Okies in the BYC The Original

[nnbreeder]

It's really funny what different feed will do for, or to, a bird. Corn will impart it's yellow color on the shanks of the legs and brassiness in some

Grasses and even baled Alfalfa will give you that dark orange yolk. Bluebonnet feeds out of Ardmore uses an alfalfa base for their poultry feed and that is the protien source too, not Corn.

A high protien content will cause Angel Wing in waterfowl and with broilers make leg problems more prominant.

Low protien at time of molt and the feathering of a chicken will just look, well, ordinary. 24% or so and the feathers will come in bright and shiney.

I never feed scratch grains, seems the birds will pick out what they like and not really benefit from the mix.

Oh yea one more thing. High Soy content can screw up the hormones in hens and may make your roosters fire blanks but it hasn't been studied near enough. Soy contains high amounts of Phytoestrogen which has been linked to infertility in some species.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoestrogens

 

[Whirlwind]

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Sounds like a good one. I will tell Nick he may go. I will be leaving for Canton Tx tommorow for the 1st Monday trade days weekend.
Wonder what kind of chickens I will find there?

 

[al6517]

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Ok I have Your GFM's on the way for both of you, All I need to know from both of you is if you want to keep them for yourselfs or gift them, once you let me know that you should then recieve a PM with your GFM info or it will just appear on your board within 24 hrs. then you need to just pick your new title.

AL

 

[countyroad1330]

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Al can get his birds to eat anything, he told me so at POOPS!

 

[Buckguy20]

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I haven't had much problem with brassiness so far. Any birds that have shown it in the past have been culled. I sure don't want them in my breeding pens. So far, I've been very lucky.

-Stimp-

Doesn't having a little brass make them Marine birds?

 

[nnbreeder]

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Sounds like a good one. I will tell Nick he may go. I will be leaving for Canton Tx tommorow for the 1st Monday trade days weekend.
Wonder what kind of chickens I will find there?

Are you taking orders?

 

[HennyPennies2007]

OK finished up the Corid over the weekend...Wormed with Eprinex pour on on Saturday. Then after reading Al's handy dandy cheat sheet I realized I had been undermedicating with the LS-50. After weighing it out on the postal scale I was using 1/4 teaspoon per gallon. No wonder no one got better. So now we are on the LS-50...Can I stretch it to ten days? I have electrolytes with probiotics, is that as good as yogurt? I have been giving the really sad lookin ones polyvisol (no iron). Most of them are lookin up already. After this I want to worm with Wazine....I have some with frothy stool, and I was thinking maybe that might make them weaker and no immunity. Big feathers are starting to appear on one who has been featherless for a year. (Giving her medicine is a real gas) They have had ZERO scratch, and are just now starting to eat theikr pellets again pretty good.....Once I do the Wazine can I feed them back their eggs? I am also getting some rooster booster when Mike gets paid....straight B vitamins....Has anyone had any luck with kicken chicken? Omega 3 and all those acids... thought might give em a boost for feathering.... Let me know...

Things are looking up....I hope....

 

[Buckguy20]

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Flamingoes get their pink color from the shrimp they eat.

 

[Whirlwind]

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Sounds like a good one. I will tell Nick he may go. I will be leaving for Canton Tx tommorow for the 1st Monday trade days weekend.
Wonder what kind of chickens I will find there?

Are you taking orders?

I am afraid my friend might leave me there if I try to fill her SUV up with Chickens.

 

[Stimpy]

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Al can get his birds to eat anything, he told me so at POOPS!

That reminds me of a friend who said he could get a real bargain on some bulk dog food. I asked what he intended to do with all that dog food and he said he was going to feed it to his cattle. I asked if cattle will eat dog food and he said "they will on the 2nd day".

But I don't think that is what Al meant.

-Stimp-