Topic of the Week - "Off-grid" Feeding - Homemade feeds, etc.

[CrazyChickLady64]

the govt has brainwashed people when it comes to protein sources. I'm vegan and people always ask me where I get protein and calcium and i say the same place as you, from my food. for example 6 cups of spinach has the same amount of protein as an egg.. here is a small list of grams of protein per cup of different veggies for an example // http://www.theholykale.com/plant-based-protein-chart/

That link doesn't seem to be working it goes to the site but cannot find the chart

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Also, not all protein is the same.

Great respect for those Vegans successfully able to balance amino acids from their plant-protein sources to meat (haha!) their nutritional needs. Its hard, I have some appreciation.

It is, of course, impractical for some of us to eat the food volumes required to do so successfully within the framework of the rest of our lives. But for those who can, respect.

(for those having trouble visualizing, six cups of fresh spinach is roughly a 10 oz frozen chopped spinach package, once cooked, or pretty close to your typical Birds' Eye (you know I had to slip a chicken-adjacent comment in somewhere) block.

USDA nutrition numbers (per 100g, cooked) It is not a nutrient dense source. Egg, Whole (per 100g, same source)


(and yes, I acknowledge my lifestyle is not particularly healthy, and I eat more protein than my body requires daily.)

 

[Folly's place]

Somehow I have a problem with the whole idea of changing from an omnivore (us!) to a herbivore, by either being deficient in some essential nutrients, or adding them in pill form.
I'm a happy omnivore and have no plans to change!
Mary
Sorry, off topic for poultry feed issues.

 

[chooki]

I have posted this in another thread before, lemme post it here again:

We have a large composite pile. There is no set ingredient in this pile, it's just mostly organic waste, be that hay, crop residuals, horse dung, chicken manure or fruit/vegetable leftover. Although ideally, it's a mix of these things. We cover it with a large tarp and let it decompose. The cover is to prevent a fly infestation in summer and raise the temperature and humidity in winter.

I was able to harvest reasonable amount of larvae and crickets from the composite pile/bin for my chickens (like open the cover and let the chickens to hunt whatever worm/insects are in the pile).

 

[Blingchix6]

Mine get special treats when it’s cold…I make them hot oatmeal with slivered almonds and some dried cranberries. I also have a wire sphere the size of a softball that comes apart, ..i open it up and shove the spinach in and they chase after it so that’s where they get their daily spinach or kale. And of course there are always grubblies

 

[paintedChix]

I've not been buying feed for the last 2 months. Before that they just got all purpose animal feed I give my goats. I've been getting any kind of random hen and rooster I can find and I'm letting them have all the chicks they can in hopes that natural selection will thin the flock and leave me only with birds that excel in the conditions I have to offer.

It's been 2-1/2 years. How's it going?

 

[ManOverBoard]

We're looking towards growing our own grains to feed our girls, there's a fantastic YouTube video on this from a woman who really crunched the numbers. I'll try to find a link for it. but we live in an isolated place and sometimes run out of feed. We feed them ground beef, grass clippings, sweet potatoes, squash, crab apples, clovers, rose hips, herb clippings, quinoa, pasta, black beans, scrambled eggs,canned diced tomatoes cayenne pepper and sea snails when we need to forage for feed. We don't free range as we're in mink territory and he's gotten them before in broad daylight when we used to.

 

[ManOverBoard]

We're looking towards growing our own grains to feed our girls, there's a fantastic YouTube video on this from a woman who really crunched the numbers. I'll try to find a link for it. but we live in an isolated place and sometimes run out of feed. We feed them ground beef, grass clippings, sweet potatoes, squash, crab apples, clovers, rose hips, herb clippings, quinoa, pasta, black beans, scrambled eggs,canned diced tomatoes cayenne pepper and sea snails when we need to forage for feed. We don't free range as we're in mink territory and he's gotten them before in broad daylight when we used to.

Oh and out friends give us brood comb from their bees! We put it in suet cages to keep the girls entertained.

 

[ManOverBoard]

We're looking towards growing our own grains to feed our girls, there's a fantastic YouTube video on this from a woman who really crunched the numbers. I'll try to find a link for it. but we live in an isolated place and sometimes run out of feed. We feed them ground beef, grass clippings, sweet potatoes, squash, crab apples, clovers, rose hips, herb clippings, quinoa, pasta, black beans, scrambled eggs,canned diced tomatoes cayenne pepper and sea snails when we need to forage for feed. We don't free range as we're in mink territory and he's gotten them before in broad daylight when we used to.

Here's that link.....https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=582YlPunQ-4&pp=ygUbR3JvdyB5b3VyIG93biBjaGlja2VuIGZvb2Qg

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Here's that link.....https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=582YlPunQ-4&pp=ygUbR3JvdyB5b3VyIG93biBjaGlja2VuIGZvb2Qg

She took Justin Rhodes Recipe, reduced the fish meal 2%, and substituted "fresh greens". Rhodes' recipe is good enough that that's not fatal to the recipe (though its certainly not an improvement), assuming you have a high protein fish meal. Does she have anything original to offer, or is she just repackaging someon else's work as her own like one of those dinner recipe pages that involves pages of story no one cares about followed by the same macaroni & cheese recipe found on the back of a box of macaroni....

and at 15:14 she says fish meal is easily replaced and suggests bone meal. UH, NO. Clearly she's done some reading, just as clearly she needs to read some more.

A for effort. C+ for content.