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[DURR]

my chickens are pretty clean birds. They usually scratch their poo into the ground in their "coop". But they are easy keepers. Try fermenting their scratch/feed it helps to make their poo stiffer and easier to clean up. Not to mention it is more nutritional. my birds love it! And just so you know I'm a random person ha!

 

[chickengirl2013]

my chickens are pretty clean birds. They usually scratch their poo into the ground in their "coop". But they are easy keepers. Try fermenting their scratch/feed it helps to make their poo stiffer and easier to clean up. Not to mention it is more nutritional.

my birds love it! And just so you know I'm a random person ha!

What do I put in thier feed to ferment it?

 

[DURR]

I use a bucket in bucket system. One bucket with holes drilled in it and set in another bucket ( 5 gal ). I place just enough feed to feed a few times and replace what I've used with fresh feed as I take out. Make sure your grains are covered with water about a half inch over them. With layer feed you'd have to make sure you keep enough water to keep it covered because it'll expand and I use all natural apple juice about a cup full or you can use unpasturized apple cider vinegar but I have no idea where to get that from so I just used the all natural apple juice its easier to find.

 

[chickengirl2013]

I use a bucket in bucket system. One bucket with holes drilled in it and set in another bucket ( 5 gal ). I place just enough feed to feed a few times and replace what I've used with fresh feed as I take out. Make sure your grains are covered with water about a half inch over them. With layer feed you'd have to make sure you keep enough water to keep it covered because it'll expand and I use all natural apple juice about a cup full or you can use unpasturized apple cider vinegar but I have no idea where to get that from so I just used the all natural apple juice its easier to find.

Oh okay. Do you have any pullets?

 

[DURR]

Yep got some girls that haven't laid yet, some that are just starting, and a few that are laying queens! Though currently they have gone on strike due to all this nasty weather ugh!

 

[chickengirl2013]

Yep got some girls that haven't laid yet, some that are just starting, and a few that are laying queens! Though currently they have gone on strike due to all this nasty weather ugh!

All of my buffs are pullets. I wish they would hurry up and lay, though. Everyone thinks they aren't going to lay because I pet them too much. Ha! I do spoil them.

 

[DURR]

Lol my girls are spoiled rotten and only lay after I feed them their morning rations of Feed. Haha. They get fresh greens and other healthier snacks. but your girls will lay soon enough! Are their faces getting dark red?

 

[chickengirl2013]

Lol my girls are spoiled rotten and only lay after I feed them their morning rations of Feed. Haha. They get fresh greens and other healthier snacks.

but your girls will lay soon enough! Are their faces getting dark red?

My hens' faces aren't but my roosters' are. Thier faces have to be dark red before they start laying?

 

[DURR]

Yep the color of their skin around their eye's and their wattles and comb will be a bright deep red as they get closer to laying.

 

[chickengirl2013]

Yep the color of their skin around their eye's and their wattles and comb will be a bright deep red as they get closer to laying.

Oh okay well i think my buffs' wattles are still pink. Darn.