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jchny & mememe~ I'm going to have to open a Home for Wayward Chickens to save them from stock pots! At least animal lover isn't going to cook her mean chicken. : - ) I used positive reward training for my RIR when she was a "teenager" last summer. When I'd be sitting on a porch step outside and I'd pick her up to pet her, and put her down, she would ruffle her feathers and walk around behind me a give me a big peck on my back! She would do that every time! It was hilarious, but of course I had to stop that behavior. Her favorite things in the whole world are blueberries, so I would pick her up, put her down and immediately give her one blueberry before she had a chance to even start to ruffle her feathers. I repeated that several times a day for several days and she never pecked me again. She prefers organic blueberries from Fresh Market. haha, not really, but she does NOT like frozen blueberries.
strssed mom~ I know how you feel when you can't get out and play with your chickens! I took them out for their usual field trip today and it sprinkled twice, but I could tell that the rain was just passing through so we stayed outside. I'm sure my neighbors think I am the weirdest!
jchny~ Poor baby goat Bo! He has had a lot of new experiences to deal with. I bet he's sleeping at the foot of your bed right now!
Do you follow the same process for cat food? A few years ago, we adopted a stray cat, approx. 6 mos. old at the time, who we found hanging out with our other cats on the back deck. We gave him the unimaginative name Tiger. He's a great cat, but has always been small. We've had him neutered and he's been well taken care of, but he has always had a tendency to throw up food (dry food) a few times a month. I've tried different food, but it sounds like fermented food would help him if he would eat it. I assume I could cut your recipe into a fourth of the size to ferment smaller quantities of food. We have three cats, but you are used to fermenting massive amounts!
Hehe M2H! Oh Tiger is precious! He reminds me a lot of my Toby, best mouser on the planet. All my cats are strays here, My housecat passed away last year, lil Smokey, I cant bring my self to get another. She was around 19 years or so, just a charcoal grey, fluffy little girl. Sweetest little cat you ever met. I would bring Bo in the bedroom but my DH would prolly Divorce me on that one!
With all these birds, I have to face some realities later this fall. Some will be for the freezer. Any I raise have to be social and gentle or they have to be gone. My Mom loves to hold and touch the birds, so I want them all to be respectful to people. We have several friends with small children too, so I am pretty tough on who will stay or go. It will be a lot harder with these having hatched and raised them, but its all part of it. This is the main reason I started raising and breeding.. I want to know our food is safe & what it was fed. More importantly, the animals were loved respected and cared for while they were here.
