Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Chickielady]

Haha.. ya and when you had to make a telephone call. .ya had to pick it up and make sure the nieghbors weren't on the line first..

I STILL listen to my cell to see if I have a dial tone..........................

 

[Chickielady]

How does everyone feel about cull lentils? 27% protein. . Mixed with layer feed at 1/4 lentils 3/4 layer?

free ?
GO FOR IT!

 

[Chickielady]

Danzing Candy did so good, yet as expected, plows to the front & sets the pace...and in turn 3 he was obliterated by Nyquist & Exaggerator...............

 

[Duck Drover]

We feed Purina Flock Raiser to all of our ducks, including ducklings, and all of our chickens in the coops. We use medicated chick starter for chicks in the brooder (I grind it smaller with a coffee grinder for Silkie hatchlings because they are so small) and then they get Flock Raiser crumbles to transition to the pellets the adult birds get. We feed all our egg shells free choice back to the hens so the drakes and rooster do not get too much calcium. They all forage but the ducks forage more than the chickens so they eat less feed and get more natural food sources in their diet. I love how well they weed and mow the grass for us while also cleaning up grass spiders and slugs that used to be everywhere in our yard but we have not seen any for a long time now.

I tried feeding Feather Fixer during molting but I am not sure it is necessary. I do it when the chickens look their worst and we just feed one bag, which does not last long around here. I have not done comparisons to see if there is much difference but it is supposed to make their poop toxic to mites so my hope is to catch any mites that could be in the wood of the coop. We use ivermectin pour on to prevent mites but it works better on the ones that live on chickens than the ones that live in coops. We do preventative treatments every couple months so I have not seen mites to know if the Feather Fixer is effective or not.

 

[Duck Drover]

How does everyone feel about cull lentils? 27% protein. . Mixed with layer feed at 1/4 lentils 3/4 layer?

We have lentils we get from the food bank and I have not tried cooking them yet so if they are a good food source for chickens I would rather feed them to the chickens. I wonder if they would need to be ground up or soaked first because they seem a bit hard. I have only used them to make bean bags because they last longer than beans and supposedly don't swell up if they get wet.

 

[Rod-T]

free ?
GO FOR IT!

10.00 for 100lb.. which is pretty cheap.. they seem to eat it.. I've just been adding it recently at 25%

 

[Duck Drover]

We have Silkie chicks hatching in the coop today and my daughter is in Seattle watching a movie with friends as a birthday celebration since her Sweet Sixteen was this past week and it was "death week" for her school musical. We have made the Silkie coop into a miniture fort so there is a step over to get into the pen (intended to keep birds, especially chicks, from escaping when the gate is open) and we did not make the doorway wide enough to get through with the walker I am using in the yard instead of crutches or my knee scooter. Once she gets home she will need to see if any more chicks have hatched.

The eggs I got to give to the Silkies are due to hatch tomorrow while their nest may be staggered since my daughter was just leaving eggs for them instead of collecting so they would all start together. I am thinking I can pull all the Silkie eggs and swap them for the eggs in the incubator as they go into lockdown. Hopefully they are not able to tell their smaller white eggs apart from bigger blue or beige eggs.

I would like to let the Silkies raise some bigger chicks with hard feathers but I may just want to give them any black Orpington chicks I would be selling instead of chicks I want to keep just in case they don't get off the nest with the chicks. I sold all my proven hens to keep pullets so they are all first time mothers, just in time for Mother's Day.

I guess I will have to figure it out once we can candle the eggs in the coop and the ones in the incubator. At least she will make it home before dark.

 

[Rod-T]

We have lentils we get from the food bank and I have not tried cooking them yet so if they are a good food source for chickens I would rather feed them to the chickens. I wonder if they would need to be ground up or soaked first because they seem a bit hard. I have only used them to make bean bags because they last longer than beans and supposedly don't swell up if they get wet.

These are small.. didn't make food grade at proccesor.. I don't think they need cooked

 

[Chickielady]

We have lentils we get from the food bank and I have not tried cooking them yet so if they are a good food source for chickens I would rather feed them to the chickens. I wonder if they would need to be ground up or soaked first because they seem a bit hard. I have only used them to make bean bags because they last longer than beans and supposedly don't swell up if they get wet.

We neither soak cracked corn, or any type of wheat....or millet or any other grain, the beauty of a seed eater is that it has a built in grinder...called a gizzard, and the gizzard grinds up the seeds.

Lentils are also excellent for humans to eat, which is why you get them at the Food Bank, and it irritates me to see you give human food over to animals.
I support the food banks, and we donate our vegies and fruits, and to know humans give away decent food leads me to believe you need to not go to the food bank, OR give these thing BACK to the food bank, as there are others that are going hungry while you throw good human food away.

This really really makes me mad.
It makes me not want to ever donate to the food bank again.

End of discussion here.

 

[Chickielady]

These are small.. didn't make food grade at proccesor.. I don't think they need cooked

You are getting some great high protein feed !
You can wet them & get them sprouted if you have time, that would be all the more better for the birds.
Good score !