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[jockeyeba]

I just don't have time right now to read all these posts, could someone please tell me what post #'s tell the FF formula or repeat it on here? Please

 

[Pullet Surprise]

I just hard boiled some of the littler eggs.....got a couple of jars of pickled eggs in the fridge, I just wanted a couple un pickled eggs to snack on......Never tasted any better!!!!!!
Like butter ...I may have to go have one more

 

[Beekissed]

It's not hard...just feed, water, and about 3 long glugs of the mother vinegar jug....some say a cup but I don't measure such goodness or try to confine it to a set amount.

You see that blog site link in my signature? Click it and it will take you to a detailed step by step with pics on how Bulldogma does hers. Mine is a little different as I just use a two bucket system, one fitting down into another, but that description should get you started.

Good luck!

 

[jlynnet]

Love the guy making chicken sounds! But the dude with all the roosters, omg! How can someone think it's a good idea to have that many cooped up chickens? Let alone roosters!
I think the warm weather is messing with my girls. I have 2 late molters. They just look pitiful compared to the other. They get a move on growing ome new feathers, because it is December!

 

[Bulldogma]

It's not hard...just feed, water, and about 3 long glugs of the mother vinegar jug....some say a cup but I don't measure such goodness or try to confine it to a set amount.

You see that blog site link in my signature? Click it and it will take you to a detailed step by step with pics on how Bulldogma does hers. Mine is a little different as I just use a two bucket system, one fitting down into another, but that description should get you started.

Good luck!

The blog has both Bee's and my method on the Fermented Feed tab <<<--- Just click there

 

[Beekissed]

My whole family loves this pic! We have a brown mixed lab who is forever trying to get himself a squirrel but - at age 11 - is a little too slow to manage it. Instead he has taken to stealing veggies from the garden. Cukes, tomatoes, and beans kept coming up missing in the garden this year and it took us a while to figure out why. Until I caught our old man - Buster - sneaking towards the house with the stash!




Looks like he's getting ready to fry up a mess of green tomatoes. Certainly not a LGD, he's not even a good Garden Guardian Dog!

This must be a Chocolate Lab thing, truly...I've had yellow lab, silver lab and then Jake..the brown garden marauder. Did I enclose the garden to keep chickens out? NO. I did it to keep Jake from digging up all my freshly planted taters and piling them under a tree(I didn't know and was waiting and waiting for my taters to "come up"), for stealing the very first tomato I had been watching and slobbering over for the first mater sandwich of the year~so that he could eat it first

, for eating my watermelons and my sweet corn!!!!!

LOVE that dog, but he is an egg-suckin', garden robbin', butt lickin' dog all the same. Must be a Chocolate Lab thing, really.

Love the pic of your own special garden pest, BTW!

Maybe this video will get your mind off it...

I couldn't watch this video either...farmer wannabe who doesn't know how to take care of chickens followed by someone who keeps roosters on tethers and in little shiny hot boxes while city folks all complain. Bleh.

on a nice note, Bee, can my chickens OD on FF???? they wont stop eating it.

Yes and I am going to show a whole series of pics on that this morning which will explain why I am seriously cutting back on rations, pronto!

I offered to send him the chicken health handbook and Storeys keeping chickens book. Think he will take me up on it? Maybe he just doesnt know any better?

Sweety, the Storey's book is the root of all chicken evil...it would only compound those chicken's misery. Toss it quickly if you have it in your home before it taints your husbandry methods.

I like the gun sticking in the snow LOL
I wish I hadn't of watched the video either.
What do you do in these type of situations. I've seen worse in person to be honest. Not sure what to say to them. Their birds were not sick like this though. They were just in dirty pens and cramped corners with no outside access at all.

What you do in these types of situations is gently try to educate, and if you live real close, offer to let him come to your place to pet chickens, eat eggs from, look at, etc. rather than ever having any chickens of his own and encourage him to never keep another animal as long as he lives. Or....sneak over one night and wring each and every neck of these poor critters and make it look like a predator..he'll never know the difference!

Bee, I'm beginning to see you in a whole different light. I'm seeing you sitting at your computer, way into the wee hours of the morning, looking for "shock factor" articles/pictures/videos and then laughing as we gag and hide our heads. A woman with a warped sense of humor. We have a lot of that in our family. Keep em coming. It keeps us from getting bored.
Actually, it just came to me. Isn't this the kind of situation you found your birds in when you checked on them? I didn't watch the video. I don't mind gross but my heart breaks for the ill treated.

Oh, yes! It was bound to happen that one of you would figure out just how sick a sense of humor I have....call it a "wry" sense of humor that only the funnest old farmers seem to have. Twinkle in the eye and a straight face, that's me.

That's why you see the "grin" smiley from me more than any other...

My birds were not in a situation like this at all and at first glance most of you would say, "What? I don't see anything wrong with this picture....". Then I'd have to point out all the things I see and why they are bad for the flock...and I'd be right, obviously.

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if someone far more knowledgable than I can answer a question for me.

What are the black spots on my roosters comb?

I have a Columbian Wyandotte roo that is 19 weeks. I am going to try and get a picture of his comb so you can see it. He had small specks but now, he has a huge one. I thought it might be a tick, but since I have encorporated Bee's rooster regime of me establishing dominance, he won't come near me, and stays quite the healthy respectful distance away. I may have to wait till DD gets home to hold the camera.

I looked up pictures of pox, it doesn't look like that.. just a big ol black spot. What are the choices of what it could be.

THanks everyone,
Chooks are inside the run, 3 hawks just won't go away for 2 days now. Even with Jack around.

MB

Those happen on occasion at this time of year and I never pay them any mind. I don't know if it's fungal or what but it appears and it soon goes away and leaves no harm in its path. Not to worry.

Just gonna brag for a minute...

The hubbs and I processed the 4 guineas today!

Well... I caught them, held them, put the flailing bodies in a tub, scalded them, plucked them, gutted them, washed them and got them ready to roast.

The hubbs felt very "Manly" because he helped by chopping off their heads with a machete. (No sissy axe or sharp knife for this guy! Had to be this big, ridiculous ninja-style machete!) -

The things we women allow just so we can get a dude to help!

Huh... suddenly it's so quiet around here!

Buh-bye!

I've never been more proud....

Tell yer hubs I have always wanted to cut off guinea heads with a machete...I envy his chance to have done so.

Can't stand those birds!

 

[aoxa]

I couldn't watch this video either...farmer wannabe who doesn't know how to take care of chickens followed by someone who keeps roosters on tethers and in little shiny hot boxes while city folks all complain.  Bleh. 

What do you do in these type of situations. I've seen worse in person to be honest. Not sure what to say to them. Their birds were not sick like this though. They were just in dirty pens and cramped corners with no outside access at all.

What you do in these types of situations is gently try to educate, and if you live real close, offer to let him come to your place to pet chickens, eat eggs from, look at, etc. rather than ever having any chickens of his own and encourage him to never keep another animal as long as he lives.  Or....sneak over one night and wring each and every neck of these poor critters and make it look like a predator..he'll never know the difference! 

I'm speaking of his interpretation of the rooster only, not how the last man treats all those roosters.

You don't even want to know how many birds he has.

Sadly I know very very few people in my area that actually free range. Some don't even have runs to go outside.

What's even worse is he was named poultry fancier of the year! Makes me sick.

 

[Noncentzter]

LOVE that movie. We use "that'll do, pig" constantly in our lives and everyone enjoys that line...use it every chance we get.

Same for our house!
(sorry, still catching up!)

BDM, sorry about the Mareks. I had purchased 5 BLRW and after quarantine lost all 5 to Mareks...had no idea what was affecting them and took one to the vet and she tested positive for it. Haven't had a problem since then. I agree with Bee, don't worry about your deep litter.

 

[fishnet1971]

Quote: Sweety, the Storey's book is the root of all chicken evil...it would only compound those chicken's misery. Toss it quickly if you have it in your home before it taints your husbandry methods.

GREAT Bee.... I have read that book inside and out forward and backwards a dozen times. no wonder my girls are in bad shape... (just kidding) seriously though, what's the bad part of the book? I tossed it off my office shelf just a second ago just for you, but how come I did it?

 

[chickmama1662]

Help please, we had a fire and lost our coops but have a few survivors that have swollen waddles from the heat. Would nu-stock help in this situation? Is there any kind of readily available pain medicine that I should use. I can't really tell how much pain a couple are in or if they are just still "shell shocked". The fire was in the middle of the night (Sunday into Monday). Thanks for any advice you have.