The Old Folks Home

[Wickedchicken6]

you must have lived a very sheltered life, poor dear.

I've didn't know there was fried green tomatoes until the movie. I didn't know it was a real thing.

just feed everybody the chick starter and put a separate container of oyster shell out for momma.

Why didn't I just put this?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning everyone

Oh, and I now have a black, and soft white, Australorp. Long story short, I have a BA that decided this past week to go super broody. I had her blocked out of the nestboxes so she was flattened out on the coop floor in front of the boxes while I was painting. She was under the catchboard to the roosts and I left her alone until I had to paint under there. I finally had to move her out of the way so I slid her out and stuffed her out the door, crawled under the catchboard and continued painting. I didn't see her sneak back in until I was shifting to reach another area and noticed her. The crazy bird had stuck her butt into the air and backed herself tightly into the far corner and laid back down. Only problem was that was the last place I had painted before moving her and the crazy bird had managed to literally stick herself to the walls! She now has paint smeared on both sides and her once gorgeous fan that she could flair out so large she looked like a turkey when she puffed up, looks like I took her the beauty parlor and got her tips frosted! She finally went stomping out of the coop on her own, screaming all the way, I think she didn't appreciate me laughing so hard at her my sides were hurting .

oh my heavens girl this is the first I actually was able to stop and read this

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

If it were me...I would put starter in for when the chicks hatch. The hen will be fine eating the starter while the chicks are growing.

I'm feeding medicated chick starter to my one broody hen, the keet she has and the three tiny roosters with her. The chicks I moved into that pen had just started showing signs of coccidiosis prior to moving them out of the house. (I change out to new vinyl gloves prior to dealing with the house chicks and still managed to introduce it apparently.) So I changed to medicated. When I open the pen up they'll all be drinking the medicated water.

I feed 21% chick starter to the entire flock 100% of the time, free choice inside the coop. I feed grain outside; millet and wheat with screenings. It withstands rain if it gets rained on and gives them a variety. With the 21% protein of the chick starter...it should be in the vicinity of the protein provided in laying foods.

*I have seen someone post on BYC that too much protein can be detrimental for their kidneys. I haven't investigated that yet. I consulted a feed consultant and my vet last fall regarding what to feed the flock and whether chick starter could be an appropriate feed to feed 100% of the time. Both were worried about the egg shell quality more than anything. The vet explained that more urea would be excreted if the protein is higher. But then I feed a ton of grain in the winter for the cold weather so my protein shouldn't really be too high.
*If it's high, it's likely because I toss back so many raw eggs...but the starter I use is 100% veg protein and I want them to have an animal based protein.

Yup...that got a bit long. .

Thanks a bunch!
And not too long, a good read.

 

[perchie.girl]

66 years old and never had any fried green tomatoes.

Im 62 and never had em either....

 

[Alaskan]

What would it cost to get some photos of you next to the signs welcoming you to one of these towns? Welcome to Ding Dong?
Ding Dong is a favorite expression of mine - better than airhead.

Hummm...I wasn't thinking ahead..
So far all I got this trip was London.

 

[perchie.girl]

@superchemicalgirl

I fixed his face and hat.... I can do the rest if you want

 

[Alaskan]

SCG...I love all the work you do with the cemeteries. I have some ansestors up that way..but a little south of you. Revolutionary war even
..but a few years after the Mayflower.

So New Hampshore, Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut, not further north. But when the Ohio River valley opened up for settlement they all ran west....and kept running, then hooked a left and went south to Texas.

Ok...some of the Graves that my kid has been drug to this trip...my uncle has been doing a bang up job keeping our Graves in Brenham in shape...but I need to find someone in New Braunfels to fix those. ..

That one about to fall over...I think I better call next week...don't want it to break.

 

[room onthebroom]

@superchemicalgirl

I fixed his face and hat.... I can do the rest if you want
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Oh my gosh! That's awesome!!!

 

[room onthebroom]

SCG what a HUGE accomplishment that would be to have those two completely done! You GO girl!!!!

 

[getaclue]

What part of Florida? I grew up down in homestead, but we moved in 87 so I was 17. Moved to small town TN. Lol what a culture shock that was!

A small town just outside of Tampa. Oh yeah, I'm sure it was a culture shock.