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amandarc said:
where do you buy alfalfa pellets? I need my chickens to gain weight. They seen under weight. I'm feeding them organic laying pellets by coyote creek. Also I give then yogurt on occasion and scrambled eggs only once when I thought one was lethargic. They won't eat cabbage.
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Try grapes, chopped up cherry tomatoes, yellow wood sorrel you can find in your yard for free, grass seed heads from your yard, a little bit of grass clippings, etc.etc. Those are all things mine love.
 
Noobie farmer said:
I have found a recipe that really works and makes use of the stuff I grow for free from the garden. We have all kinds of fruit trees too. I just take 1 large cucumber, 2 large summer squash, and 1 apple as a base, along with whatever other optional fruit and veggie scraps you may have (like I often use carrot scraps and grapes). I chop them into big cubes and liquify them in the blender with a splash of water just enough to keep the blade turning well. I pour that into a large mixing bowl and add a couple cups of wild bird seed mix (A spoonful of baking yeast is optional but I use it, as well as a fist full of hardwood ash from the stove to balance PH and add minerals). I then add an equal amount of store bought feed by volume. I mix it well and fold it into a dough. I have a big plastic tray I dump it out on in the sun and mash it down until its about half an inch thick almost like ginger bread or something. I lay that out in the sun for 1 hour until it forms a sort of uniform consistency. I then take it and break it up into a bunch of big chucks to increase surface area and speed up drying. I continue to slightly break down the big chunks a little at a time every hour or so as it dries in the sun. This leaves a nice texture the chickens love when its finally fully dry and broken into bite sized chunks. When its too wet its very soft and will crumble into powder if you try to break them up too small too fast and the chickens prefer chunks to powder. Its a big hit with them. You can do this experimenting with different kinds of veggies but this combo works well and my garden produces TONS of this kind of stuff to use. Our feed bill is very low and our chickens are healthy, happy, shiny, pretty and actually getting kinda fat.
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OMG! Do you have a life? That would take forever is seems! I just throw out the scraps as they are and they are gone in an instant!
 
Flowerbh said:
OMG! Do you have a life? That would take forever is seems! I just throw out the scraps as they are and they are gone in an instant!
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I have a life, but it revolves around the garden and the growing farm. Its not much of a life, but its rewarding. I am rapidly approaching being completely self sufficient here. Its not that much work. Takes about 15-20 minutes to make. The blender and sun do most all of the work and I use the stuff from the garden we don't eat ourselves. I even let some stuff like squash and cucumbers go long so the seeds are fully developed. I scoop those out and mix them into the dough whole. Really I just crumble it a little whenever I walk by it. As long as it ends up bite sized pieces they really devour it. In one afternoon I can make enough to feed them for several days. When its fully dry I dump it into a big bin. When its cold or raining I put it on metal trays in the oven overnight and let the pilot light dry it out.
 
Noobie farmer said:
I have a life, but it revolves around the garden and the growing farm. Its not much of a life, but its rewarding. I am rapidly approaching being completely self sufficient here. Its not that much work. Takes about 15-20 minutes to make. The blender and sun do most all of the work and I use the stuff from the garden we don't eat ourselves. I even let some stuff like squash and cucumbers go long so the seeds are fully developed. I scoop those out and mix them into the dough whole. Really I just crumble it a little whenever I walk by it. As long as it ends up bite sized pieces they really devour it. In one afternoon I can make enough to feed them for several days. When its fully dry I dump it into a big bin. When its cold or raining I put it on metal trays in the oven overnight and let the pilot light dry it out.
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Sorry! Didn't mean to imply you don't have a life. It was just my way of saying that seemed like a lot of work.
 
So, Black Rat Snake got back into the coop. This time, it ate the two hatching eggs I had just put under my new broody! So, Black Rat Snake got taken a few miles away and let go. Hope it won't be back.,

Sold three roosters and one non-laying hen today!
 
Up at 6:30. Checked on chicks in large coop. Fussed at feeder for not releasing feed correctly (I've got to get a better feeder or build one). Cleaned poop tray. Went back inside for a quick breakfast. Getting ready to hit the farmers market in Washington, GA. When I get back, collect eggs and clean mini coop. Got to take son's cat to vet for second shots. DH gonna pick up fencing today if the store has it. May help DH start on fence. Sleep late on Saturday, what's that mean?
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Flowerbh said:

We rent out our log cabin! Bear Ridge Lodge - we still have some weeks left!
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Looks stunning! Can you PM me your info on it? We would love to take our girls up there, we always head up to Helen for day trips.

Haven't been on here much due to school starting. Our chicken tractor isn't quite finished yet, but I moved it out of the garage and stuck the chicks in there. It was getting waayyyy too smelly in the garage with them in their playpen. They seem to enjoy being outside. Our hens aren't thrilled with them (I have the tractor butted up against our backyard fence, so the girls can get use to each other), especially the Jersey Giants. For shade I use our beach umbrella on top of the tractor
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, when it rains (and at night) we put a tarp over it. At what age do y'all think I should put them together with the older gals? I've been waiting until I know they can't escape thru the chain link.....
 

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