Which BYC member scares you?

[sdm111]

Or smash the pellets into crumbles with a hammer.
Ya im sure that wouldn't take that long. Go with it.

Rolling pins man gets it done quick. Must wear safety glasses

 

[ShrekDawg]

You are a fool if you waste that food. With the price of things continually going up. Mix it in their current food if you want, or water it down to make a mash, they will eat it then. Offer only to the pullets if people have you freaking about the calcium for the cockerel. But don't waste it

Exactly. Also I’m sure they would’ve eaten if left out and give them no other choice.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Exactly. Also I’m sure they would’ve eaten if left out and give them no other choice.

For criminy sake, they'll eat styrofoam, they'll eat anything!

 

[ShrekDawg]

For criminy sake, they'll eat styrofoam, they'll eat anything!

True

 

[Everose]

ASo like, do we hug it out now or something?

 

[Everose]

I don't know what to do with all these bags of food that are piled in my garage. I had to keep rebuying because the girls refused to touch almost all of it because they were pellets. And now I can't use the rest of the grower/starter or layer crumbles/pellets. *smh*

Ah well. Live and learn.

My chickens would starve if they got picky
Luckily mine are not picky at all. They dig through pig and cow manure for most of their food.
Also, my cockerels eat layer stuff if that's what's cheap. Not the best for them, but I've never lost any or even had health issues.

 

[raingarden]

They dig through pig and cow manure for most of their food.

Thank you. I'm sort of interested in coprophagy right now. When people describe how their grandparents raised barnyard chickens with very low feed costs they conveniently forget to mention eating shit, especially when it is from other species. Going back even further you have to wonder if ancient chickens visited the latrine of ancient humans.

Hey, it's just biology, right?

 

[RUNuts]

Thank you. I'm sort of interested in coprophagy right now. When people describe how their grandparents raised barnyard chickens with very low feed costs they conveniently forget to mention eating shit, especially when it is from other species. Going back even further you have to wonder if ancient chickens visited the latrine of ancient humans.

Hey, it's just biology, right?

If the chickens aren't there, you get mice, rats and other undesirables doing the cleanup job around large livestock. Makes a lot of sense to me to have chickens in the barn. They'll eat bugs, ticks, fly larvae, spilled food and all kinds of things that need cleaning up.

And kitchen scraps. It's just the cycle of life, Simba.

 

[CatLoverLu]

 

[Bonkerelli]