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[Chickielady]

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But ya still gotta feed em and have feet done wether using them or not.

Cleaning, housing, bedding, the farriers, and worst of all, vet bills!!
I had a mare get spooked somehow and go through a barb wire fence one time (in the 70s) the mare was cut, and her hide pulled back off her left jaw to expose a 8" sq hunk of meat.
The vet was called......another time another horse turned up with strangles, the vet was called again, lump lanched, irrigation & meds & a face mask put on...it went on & on.
It was something I could not afford at 15 years old with a part time after school janitorial job, and Mom & Dad could not afford it.

 

[cheryl98117]

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But ya still gotta feed em and have feet done wether using them or not.

Very true. Ive always warned people that the cheapest part of owning a horse is the purchase!

 

[pettec63]

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Mine refuse carrots.

Mine (no breeds I have) will eat any kind of carrot, cooked, raw peels, nothing.
I have not tried the meaties, though

Those little porkers may eat anything!!

Speaking of chicken food...
I am getting low on layer & flock raiser.
I was buying max grow (20%) from Patriot farms, and adding a 50# sack of ground corn to it, for the meaties.
Since, his prices have gone up & up to the point where it is not worth the drive anymore what with gas added in to the final price.
So we are shopping the feed sales & going to buy at Monte feed or Del's as we go that way anyways, so won't be out the tank of gas we use going to Winlock.
But we do not get the newspaper.
So, within a week I will need flcok raiser or a broiler feed, and layena crumbles.
Anyone see feed on sale, please PM me!!
Please!!!
I will get some scratch & layer at Dennis Company here in town to hold me over.
I just read Del's web site, says no ad right now.
I am waiting for the 4th of July sale...gotta have alot of places ahving 4th of July sales!!!

speaking of meaties, I weighed mine when we were done processing and I was packaging them, the smallest was 5 lbs and the biggest was lbs!!

that's more like a roaster not a broiler!! lol they were about 10 weeks I think. Is that normal??? just wondering since I have never done it before??

 

[RustyHen]

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nice birds! don't think I've ever seen them before!

X2 they are very colorful

 

[cheryl98117]

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Mine refuse carrots.

Mine (no breeds I have) will eat any kind of carrot, cooked, raw peels, nothing.
I have not tried the meaties, though

Those little porkers may eat anything!!

Speaking of chicken food...
I am getting low on layer & flock raiser.
I was buying max grow (20%) from Patriot farms, and adding a 50# sack of ground corn to it, for the meaties.
Since, his prices have gone up & up to the point where it is not worth the drive anymore what with gas added in to the final price.
So we are shopping the feed sales & going to buy at Monte feed or Del's as we go that way anyways, so won't be out the tank of gas we use going to Winlock.
But we do not get the newspaper.
So, within a week I will need flcok raiser or a broiler feed, and layena crumbles.
Anyone see feed on sale, please PM me!!
Please!!!
I will get some scratch & layer at Dennis Company here in town to hold me over.
I just read Del's web site, says no ad right now.
I am waiting for the 4th of July sale...gotta have alot of places ahving 4th of July sales!!!

I now the feeling. My flock is being supplemented by horse grains along with the layer pellets. the young ones are still on chic feed.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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But ya still gotta feed em and have feet done wether using them or not.

Ya, SOOO, your point is? How many horse girls out there have problems non horse husbands? They just DON'T get it. It's a guy thing except for the REAL cowboys. I dream of a real cowboy someday. I love DH but being married to a city boy is getting really old.

 

[Chickielady]

After I logged off last time, after sitting here all quiet on the puter for an hour, I went and had a glass of water & stepped outside almost on top of a BIG brown rat with white belly...this was a nasty rat!!
Not a black wood rat !!!
IN BROAD DAY LIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!
Are we getting an infestation of rats here in WA ??????????
The rat freaked, tried to run under my yardtools but was inrisoned by a leaf rake, turned back at me, (I am kicking at it, and yelling for DH) and then it found a hole & zoomed under the cabin.
DH & I cleaned & rebaited all the traps, all types, with velvetta.....if that doesn't get something, rat candy will be put out tomorrow.
These rats can brazenly run right in a coop, and pig out on feed!!
They can eat eggs & chicks!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am P.O.'d !!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

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Mine (no breeds I have) will eat any kind of carrot, cooked, raw peels, nothing.
I have not tried the meaties, though

Those little porkers may eat anything!!

Speaking of chicken food...
I am getting low on layer & flock raiser.
I was buying max grow (20%) from Patriot farms, and adding a 50# sack of ground corn to it, for the meaties.
Since, his prices have gone up & up to the point where it is not worth the drive anymore what with gas added in to the final price.
So we are shopping the feed sales & going to buy at Monte feed or Del's as we go that way anyways, so won't be out the tank of gas we use going to Winlock.
But we do not get the newspaper.
So, within a week I will need flcok raiser or a broiler feed, and layena crumbles.
Anyone see feed on sale, please PM me!!
Please!!!
I will get some scratch & layer at Dennis Company here in town to hold me over.
I just read Del's web site, says no ad right now.
I am waiting for the 4th of July sale...gotta have alot of places ahving 4th of July sales!!!

speaking of meaties, I weighed mine when we were done processing and I was packaging them, the smallest was 5 lbs and the biggest was lbs!!

that's more like a roaster not a broiler!! lol they were about 10 weeks I think. Is that normal??? just wondering since I have never done it before??

They say to butcher at 6 to 8 weeks.
They are still great at 9, but I hear they suffer from joint pains at 10 and by 12 weeks they can have organ problems, the organs cannot keep up with the large amount of muscle mass they have.
And then they die,
You will notice they have a tiny organ cavity and 3-4X the meat a layer has.
I have heard of some people trying to raise them as layers, as old as 20 weeks, the birds can no longer walk, and just sit there.
Alot of work for the liver, kidneys and lungs...and the little heart has to work so hard.

 

[lobojoe]

I live in Kent, WA and I raise ornamental pheasants, peacocks, quail, ducks and chickens. I'm always looking to incubate eggs, trade birds, buye birds and just talk birds. look me up on facebook under ornimental pheasants (I know its spelled wrong but thier is a joke behind that) Write now I'm in search for white mandrian ducks I already have the "normal" ones but I would like to add the white ones to my zoo

 

[cheryl98117]

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But ya still gotta feed em and have feet done wether using them or not.

Ya, SOOO, your point is? How many horse girls out there have problems non horse husbands? They just DON'T get it. It's a guy thing except for the REAL cowboys. I dream of a real cowboy someday. I love DH but being married to a city boy is getting really old.

Luckily for me. My husband secretly lies the farm life. He loves the horses, and even admited to liking the chickens. lol He's a city boy as well, but is coming around nicely.