The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[Kiniska]

The chickens love my compost pile, but, i can't help you. I do not know anything about enclosed chicken runs and composting beside it in a bin. If you have information about that I would like to read it for my own education.

Actually the way I intend to set it up is to have the compost dumped on a corner of the outside run. Might be boxed in a bit. Not sure yet. There are threads on this site that go into details about it. One of them was highlighted on the home page.

 

[delisha]

Quote: Your welcome..mites are no fun!

 

[Kiniska]

What are you putting in it???  Is it to compost the chicken waste?? Be aware of mold.. that is all I will say about that.. lol

 

Actually it will be goat and horse. My chickens before loved my horse manure pile and would run to it at the first opportunity. Healthy and fat those buggers were. It will be in full sun with good drainage, so no mold.

 

[Phantom_Rooster]

My bigger orp is the Black 17pound 4 oz, i have LF but they also love to eat.

Is he Black or Chocolate??? Your earlier posts said your 17.4 lb rooster was CHOCOLATE. Which is it? You had Large Fowl Chocolate in Jan 2012??

Your Silver Laced Rooster looks just like the ones in UK. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/silver-la...=&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

 

[Renie'sPeeps]

Actually it will be goat and horse. My chickens before loved my horse manure pile and would run to it at the first opportunity. Healthy and fat those buggers were. It will be in full sun with good drainage, so no mold.

What about worms?? I have goats... and the deal with goats is they are known carriers of worms... Very hard to keep a goat worm free all the time. I don't think it is as hard to keep a horse worm free... soo that would probably work pretty good.

 

[Renie'sPeeps]

Is he Black or Chocolate??? Your earlier posts said your 17.4 lb rooster was CHOCOLATE. Which is it? You had Large Fowl Chocolate in Jan 2012??

Your Silver Laced Rooster looks just like the ones in UK. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/silver-la...=&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

The bird and background in those pictures do seem to match... interesting

 

[galanie]

Actually it will be goat and horse. My chickens before loved my horse manure pile and would run to it at the first opportunity. Healthy and fat those buggers were. It will be in full sun with good drainage, so no mold.

What about worms??  I have goats... and the deal with goats is they are known carriers of worms... Very hard to keep a goat worm free all the time.    I don't think it is as hard to keep a horse worm free... soo that would probably work pretty good.

I don't know about it being easy to keep a horse worm free, but I really doubt anything outside your house is going to be worm free. I understand your concern about loading them up with extras though. Horse poo doesn't seem to be an issue. I'll be interested to read what anyone says about goats though.

 

[Kiniska]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I asked one of our university vets and she said that goats and chickens are infected by different species of parasites for the most part. In fact some pasture live stock raisers use chickens to help control parasite loads in their live stock by grazing the chickens in the pastures after the other live stock. The chickens pick through and eat the parasites in the fecal matter.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I will of course check it out further. Thanks for the heads up about this concern Renie. [/FONT]

 

[Kiniska]

Also, I don't over graze my animals. I have 10 acres of pasture and three goats. So the parasite load should be fairly controlled.

 

[thedragonlady]

Also, I don't over graze my animals. I have 10 acres of pasture and three goats. So the parasite load should be fairly controlled.

Parasites from a compost pile should not be a problem. Most parasites are host specific . Not much available to chickens in goat manure though . Since they are ruminants, they finely grind all their grains in contrast to horses , who , if their teeth are not kept floated , pass a lot whole. Chickens running in and out of horses' stalls are a nuisance though, as all the manure is scattered into the bedding , which makes it impossible to pick up .