Hot Peppers In Scratch...

[lil' fowl]

I read somewhere and can't remember where that if you put h peppers in ch feed that they will hatch more pullets...i'm trying it, but hens are hardly laying yet, figured it can't hurt them....has anyone ever heard of it or tried it...no since in buying more peppers if it's not going to work...vinegar is suppose to work for goats, wonder if it would help...appreciate any info on getting more pullets buy way of feed or anything else...thanks

 

[possumqueen]

Vinegar's good for a lot of things, especially apple cider vinegar, but I never heard of it making more girls.

and hot peppers, never heard of that, either. I DO know that parrots LOVE hot peppers. Don't know about chickens, though. worth a try.

 

[lil' fowl]

they eat it but really have no choice...i ground the peppers in walnut oil then mix with thier feed...i know the walnut oil is good for them....i just wish it would STOP SNOWING and get some sunlight so they will lay more....i'm above Asheville...are you getting this awful weather in Monroe???? want to run lights out there but it's just too bad right now....seem to get only one or two good days a week and i have to go out on those days....snow doesn't hardly melt then we get more....i am soooo sick of it.....and so are my birds....

 

[possumqueen]

No snow here. Nothing but rain and flooding.

and don't send us any of your snow, either, lil' fowl, cause now I know where you live, and I'll hunt you down!! We had ice last Sunday, and I landed on my rear end several times. I'm not interested in doing that again.

You need to move down here.

 

[mstricer]

I got 10 inches and drifts up to waist

 

[lil' fowl]

at this point i don't really know how much snow/rain/sleet we've had and sometimes all of the above at the same time..., it was really deep but it shrunk and got mushy then refreezes at night but it just never seems to just completly go away just gets harder and harder to get around and drive in...no stoppin goin down the mnt and hard to get back up it and have had to walk ...never seen a winter like this...alway free range goats and birds but have had to feed most of this winter and feed is prices is rediculus, found a place near boone that is half what i've been paying and going there nx week.............quote"you need to move down here." is that a offer...are you sure you have room for alll of us...3 goats/5 pyrenees,3 lil' dogs,3 cats,28 chickens(i think) and 1 degu....I"M ON THE WAY!!!!!

 

[gsim]

Rainy here in E Tenn (What's new?) Ground squishy soft. Got a 3 day break earlier and spread 2300# coarse sand for walkway from gate to coop. Some days if snowy the girls will wait til mid day or so to venture out, then will stay out a good bit, but do not like it as well. One thing is for sure tho, and that is that the 23 pullets lay around 20 eggs a day, snow or no snow, rain or shine. When it comes to egg production, my girls don't care what the weather is. I have not used any artificial light either.

 

[lil' fowl]

well i'm hardly gettin a egg a day...i think it is because i'm high up and cloudy most of the time...mine won't hardly go out now...no dirt to scratch in...what kind do you have? I HATE SNOW!!!

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

Bizarre really, I live in the "snow belt" of NY lots of lake effect and everyone seems to be getting snow but us! Can't say I mind too much but the bitter cold has got to go.

 

[lil' fowl]

it is really starting to get to me.....i started takin 5HTP(natural seritonin)...you know if it's effecting me this bad it has to b bothering the birds....if it wasn't so expensive i'd give them some too.....doesn't help being on the north side of the mnt either...suppose to b sunshine today??????where is it??????wheres all that global warming??????i'm really not a whiner but this is really getting on my very last nerve!!!!!!!!i've even had birds freeze on the roost!!!! yea just where is all that global warming we was hearing so much about????????