Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Amberjem]

hey margret the eggs two were infertile and two were fertile figured you might like an update

 

[Amberjem]

so is everyone ready for the holidays?

 

[ThetaSigma]

If anyone is it retested in button quail, please check in buy~sell~trade. My buttons are free to a good home.

 

[Amberjem]

If anyone is it retested in button quail, please check in buy~sell~trade. My buttons are free to a good home.

you can post the link here

 

[jbkirk]

I've been using Scratch n Peck brand feeds for all my girls' life stages and was becoming increasingly frustrated with all the powder leftover. Quick search on here showed I wasn't the only one.

Apparently that powder is a very important vitamin & mineral mix. My girls are laying like crazy and seem chunky and healthy, but general consensus was that it's best served moistened or better yet, fermented. So I fermented some...

After waking up to a huge mess in the kitchen (I THOUGHT my containers were big enough) I shuffled some bowls out to the ladies. They LOVED it! It was a bit like a toddler eating spaghetti unassisted for the first time, but they were practically licking the bowls clean!

Guess I need to put away the awesome no waste bucket feeder I made.

How do you make Fermented feed?

 

[Ashley Stroud]

How do you make Fermented feed?

So I basically put feed in a tall bucket or glass crock and then fill with enough water to have about 1.5-2" of water above the feed. Then loosely cover it and stir now and then or when I remember.
This blog has pretty straightforward directions.
http://naturalchickenkeeping.blogspot.com/p/fermented-feed.html?m=1

I hadn't fermented in a while as my first batch of chicks refused to eat it and made a mess. This batch loves it though! And once they got the hang of it, it wasn't messy.

 

[ThetaSigma]

Okay, here's the link to my buttons, for anyone interested.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/942905/wa-state-button-quail

 

[Ashley Stroud]

That's it; I don't add anything but water, and stir now and then. I usually wait 2-3 days before serving it and just add dry feed and water back into the main bucket as I take it out. So it's like a never ending bucket!

 

[MargaretYakoda]

hey margret the eggs two were infertile and two were fertile figured you might like an update

Well phooey. I've got my fingers crossed for the other two!
Confession: I'm a bit of a hatch-a-holic myself.

 

[Amberjem]

Well phooey. I've got my fingers crossed for the other two!
Confession: I'm a bit of a hatch-a-holic myself.

I am so excited about it this is my first chicken hatch I hatched some quail eggs about a year ago well I assisted as friend did (with a homemade incubator also that one was out of a coleman cooler) ...and this is my first incubator I made it's doing great job so far