The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[Leahs Mom]

Mumsy - thank you for the photos. I learn so much from all the necropsy photos - it is invaluable.

 

[aaggjg]

As far as worming with pumpkin..it is the seeds from the pumpkin not the actual pumpkin.

Yes I gave them everything ... They just look at it like it is a weird trick treat I gave them I did see 1 girl eat 1 pumpkin seed... thats it!!! The rest are just going to waste. I guess I will have to scoop and grind the seeds of the next pumpkin!

 

[Leahs Mom]

That looks like a really interesting book. Although I am not a homesteader I think I will get it. A few weeks ago, I was looking for information on making my own feed and found the links you included.

Could I ask would that recipe work for FF?

Yes!

 

[rambunctious]

Is this feather picking? Or are all my CW

slow to feather out? They're 5 weeks.

 

[rambunctious]

Close up

 

[aaggjg]

Wow Mumsy that gizzard color is strange! When my Amerucanas broke her keel bone which caused an impacted crop she pooped a bright green liquid just like that. I was told it was bile??? So I wonder if she had some bile / liver issue???? I really have no idea... it is a mystery. So that white little thing was the tumor?? Under her neck?? What kind of consistency was it?? Poor little thing

 

[aaggjg]

Yes!

LM have you tried the lactobacillus inoculant that makes from rice wash & milk I think??? Someone was just telling me about this the other day. They too are big fans of his.

 

[Loghousemom]

Yes I gave them everything ... They just look at it like it is a weird trick treat I gave them I did see 1 girl eat 1 pumpkin seed... thats it!!! The rest are just going to waste. I guess I will have to scoop and grind the seeds of the next pumpkin!

You could try roasting the whole thing first. My chickens prefer them mushy to fresh.... But here I just leave them outside to freeze for a couple days then move them indoors to thaw before I toss it in the coop and split it down the middle.

 

[Leahs Mom]

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I haven't. I think Kassaundra from BYC here makes it. Seems that she posted info on it somewhere but I don't know where now. I read about it just a bit then got busy with too much work and the "cares of this life" and never got back to it.

 

[delisha]

Del - I filed my own farm taxes this year. Getting a nice sizeable refund. Thank God. Need a fence for the goats, and this will cover it for sure!

I'm going to do everything on Simply Accounting this time around.

I am glad you are done and it will help...

Is this feather picking? Or are all my CW slow to feather out? They're 5 weeks.

No..this is a normal chick..they look funny at this stage

Quote: I never ever recommend cooking anything. Cooking removes vital nutrients.


Mumsy..it looks like lead poison..