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[Leahs Mom]

I use one of the lawn leaf catcher things that you pull behind a garden tractor. I dump piles at each coop, then on to the pigs pen, and toss a bunch in the hay cage for the goats and cow. I never have to store it long LOL! (I wish we had more acreage to plant sorghum and alfalfa.) If I do store any, it goes into the loft of the livestock trailer, or more in the pigs pen. The pigs just devour it, and its very healthy for them too. And its great for deep litter in the coop also!
I also gather pine needles as often as possible, the catcher picks them right up.

More questions!
(Maybe I should do this in pm...if you want to pm so I'm not boring everyone with this you can!)

With the brush hog, how tall is your grass ...Do you cut it when it's "hay-height" of 8-14"? I'm thinking it has to be on the longer side to feed it to the cow?

Is there any reason that the cow doesn't graze it standing rather than your cutting it and taking it to her/them?

Sounds like you don't store it for the winter so you're not baling. Have you ever kept it loose for winter? Does that work okay?

Here's What I'm Thinking...
I have a 2 acre pasture area that I let grow out last year for hay. I don't have a brush hog and I had thought I could get a local fellow to cut and bale it. He finally did but it was just a hassle. In prior years I was just cutting it with the regular lawn mower attachment. The chickens do LOVE the cuttings for their nests, etc., but I was losing a lot of it since I don't have the sweeper attachment. I'm hoping to get one of the catchers this season and will definitely keep all the grass clippings. But what I was thinking is that if I had a brush hog attachment rather than just the regular mower, maybe I could do it at hay length and use it for animal feed or possibly even sell some of it if I don't have any animals to feed.

 

[bradselig]

Rural king has the 7 or 10# feeders and 1gal waterers on sale for $3.99 each! Gotta get more feeders!

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

it works with many small critters. was told it works on opossum too..
got the calf from an auction and knew he may not make it the farmers don't care if they get that first milk stuff they need to live, I know what it is I just cant spell it...lol don't make it any easier. I have only lost 2 out of the 6 I have taken in.

mystery chicks... that would drive me nuts... but be fun at the same time... I know I make no since.. lol
my grandmother always feed it and I guess I am just following in her footsteps... lol cant remember her having any problems, and I haven't yet..
I seen the Aspirin part and used it last night and this morning.

LF Salmon Favorelle are on SOOOOO on my wish list, they are so beautiful!!!

my Golden Comets have been great, no matter the weather I always get lg brown eggs.

again would drive me nuts while having fun guessing at the same time. lol

I have one LF. Her name is Tuna.

Lovely! I am really curious about the SF bantams. How large an egg do they lay?
Your cockerel looks hefty already, bet he will be a big boy!

Thanks. She layed an egg the day I bought her, but nothing sense. The guy gave me the egg with her lol. It is a decent sized for a bantam, but they are also a larger sized bantam. Probably a medium. He has a really big frame,now he just needs to put on some more muscle and fat. I am hoping he fills out nicely, because the girls I got with him are a tad smaller than I would like them to be. I want to line breed and I have a trio from one line and a pair from another. I would really like to see what good offspring I get from the lines before intercrossing them, to see what I can improve. Hopefully their won't be much to improve. Don't have to worry about color, because they are white!

 

[CRSelvey]

I got a few pictures the other day. Salmon Favorelle Bantam White rock Cockerel

I love your pics. SFs are on my wish list too. My little bantam Ameraucana lays the best eggs. I wish we had a couple more bantams.

Needing some ideas on good egg production brown egg layers for our indiana winters. Wanting to get into a breed that I can use solely to sell eggs for. Everyone seems to like brown eggs best. Any ideas?

My red sex-link laid extra large brown eggs and my GLW laid large brown eggs all winter. They each gave me 5-6 per week.

UPDATE on my EE hen MJ. she must be feeling a little bit better cause she is fighting me now, and she even gave me an egg, what a trooper I told her she didn't have to do that. She needs to conserve her energy.... but ... her eye was a real mess but the rest of her scratches and scrapes look a bit better. her beek is still messed up but its only been a day, not even a full day yet. Going to cook her up some runny oats and see if I can get her interested in a noodle worm... and maybe a scrambled egg mushed up real fine. I think it may be the infection but she really stinks, real bad, thought I was gonna lose my breakfast. is that normal?

Im so sorry about her injuries. That poor baby.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I love your pics. SFs are on my wish list too. My little bantam Ameraucana lays the best eggs. I wish we had a couple more bantams.
My red sex-link laid extra large brown eggs and my GLW laid large brown eggs all winter. They each gave me 5-6 per week.
Im so sorry about her injuries. That poor baby.

Thanks. I just got my first egg from my bantam AM the other day. I believe we got ours from the same person, littleameraucanamom.

 

[kabhyper1]

Hey guys!..... I'm making this huge so nobody misses it lol. What was the chick brooder called you all were talking about awhile ago that wasn't a Brinsea?

 

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Hey guys!..... I'm making this huge so nobody misses it lol. What was the chick brooder called you all were talking about awhile ago that wasn't a Brinsea?

The heating Plate? It was a from premier 1 supplies
http://www.premier1supplies.com/detail.php?prod_id=120893&criteria=brood+heat

 

[froggiesheins]

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[kabhyper1]

The heating Plate? It was a from premier 1 supplies
http://www.premier1supplies.com/detail.php?prod_id=120893&criteria=brood+heat

Yep that was it. Thanks!

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Yep that was it. Thanks!

BTW, you get free shipping if you spend over $100. So you might actually save a little money and get more