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[delisha]

Quote: lol..
I specifically did this for holiday pictures, mushrooms are not red or green!!!
My birds will eat anything that they can catch or sits still longer than a brief moment in time. I should have known better, but, I did get a few pictures, so it is all good.
Every thing that it says on this sight that is suppose to kill chickens are some of there favorites! When I read the allergy list and things not to feed your chickens I thought, holly crap I should have a yard full of dead chickens.

 

[colburg]

On the topic of favorite farmers videos.

Farmers Tribute: So God Made a Farmer

 

[aoxa]

lol..
I specifically did this for holiday pictures, mushrooms are not red or green!!!
My birds will eat anything that they can catch or sits still longer than a brief moment in time. I should have known better, but, I did get a few pictures, so it is all good.
Every thing that it says on this sight that is suppose to kill chickens are some of there favorites! When I read the allergy list and things not to feed your chickens I thought, holly crap I should have a yard full of dead chickens.

Green peppers?

Yeah my birds eat a lot of those deadly treats as well. Onions are a big favourite. Especially in the leftovers I throw out. They love them! Dog food.. My turkeys actually jump over my 7ft kennel to get to Clem's dog food.

 

[Miss Lydia]

On the topic of favorite farmers videos.

Farmers Tribute: So God Made a Farmer

Loved it, thanks.

 

[delisha]

Green peppers should work if I do it again. (I doubt I will do it again)Drilling out radishes and sprouts were a pain. Bee's suggestion of a wire worked out pretty good. Thanks Bee!!

 

[aussie pete]

This is something that the Aussies pioneered with sheep, so Pete could probably have something to say about that. Mob grazing ~bunching the sheep in small paddocks that they grazed completely in one day's time and then moving them to fresh graze each evening~resulted in them not eating selectively but consuming everything in their path due to competition for food/survival instincts.

called cell grazing ,works great,can be done with all animals.for all those that worry about their garden /veg patch etc,just like Bee does with her electric fence for the meaties .just move the temp fence to a new section .chickens line up at the fence waiting for the move .dairy farmers do it with an electric wire call it strip grazing.

if u don't want a run & don't have a big area to free range ,put yr coop in the middle of the area and move a "cell" around yr coop in sections so u can get time for regrowth & no denuded yard.

hope that helps or at least starts yr mind thinking about possibilities

cheers Pete

 

[mrsamplias]

1. This is where the SOP does mean something,

SOP?

 

[Beekissed]

Now THAT is a helpful post. good photos to illustrate what you're describing. Just all around helpful.

I know they're going to tackle that on the OT thread after Christmas (note: politically incorrect word just used

) but could you maybe do what you just did on the BA for BRs and RIRs here for us as a little preview?

I'll sure try but what you saw here pretty much is standard for these various dual purpose breeds. Now, the hatchery RIR borders on layer more than DP, in my mind and can go either way for me if you get a good one. I've had a good one that laid long and hard before, so I'll sure give it a shot. I won't have the handy pics other then my BRs but none with a carcass to show. I'll do my best, how's that?

I guess I do have the eye for hatchery mutts because that's pretty much all I have...but I know how to cull 'em to make for a working flock and that's all I ever knew.

I don't think you are or were seeing it here ..... In an earlier post you said you had not found any research that showed too much calcium hurt young chicks kidneys .... Aoxa was, as far as I could tell, offering up her research thinking you had not seen it and thus asking your opinion on it. She was not attacking your method just asking for advice.

Guess I should have clarified that, huh? I should have said I hadn't found any research done on a backyard, free range flock being fed layer mash and when I did, I'd believe the results.

Until then? I don't go on what others write in an article because I know that the majority of these people have never seen a chicken outside of a laboratory...maybe as a pic on a carton of eggs. They were not likely to be using the breeds I own, nor be feeding them what I am feeding.

My experience? Hard won and done by trial and error...not with a control group in a science experiment. You can trust them all you want and when you set up that lab in your backyard. let me know if their experiment will match your own.

One minute Walmart is the devil, the next minute scientists~funded by government grants~are helpful to the agricultural world and can tell me what is best for my flock.

That dog won't hunt.

They are documented to lay better than an australorp (who is average) Chantecler are classified as average to above average.

I'd love to have some, because I'm all into preserving rare breeds. And a Canadian rare breed? Count me in. I have a friend that raises them, I'll be trading her chicks for chicks sometime next year.

The BA is a better than average layer...the BAs I have had I consider exceptional layers. Average they are not.

 

[delisha]

SOP
Standard of Perfection

The bible of the chicken world

 

[colburg]

This is something that the Aussies pioneered with sheep, so Pete could probably have something to say about that. Mob grazing ~bunching the sheep in small paddocks that they grazed completely in one day's time and then moving them to fresh graze each evening~resulted in them not eating selectively but consuming everything in their path due to competition for food/survival instincts.

called cell grazing ,works great,can be done with all animals.for all those that worry about their garden /veg patch etc,just like Bee does with her electric fence for the meaties .just move the temp fence to a new section .chickens line up at the fence waiting for the move .dairy farmers do it with an electric wire call it strip grazing.

if u don't want a run & don't have a big area to free range ,put yr coop in the middle of the area and move a "cell" around yr coop in sections so u can get time for regrowth & no denuded yard.

hope that helps or at least starts yr mind thinking about possibilities

cheers Pete

We did this for years with cattle, didn't have a name for it though. Divide 1 sq mile into 4 squares. Put pens with water in them smack in the middle with gates leading into each square. When the next square is ready for grazing, catch them when they're all in the watering pen at mid-day. Close access to one quarter, open the next. This makes for very efficient grazing. We went from 350 head of open graze cattle on one section to over 500 when we quartered them up.

Same thing can be applied to chickens. Kinda like Salatins meatie pens, but more space for free ranging.