My "Secret" Chicken Feed Mix!
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- PLEASE FOLKS, THIS VIDEO IS OVER FIVE YEARS OLD. DON NOT PHONE ME OR ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT IT ANY LONGER. HERE IS THE LINK TO MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE MIX: singingturkeys.com/POULTRYFEED... THIS IS ALL THERE IS, I CANNOT RESPOND TO ANY MORE COMMENTS!!
Here is an informative presentation about chicken feed, feed monopolies and the mix we have used for over a decade to produce great tasting eggs AND chicken meat year around!
I have uploaded the complete recipe and ratios, along with the link for the premix to our server. Here is the URL: singingturkeys.com/POULTRYFEED...
So many people have asked for more information that I created a ".pdf" file with the ingredients and ratios. If you would like the file, you can download it at:
singingturkeys.com/POULTRYFEED...
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I love your comment and agree 100% God bless
Was exactly what I thought as well. So I hit the subscribe button 😂
Me, too.
I got a comment from someone showing me HIS chickens waiting to feed and the "feeding frenzy" when he did! Unfortunately, I had to delete the comment due to his language during the video.
Please folks, talk how you want with your "crowd", but on my channels there is NO profanity, NO direct personal attacks and NOTHING in poor taste.
I drove truck most of my working life and can teach most new words and phrases. I choose not to. You should too!
+Sean Henderson Profanity is profanity, regardless the intent. To post on my channels, people need to use acceptable adjectives.
Ok. Judge away.
+Sean Henderson My channel, my rules. Your channel, your rules. Foul language is cropping up everywhere and no one stands up to it because they don't want to embarrass themselves to total stranger by saying out loud what the stranger are thinking!
This is not a channel about morals, so this is the end of this discussion. NO PROFANITY, NO PERSONAL ATTACKS, my rules and anyone who questions this rule, is themselves, questionable!
I get,"Your channel, Your rules." What eludes me is when, people stop a communication because of a word that they do no like. The point is the communication, the words are merely tools and some people have a limited tool set or vocabulary. Some people are less imaginative than others, but this does not mean that their communication is any less valuable or important. The expletives are real words and can be found in the dictionary. You can go ahead and delete my comment, which is neither a personal attack nor does it contain any profanity. But if you delete my comment you might as well add a 3rd criteria to your channel censoring, "the comments that you just don't like."
+Sean Henderson We will post this one last comment from Sean, not because of the last sentence challenge.... I do not respond to those, or dares..... but because the points made are points some language-impaired would think valid. But no other posts on this subject will be posted, as this channel is not about morality, it is about sustainable, out-of -the-box living.
We all understand that some people do not have the vocabulary of others. My brother, with seven or eight degrees, for example, loves to use words that few people know, to describe something in five syllables that could be as easily described in two. But he and I, seldom use four letter words, profanity, or ethnic stereotyping, because this makes one appear ignorant and intolerant.
We all know what profanity is, even the Slavey Indians I lived with in the Canadian NWT, who punctuated every sentence with one word that begins with an "F", several times...... until their wives appeared, then that word disappeared!I have traveled through more of North America than 99% of the people in the world and through much of Mexico and much of SE Asia. Even the least educated and conversant in the most remote of places, knows the difference between profanity and acceptable language. As many say, "If you are in doubt about the use of a word, it probably should not be used."
My position has nothing to de with one's education level or vocabulary. It has to do with the fact that we all know what language is acceptable language in what company. Using it for shock value in public, within MY earshot, will get a rebuke that will bring tears to your eyes, without a single word of profanity. If this were done far more often, we would not have to be in public places hearing words that would shock a truck driver...... and remember that I was one for nearly 45 years.
My channels attract many people, from the very religious, to the very conservative, to the ultra Liberal (like me) and most importantly, the young who are learning and testing language skills. We and this channel need to be and are, an example to follow. My deeds and knowledge are not enough. Respect, humility and more are on display with every video I post, every word I say. I know I have slipped a couple times with words and I let these pass instead of editing them. That I am human and make mistakes is an important part of the education I wish to offer: "it is OK to not be perfect, just strive for it." One of my favorite saying is: "I aimed for the stars. I missed. So I settled for the moon." So I try and sometimes miss in the video. However in writing, there is no excuse and there are MANY synonyms for EVERY curse word. Use them, or don't get posted here! I am NOT sending a message to people that ANY language is acceptable! We will be polite!
I just stumbled on your video today (Feb 2023) and I can't believe you made this 8 years ago!! You must have seen the writing on the wall long before the rest of us. Homesteaders across the country are complaining about the purina brands they buy at TS and their chickens not laying. Your video could have been made yesterday! Thanks for your info.
Any time a "for profit" corporation gets involved with food, be it animal or human, quality and REAL nutritional needs take a backseat to stockholder dividends. "Crude protein" is a great example: while 25% crude protein may seem like a lot, USDA allows that to include feathers, hair, hooves & nails and more, ALL UNDIGESTABLE!
Depending on the cost of the feed, one labelled at 25% (pick any number though) could have as little as 12% DIGESTABLE protein and THAT number is starvation for poultry. Just one of many examples of how the huge food lobby has us dazed and confused!
Robert, I came for the chicken feed and stayed for your commentary! You are willing to speak your mind and provide logic too. Thank you for facts and telling it like it is. Blessings!
Thanks! I will be back with more and varied videos soon!
Sadly, I HAVE to be gluten-free. The symptoms are VARIED, not just bathroom issues. But ALL of the symptoms cause extreme inflammation inside one's body, which sooner or later will likely cause cancer. I didn't start having issues until I was in my 40's. I believe with my whole heart that those of us that did get hit later in life is due to folks like Monsanto and all the GMO foods and additives to our processed foods. In researching why I was sick I learned that wheat is added as fillers to so many processed things that have no reason to have wheat in them. And the wheat grown these days have been bred to have nearly 80% more gluten in it than it did 100 yrs ago. Then you take the monster wheat and put it in EVERYTHING and VIOLA....a lot of people are basically "overdosed" to the point of no return. Just a little fyi. Thanks for the info. I'm a new subscriber!
I live in Kentucky and have started feeding whole grains. My cost for 50 lbs of my recipe is $9.84. I'm using a recipe I adapted from yours. I use corn, soy, wheat, oats, and sunflower seeds. I have a local feed store that sales these ingredients very cheap and it's from local farmers on all products except sunflower.
Thanks for your videos. I fully enjoy them!
This video maybe old but wow look at what we are going thru right now, 2022/2023 with chicken feed and no egg production, coming here to say, HOW RIGHT YOU ARE ABOUT PURINA. I’m gonna try to use your mixture. Thank you so much. Agree with you on your point of view.
Any time corporations get involved in food, animal or human, nutrition takes a back seat to shareholder dividends. The Checkerboard is the worst!!!!!!
I just found you and I must say you are the most honest and educational
person I have found yet!!! Thank you for the info.
I add black oil seeds to my chicken feed and a bit of diatomaceous earth as well. Chickens will pick out the black oil seeds first! They love them.
My five ladies refuse to eat any kind of sunflower seeds. Silly girls!
@@conniewojahn6445 thats what my chickens used to do when I started giving them mix grain but after a bit i started grinding their grain and till today they dont leave anything back
I use DE as well last 30 years
Excellent video. I'm in Alberta so fortunately we don't have to deal with Purina. Local producers make local feeds much like yours with locally grown crops. I worked for a farm supply and feed mill in Grande Prairie where I worked the mill. All local grains bought from local farmers and we just ran it through the mixer and bagged it. Ran the corn through the roller of course. Under $20 a bag Canadian which is still cheaper then the big mills in Alberta.
I love Alberta. In 1975-6 I flew out of Edmonton to Echo Bay for a mining contract. Spent some time in Calgary & Banff as well. That was all LONG before there were any skyscrapers in Edmonton and no West Edmonton Mall either!
Love your long wind, nothing but information, including the comments. Thanks.
Thanks for the informative video and your directness. Appreciate your style and delivery. God bless you sir.
Thanks for this video. it was very helpful
Thank you very much for sharing good information with every one.
Excellent video! Thanks so much for sharing!!!!
I really enjoyed this video.
Robert Earl you are great 👍. Thank you VERY much.
We’ve been using Mc Murray for our birds every year since we started raising them! Always, and I mean always had good luck. Everyone is usually amazed by the fact that they mail them right to our little post office!
absolutely amazing video.thank you sir.
Hope you are still growing chickens!!!! Great advice!!! THANKS!!!!
LOL; your definition of a prepper was interesting 🙂 I didn't know that about the clay in the pellets; thanks for the info.
I'll pass on the GMO corn and soy, I've got kids and grandkids..... we are what our animals eat...Monsanto has been sued and lost as you probably know by now.. their Round up that is used with GMOs cause cancer and more lawsuits are in the works... So I'll just stay with Organic products. But you have done a good job with your video and I will adjust to my liking.... I agree with you about the feed monopolies, pretty much should be illegal... Thanks Robert for the information.
They didn't loose they settled. They did a cost analysis and descided it was cheaper to pay than drag out a trial. I farm for a living and have been around round up and other chemicals for a long time. If the world wants to eat they need GMO's and chemicals so that enough food can be raised to feed them.
wow!!! i loved your educational video!! Thankyou!
Great video my friend!! God bless you!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH BROTHERS MUCH APPRECIATED!!!🥉🥈🥇🏆🥀♥️👍😃🌻
Hi there, watching your video in my summer house, your cockerel in the background, so I opened the door and all my birds ran over to see what's going on 😂😂 Kobe Ken UK
That is cute! It is so easy to fool those roosters!
Thank you for the tips it was so helpful .......and you are right
Hi Robert thanks for sharing, I am just about to start rearing chickens so your feed mix [once I buy the grain] will come in very handy. all the best keep the videos coming.
Robert Earl, I was just going back over your feed video. I've had very good success with your mix. Several people recently have mentioned to me that I should look at fermenting the feed before feeding to stretch the feed and provide a more digestible feed. I was curious as to your experience and thoughts on fermenting chicken feed.
Thanks, William.
Birds are what the dinosaurs turned into. No one gave dinosaurs "fermented feed" and I find it a waste of time that can be better spent elsewhere..... but if it makes YOU feel good, then do it. Gizzards insure great digestibility!
Rachel asked me about "fermented Chicken feed" (see the comment) For some damn reason, I cannot answer the comment directly! Someone please let me know what is up with that!!!!!!!
Rachel, I have no experience with fermented chicken feed. I just watched several videos touting it that ended with the presenter showing us how much the chickens liked it as they gobbled it down.
My chickens will gobble down Doritos, popcorn and potato chips. This is no indication of what is good for them, any more than letting your child choose own his dinner over what you are serving. Kids will invariably choose ice cream and chocolate over broccoli and fish. That does not mean they should have it daily! Nor should we feed our pets and livestock what they "like" either.
Two of the videos said that fermented chicken feed created thicker eggs, as though calcium was magically created during a three day ferment. All said they drank less water........ um, yes....... if food is saturated with water and you eat it, you need less other water. Is this a health benefit? No. They eat less feed too. Yes, because it is saturated with water and they feel fuller sooner. They are NOT getting significantly more nutrients, just volume in their crops.
I cannot speak to the "creation" of B vitamins. In fact, like the other fad diets I have seen in seven decades of life: B.A.R.F., vinegar diets, increasing longevity by being grossly underweight, processed & pelletized feed for parrots, vegetarian diets for dogs & cats and an endless list of others....... I WON'T speak to their benefits, mainly because other than making their creators wealthy, there are none!
Fermented feed occurs naturally often in a chicken coop after a soaking rain and they love to eat it because it is different, not better. Live insects, green plants, seeds, grains, the occasional mouse or snake and more are all a chicken's natural diet.
They have evolved to eat these thing over some 60 million years. What makes some wise guy with wet, spoiled food think he or she knows better than 60 million years of evolution?
If it were that effective, commercial growers would be clambering to feed it. They are not! I worked in that business for a number of years. Corn, soy and premix... DRY, dominate the commercial grower/producers for a good reason: the feed to egg or meat conversion is the greatest! We smaller producers can afford to allow pasturing, free ranging and fodder & mealworm production because time is not our enemy like it is to commercial operations, so we can do these things and even jump on the latest fad that a washed-up celebrity sells at 4 AM.
If it makes us happy to try, not much harm done other than your birds mature a bit slower or your potential egg production is lower. I say stay with the bird's natural diet as much as you can which by the way is NOT my "secret feed mix", but pasturing and free range. My birds do free range and if grass grew in the desert, they would pasture! In Florida, our poultry had around 10 acres of Bahia Pensacola grass to pasture on and my feed mix as a supplement.
Stay natural, let the hipsters follow the wind direction. Your birds WILL appreciate it!
thanku sir,
We have been fermenting whole grains for 1yr plus and it has been amazing!
Thank youbfor giving us insight on the store feeds verses homemade feeds.
What an awesome man. Thank you from New Zealand
have u tried hemp seeds high amout of omega 3 and protein etc.
Hi Sir I really liked your video i am from pakistan and i appreciate your efforts .. I am also a farmer
You've opened my eyes to the feed industry, I'll be mixing mine for now on. thanks
That rooster might have been shooting a video of his own.
I keep a mealworm colony . Excellent source of protein for the chickens .
Thank you very much for sharing. Great information!!! 👍💕
Thanks for all the good tips! - Mike
"Preppers are white people running around with guns & MREs" Man if I don't feel that, with the folk I used to know. Thanks for the good video with fantastic info! I hope your retirement is going great, and you enjoy it!
Little trick for those viewers browsing these comments: I had been pondering how to go about feed bins on the cheap, and remembered everyone in my family has cats, and were able to give me around a dozen of the Tidy Cats plastic bins that close near airtight, and with a bit of easy modification, now can be left outside without worrying about humidity, pests etc (though I keep em inside still).
Disagree with me if you want! I also have not met a gun toter who could take me in a fist fight (and very few others that could either...... when I was under 60). Texas jaundiced me against "white people with guns" and rightfully so. In 55 years of traveling on my own, through EVERY ghetto and barrio in America, many sketchy areas of SE Asia and the wilds of the substance abusers of west Texas, I never, NEVER had an inkling that I needed a gun to protect myself from a HUMAN (bears, wolves, wolverines and coyotes were a different story.)
I do love your idea on the Tidy CATs though!!!!
Hi Robert from Downunder Australia...just asking if u ever ferment grains..tc..I know it's hot now..🤔🇦🇺
If fermenting grain pleases you, do it. If steaming a chicken breast with basil for your dog's food please you, do it. But neither has ANY effect on the nutritional uptake. Chickens and all birds, are what is left of the dinosaurs. They made the last 65 million years without humans fermenting their food! I raised 20 pound meat chickens on my feed mix of grains. Cannot see how any feed could improve that result!
Just found this channel. I love it! New subscriber for sure.
thank you for sharing your experience with us
The feed is suitable for which growth stage of chickens?
From four weeks to death.
It is advisable to feed my broilers this?
My chicken MacClovia is lonely so she escapes from her house and heads over to the kitchen door, braving 11 cats and 5 dogs jajaja and proceeds to chase them away from their food! She likes dog food. Ay Dios. Good grief what a crazy chicken. She needs a boyfriend.
Really insightful. Appreciated.
Sir, you are amazing!
PLEASE FOLKS, THIS VIDEO IS OVER FIVE YEARS OLD. DO NOT PHONE ME OR ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT IT ANY LONGER. HERE IS THE LINK TO MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE MIX: singingturkeys.com/POULTRYFEEDMIX.pdf THIS IS ALL THERE IS, I CANNOT RESPOND TO ANY MORE COMMENTS!!
Wow
Recipe kinda starts at 3:40....
Lots of great, necessary information up to that point! Thanks for watching and for taking the time to point out that any good recipe requires a lot more information than just the ingredients!
well spoken . Thanks for the information,
Great video with a lot of information. You got another subscriber. Thanks.
Can you feed chi cken's to much protien??
Not really. Like vitamins, they just poop out what they don't need. The exception is the Cornish cross meat birds. You can feed them too much protein and they will gain more muscle mass than their developing bones can support.
Thank you
Flax seed is 90 $ a bag here in ontario canada. 2023.
THAT is pricey!!!
I like the way you teach others.
Thank you! I cant wait to try it!!
Can we produce chicks without vaccination?
I do.
Bentonite clay you say? Oh sure my cats sh-t in that stuff, but not sure I'd want my dogs or chickens eating it.
I appreciate you a ton. God bless!🙌
Love this man😊so much wisdom 💚
Being gluten intolerant isn't a sign of prestige? I work food service for a large corporate office. Lots of yuppies. Most are vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, sugar free, lactose intolerant, or allergic to such and such. So ridiculous. Like the gluten free guy, who eats white flour wraps, or the garlic allergy lady who eats our pizza everyday, with you guessed it, a big dose of fresh garlic in the sauce. Most look like they have cancer. Eat some red meat, on white bread, down it with a Coke, go get some natural sunlight, and grow a pair of testicles. I'm done.
+Hans “Hanzy4200” S. Being "special" IS a sign of "prestige" to the hipsters and young affluents of today! "My child is the best student with blonde hair between 60-70 pounds in his class at Hipster Elementary" bumper stickers are everywhere! We are dumbing down society, then discouraging excellence with "awards" for every participant, however mediocre! THEN, we complain when Asians who ARE taught that to excel is desirable, best us!
Being a "vegan", glucose intolerant, lactose intolerant and so on, have become badges of honor for the mediocre masses, desperately seeking to create an identity. The consumer culture of the last 40 years has caused this.
Personally, my life would have been a lonely one due to the shunning I get from these crowd following resource vampires, if it had not been for my Mother teaching us all that we were "so special" that the world needs to follow us, not us the world. It is only because of this upbringing that I found the courage to NOT do "what everyone is doing" and to grow into this lifestyle.
You are correct. These "allergy sufferers"(many of them), vegans, glucose & lactose intolerants, synthetic fabric allergies, religious fanatics and "talking heads" who preach hatred for all whose politics are slightly different from their own; all need to grow a pair, forget what others think, dance like no one is watching and scratch what itches when it itches. The world would be a far better place! Thank you my friend!
+Hans “Hanzy4200” S. Ever shopped at a health food store? You'll see the pastiest, scrawny, uptight looking neurotic folks you'll ever see.
squire haggard Yeah, I went into one to buy beeswax. The clerk looked like he was going to pass out at any moment.
+BmillTheGamer no they dont...
+doug moore My condolences on the loss of your Father.
Decades ago, the cartoon "Family Circle" had a Sunday cartoon where the kids were fighting in their bedrooms, running around the bedroom right after bedtime, jumping in and out of their beds. The father came in and sternly said to them to "Settle down! The next one of you that gets out of bed, gets a spanking!"
He turned and was walking down the hallway, when Jeffy, the littlest one, came out of the bedroom, saying "I 'havta go to the bathroom".
To every rule, there IS an exception. Your Father was a very unfortunate exception to my "rule". But from my generation forward, people somehow feel they must "stand out from the crowd", create a persona that makes them exceptional for some reason. That exceptionality make be one that is earned honestly, or fabricated like being a "vegan", "allergic to smoke" "lactose intolerant", "MSG intolerant", "fragrance intolerant", ADHD, "gluten intolerant", "public toilet intolerant", "bashful kidney", "fart anxiety", or some other thing I NEVER heard of until the 1990's! That does not mean these things are not real and don't exist! It just means that .00005% of the population suffers from them, not 50% of upwardly mobile," attention-needy", BMW driving, young professionals and particularly their children!
Somehow, I know you understood that in my post, I am seldom vague! But that does nothing to ease the grief regarding the loss of your Father.
Well, before you mentioned Wheat and Honey as a complete food there is a man mentioned them through God Qur'an around 1400 years ago his name Prophet Muhammad. Read (Surah Yusif) the prophet to see how God told him to store the wheat to last forever. And read what God said about Honey 1400 years ago. Please do. Thanks for your video.
I find religion to be both Man's worst invention and Man's greatest weapon of mass destruction, so I won't read any further than I was forced to for the first 18 years of my life into these Bronze Age myths and deities.
That being said, the Talmud, Quran and bible do possess much information that can help us survive in the case of societal calamity. Wheat, honey, dried beans and salted meats are wonderful survival foods. Pork, spoils quickly in heat. This is the reason it was shunned as a meat to eat in the hot desert areas where Islam, Christianity and Judaism flourished. Making its non-consumption a part of the religion, most likely kept many followers from falling ill from eating spoiled pork, so they could "go forth and propagate"..
Same can be said of the "book" of Leviticus, where if a Man lay with a woman who has her disease, he is unclean for 20 days (or so). Nowadays, we can wash with unlimited water, so sex during a woman's menstruation is possible without fouling our clothing.
These texts have a lot of great practical information in them..... but as guidance from some unseen creature who sees ALL the events in this entire 35 billion light year wide universe, not so much!
And the Almighty said, "Yusuf, friend, we've got seven fat cows eaten by seven lean, seven greens and another land, so I have to go back to people, maybe they know. He said you grow seven years, so you reap a climax in a spike in a little bit of what you eat. Then comes seven people who eat what you gave them a little bit of what they barricaded. Then comes a year later in which people are squeeze and there are a few of them» «Yusuf» «Verses 46-49».
The scholars and commentators have argued that the meaning of love and Sanabel in these verses is wheat, although it enters with barley and some other grains, but the wheat remains its duration. and come
tks robert, very helpful!
i love this video man keep up the good work and share more love
Nice operation!
thanks for posting this video!
Very interesting, and I'll be mixing up my chickens feed like yours once they start laying!! Thanks!!!!
Christopher M I grind my "baby" food in a Waring Pro blender. Anything of lesser quality will burn out fast! Eventually, we will get a real grinder and motorize it (store.countrylivinggrainmills.com/grain-mill/). Then I will grind all my own whole grains.
Thank you for sharing! I'll definitely look into my feed store to see if I can make my own.
A non-Purina feed store could create a millionaire owner!
Hey thank you for your video, really helpful for us just starting on yard birds
Glad to help
Great work. Thank your sir
Wow! I agree your a hoot, love this, Subscribed!
Really great - thank you so much!!!
Amazing brother!
Thank you for the great information as I'm just starting a little home/backyard chicken raising. Have four chickens ready to start laying and need to get feed so I'm going to try your recipe for feed.
Linda Kay Murphy I hope it works as good for as it does for us. Just remember that you still need to add a "premix" of vitamins and minerals, unless they are getting LOTS of greens and insect. My recipe is not complete without the premix and I neglected to say that in the video!
Thank you very much for sharing,
Thank u, I have learned much, that I can feed chickens an ducks the same feed u made. Thank u again from a beginner
thanks from florida, nice video.
yea
Thank you, good info!
I have another formula of making feeds for chicken and itik and as well as 🐖 pig!!!Thank you very much for sharing your nice video!!!
Love the Reuse of wine bottles & cement! GREAT Idea!!
great video!
Curiosidades Extrano THANK YOU!
Thank you Robert
Great video
Thanks for this !
I love the bottle house behind you! I've wanted to build one after seeing one in Southern Nevada near 50 years ago now.
I really is a work of art!
You just got subscriber😎👍
Great man, thank you a lot
Thanks for the video
Thank you for that information, look forward having chicken in the future, just gather information before I start 😀. Keep up the great work your doing to help us new be to have a successful start 🙏❤ God bless
P.s New subscriber
Dude!! You are right about being loooong wind'd! I too am loooooong wind'd sooooo I'm subscribing!
Thank you so much for this useful information!!!. I made the recommended mix using milo, wheat, corn and soybean meal. The birds are laying as usual and they seem to like this new mix a lot. Compared to the commercial stuff, this is CHEAPER, healthier and something I have noticed is that the birds eat less quantity, so a 50 pound bag lasts more than twice what the commercial feed used to last...!!!!. this is amazing and I'm very happy with the results. I wish I would have done this a long time ago... I'm using this mix for chicken, ducks, turkeys and even my guineas and pheasants!!
Thank you! I am always glad to hear that some of my information is of use and useful! On this feed, I have 4 1/2 year old hens that are laying like first year, so it does work and costs less!
Thank you so much, I am starting to raise my own chickens, I only have 1 roster and 3 hens. They haven't started laying yet. Now I am going to get the feed you talked about. Thanks again.
+Sylvia McDonald Very happy to be of help! I will be posting a new, follow-up feed video late this week.
Hey Robert Charlie here From East Texas 👋Thank you for the information.....
You are very welcome!
Interesting mix. It’s different from game bird feeding. I feed racing pigeon feed, whole corn, hen scratch/with out crack corn, wheat, laying pellet, and the most important is soaked oats. Feed three times a day 2 with the dry mix and one with soaked oats. Nice video
Thanks so much!
Christine asked me if I grind my baby chick feed. For some reason the question does not appear here, but I will answer it and hope she reads the answer:
I do grind the baby feed, "starter" much finer than the adult mix. I also make the mix 28% protein so that all baby poultry can eat it. I also neglected to add that if your chickens do NOT free range, you must also add a vitamin/mineral "premix" to the feed.
I bought 15 Rhode Island ridge and 15 leghorns from McMurray hatchery they are the best hatchery I've ever dealt with
Thank you for the information. And for not keeping secrets ;)
Thanks! More coming!
My hens are from McMurrays. They are now 3 years old In Oct. They quit laying about a month or so. I feed them crumble all scraps, sweet feed same as I feed my mini horse for the winter. If they don't start laying again before this bag of crumble is done they will be going into the pot!! I love what you feed but can't afford that much for feed for my nine girls!!!Good luck and please continue with the great videos!🐔🐔
+Gimpy Granny If your hens are in their molt, they will not lay eggs for 2-4 months. I lost the entire summer to the molt of our Dark Cornish this year, which destroyed our egg sales. Luckily the new hens started laying a month before the old ones started.
Another thing you said was their age. At that age, they really are "spent hens" and unless you have an emotional attachment, they probably should be eaten.
As a "granny" you probably knw this, but others don't, so...... in the "old days" , say pre-1980, you could buy a "stewing hen" in the grocery stores. These were usually "spent hens", hens past their laying prime that had been fattened a couple weeks then slaughtered. They were tough, but VERY flavorful and bigger and more expensive than fryers. Farms and semi-rural flock owners would also cull their spent hens in the Fall and hatch out new ones that would mature for Spring. This saved feed by feeding the new, soon-to-produce hens instead of low production old birds.
Commercially, as more productive hybrids were developed, hens were worthless as eating birds, totally "spent" and just skin and bones when the first molt came. They are replaced at 16-20 months routinely (I transported these old and new birds when I was in commercial houses) and the spent hens usually go to dog food, soup makers, or some other kind of chicken meals for humans that don't require a "pretty" piece of meat, just flavor.
The company I worked for sold the birds to Campbells for years. They lost the contract for some reason and could not find other buyers..... it is a bit more expensive to process these birds than fryers..... so they started bulldozing the birds into a pit and burying them! They had no reason why they would not give the birds to migrant workers, honest poor or create a niche market for the meat, they just buried them!!! This was hard for me to know and hurried us on the journey that continues here!
If your birds are not pets, it IS time to process them and replace them!
+eco-ranch.us I don't make pets of live stock. Made that mistake when was young!!
Your absolutely correct about them being a bit past their prime. Poor girls are still gorgeous but will be freezer food soon!! Thank you very much for your answer🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔
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You got a very big heart sir
God bless you
Great video 😎👍
Thanks! Watch my Holiday message. Should be up tomorrow!
Best thing I heard all day we don't need to keep it as a secret we need to keep growing!
+Jordan Nim I agree, that is why it is a "secret" and not a secret! With Purina dominating so many feed stores with their gift & trip bribes that have small feed store owners selling that overpriced crap they call animal feed, we all need to move back to mixing our own, as well as encouraging the small feed mills to continue to make feeds that do not have inert binders! I anyone finds, as we did, a small feed mill that uses heat extrusion and NO inert binders like bentonite clay, buy your base (corn & soy) ingredients from them, in the form of their layer feed. Then you can add the other grains and more soy to it for the variety and protein we want our flocks to have!
Great video I just started again having chicken I want to get there feed right