Recent content by SunnyFeathers

I agree. I really appreciate you taking your time to analyze my feed plan, U_StormCrow !

My light brahmas are gentle giants. In fact, I find light brahma roosters to be the best flock masters around. Part of my chicken compound is a retirement villa - hens that are getting too old to be productive, but that I do not want to cull - are placed in there to live out the rest of their...

Unless they have changed dramatically since 1982 (yes, 40 years ago), Cargill does NOT have a set formula for each product that they follow every single day. In fact, the feed formulas changed DAILY back then, and I would figure they still do today. What does not change is the guaranteed crude...

@U_Stormcrow, Is there any difference between hard red wheat and hard white wheat? I happen to have some buckets of hard white wheat already on hand, from the year 1999, and I KNOW it has no contamination from vomitoxin or other contaminants that have been sneaking into some of the recently...

They prefer the corn and BOSS, that is for sure. But they do get around to eating the split peas. Soaking them for about 10 minutes helps. Their tendency to eat some ingredients of over others is what first alerted us to the problem that just mixing ingredients was not enough. The girls are...

Tennessee. The fish meal is the most expensive ingredient - $74.95 plus tax, for 50 pounds

Hummm…. Would a cement mixer work? I never thought about mixing grains with one - I was going to mix mine manually in smaller portions. But heck I HAVE a cement mixer here on the farm. What a great idea, Alagal!

I ordered my bulk flax seed off of walmart.com, of all places.

@U_Stormcrow , can you run this mix through your calculator when you have the time to do it, and see how this stacks up? BTW, I do not know what kind of fish meal that the local feed store has special ordered for me. It is suppose to arrive there next Friday. The kelp meal is some that I...

I cannot speak for everybody, but I am a cancer survivor. My cancer was a pretty advanced case of endometrial cancer. Most people who,have endometrial cancer - along with about 70% of those who have female breast cancer and about 65% of those who have ovarian cancer - have tumors that are made...

I know that it is easier to get the proper balance of nutrients using commercial layer pellets, but my husband and I grow most of our own organic table vegetables, and we have been itching to get into mixing our own chicken feed. We have been growing our own chickens (and occasionally ducks)...

I occasionally sell 4 month old pullets. What I do is put them in a large dog cage, then secure the dog cage in the back of my pick up truck. I bring along one or two cardboard boxes with holes pre cut into them, plus duck tape to seal the box, should the person choose to buy them. (They...

I have a flock of around 40 hens and three roosters who would not agree with the notion that chickens should not be fed milk or dairy. They look forward to left over milk, yogurt and sour cream. Back last year when I got 28 cases of USDA surplus milk, yogurt, sour cream and cheddar cheese...

Last year, the USDA was running that Farmers to Families program. My church got a whole truck load of boxes loaded down with things like milk, Dannon yogurt and Daisy sour cream. We offered it free to the community, and we had many takers, but we were still left with over a hundred boxes of...

Yes! As long as the yogurt has been refrigerated, and does not have any mold or bacteria growing on it.