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[hallerlake]

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Welcome. We are a chatty and helpful bunch.

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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Welcome to our chatty little thread! Feel free to jump in anytime, we move fast here!! Robin/Chickielady has a neighbor!!!! She lives in Raymond so I think you are the closest person here!

 

[Totalcolour]

Ok, I promised some pics of my weird crosses, some time ago, but then time ran away with me! So here's the first set

Dad and Mom = BLRW/WCBP

and daughter

Hubby thinks she horrible, but I think there's something kind of cool about her. What do you all think?

 

[Kaneke]

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yes, it's quite the community --

 

[Kaneke]

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looks like something out of a Japanese or Chinese wall painting ...

 

[pettec63]

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Oh poor kiddo!!! I just asked that question in my pm to you, (your box is full and I can't send it) lol! Dang I hate when you have to hold them like that!!

 

[justbugged]

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Depending on the variety of fern, most of them don't look like much at this time of year. I have rabbits foot fern that will need to come in for parts of the winter. I don't think it can handle freezing weather. But I know that it doesn't like to be inside. The fern suffers when it's living in here with us. We moved a sword fern earlier this year in the garden, and it looked great for most of the summer, but right now it looks half dead. I know it will be fine next spring.

If your fern is heaving out of the ground after just 2 weeks, I would wonder about how high the ground water is.

 

[Ogress]

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I often buy Purina because it is what is sold at Ace (they sell Abers as well, but at $22 for 50 pounds, I seldom buy it). I was told that Purina poultry feed is from their Spokane mill and the grains are all grown fairly local to there.

I do like to support Patriot farms because of their sustainable practices, but the food is very fine and dusty. It makes a dusty mess inside the coop so I now will only use it in the outdoor feeders. I also had issues with a batch of chicks I was raising on it. They were growing very slowly and at about 5-6 weeks old, some got the wobbles. I read that wobbles are frequently due to a vitamin defficiency (forgot which one), so I switched the chicks to manna-pro and purina chick start (alternated daily) and the wobbles cleared up within a few days.

The same types of plants and grains will not always produce the same levels of vitamins and proteins, even when grown under the same condition. I don't know if Scott tests each batch - that may be cost prohibitive. A large operation despite my aversion supporting them, will usually have more testing done. My adult birds have never had issues on his feed, and they love it.

Years ago I worked as a researcher in the pharmaceutical field at a contract research company. Some of our biggest clients were pharma companies that make natural products supplements like what you can buy in health-food stores (Germany is one of very few countries that regulates natural products. In this country they are so poorly regulated they often contain none of the products they advertise and sometimes even contain addictive drugs to keep you hooked on them!) We tested plant extracts for them to ensure that they made their products with the same level of active ingredients from batch to batch. Just because you use the same amount of St. John's wort plant extract for each batch of pills you make does not mean that the active levels will be the same. Expression levels of active ingredients vary in response to weather, water, and other stressors. The same woud be true for vitamin levels in grains used to make chicken feed.

 

[pettec63]

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Hey there!!

glad your here! stick around you will learn lots!!

 

[broodytood]

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