What happened to my orange yolks? They're yellow!

[Cebarmlds]

tracydr- what is a flake of alfalfa? last winter I got some rabbit pellet alfalfa and they didn't seem to like it...

 

[DanyyChicken]

post moved to correct section

 

[DanyyChicken]

Ugh posted in wrong subject...

 

[gale65]

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A flake is a slice. A square bale of hay (which is actually more rectangular than square) can be divided easily into slices, or flakes.

 

[Chickenpoor]

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How often do you feed them the alfalfa cubes and how many cubes do you use at a time?

 

[Justhatched]

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Awesome! I'm going to try that.

 

[gale65]

Is it necessary to rehydrate the cubes? Couldn't you just toss in the cubes for them to pick at?

 

[Tracydr]

This time of year, pumpkins and squash are a great supplement for orange yolks, too.

 

[Crippledturkey]

For 39 chickens I fill a 3 qt feed scoop every 2 days. The cubes can be several inces long or centimeters. Once the scoop is filled I kinda break them up to help them rehydrate. To another person who asked about just throwing them out dry, I tried that for almost a week, throwing them out whole some of the girls scratched at them and no one had any interest (U ever see a chicken munch on dried grass?), so I thought to rehydrate them to try to get them close to fresh as I could, and they went nuts over it, scratching and clucking, and the yolks went from yellow to orange like they were never enclosed in a run.

 

[kari_dawn]

...is it wierd that I take some of my scratch grains (or any other whole grains that I happen to have handy), line the bottom of a small cardboard box w/ them, moisten them and put them in the window sill till they sprout and just put the whole box out for my girls to eat? By the way, I only have five big girls at the moment.