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[chickisoup]

I did not get into this on the production thread but will here.

Karen posted research that does not show this to be true. There was no benefit over regular feed with added pro biotics. Purina feed has pro biotics in it now too.

It is also not something everyone can do. I can't do it here since it is too hot most of the year. I did it for a while though.

Hi all!

Been super busy getting ready for winter but thought I'd pop in and say a big BAWK! and welcome to the new folks!!!

Ron, ditto on the research results. Also read another university study just the other day that warns about the potential hazards of fermented feed developing a toxic "something"
(sorry have to look it up again) that can be fatal to your flock. If anyone's interested I'll hunt it down again.

I tried the fermented feed thing a couple years ago. Chooks loved it but no way to keep it going up here in frozen tozen land most of the year without stinking up the little house in the big woods, so I gave up.

 

[microchick]

Hi all!

Been super busy getting ready for winter but thought I'd pop in and say a big BAWK! and welcome to the new folks!!!

Ron, ditto on the research results. Also read another university study just the other day that warns about the potential hazards of fermented feed developing a toxic "something"
(sorry have to look it up again) that can be fatal to your flock. If anyone's interested I'll hunt it down again.

I tried the fermented feed thing a couple years ago. Chooks loved it but no way to keep it going up here in frozen tozen land most of the year without stinking up the little house in the big woods, so I gave up.

I tried it after reading so many testimonials about it and much to my surprise my spoiled biddies turned their little beaks up at it and went back to their regular crumbles.

I finally had to dump it all as they had barely touched it by the end of the day.

 

[drumstick diva]

Chicktastic what a beautiful dog. They should give him/her a refresher course in training - you wouldn't want a dog dragging you while chasing chickens.

 

[drumstick diva]

Late again, I took a nap after lunch and didn't wake up until 11:13 pm. I have 6 phone messages from the same person, who has a fit that I am a night person and "out like a light" most of the day. Anyway that ties up my old tape cassette machine and it can't record any more messages.

 

[Alaskan]

OK what in the hay is going on with my birds 18 layers two days at 5 eggs only down from 16 or 12 ? I have changed how I feed I was going through 9 50lb bags each month so instead of things they could kick out or poop in I made one shown on here

This is the one amazon sells for 99.99 mine were about 12 each

Check their crops at night after they have perched for the night. See if the crops are properly full, maybe they couldn't get as much as they wanted? Also, were they ever out if water? Even a half day without water will cause the egg oroduction to drop. Other guess is a scare. Whenever there has been a stressful predator attack, the girls that were not touched at all, will stop laying for a week or so. So... If a big scary dog went wild at the fence...even if it didn't touch anyone...that still might have been enough to reduce production.

 

[Alaskan]

Late again,    I took a nap after lunch and  didn't wake up until  11:13 pm.  I have 6 phone messages from the same person, who has a fit that I am a night person and "out like a light" most of the day.    Anyway that ties up my old tape cassette machine and it can't record any more messages.

That reminds me....

I had to use little bitty words as well as hand gestures before my kids could understand the concept of a reel to reel tape player.

Yes.... I am that old.

And to think those reel to reels used to be all new fangled and modern!

Remember the excitement when record players went from the size of a dinning room table to just a bit fatter than a pizza box?


Wait a minute!!!! When did pizza boxes show up? I don't remember.

 

[perchie.girl]

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double lock cherry lock boxes have been around for aeons.....

I remember reel to reel we had a portable reel to reel tape recorder... It was about the size of a record player... we were into records.... 45s and 33s... with an auto feeder that allowed you to stack three or four records on top of each other.....

My very first record was a song called "WE love Short shorts" i played it so much it disappeared one day.... LOL.

deb

 

[drumstick diva]

I remember "We love short, shorts." I don't remember a record player as large as a dining room table. When I was teenage I spent a fortune(?) to buy a GE plastic band shell design record player. I was in love. Bought all the Beatles LP's as soon as they came out, at a store called Korvettes. usually cost $ 2.17

My father had a wooden record cabinet with the player on top. You had to manually put the needle on the first track. He had a million operas . I was pretty young the and needle thing was shaped like a snake with2 green eyes, I was scared to death of it. To further impress (read scare me) he kept playing some song about "The green eyed dragon," that ate kids. I was afraid to sleep on the bed side by the wall in case the green eyed dragon slithered up the side.

Astute readers may in time notice I never call my father "dad." He was my biological father to me and nothing else. Terrible temper, cruel, bully, abusive etc.

 

[Alaskan]

double lock cherry lock boxes have been around for aeons.....

deb

What is that?




And this is close to what I played records on when I was a little kid... None look like what I remember... But you get the idea.

It was huge, took up a giant part of the wall in the livingroom.

My dad had the reel to reel....to touch for me!

When I was older my dad had a little record player.

 

[drumstick diva]

When my sister got married (1964) she had a wooden coffee table with a swing out record tuner and radio) some years later she gave it to mom who used as a coffee table.