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[drumstick diva]

What breed Alaskan, has the same hairdo (in front) that I have - my feathers oops, hair is white also.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I'm still awake!!! And now I've hit my insomnia time so I think I'm good.

 

[Beer can]

Cute chick photo:

Looks like one of them them NY phoredaburds chicks, Appenzeller Spitzhauben??
Amazing those eggs made it what, 5,000 miles? How many days in shipping?

 

[Pensmaster]

 So you just leave this bucket out for them to pick in?   Looks like something a chicken would like.    I'm not into the fermenting thing.  I do however do fodder for the winter. 

HI Cynthia no I used to when they free ranged though. Now I keep it covered with another bucket on the outside of their coop. Unfortunately the deer like it and if I forget to cover it right after feeding they will munch on it. Every morning and every evening they are there to see if I forgot to put the bucket on. They do clean up any I may have spilt.

At this stage it's new from the brewery so not fermented yet. I think it does some fermenting as it ages though. There is approximately 4 different grains in the spent grain depending on what type of beer is being brewed. The majority of it is barley. This grain has been put through the malting process which is the controlled germination of the grain, drying and kilning or roasting of the grain to achieve the different flavors of the beer. The grain is sprouted and at the point of root emergence dried to stop the growth. Then hot water poured/steeped through it to remove sugars. That's when I take the grain from Peter my brewery friend. Yes another Peter lol. Then he takes that sugar water called wort, and makes the beer out of it. The wort is very very sweet.

I trade him a dozen eggs for the 12 buckets of grain. That way I'm assured of getting first on the list for the call when he's brewing. I have competition for this grain so far the pig farmer hasn't offered any compensation for goods recieved so I win.

On the sunflower seeds I don't think a handful a day will bother them.

Is the calf mana a crumble?

 

[Pensmaster]

@Beer can

I like your White Jersey Giants. I have Black Jerseys in my project bird. How do you like the Whites?

Peter

 

[Beer can]

Yeah, brewers grain is just pretty much coarse ground soaked grain, some will be roasted depending on the color/flavor/style of beer. It's soaked in hot water until the starches convert to sugars than washed out with hot water, the liquid is all they want to be cooled then yeast added for fermenting, the spent grain has had no alcohol fermentation, no yeast, so very good for feed and can still be lactic acid fermented if one wanted. If it was used for a Lager it will have a certain percentage of corn and or rice also.

 

[Beer can]

@Beer can

I like your White Jersey Giants. I have Black Jerseys in my project bird. How do you like the Whites?

Peter

I love them! So calm. When I had multiple cockerels they didn't fight at all. The rooster doesn't care much for it but I can pick him up easy. I have two hens setting, I never pick up pet or play/make friends with my birds, I can pick these birds up off they're nests and put them back and they don't even move or wiggle, hold position like big fake chickens Lol! They won't be a yr old till July so not full grown yet, biggest chickens I've ever had.

 

[Beer can]

I have a extra white giant roo in my other coop, had xtra room in the incubator so I added some white silkie eggs.
Just hatched a bunch the last couple days.
Five toed black skin giant silkie crosses.

 

[drumstick diva]

can't wait to see one of the silkie x giant kids grown up.

 

[Pensmaster]

I love them! So calm. When I had multiple cockerels they didn't fight at all. The rooster doesn't care much for it but I can pick him up easy. I have two hens setting, I never pick up pet or play/make friends with my birds, I can pick these birds up off they're nests and put them back and they don't even move or wiggle, hold position like big fake chickens Lol! They won't be a yr old till July so not full grown yet, biggest chickens I've ever had.

Wasn't impressed with the size of the mine but we're very calm broody birds.
I have got the lager grains before prefer the others as corn is already in feed