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[Tabatha]

@Tabatha I have never tried fermented feed because I couldn't figure it out lol. I did sprout seeds for a few months and saw nothing different in growth or feather development. The main things I sprouted were black sunflower seeds, Milo, wheat, and oats. They mainly ate Milo and sunflower sprouts.

what I began to use for better development(which I did notice) is a mix of gamebird and layer feed. Sometimes just gamebird or just layer feed depending on how much $$ I could spend.

however for chicks, I did notice they feathered out too fast for their bodies lol. Sometimes their wings would drag. I noticed that instead of everything growing evenly, the tails kicked off after their body was fully feathered(3-4 months)

Mine loved the sunflower seeds, but I couldn't get them to do anything but barely crack and the chickens would figure out how to get into the batch and eat them all. I swear they could smell them.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

What are you referring to that would hurt them? mealy worms are great. I would not feed too much alfalfa, it tends to run through the birds. I have never used malt , but I guess it would be fine. sprouting milo will create poisonous compounds, so don't try sprouting those. =)

I will avoid sprout milo, thanks. What I mean hurt them is the effect of corn & soy that I have read on birds with high % of GJF DNA.

I do know that chickens love Lemon Grass and will eat that to the ground (they did mine in the garden) unsure though if it is bad or good for them, LG is now on the No No List for prego women along with a huge list of other foods (the No No List has gotten huge.)

@Lauravonsmurf
very upsetting. I lost so many and I had champion and reserve champion of every large fowl class. And a silver phoenix hen I had took Reserve Champion of the whole show. At that time I didn't work with specific breeds.

Oh no. The dog attack scenerio is a big concern of mine (I simply do not want to come home to death and destruction like I did once before) so I am collecting ideas on how to make better coops, as I want to make it hard to get at my chickens, when I start up keeping them again. I am thinking a combination of smaller coops maybe connected to a bigger chicken run, I want to try sand, and I think some sort of burried down barrier for sure.

On the Yokohamas & Phoenixes do any of you do the roo cabinet?

 

[rambob59]

@nikki1496
send me PM for eggs

 

[hcuddy9845]

 

[hcuddy9845]

i love them! i have standard goldens, and they are great. they are docile but not friendly. are hard to catch, but once you have them they are very friendly. they are not good layers.
they are descendants of an ancient japanese breed called an onigadori. the breed was created in Germany.
if you want them to have long and nice tails you should keep them on high perches, and not let them out into the mud or dirt. you should also feed them special food.it is quite a lot of work.
i tried keeping their tails nice, but found it to hard and ended up just letting them free range and do as they wished.
i have never gotten a broody hen, but apparently they are amazing mothers and go broody easily.

an amazing breed!!

 

[EZFarms]

@rambob59 i did

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Wow....

 

[rambob59]

@Lauravonsmurf
I use sand on my girlfriends bantam breeder cages but not in big coop. I am planning on using the rooster box(Tomebako) to let the phoenix tails grow for shows. Hopefully next month ill make some..

 

[rambob59]

@manny5412
the Blue Sumatra/Blue Wheaten Chicks hatched a while back, the pictures are on here..

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

@Lauravonsmurf
I use sand on my girlfriends bantam breeder cages but not in big coop. I am planning on using the rooster box(Tomebako) to let the phoenix tails grow for shows. Hopefully next month ill make some..

I just started reading on the boxes a bit for the day when I can have a roo, they are not something I have ever seen, seen up close or known anyone who had used them, so I am trying to understand them and what size a bantam would require. I plan to raise bantam birds when I start again with the chicken keeping.

I was also wondering folks who have bred for longtails what you choose in hens? What do you look for?

I am asking because my animal breeding knowledge as taught to me as a kid by my Great Grandfather was the female animal is more important to a breeding program than the male, he explained you will keep females longer and they form your core stock. The males can be brought in or added and subtracted to the breeding program easy enough, but you want a good feamle pool that you do not switch out allot... they are what you research and spend the $ on. He also said even though science says the DNA is 50% from each animal, in his experience the babies tended to take after the mother more (so that would be in modern speak the female lines DNA expression seemed to always be stronger for reasons he could not explain... I believe what he was seeing expressed was sexlinked genes, but that is why if a sire does leave a consistent mark/look/performance ability to his babies it is a big deal he also explained). Now he did not breed birds though... he bred horses. But I think the advice on choosing the best girls you can to buy, keep & breed to is sound for any critter so I was wondering how do you all choose hens for a breeding program?