Raising our 1st set of CX meaties

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I've just read this whole, and half way through ordered meaties, lol. I've been meaning to for years, I just keep putting it off.

Love seeing other Louisiana people, we're north of Lafayette.
 
Angelicisi said:
Oh my! Who'd have thunk! Even using unlaid eggs! That's really neat.
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We had always done that....Grandma really liked just throwing them into the chickens soup she was making that day with the chicken she just butchered. I just kept them in little baggies in the fridge and used them in the next omelet or scrambled eggs we were making.

Now that I don't make any mistakes on who is laying and who is not, I never encounter eggs big enough to eat in a hen anymore so no more unlaid eggs for us.
 
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What's spent barley...or how is it used before they don't need it? Is it fermented already?! Lol sorry I have no clue but I know a near brewery and never thought about feeding it. Is it mixed with feed? Feed only that? Or how? Is there a nutritional difference since they've been "used" in one way once? Like pre fermented would be a benefit is think! Or soaked to a point of sprouts? I have to go Google...there's tons of spent grain here I just figured it was composting material because they used the word spent lol thank you for bringing this up. I have a lot of research to do now lol
jenifry said:
Something that one of my friends found was very interesting. Does anyone have any small local breweries? We are looking at getting a surplus of (OMG! Free!!!) free barley returns from a local brewery here. We are going to be able to get 500# of it a week, free! We are considering putting a bunch of us together and purchasing birds and then getting together to butcher. When food is free it makes raising them on a large scale so much more enticing.
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I just know the spent grain is the castoffs from the brewery, I'm assuming fermented in some sort of way, because the protein content is astronomical. Sorry I don't know more. I haven't been doing the research, my best friend has. (I work full time, and am a full time college student with three kids, I barely have time to brush my teeth some days! She's a stay at home mom that homeschools her kids. Lucky Wench!!
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) She has found that it is very good feed, and would work amazing for meatbirds. Our biggest plus is that it's free in a place where 100# of layer/grower feed costs 40$.
 
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I'll look it up, we try for certain nutritional info so I was just curious how its fed and what good stuff is in it (or bad), free is great tho! so I have some reading to do! We've been getting 18% at $13/50lb bag and can get it at $12. If we buy a ton. Can't store one ton properly tho at the moment and would HATE to waste feed bought :(
jenifry said:
I just know it's the castoffs from the brewery, I haven't been doing the research. (I work full time, and am a full time college student with three kids, I barely have time to brush my teeth some days!) She has found that it is very good feed, and would work amazing for meatbirds. Our biggest plus is that it's free in a place where 100# of layer/grower feed costs 40$.
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Angelicisi said:
I'll look it up, we try for certain nutritional info so I was just curious how its fed and what good stuff is in it (or bad), free is great tho! so I have some reading to do! We've been getting 18% at $13/50lb bag and can get it at $12. If we buy a ton. Can't store one ton properly tho at the moment and would HATE to waste feed bought
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Ok, so I can't figure out how make a link a link on here, but what I found is that it has 27-30 percent protein content, but shouldn't be fed to young (under 4 weeks) broilers, and should only be 40% of their feed maximum. For me, in my backyard, making chickens for my own food, I would use it at 50% of their feed, because mine also free range. The website below is where I found some of my info.

http://www.feedipedia.org/node/74
 
Weighed today, we have about 12 at the heaviest, 20 at the mid weight and 4 or 5 (lol hard to count should have marked them) at the low weights. Still planning this weekend, we have doubled feedings for the last week and they're still foraging so I think they'll weigh close to what we want this weekend.
Heavies
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Middleweights
400

light weights
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One rooster in this bunch, many in the next batch lol
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