Utah!

[themadchicken]

Bird Man, i thought about keeping them but my chickens don't like them. Now if they were zucchini that would be different. We do gut them out for the seeds but end up with lots left over. How do you prepare the seeds? The seeds are to big for the chickens to eat and too hard. I have always just thrown them out in the garden and let them break down over the winter.

 

[the-bird-man]

my chickens eat the seeds, they peck them apart. my girls love them

 

[themadchicken]

maybe mine are just lazy and know they can find a meal some were else. they will eat the seeds out of most squash, but the bigger and harder the seeds they just peck at once or twice and walk away. They wont eat yellow squash. Maybe they think pumpkins are yellow squash. Who knows, crazy chickens.

 

[the-bird-man]

my girls will do it and also some of the pumpkin seeds they will eat whole. my girls will also shell peanuts to eat

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Red---I will post your picture of your new egg here! I know your laptop is being ornery

Cute Egg! Red got these two girls from my very first hatch, fun to see their first egg!
Woo hoo for new egg layers, congrats Red!

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

I started growing fodder two days ago, from the link that Daloorashens posted, it is coming along, I see sprouts this morning! Will post when it starts to grow. I am pretty excited about it. My chickens are being slow with the eggs right now, I have several that are skipping two and three days at a time and are not broody or molting. Is it just the cold/daylight? I have a light out there....i don't remember them really slowing down at all last season.

 

[pawtraitart]

The day after Halloween, we'll be hooking up our horse trailer and heading over to the local pumpkin patch lo load up on FREE pumpkins, all we can fit into our trailer. Around here, the day after Halloween the growers just want to get rid of their stock. Pumpkins are excellent food for poultry and other livestock.

 

[Sphinx]

That's a smart idea, to get extra pumpkins. I've seen them til them under in the fields. I've wondered if it also was decent fertilizer.

 

[jed2012]

Welcome I am in Tville pretty close to you. What kind of chickens do you have?

i have 7 bo's, 4 golden sex links, 4 rirs, 2 black sex links, 2 ameraucanas, and 1 oegb. i have 20 chickens total.

 

[jed2012]

Whoa, rewind. Sphinx, you've been to Japan? I'm jealous. I love a lot of Asian stuff, particularly Japanese stuff.

Cynthia, sorry you lost your canary. Birds are such cool creatures.

Hector, that poor Polish. That is funny, though.

So I moved some stuff around in the game preserve and cleaned up a bunch of areas that needed attention. I used to have several slabs of plywood leaning up against an old teeter totter we have out there, and the turkeys and BR's liked to roost on top of the wood. Well, the plywood is now over against the run, which seemed to confuse that group. They kept trying to get up on the teeter totter to roost, then losing their balance as they slid down. It was funny to see, but I grabbed them before too long and put them on top of the run. They seemed content with that.

wasnt i just at your house today? u live in my neighborhood! so, hi neighbor!