Most Economical Way To Keep Poulty....Money Saving Tips!

Great ideas. Bumping up.

 

I have found that most towns have building projects. New subdivisions or buildings going up. You can go to the job site and talk with the job foreman and ask permission to get the lumber they just throw away. I built a neat little 2-story banty barn from material gotten from a new subdivision going up nearby. Also, large department stores and building supplies throw away lumber. For example, Sears spring riding mowers come wrapped in a wood frame that they just throw away and will often give them to folks who ask. Lowes and Home Depot has miss cut lumber at a great discount. These are just a few ideas, I hope they help.

 

i like most of the ideas, but if leaves get wet, they carry Cocci and can make your birds sick, aother thing to use in the fall is cor cob bedding

 

We took down some trees this year and had a ton of regular mulch
we used instead of pine. You can buy loads of it for $12 to $20 a yard.
Just make sure there are no chemicals, dyes, or cedar. It's a good pine
alternative.

Chickens are natural scavengers. I don't mean to gross anyone out but
I've been feeding my layers all the stuff left over from processing meat
birds. They love it, it's good for them, and it reduces feed consumption.

I started buying my broiler and layer feeds from a local famers co-op.
It's a lot of work. I lay down a tarp and put rubbermaid bins on it. They
dump the feed in and I shovel up the overflow. I save 25% versus
bagged food and the quality and freshness is superb.

 

These are really great ideas everyone.

 

My turkies are in my raised garden with a greenhouse over it. I've
been mulching my leaves a bag or two at a time and covering the
ground with them to block the smell. With the leaves being mulched
and the turkies pooping and compressing them they are turning into
dirt in days, not months. Next years garden should be great and need
no fertilizer.

I wouldn't use leave mulch in my coop or my chicken run.

 

Right now I have part of my corn field fenced off. I put my scraps, leaves, hay, alfalfa, grass, etc. in their area and let them scratch through it and they do a good job of scratching it all up and then I'll move them to another area in the field. Spanish moss is abundant here so I use it in their nest boxes.