The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[N F C]

ok, chocolate cake cooling, frosting is done and some p-nut butter cookies in the oven.

Hi @sharron

Michelle, forgot to say...hope your boy does ok recuperating from his bumble and war wound.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Good morning. Clothes drying, dishwasher working, and i need to go let out the chickens. Got a meeting to sell a Jake turkey, keep whittling them down. Yay!

 

[sharron]

ok, chocolate cake cooling, frosting is done and some p-nut butter cookies in the oven.

Hi @sharron

Michelle, forgot to say...hope your boy does ok recuperating from his bumble and war wound.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Morning all
Started giving my guys fermented feed this morning. They went nuts! Hopefully this will help resolve the mounds of wasted food on the ground.
Got a pip happening a day early, so got to finish setting the brooder up.
I've definitely decided that I'm not going to ever use a hovabator ever again. Constant fight with temp and humidity and horrible hatch rates. This final batch I put 42 eggs in, 9 made it to lockdown.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Morning all
Started giving my guys fermented feed this morning. They went nuts! Hopefully this will help resolve the mounds of wasted food on the ground.
Got a pip happening a day early, so got to finish setting the brooder up.
I've definitely decided that I'm not going to ever use a hovabator ever again. Constant fight with temp and humidity and horrible hatch rates. This final batch I put 42 eggs in, 9 made it to lockdown.

What kind will you switch to?

 

[ronott1]

Morning all
Started giving my guys fermented feed this morning. They went nuts! Hopefully this will help resolve the mounds of wasted food on the ground.
Got a pip happening a day early, so got to finish setting the brooder up.
I've definitely decided that I'm not going to ever use a hovabator ever again. Constant fight with temp and humidity and horrible hatch rates. This final batch I put 42 eggs in, 9 made it to lockdown.

These stop food waste:

https://www.amazon.com/RentACoop-Ch...2625338&sr=8-3&keywords=bucket+chicken+feeder

You can make them yourself too.

You can also make a mash and not ferment the feed. Not a fan of fermented feed. The fermenting process uses up some nutrients and studies do not show a health benefit from it. All benefits are anecdotal and not found when studied.

 

[Blooie]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/fuss-free-fermented-feed-feeder.67818/

This worked amazingly well for us. I originally planned to use it for FF but we soon realized that for us FF wasn’t at all practical for us here so we used it for dry. They couldn’t bill or scratch food out, it came down easily and rinsed completely with a garden hose, dried out quickly, combs and wattles had no problems fitting, they couldn’t perch and poop on top of it, (too slippery) it was easily height adjustable, and multiple birds could feed at one time from both sides. We never did find a single drawback the whole time we used it.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

What kind will you switch to?

I know you said you don't like yours, bit I'm still thinking IncuView. Either that or make a refrigerbator out of a wine fridge if I can find one cheap or free.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

These stop food waste:

https://www.amazon.com/RentACoop-Ch...2625338&sr=8-3&keywords=bucket+chicken+feeder

You can make them yourself too.

You can also make a mash and not ferment the feed. Not a fan of fermented feed. The fermenting process uses up some nutrients and studies do not show a health benefit from it. All benefits are anecdotal and not found when studied.

For now it's a mash... giving it before it's fermented.
Holy crap that bucket is expensive! $153? I can get those square buckets for free @ work. Hmmm...

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/fuss-free-fermented-feed-feeder.67818/

This worked amazingly well for us. I originally planned to use it for FF but we soon realized that for us FF wasn’t at all practical for us here so we used it for dry. They couldn’t bill or scratch food out, it came down easily and rinsed completely with a garden hose, dried out quickly, combs and wattles had no problems fitting, they couldn’t perch and poop on top of it, (too slippery) it was easily height adjustable, and multiple birds could feed at one time from both sides. We never did find a single drawback the whole time we used it.

@Blooie you're always full of brilliant ideas!