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[RonnieAtkeson]

Ive never seen the wafers at our atwoods or TSC. Ill probly just have to order them offline thanks.

 

[Greybear23]

Wife works at Atwoods in Stillwater and I have seen the wafers there and they also carry egg racks, and turners and some other stuff for the Styrofoam incubators mostly.
Kassandra did you see the post I made the other day about Duckweed and Water Hyacinths ? Reposted below!!! Lynn

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Thanks. The neat thing about duckweed, water hyacinth and water lettuce is that it can be grown in the pig effluent runoff and not only kills the smell but purifies the water. My pig feed
bill is almost zero.

Paul the Skeptic

On May 18, 2011, at 8:01 PM, Lynn Scrogum <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Paul, Lynn from Oklahoma here, I ran across this article on my homestead hog forum and thought of you and it might interest you! You may already have the info. Enjoy, Lynn

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Two interesting articles on duckweed.http://www.p2pays.org/ref/09/08875.htm andhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemna. Very interesting is the amount of proteins: between 25 and 45%!
Water hyacinth also makes excellent pig feed. Its protein is about 30%. I read an article in the South African Farmers Weekly years ago about an Australian farmer, who built his pig sties next to his farm dam and washed all manure into the dam. On the dam he had water hyacinth (which apparently is not a declared weed there as it is in South Africa), which he used to feed his pigs. He cut his feed bill by something like 50%

Frank (in South Africa)

 

[Greybear23]

Ronnie, what kind of games do you have, didn't you say you had a Red Quill hen, would you be interested in breeding her to my RQ Cock for some eggs from them???? Lynn

 

[GotGame]

If yall are wanting accurate thermometers, spot check by brinsea and the egg-o-meter have been very accurate, and read within .2 of each other at all times...not real cheap, but if you want a good reliable thermometer, they arent cheap...

 

[Kassaundra]

greybear, have you made any progress on any system for you growing duckweed? I need a really simple system since it needs to fit in a back yard, and I am only feeding 20 chickens right now. If I expand my garden later in the next few years the most I would have would be 40, but that wouldn't be for several years.

I'm thinking along the lines of an above ground swimming pool w/ roof rainwater runoff and stocking it w/ duckweed. If I remember the reading I did on it it will overwinter, but not grow or be harvestable during that time, but I have roaches for that anyway.

 

[Sooner]

I have baby chicks everywhere!!!!!!!!!

I hatched baby Turkey's too!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Kassaundra]

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[Sooner]

Has Teach said anything about his bugs???

 

[GotGame]

which part of okla is NNbreeder from, does anyone know?

 

[Kassaundra]

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Just that he liked them better then his wife!

Is lil'sooner still thinking about raising them?