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[LaKASkill]

ooops.

 

[LaKASkill]

Never done it, but have been considering it. Isn't there a fermented feed thread on here somewhere?

Yes, there are two that I found. After swiming through them for about a couple hours I decided to ask on the Mississippi thread to see if anyone in our area has ever messed with it. More or less just making conversation. But the chickens love it. I do it as more a snack then I do as their main diet for now. Still ironing out all the kinks.

 

[AlaBoutPeeps]

Hi Everyone. I'm looking for a male Brown African Goose for my female. Her mate was killed by a predator and she is very lonely. I a pair of ducks, but they are not always nice to her. If you have one or know of someone that has one, please message me privately with contact info.

Thank you!

 

[CassiasChickens]

Hey everybody! Does anybody have ducks or ducklings for sale near Cleveland Ms??

 

[buff goose guy]

Hi guys

I am takeing pre orders for some call ducklings this summer. Breeder quality-medium show quality birds.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

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Yes, there are two that I found. After swiming through them for about a couple hours I decided to ask on the Mississippi thread to see if anyone in our area has ever messed with it. More or less just making conversation. But the chickens love it. I do it as more a snack then I do as their main diet for now. Still ironing out all the kinks.

how time consuming is it?

 

[LaKASkill]

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how time consuming is it?

Not at all. You just set and forget. I found now that it is best to fill some 2 litter plastic bottles with water and freeze them. Fill you fermenting jar with your feed and water, then put the jar in a cooler and set one of the frozen 2 litter in the cooler with the jar and put the lid on the cooler. Three days later you are ready to feed it to them. The whole point of fermenting your feed is it forces them to eat all the feed instead of them throwing it all over the ground to pick out the seeds they want. It will save you about 40% on feed cost. You can add onion, garlic, yougurt, oats or whatever you like to feed them them and it will ferment as well. Each grown chicken will eat about a cup of fermented feed. Fermenting also increases the amount of vitamins and such already present as well as introduces new ones in their feed. If you want I will link you everything I use for my fermenting, all on Amazon.

 

[Braxton Brigade]

I am ready to join in a bit here. I am in Braxton, Ms which is quite back woods but am about to start a bit of breeding in the upcoming months.
If anyone knows of some quality birds/breeders in the area shoot me a message. Currently I am growing out some BBS Ameraucanas from Paul Smith bloodline and have a few Australorp cockerels from Castle/Keene bloodlines (got 3 chicks that all turned out male), I'll see how they fill out in their age. Currently I am seeing more things I dislike about them as breeding stock

. I am still super pumped because my NPIP and PT card came in today! I feel so professional about things like that, the guys who did the testing were quite impressed with my setups and the cleanliness of my pens. Needless to say I had my ego sufficiently boosted that day haha, nothing compared to White House Farms operation, her chickens are extremely impressive.

 

[AllynTal]

...If anyone knows of some quality birds/breeders in the area shoot me a message. ....

There's a farm in Hernando that is doing good things with Delawares. If you're interested, shoot me a message and I'll give you his email address.

 

[buff goose guy]

I am ready to join in a bit here. I am in Braxton, Ms which is quite back woods but am about to start a bit of breeding in the upcoming months.
If anyone knows of some quality birds/breeders in the area shoot me a message. Currently I am growing out some BBS Ameraucanas from Paul Smith bloodline and have a few Australorp cockerels from Castle/Keene bloodlines (got 3 chicks that all turned out male), I'll see how they fill out in their age. Currently I am seeing more things I dislike about them as breeding stock

. I am still super pumped because my NPIP and PT card came in today! I feel so professional about things like that, the guys who did the testing were quite impressed with my setups and the cleanliness of my pens. Needless to say I had my ego sufficiently boosted that day haha, nothing compared to White House Farms operation, her chickens are extremely impressive.

Lol I started reading this and was about to post that I have an excellent breeding program, but then i saw that you meant chickens

, I do ducks.

Any way some news from my farm

I just had a hatch , but let me give yall alittle background first

My family have raised mallard for almost half a century, they were derived from the wild mallard population. Once my grandfather began shows he began to keep a pedigree and from the pedigree it has continued to go on and on to present day. So any way in 2010 we had our annual pick of who was going to breed and put them in the aviary that february and in april we let the males back into the main aviary and put the females in their nesting enclosures. We only had 1 female go broody that year so only her eggs hatched. The following offspring were fantastic and beautiful babies except 1 was different, it was a pure solid black baby initially we were all very concerned and ended up taking the baby to the vet going through blood tests and Dna tests with the vet clinic and MSU and even hinds and holmes. The results all came back the same that there as a mutation in the MC1R gene that regulated pigment in the duck, so basically we had a melanistic mallard, 100% pure bred mallard ( we had never even owned any other breeds other than muscovies anyway). So yeah that is the story of the Black mallard that I now breed, the price of one of these rare coloring birds is set at about $1,000, because you cannot find purebred black mallards anywhere else on this side of the world.

Here is an adult black mallard ( this is actually the first one)

And these are her offspring that she has had so far :








So anyway here are the hatchlings for this year, from a black female and a normal pattern (which is called grey) male