 

[RedRidge]

Someone asked about BSF...
I use about 120 lbs of BSF per dry ton of feed.
BSF is about 49% protein... ideally I'd like it to be about 30% of their ration in the winter, but growing that many for consistent year round use for the amount of poultry I have is tough, so about 6 lbs per 50 lb batch is my ideal.
So about 12% of their ration is BSF.
That allows me to raise enough to feed "some" in the spring and fall, and a lot more in the winter.
I don't feed BSF in the summer - course I don't feed much in the summer at all.
I offer it, but they only eat about 1/4 in the summer what they do in the winter.
They simply have enough forage and bugs.
Aside - It takes about 2525 mature BSF larvae to make a lb.

IF I don't have 6 lbs/batch (or the daily equivalent depending on the number of birds I am feeding), then I supplement with meat and bone meal (which I'm sure varies but when mine was analyzed it was 50% protein). I have never gone beyond 8% of my total ration on fish meal back years ago when I was feeding it, but normally tried to keep it at about 4%... mostly because it was expensive.
With BSF being free and meat/bone meal costing me nothing but the processing, I haven't used fish meal in years.

 

[BGMatt]

THis begs the question, how does the meat taste on 7%?? Or if anyone feeds fishmeal , is a finisher ration used that is fishmeal free??

It tastes like chicken? certainly haven't noticed any ill effects. For that matter I never tasty fishy eggs either, so I do wonder if there's some sort of imagined affect there.

 

[gjensen]

Matt, back in the day, I had some hatchery Reds and Rocks. The Rocks had an off flavored egg. Don't ask me why, but it did not take us long to rid ourselves of them. Same feed, same house, same everything. Who knows where that came from.

 

[Beekissed]

It tastes like chicken? certainly haven't noticed any ill effects. For that matter I never tasty fishy eggs either, so I do wonder if there's some sort of imagined affect there.

Same with folks who say garlic makes the eggs taste funny. Garlic is a sulfur smell/taste and eggs taste and smell of....sulfur...so how do they tell? More sulfur-y-ness? I've never had an off taste in the eggs from garlic usage. Same with flax seed...no discernible difference.

 

[hellbender]

~~right homes for this breed, CBR.
what is CBR?

Just a guess but It might be .....Chesapeake Bay Retriever!