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[Rainwolf]

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Great birds!

 

[Rainwolf]

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I totally agree!!
Make the coop and run about 2x bigger then you think because you will use it! and then add more and more and more!

 

[justbugged]

Best Dog food is a raw diet, which is to expensive for us, considering as many dogs as we are feeding. For kibble the best is Taste of the Wild, but not the salmon variety, it is still not very cheap. TotW is grain free, and that is best for dogs given that they are true carnivores and they do not need any grains. On a budget I keep hearing that the best dog food is from Costco. Costco's lamb and rice is considered the best for those who are on a budget. I need to be on a budget. I bought 30lbs of dog food and 18lbs of cat for and a bale of compressed straw, and the bill was still nearly eighty-five dollars. This amount of pet food will last me for 2 weeks, and doesn't include fish, rabbit, and finch food.

The upside is that we don't spend much time at the vets office either.

 

[justbugged]

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I totally agree!!
Make the coop and run about 2x bigger then you think because you will use it! and then add more and more and more!

Based on this theory I need a bigger house, and a bit more land.

I will suffer quietly the indignity of having a bigger farm if I can stand it.

 

[Rainwolf]

Just a heads up for anyone looking for Button Quails. I have pairs that are 8 weeks old for sale PM if interested.

 

[tallyho]

Hey guys, I'm going to join you even though I'm an Oregonian (our thread is kind of slow and ya'll have much going on here!). Hope hope that's OK. I've been keeping up with the posts. I used to live in Seattle, if that counts. In fact it was while we lived in Seattle when I decided we were getting chickens. We had a neighbor who had them and we loved to visit them. Then we found out we were moving to Portland so I had to wait until we got settled here. We've had them for 8 years now. I have increased my permit for 15 so now I can get some more chickens!

 

[Chickielady]

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Dog food is easy to make if you have a butcher close by...
can give ya info for that if you do.

I have to use lamb & rice dog food for my kelpie as she is allergic to wheat. I used Iams for the last 10+ years.
ingredients to Lamb/rice
Lamb Meal, Brewers Rice, Corn Meal, Ground Whole Grain Sorghum, Corn Grits, Chicken By-Product Meal, Ground Whole Grain Barley,
Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Dried Beet Pulp, Chicken Flavor, Dried Egg Product, Potassium Chloride,
Brewers Dried Yeast, Salt, Dicalcium Phosphate, Monosodium Phosphate, Caramel, Choline Chloride, Fructooligosaccharides,
Minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Potassium Iodide, Cobalt Carbonate),
DL-Methionine, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Ascorbic Acid, Vitamin A Acetate, Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin,
Thiamine Mononitrate (source of vitamin B1), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Niacin, Riboflavin Supplement (source of vitamin B2),
Inositol, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of vitamin B6), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid), Calcium Carbonate, L-Lysine Monohydrochloride, Citric Acid, Rosemary Extract.

Not the best out there but its what I can afford thats halfway decent since I do not live by a butcher.

this looks good, it it is what I fed my allergic thyroid challenged old Labrador, Sam.
I have to go check again to see if there is a puppy or young adult formula...I have had him on that "Smart Puppy" formula...and it is very spendy and quite frankly, we think Jack is smart enough already !

 

[Chickielady]

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I just bought 2 50# layer feed, 1 50# grower feed, 2 starter 50# feed bags and 6 bales of straw from Patriot Farms and it was $87. and some change.
I wish they made dog food, they have and butcher pigs, bison, and chickens...maybe some day...we will have to ask him.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

About dog food. I have a neighbor who goes to a (fairly) local butcher every few weeks and he gives them raw bones and meat scraps. They then take it home and that is what they feed thier dogs. They get quite a variety since that shop processes all types farm animals as well as wild game.
So if ya want to do the raw meat or make yer own dog food get in touch with yer local butcher.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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Illia, those birds are gorgeous. Eye candy!