Myth Busters, BYC style

[CapricornFarm]

Oh so are they seasonal layers? This is my first year with guineas, Decided to skip raising them as keets and buy them as adult. i've definitely bought a few too many hens though.. so i'm going to try and hatch some more this year and pray for some rooster.. Huh, I think that's the first time i've ever said that?

Yes, guineas don't lay year round.

 

[MillersFarm]

Yes, guineas don't lay year round.

Darn, They better make it up by keeping tick population down Thank you for the reply though~!

 

[JaeG]

Good idea. I should make a list. I have a coop partitioned in half but my chickens are August of last year chicks. So pretty much full grown. But maybe i could test it on guineas! Or quail...

My quail love their fermented feed and it makes them less stinky. I forgot to make it one evening not so long ago so the next day they had to have dry stuff. Needless to say they were not impressed. Mine have given up laying and are moulting like crazy.

 

[MillersFarm]

I might try the fermented feed, I've got an order of 80 chicks coming may the 21st, I can separate half of them and feed them the fermented stuff, And feed the other half dry food..

 

[PirateGirl]

I might try the fermented feed, I've got an order of 80 chicks coming may the 21st, I can separate half of them and feed them the fermented stuff, And feed the other half dry food..

It would be interesting to see if they develop differently. If one batch feathers out quicker or has an obviously cleaner brooder or something.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I might try the fermented feed, I've got an order of 80 chicks coming may the 21st, I can separate half of them and feed them the fermented stuff, And feed the other half dry food..

Terrific, that will be a great ! Can you weigh them to start and at intervals?

 

[PirateGirl]

Terrific, that will be a great ! Can you weigh them to start and at intervals?

You wouldn't even have to weight the individual chicks, just the whole lot of them together. (If that even makes it any easier)

 

[MillersFarm]

It would be interesting to see if they develop differently. If one batch feathers out quicker or has an obviously cleaner brooder or something.

It'l be interesting how they'll do. If I like the fermented feed then I might switch over to it for my chicks..

Terrific, that will be a great ! Can you weigh them to start and at intervals?

I'll definitely weigh them when the first arrive and then separate, Might not be able to weigh all of them though? I'll tag 10 of the chick i'll feed the fermented and 10 of the others that will be on dry feed, And see how they go along?

 

[PirateGirl]

and keep track of how much feed you go through with each batch of chicks, how much less feed do the FF fed chicks actually consume?

 

[PirateGirl]

To make it easy you could just have a 50lb bag for each batch of chicks and then weight it at the end of the experiment or see how much is still left in one bag when the other runs out instead of keeping track of daily rations.