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LemonMeringue said:
I am curious if by what you say about building up an immunity on your chicks...........were you thinking that Petrus has medicated chick feed? They have always told me they don't make medicated chick feed. That is another big reason we like their feed. I don't pre-medicate my birds "just in case".
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No, I phrased my comment wrong, When i started my chicks in March, i could only get medicated starter/grower here, I swapped to Petrus as soon as i could and meant if i run out of Petrus starter/grower or grower, i have to get feed locally and it is the medicated feed which i dont use, so i buy enough at Petrus to last at least 4 weeks if not more/ None medicated and the lower cost is why i use only Petrus, the only feed i buy here is corn chops but not often because they are about 5/6 $ higher here, we only have one feed store here to choose from. A lot of people here make the drive to Petrus to get bulk supply.
 
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LemonMeringue said:
In the 10 years we have had chickens our hens ALWAYS do better on Petrus Feed.  We use laying pellets, chick crumbles and in some cases the high pro crumbles.  There have been times that we used other feed and it has always been less than second rate in comparison!  The chickens look better, act better and lay better on Petrus Feed.  Its fresh for one.  And I cannot for the life of my figure out why some of the name brand feeds smell fruity.  Seriously what the heck are they putting in it that smells like that.  The chickens don't care if it smells fruity and I doubt seriously that smell has anything beneficial to do with nutrition.  If you can, you should at least give it a try for a month or 2.
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For those of you that can't get to petrus. Buy the organic from Azure standard I like scratch & peck and big Sky. My birds look like show birds their feathers are so shiney. It's always fresh when I open the bag it smells like fresh grains right out the field.No waste they eat it all. and they don't eat as much. Pam
 
topdog24 said:
I am about to look for a deal on some meat birds.
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TD, I'm curious as to what breed you will choose and why would you not go with a good dual purpose bird.
Do you have processing equipment? I'll eventually need to look into pluckers myself. Probably a homemade type.

Cody
 
Happy Sunday everyone! We spent the morning at church with family in LC. I got home and checked nest boxes: a second RIW is laying!! And the sussex went back to the nest even though they were ranging!!

I was so excited for my first three egg day! I arranged the eggs in a cute bowl for a cute pic, dropped my phone, and smashed the egg. :(

So I scrambled it and ate it in a foldover.

My first day for three eggs!
My first completed dozen!
My first meal (snack) from my own yard!
 
campingshaws said:
Happy Sunday everyone! We spent the morning at church with family in LC. I got home and checked nest boxes: a second RIW is laying!! And the sussex went back to the nest even though they were ranging!!

I was so excited for my first three egg day! I arranged the eggs in a cute bowl for a cute pic, dropped my phone, and smashed the egg.
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So I scrambled it and ate it in a foldover.

My first day for three eggs!
My first completed dozen!
My first meal (snack) from my own yard!
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Funny that you dropped your phone. At least you got to eat the egg. Congrats on your first homegrown meal :)
 
Cody A said:
TD, I'm curious as to what breed you will choose and why would you not go with a good dual purpose bird.
Do you have processing equipment? I'll eventually need to look into pluckers myself. Probably a homemade type.

Cody
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I would choose a meat bird, probably cornish cros as they grow off fast for small amount of feed, i have plenty dual purpose birds that are young to not even laying yet, so it would be months even years before any of them would need to be culled, i may get hungry before then, have you seen the price of meats lately. No processing equipment other than what my grandparents used, boiling water and my hands.LC
 
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