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

[Crippledturkey]

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Tell me about it, I think I heard a few say trick or treat when I presented them with some squash, also squash and pumpkin seeds are almost pure protein if ya do not eat them yourselves, so there is another idea, thank you Tracy.

 

[hcppam]

I tried that and mine would not touch it?

What i did do was go to my local mom and pop grocery store and ask them to save there old vegetables for me, I go twice a week and pick it up...got my first egg this week and it was shocking how orange it was. Just a thought.
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[Crippledturkey]

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Not wird at all. I have tried that as well but with so many chickens.... You can do that and when they sprout wash off the seed husks and put them on a nice chicken salad sandwich for yourself, mmm fresh sprouts.

 

[hcppam]

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No they're hard as rocks.

 

[Crippledturkey]

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That is a thought as well, and you are blessed to have a grocery like that. Here we have the Wal Mart (Who will send any "Unused" produce back to their warehouse for store credit) and County Mart Who will sell the produce until I would not feed it to a goat I did not like. There is also Kroegers and that store is just too pretentious to go and ask anything like that, although I could go and ask and ruffle some feathers, so to speak. I do have a crippled Turkey to feed after all. LOL

 

[Dutchess]

Thank you to all you BYCers for the great information and interesting posts! I can't wait to get some greens into my girls and see some ORANGE yolks!

 

[Cebarmlds]

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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.

Thank you

 

[Nicole01]

From this thread, I just purchased a 4 tier alfalfa sprouter with 1.2 pounds of alfalfa seeds from Amazon for $25-26(shipping included). Hopefully this will work for us and the chickens. The seeds take 3 days to sprout. I don't know how long a pound of fresh alfalfa will last, but we will eat them too.

I just bought 4000 alfalfa seeds for $3.50 included shipping on eBay. I'm looking forward in growing my sprouts. I'm sending the 9.00 seed sprouts back. So, the seed grower and 4000 seeds will cost me a total of 19.00. I'm not sure if it's cheaper in the long run, but fresh alfalfa should work.

 

[Zonoma]

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Tell me about it, I think I heard a few say trick or treat when I presented them with some squash, also squash and pumpkin seeds are almost pure protein if ya do not eat them yourselves, so there is another idea, thank you Tracy.

Do you have to cook them or just cut 'em in half and toss 'em in the run?

 

[Ridgerunner]

I cut squash, summer or winter, and cucumbers in half and toss them in raw. I don't grow pumpkins but they are the same.