Utah!

[darkroo]

Oh MY God! The storm appears to be two days late. I went out and checked the girls I could bearly see in the windows. Saddle Up is at 11415 S. Redwood Rd.

 

[gcst]

I too went to Saddle Up. I got the egg layer Perina in pellet form. My girls seam to be eating more and lay more.

 

[Stands With A Fiddle]

OK, I didn't realize that is what the "squat" means... So, my two RIR's, who have the bright red comb and wattles, do squat. They started about a week or two before laying.

 

[PacsMan]

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I swear I remember reading that there was a vendor who sold eggs at the Farmer's Market that also sold organic feed. Of course, now I can't find the info.

I thought it was these guys. Maybe shoot them an email?
Clifford Family Farms
Richard Clifford (801) 368-7250
1461 North 2100 West Provo, Utah 84604-2206
[email protected]

I'm pretty sure that PacsMan mixes his own, but I don't know if it's organic.

Depending on the price, we might consider going in with people for organic feed, but since our ladies free-range we can't sell our eggs as organic. Good luck tonight!

Have I really been away that long? A month!? Wow...

I asked the guy at IFA if any of their feed has medication in it. Their chick starter does, but not their grower or layer formulas. Just straight grains. So, I suppose that's organic.

As for mixing, I went on Craigs lists and Salt Lake Freecycle and asked for any "old food storage wheat, weevil ok!" and got a bunch of buckets of different stuff. I usually use 4 parts IFA Laying mash, 2 parts whole wheat, and 1 part cracked corn. They seem healthy, and my breakfast keeps on com'ing!

Guess I have to catch up on all the goings on around here now....

Marty

 

[Stands With A Fiddle]

That's a good idea.... I'm sure I could get wormy or buggy food storage from plenty of people in my ward in exchange for eggs!

THANKS!!!!

 

[medicmandan]

And yet another option to help rotate out my food storage.

 

[PacsMan]

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I noticed when my chicks first started laying that the whites where somewhat watery. I poked around here, and asked a few other chicken owners. Seems they weren't getting enough protein. (I was giving too much wheat and not enough laying mash). Moved to the 20% mash at IFA, cut down the wheat a little, and the eggs are just great now!

Marty

 

[PacsMan]

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If no one has answered, here is Saddle Up.

Saddle Up
11415 S Redwood Rd
South Jordan, UT 84095-7804
(801) 254-5700

Haven't been there yet...

 

[PacsMan]

Ok,
Here's up with me and my flock, and the main reason I came to read up on messages today.

MY EE’ers…
I bought 4 EE day olds at Easter time this year. They are now 32 weeks old. My wife named them AMy, MARy, CONnie, and OZ. (AM-MAR-a-CON-OZ)…
Amy and Oz have been laying nice little greenish blue eggs for about 4 weeks. Mary and Connie are lazy. It’s been 32 weeks, and still no eggs from them. I just offered to sell them to a guy at work who lost his whole flock of 20 birds (Layton are) to a raccoon. Should I have waited a little longer? I just hate to see feed to go them when they’re not producing…

2nd item. I work in our Stake Presidency, and a week ago, our Stake Clerk said that he woke up early one morning, looked out in his garden, and saw a large (“Fat” is what he said) Coyote in his back yard. He opened the back door and it climbed over his 6 foot fence. He called animal control who said they’re more common than you’d think. Animal control said they feed on small dogs and cats that are out. This guy is about 4 blocks from me, and just west of Highland drive about 8800 South area. So, beware folks!

3rd item. Midnight, our Black Australorp went broody in late September. Though winter was coming, I decided to buy some eggs on eBay and see what would happen. She was a new mom, and came off the eggs a lot, so I had given up on them. But low and behold we got two chicks out of the deal. They’re Buff Orpingtons, and are now about 6 weeks old. I refuse to raise chickens in my basement after seeing how dusty they are, so these two have been outside, in the garage since day one. When Midnight gets on her perch, the two little ones hop right up there with her. They have a heat lamp and lots of bedding, so I think they’ll be ok. Only problem is, one seems to have grown a waddle and a comb a lot bigger than the other one. People are different. Chickens are different, right? “Girls” can grow waddles and Combs this early, right? (darn, I didn’t think so!)… So, anyone had any experience on how long a Roo takes before it starts to crow? I would like to get these litter mates big enough to defend themselves before I ship Mr. Roo off, and move ‘the baby chick’ in with the rest of the flock.

Anyone need a Buff Orpington Roo in a month or two?

Marty

 

[hen-thusiast]

I came on here today to post that I live in Sandy, but a little further south than Marty. We have seen fox in our neighborhood and he's HUGE. This morning, we noticed in the fresh snow, fox tracks. Not just in our yard, but the bugger jumped up on top of the coop and walked all around the coop and the horse barn looking for a way in!
Needless to say.... we got an electric fence today.

Marty - personally, I would have taken the stance that's I've already fed them for 32 weeks and what's a couple more weeks of freeloading versus starting all over again with new birds. But ours are pets. To each his own.

Sorry - a BO rooster is a little too much for us. If he were a smaller breed I might say yes, but one of our ladies is only 2.5 pounds and we've got other smaller breeds.