Toad Raising.

[Momof3plustwins]

We have never let them have continuous access after 4 weeks when they are fully feathered and outside. We feed in the morning and then again about 10 hours later. 5 ish in the evening. That way they fast all night. You can certainly tell that they would eat until they bursted with as hungry as they act at each feeding. I do my best to soak their feed all summer. I plan on doing the same for the Toads.

 

[memphis]

Mom of many....great looking babies! But that "munchkin" is just plain adorable!!

 

[Momof3plustwins]

Mom of many....great looking babies! But that "munchkin" is just plain adorable!!

Thanks! She's one of 5 and they are all pretty adorable! That's her twin brother.

 

[memphis]

Too cute!! How old are they?

 

[cracrzy4chicks]

We have never let them have continuous access after 4 weeks when they are fully feathered and outside. We feed in the morning and then again about 10 hours later. 5 ish in the evening. That way they fast all night. You can certainly tell that they would eat until they bursted with as hungry as they act at each feeding. I do my best to soak their feed all summer. I plan on doing the same for the Toads.

why do you soak their feed ?

 

[JRNash]

Momo,great looking chicks AND munchkins.

 

[JRNash]

one of these days I'm going to take my 20lb hammer and smash this phone into dust. It has a mind of it's own,and often spells things that in no way resemble ANYTHING that I typed

 

[Momof3plustwins]

Here is a link on fermenting feed. It gets hard to do in the winter months way up north here where it is below freezing for months at a time. But all of the warm months I set up buckets and rotate through. I have 3 buckets going so that it sits for 3 days before it gets used. Then I refill the used bucket and put it at the end of the line for it to wait its turn to be used.

http://naturalchickenkeeping.blogspot.com/p/fermented-feed.html

 

[Momof3plustwins]

7 years old. Missing a lot of teeth.

 

[Birdinhand]

I wonder if anyone has done a study to see if fermenting happens naturally in the craw. my elephants gorge themselves with pellets and then hang around the waterer till the pellets turn to mash inside and go and sit down under the lamp for quite a while.