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Posted on 06/19/2023 6:52:30 PM PDT by DallasBiff

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To: DallasBiff
Laying mash for chickens is corn meal, distillers grains, bone meal, feather meal, (yes ground up unwanted chicken parts), soy meal, cottonseed meal, fish meal, and vitamins and minerals. My 25 egg laying chickens ate 100 pounds a week in winter. Less in summer because they free range then. Maybe 50% reduction. Once the frost comes and the ground vegetation dies back, it's back to the 100 pounds a week.

Feed costs almost always exceeded my egg revenues. But for us it was a quality thing.

21 posted on 06/19/2023 7:26:52 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: BrexitBen

I prefer them sauteed in butter with baked garlic.... /s/s/s/s


22 posted on 06/19/2023 7:27:58 PM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl ( )
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To: blackdog

Could you tell the difference in how the eggs tasted?


23 posted on 06/19/2023 7:28:28 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: FamiliarFace

You can get them from Amazon. I buy them in the winter for my birds. In the Summer they get seeds, fruits and nuts. There are plenty of bugs available.


24 posted on 06/19/2023 7:29:13 PM PDT by redangus
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To: FlatulusMaximus

You will eat ze worms and be happy


25 posted on 06/19/2023 7:29:21 PM PDT by Greg123456
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To: DallasBiff

BSFL—You can save some money after an initial investment, the first one is a really nice setup, I have the simple one similar to the 2nd link. The BSF isn’t the nuisance that regular flies are— the adults don’t have a mouth and adults don’t eat, only breed.they look similar to a wood wasp.

https://youtu.be/Xnb0jV2UScw

https://youtu.be/ZJCSjdqsyms


26 posted on 06/19/2023 7:30:43 PM PDT by Irenic
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To: DallasBiff

The feral chickens of Hawaii have readily adapted to the jungle. They are a mix of domestic chickens, fighting chickens, and jungle fowl. As such, they seem to be “speed running” evolution to become something else entirely.

As a species, chickens are genetically “flexible”, and are probably on a par with dogs for breed variation.


27 posted on 06/19/2023 7:35:05 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: DallasBiff
Coming soon to a public-school cafeteria near you...

QUESTION: Is this the new "bioengineered ingredient" in many processed food items?


28 posted on 06/19/2023 7:36:23 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: TexasGator
Late at night I would take 2 thousand pound bales of hay out to the pasture feeding racks. In the middle of the winter and a moon out it was amazingly scenic and isolated. As I would look behind (as you spend most of the view on a tractor), the rabbits 🐇 by the dozens would flock to the crumbs and stems falling from the huge bales as they bounced along on my spike. By the time I had it loaded in the feeder and was on my way back, those rabbits would have every last speck of hay eaten and gone. They were like bunny sharks to chum.

The rabbits all winter in dens along the pasture rock wall divider piles and brush.

Everything in nature and in farming gets consumed. Everything. No exceptions.

29 posted on 06/19/2023 7:37:16 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: nwrep

Absolutely. Also very deep orange yolks. Never yellow like store bought eggs.


30 posted on 06/19/2023 7:38:19 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: DallasBiff

Chickens eat what pigs won’t


31 posted on 06/19/2023 7:39:26 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: TexasGator
The flying armada of barn swallows when cutting, side raking, and baling hay, is impressive.

Freshly tilled soil brings sandpipers for some reason? They just run along yelling at you.

32 posted on 06/19/2023 7:40:51 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Early spring, I set a little dish with meal worms like that with a little olive oil poured on them to glisten in the sun and the birds think it is heaven.


33 posted on 06/19/2023 7:41:34 PM PDT by KC Burke (Diversity, Inclusion and Equity is not another way to spell GOD but it is a way to spell DIE.)
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To: DallasBiff

Chickens are omnivores...ever heard the old expression “[He] was on it like a chicken on a June bug?”

We fed ours everything...all kitchen scraps, fish guts, old orchard fruit, weeds, watermelon rinds, bread, dent corn and chicken feed, and scratch grains.


34 posted on 06/19/2023 7:43:28 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: gundog

Yeah, mine hang out and pounce in mass on the ground Squirrels when they come in to try and get pellets...

Actually pretty funny to witness... lol


35 posted on 06/19/2023 7:43:29 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Fai Mao

Most fun is to toss a mouse in the chicken coop. It’s like watching chicken rugby. Also never turn in a chicken to the coop with a wound. The others will kill and eat it. Keep a “hospital pen cage for any wounded chicken until it heals completely. They are cannibal savages.


36 posted on 06/19/2023 7:44:16 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: DallasBiff

Break it up a bit to be smaller and Dog or Cat food is great for Chickens...


37 posted on 06/19/2023 7:45:12 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: NorthMountain

Only if they are too closely confined/overcrowded. In fact, overcrowding and close confinement can cause almost any animal to become cannibalistic, perverse, brutal or at least aggressive, even humans.


38 posted on 06/19/2023 7:46:17 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: blackdog

“Most fun is to toss a mouse in the chicken coop. It’s like watching chicken rugby. Also never turn in a chicken to the coop with a wound. The others will kill and eat it. Keep a “hospital pen cage for any wounded chicken until it heals completely. They are cannibal savages.”

Like tossing a white person into South Central LA at midnight... lol


39 posted on 06/19/2023 7:46:38 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: piasa

Fall garden cleanup for us means turning the chickens loose on the crop residues. Not a single vine, stem, rotted squash, leaf remains behind. The one strange thing they do is to not eat the outermost skins on melons, squash, pumpkins, etc.... cleaned clean almost to a thin sheet of paper.


40 posted on 06/19/2023 7:53:27 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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