who know their breed?

[mulia24]

yaw, that's great, i will feed them with fish.

maybe i can find them at market on tuesday.

em, muscovy here is not that big, even they have same size and weight as ducks here, even my drake that i "save" him in my refrigerator is bigger than muscovy. em, my muscovy never fly, i even can't differencing between male or female, can anyone help differencing them?

ew, my duck having one of his foot can't walk well, what should i do? thank you for any help. i will continue "investigate" my poultry problem with you all, you all are really helping about my problem's here. i do appreciate any help, i will continue answer tomorrow since it's now 12:38 AM pass midnight now here (about 12 hours different from USA time, according to one BYC er).

 

[Holly O]

The only advise I can offer is to segregate your MEAN birds from the others.

Like you did with the little girl you where going to store in the fridge. If they are unable to get at one another to pull feathers, they will grow back.

Or We have things called Chicken Saddles to help the girls grow their feathers back when over sexed by the male's.

 

[walkswithdog]

Yes, they'll eat and love stinky cheap fish.

The extra protein will help with feather and laying more eggs if you do it often enough.

I know cheap feed is important. Raising beetles or mealworms - yes deliberately raising bugs, can be a cheap way to feed higher protein food to them.

There are people here who can help you figure out what to raise and how. It's not really hard and you have BUNCHES of bugs readily available. There are species of mealworms all over the world, that can be kept, raised and fed to chickens. You might have to play with what to raise them in and feed them but it's possible.

Make a seperate post and ask about feeding mealworms over in the food section.

Most breeds will also eat mice, and I know you've got mice you could catch, and if you raise the mice on the some of the corn and feed the mice or pinkies (baby mice) to the chickens they get a better diet. Don't know if you have a lizard or snake problem but chickens will also eat lizard and snake meat.

Since they probably ARE mixed birds - then you GET to decide what colors and body and leg color to breed for, and once you get a bunch of them that look alike - YOU get to name your own breed. That's how every breed was made. Someone decided on the LOOK they wanted, wrote it down and bred for it until all the birds born, looked the way they wanted.

So what color do you want to start with, are any of yours close in color? What name do you want to use?

They could be Mulia's.

And if you kept working it, then you'd be the one person there with a breed. And you could sell Mulia's. Would not that be interesting???

There is no rule that says you cannot create a breed. So look at what you like in the birds you have, or birds you see and work on that. It takes time, but it is a good thing to be doing since you are keeping chickens any way.

 

[mulia24]

wow, sunflower seed? did you meant that the little oval shaped thing that sometimes white colored, sometimes brown/black colored that we can eat it by "breaking" its "skin" first? and have "salty" taste?


em, we use palm cooking oil here since our country have much much plenty "farm" of palm (1 of 3 biggest palm oil exporter country in the world)


hm, chicken saddles? what's that?
yes, i have "caging" the cruel roost so far when i found him murdering my rooster a month ago. so there are no "feather picker" now.

 

[walkswithdog]

You would feed RAW uncooked unsalted sunflower seed to birds, but yes, sunflower seeds.

Can you get palm heart cheaply, that's a good oil source - probably have to mash it for them.

Almost any meat, fish or bug or mouse or lizard or snake can be a protein source.

River moss can be a good supplement to grass if the water is fairly clean and fast moving. Rinse really thoroughly.

The more oil and protein the better feather, and the more eggs.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

Palm oil is good stuff, I just looked it up.

So, every now and then you could mix a spoonfull into your grain mix that you feed your birds. You could do this once every 3 or 4 days. If it's solid, you could warm it up just enough to make it easier to coat the grains with.

 

[Holly O]

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Here is a link to a pattern for the saddles.
http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/showthread.php?t=181223

Now that you know we are CRAZY ...lol You may as well join in. LMAO

 

[Chris09]

wow, sunflower seed? did you meant that the little oval shaped thing that sometimes white colored, sometimes brown/black colored that we can eat it by "breaking" its "skin" first? and have "salty" taste?

I would say yes that is sunflower seeds..

Chris​

 

[mulia24]

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i can't get raw uncooked unsalted sunflower here, all of them have been packed as "soft food" for children here.

palm heart? which one is that part? all i know is banana heart, the red thing usually oval shaped, and my flock really love them, including the ducks and muscovy.

yap, i will buy cheap fish at tuesday and friday for my flock, i have just asked my friend, it cost US$ 1 for 1 kg of cheap fish and i think 1 kg is very2 much to supply my chicks for protein.

i'm planning to raise earthworm since i see that's quite easy to raise.

thank you for your advice.

 

[mulia24]

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wew, really?

i just read nutrition fact from my cooking oil pouch, for a spoon of palm oil. it contain : energy : 35 kkal , total fat: 4g (7%), saturated fat : 1.75 gr (8,7%), vit A : 0.65%, vit E (as tocopherol) : 6.54%. that's all. then, still, it's safe and good anymore? i think they will refuse eating oil coated grain but i'll try it if it's safe.