The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[aoxa]

Just put it through a milk filter..
I never cooked my milk(pasteurize) or homogenized it but they do have small units that will heat it automatically now.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-MCM-Hom...all_Kitchen_Appliances_US&hash=item58a1ff7d74

That's what I do anyway, since you end up getting hairs and other goodies in the milk

So cute, I hope you get one of your own quickly once you start trying. There are all kinds of natural mothering sites out there. There are cloth diaper sites that act as a good entry to the world of natural parenting. It seems like there is a link in these cloth diaper forums for almost anything you can do naturally from not vaxing or delay vaxing, not cutting, nursing, natural formulas, even natural ways to help monitor ovulation. It is a world of natural remedies that has lots of drama unlike this thread. Some even get uptight about what soaps should be used around the house or in the washing machine. Fun times to read and learn different opinions.
We do some of the natural parenting stuff like cloth diapers, nursing, and doulas for birthing. But we also do other things like shots to prevent measles. The best part of parenting is being able to pick and choose the method you think is best.

I hope so too!

I am very pro cloth diapers. I'd love to do a home birth too.

 

[SunnysideupstateNY]

Except hens decide gender, not the males.

Yea I read that someplace, but have not seen it in a peer reviewed source or textbook so I wasn't sure on that statement. I should have clarified that after conception vinegar wouldn't influence gender, which would also apply to chickens.

 

[Nickeyo]

no, not from a hatchery. This woman trades eggs on byc, and hatched supposedly to order - I got very few of what I had ordered, ended up with sulmtalers which Aoxa finally identified for me, and I'm still trying to identify what I have. So far, icelandic, crested cream leg bar, the sulmtalers, ....my main rooster is totally unknown. But he doesn't have 5 toes, and he has a rose comb.

Could be an old English pheasant fowl, I'm just thinking out loud

 

[Scott H]

Another unhappy costumer......



He had a buddy with him.....ugh.

 

[Scott H]

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Still a no go......maybe if I starve them.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

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Still a no go......maybe if I starve them.

toss some leftover corn into their food dish right on top of the ff. or milk soaked bread. My chickens have not turned down those kinds of foods and once the ff gets into their system they should like it. unless it is getting too cold for them. Mine won't eat frozen food of any sorts even a bag of frozen corn in the summer will sit on the dirt for 15 minutes until the corn is thawed.

there must be a way you could sell those coons, once killed. after all you need to make a profit on them somehow.

 

[Scott H]

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Still a no go......maybe if I starve them.

toss some leftover corn into their food dish right on top of the ff. or milk soaked bread. My chickens have not turned down those kinds of foods and once the ff gets into their system they should like it. unless it is getting too cold for them. Mine won't eat frozen food of any sorts even a bag of frozen corn in the summer will sit on the dirt for 15 minutes until the corn is thawed.

there must be a way you could sell those coons, once killed. after all you need to make a profit on them somehow.

I've put corn, BOSS and tonite I put leftover chicken thigh meat in it. They deftly pick out all the goodies and walk away.

On another thread, this guy takes the WHOLE coon and puts it in the pressure cooker and feeds it back to his chickens....I don't even know what to say about that.

 

[fosterson]

On another thread, this guy takes the WHOLE coon and puts it in the pressure cooker and feeds it back to his chickens....I don't even know what to say about that.

Revenge is a dish best served pressure cooked and cooled to middling temperature?

 

[Scott H]

Bu they're so cute....

 

[PheasantsFirst]

Quote: Um, it's protein...