The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[user213590]

especially coconut oil and olive oil. You can eat straight coconut oil on your toast and it's actually very very good for you as a daily supplement of a super food.

Oh, and my dogs ate a tub of it, they "told me" that it was a great laxative too.............
Does anyone have a meme of Saturday night live's church lady face?

Hi, I love coconut oil, rather solid and white, low temp to melt and add a Dutch processed cocoa powder with splenda, stir well and spoon onto foam plates, sprinkle with macadamian nut pieces and sea salt, refrigerate and take out and whack to break storing in zip bags in refrigerator. Melts in your mouth. Not for chickens.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Most feeder insects raised on a big scale will involve some sort of heat and indoor set up, especially considering where you are located. Most will require purchase of their food I would bet you would be ahead of the game w/ what you are already doing.

That's exactly what I've been thinking.

It's kind of a hard thing because you think, "I'm feeding these birds people food..." But, like you said, when you add up all the expenses involved in doing the insects I think in some cases you'd be spending more. And working more to accomplish it!

 

[lazy gardener]

I wish i had a hunter to give me deer liver!

 

[subhanalah]

I wish i had a hunter to give me deer liver!

*nods*

 

[Leahs Mom]

Seriously - Ask around.

"My" hunter tells me that most of them dump the entrails - including the liver - in the field while field dressing. He always keeps the heart for himself but they would dump everything else. It was no extra trouble for him to take a zip loc and bring it home.

 

[hoosiercheetah]

Seriously - Ask around.


"My" hunter tells me that most of them dump the entrails - including the liver - in the field while field dressing. He always keeps the heart for himself but they would dump everything else. It was no extra trouble for him to take a zip loc and bring it home.

True that. I leave mine in the field. Of course, now that I have chickens, I won't! I bet they'd like the kidneys, too.

Season opens in nine weeks! I can't wait!!

 

[lazy gardener]

I have asked around: the response i get is... mouth drops open, eyebrows raise, and then i get a "Hah! You've got to be kidding... give liver to CHICKENS? I eat it myself!!!"

 

[Leahs Mom]

Well..if they eat it that's another story. For some reason a lot of the guys around here don't use the liver.

Better to just tell them that you'd like it but not explain why

 

[ki4got]

I have asked around: the response i get is... mouth drops open, eyebrows raise, and then i get a "Hah! You've got to be kidding... give liver to CHICKENS? I eat it myself!!!"

yup. I do too, but I share.

 

[gevshiba]

so do you think your girls aren't consuming enough calcium, and in their older age the old egg maker isn't as efficient as it used to be, so they started leaching calcium from their bones?


Holy run-on batman!

These hens were given to me to butcher for my dogs. They had mostly stopped laying, or had soft shell eggs. I'm sure they were on some cheep brand of feed and never out of their pen. This person had given me her last hens too. I had never butchered a bird, so I took them to a friend. She decided she wanted to keep them and as far as I know, they are still laying pretty well for her. Those girls were older birds, so I'm not sure why these did so much poorer.