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[pawtraitart]

Anybody else bake for their chickens....or am I just totally weird?! LOL

I like to make a special bread for my birds every now and then. It has wheat flour, eggs, Fertrell nutri-balancer, alfalfa leaves, crushed egg shells, black sunflower seeds, and other goodies in it. My birds love it!

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Anybody else bake for their chickens....or am I just totally weird?! LOL

I like to make a special bread for my birds every now and then. It has wheat flour, eggs, Fertrell nutri-balancer, alfalfa leaves, crushed egg shells, black sunflower seeds, and other goodies in it. My birds love it! 

I have not baked bread with specific chicken nutrients in it....but I have baked bread for them And I cook them oatmeal and scrambled eggs on Sunday mornings I never though about adding all the seeds and stuff, i bet they really like that! I have given them cornbread, they like that quite a bit.

 

[pawtraitart]

I have a bread machine so I just toss in the ingredients and let the machine do the work. The ingredients I add vary depending on what I have on hand. The only birds who don't take to it instantly are the turkeys. My turkeys think anything I put in their run that is new must be something dangerous. They whoop, click, and whistle for a long time...sometimes most of the day... before somebody is brave enough to give it a try. Even putting some of their regular food on top won't help. They walk around the scary bread with their necks stretched out and their feet moving oh so cautiously in case they need to run in a hurry.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

That is so funny! Your turkeys crack me up, all you have to do is stomp your foot and they puff up. And they move sooooo slowly when they are on the defense, with all those feathers out. Pretty cute Will have to be more creative with the bread, good ideas you have. I have found a lot of my food storage that needs to be rotated through is stuff the chickens like. Wheat, corn, oats, granola, cornmeal, all stuff they can use...it is nice to have a use for it, we just have not used as much as we thought we would!

 

[pawtraitart]

Yeah, the turkeys are pretty funny especially the free roaming boys who walk around all puffed congratulating themselves on how awesome they are. My most comical bird, however, is my black mottled bantam cochin. Whenever I add feed to his bowl, even if there is still some in there, he gets so excited that he is overwhelmed by a serious case of happy feet and.......just gotta dance!! His girls must think he's looney.

 

[Daloorashens]

Sheesh!! Been a few days of craziness and poor baby boy being sick...

Kekko.. thanks for the added info on incubating... getting my plans hatched out, lol=)

That sounds like a cool idea to bake for the birds with all that extra yummy stuff in there for them!! I like Lisa's idea to put in stuff that needs to be rotated out of food storage, too.. I'll have to try that as the weather cools down.. I just can't take the thought of using the oven more than I have to when it's hot outside!! I guess I'm just a cheap skate, I can't stand the thought of using the a/c more if the oven has been on, lol!

I just give table scraps (the stuff they can have) to my birds right now, but boy do they love it!! The past few days we've been giving the peas that are getting too big and yucky, they go nuts for those, but I think their favorite treat is ham... which they don't get very often, but wow, they love it, oh, and oatmeal, too... MIL brought us some peaches from Brigham City, yummy, yummy, yummy, and the girls love those peelings, too...

I let the teenagers out in the yard this morning... they don't get out as often because I have some younger ones that the cat can get, but I just kept them locked in the run. It's so funny to watch the older hens get all upset because I didn't let them out. One thing that has always amazed me about chickens is how they all have their own personalities... like your bantam cochin roo, Michelle.. who would've thought they could each be so unique!!

Speaking of, Susan, any luck with your roosters??

 

[Daloorashens]

Okay, all you chicken experts.... Question for you about eggs... I'm not familiar with what to expect for some of the colored egg layers... When I was younger, I only had brown and white egg layers... My OE pullet, with a straight comb, but muffs/beard and similar feathering to a wheaten ameracauna, a few very small feathers on her shanks, started laying olive eggs about a month ago. Then on Thursday, she laid the egg on the right and hasn't laid since (I figure she's taking a break, she has laid 5-6 x's/wk since she started) Is it normal for the color to change that much from one day to the next??

 

[Daloorashens]

Yeah, the turkeys are pretty funny especially the free roaming boys who walk around all puffed congratulating themselves on how awesome they are. My most comical bird, however, is my black mottled bantam cochin. Whenever I add feed to his bowl, even if there is still some in there, he gets so excited that he is overwhelmed by a serious case of happy feet and.......just gotta dance!! His girls must think he's looney.

ROFL=)

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Daloorashens, are you sure that second egg isn't from one of Bonnie's birds?Is it possible your OE stopped one day earlier and this was an egg from somebody else?

They do fluctuate alot, but that one I would really guess is from another bird.

If she stopped, it may be the heat, or stress... I do not know if she would molt this soon, probably not, but maybe.....OR.....she could be going broody. Does she squeal when you approach her, or puff up her hackle feathers? Does she sit on anybody elses eggs?

 

[SusanRenee]

Oh yeah, it went bad. Contemplating ideas right now..... It's either pasture pet or freezer camp.... I really like the old roo, but I have a rule about of you ain't layin, you ain't stayin and that goes for boys and girls!!!