DIY organic chicken Flock block - Grain & seed Block
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- So in this video, I am attempting to make an organic flock block (grain & seed block) for my chickens. I need a little help (Ideas) from you guys to make this grain block come out harder than it did.
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AMEN for staying organic!!!!!
Gee you're a lovely guy, Pete! I hope your wife appreciates you!
Thank you, she does and I appreciate all she does for me too 🙂
You don't want it too hard it will break their beaks. Next time put dry mill worms in it. They will like it even more.
Great idea, Thanks 👍
i know sugar is not good for chickens... am i wrong ?
Hanging the cabbage, as GFPRACING, mentioned, is the way to go, less work and better nutrition. Lots of fun for the birds.
You want to feed your chickens a natural, healthful diet? Sugar, molasses, coconut oil and cooked grain are not natural chicken feed. Coconut products are used in coconut growing areas and exported to other climates, but chickens would not naturally eat them unless man intervened. Chickens are omnivores, so will eat nearly anything you give them, and like it, but for natural, think of them roaming about the jungle, or forest, or even your land, and it's vegetation, small grain, seeds, insects, worms, larvae, maybe even small lizard, I saw one of mine running by with a very small snake in its beak ( didn't see it eat it though), and none of it cooked.
Now Black soldier flies, mealworms, and earthworms are natural foods that chickens would find a real treat. You want to see some real chicken action you could raise and feed those to them. But for simplicity, you can't beat the cabbage.
AMEN...YOU UNDERSTAND THIS ANIMAL. BRAVO ON YOUR COMMENTS
I know this is a very old comment but I have to say thank you! So difficult to hear people take animal fat out of food and add sugar and processed fats instead. They did it to human diet and then did it to our dogs and cats and now farm animals.
Nope. Making a suet cake for them to peck, they have cabbage tetherball they started eating less when the temp dropped to the teens for a few days here in NC .
Hi Pete, great vid, I use the heatproof plastic bowls that you can use for baking, which helps lo push out the cooked blocks as the bowls are flexible, and althouth its expensive I also add the animal liquid calcuim, which is very sweet, for their health, not every time though, plus brown sugar which binds a little better, plus some finely ground eggshells I put through the blender
Brown sugar is just white sugar and molasses. 1c sugar to about 1/4c molasses (more or less depending on dark or light). I haven't bought it ready made in years!
Pete I made my run like yours, I had the hardware cloth on top. I got tired of the run getting sloppy so I bought some roofing sheets and I covered the top of mine that helps keeping the rain out plus extra shade for the summer..might help
Good idea, thanks
We used unflavored gelatin to make hanging bird seed feeders once. Mixed in the gelatin with water and seed and baked them. Something to try.
Thanks
I like this idea much more than sugar to bind
Wouldn't this (unintentional) softer mix work better? The chickens would not need to hammer at the block to get some food. They can just peck it off nice and easily. I am going to try your exact recipe for a feed block for our 7 Pekin bantams. Thanks for giving the baking temperature in Celcius too.
I know when making toffee I have to add in Karo and sugar and then heat on med high with candy thermometer.. hardball.. you might do some research on that to help you with what you need to do. TY sooo much for putting this out there. It has given me some ideas.
Thank you 👍
Karo syrup shouldn't be consumed by anyone or anything. Unless ya wanna help kill it.
I made it for my chickens and they LOVED it!!!
Only use Sugar . Use like a cup of Sugar . Use only enough water to meld the Sugar . get it real hot . pour it over your Grain . Mix it all together . then bake it Longer . the longer you bake it . the harder it will get . Thank about baking Cookies . if you over bake them . they come out like rocks .
Thanks for the info. 👍
The molasses has really good minerals that are good for chicken ❤
A silicone baking dish would be easier to push the block out. I wouldn’t add sugar, just the coconut oil and molasses and unflavored gelatin.
I was looking for something for wild birds in winter but I think my local pigeons would come down and eat this in one sitting lol! I have seen the suet blocks too but I have opted for coconut oil too for the little birds in winter. I just need something to occupy the bigger ones to keep them from fighting and emptying the little bird feeders, I did try ground feeders but it's like a rugby scrum! Who knew birds could be so aggressive to each other! I don't discriminate between bird species as some people do, even my single squirrel is welcome as he goes for the bigger nuts I put out specially for him. I know I can hang the seed and coconut oil thingies from places the pigeons can't get to but there are also other, in between birds who aren't as agile but still need food.
Thanks for the info Pete. 👍🏻good video
Thank you
Great video. I just subscribed!👍🏻
Thank you 👍
Hi Pete, I'm thinking bring your sugar water to a hard candy temp stage not sure tho. Lovely video. Got 13 babies this weekend. Chickens are so fun to watch, and love the eggs. God Bless from East Texas, Tyler County 🥰🙋🏻♀️
Excellent idea mate
You could also add some shell grit and some sultanas !
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That’s great! Thanks for the vid. Just not sure on the sugar?
Thank you
Nice no snow cant wait
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Try a silicone cake pan
Wasn't that wax paper? Not good for anything to eat if so.
Chickens don't naturally eat sugar either.
Try corn syrup and honey
Thought you might like to see a "recipe" from a forum I belong to - the lad that reposted the comment has just become a fully qualified vet! Things are a bit different in the UK - we have more stringent regulations: club.omlet.co.uk/forum/topic/82114-pecking-block/?tab=comments#comment-1139981
Brown Sugar
THE PURINA FLOCK BLOCK recently changed their formula and the quality is Terrible!!!! I'm making this Today!! Any other ingredients you recommend?? dried corn bits? Mealworms? ....THANK YOU!!!!
The meal worm and corn would be great 👍
I’m laughing😂, sugar, molasses no . Use corn starch. No need to bake . Organic ? Not at a feed store, only way is to grow your own with virgin seed .
Check out Off grid with Doug and Stacy vlog called chickens board in the coop make this......
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Chickens are Omnivorous Of course they can and should eat animal fat. Mind you not to feed them all the time but for winter every once in awhile. They will go after it like crack. you are ok with feeding the chickens a ton of sugar but not fat?
Yes, I agree that chickens are omnivores and the fat they get in the wild is uncooked and natural, not superheated overcooked fat. That's what I was pointing out.
@@petebeasttexashomesteading Pete, nothing worse than refined sugar, for chickens and humans! Worse than any suet from your homestead. Melted fat doesn't have to be overcooked or superheated. Of course they like it! High energy boost. Pity about the molecular structure and effect of white sugar. Molasses should be enough. Such a lot of work! Growing worms in a pot is a lot easier and healthier. They get to scratch too.
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Funny dudeeeee
Animal fats are in their natural diet. Chickens eat small animal like mice and snakes and they have fat on them, so animal fats are absolutely part of their diets What is not part of their natural diet is sugar and coconut oil. Not saying that is bad for them. When you start treating chickens diets like human diets, you will have to further supplement their diets, here is an example that I always see in chicken tending videos people take all bacteria out of their lives then supplement it with probiotic supplements and foods. Just stop stripping them of the stuff that comes natural in their “wild” habitat and save yourself from extra.
Suet cakes are what animal conservationists recommend because their bodies take lots of fuel to keep them warm so it is beef fats and grain to keep birds warm . Wild flying birds also eat animal fat.
Sugar is not good for the chickens
Yep, But I'm not going to be giving them sugar all the time though.
Sugar Not good for people either,
Use paraffin wax food grade
I'll look into it, thanks
Did he just say he hopes they don’t get a sugar rush?😂😂
Organic, fat free candy for chickens 🤦🏽♀️
Heavens no! Don’t give them animal fat. 😂
Cooking your feed (like anything) kills the nutrition so no cooking. While I admire the use of (hopefully non-heated) organic, non GMO grains (the best is dried or even freeze dried, not dehydrated). Think of what "sugar/binder" gets hard as rock when old/cold. HONEY. No sugar needed. So lightly heat your organic honey and mix with your grains....and please NEVER USE WAX PAPER OR PARCHMENT PAPER AS THEY ARE FULL OF CHEMICALS. Instead, just lightly grease your non-aluminum container with some organic oil and press your mixture into that then refrigerate it for 1 day then freeze it for 2-3 days. Will it warm up in hot months and get pliable? Probably but it won't contain too much sugar or anything un-natural for their diet. Also, try to remember that thanks to big business even our rainwater contains "forever chemicals" so short of giving your animals melted 500,000 year old iceberg water the truth is that there is no way to get rid of all chemicals.....and this is why I spend a lot of time rooting for an asteroid to finish us off like it did the dinosaurs...lol. P.S., YOUR EFFORT TO DO THE BEST BY YOUR ANIMALS AND YOUR FAMILY IS AMAZING.......BEST OF LUCK TO YOU.
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All you Have to do is buy organic eggs :)
It's still not the same! Chickens are fun and you know everything they ate and you get to retire them to the party in your tummy when they get to old to produce eggs often 😂
How do you KNOW that they are really organic?
@@carolleenkelmann3829 it says on the box, and you can tell how yellow they are or how they keep the form and as well taste
@@VIVAFPV the worst eggs I have every had were the bought in the Health food shops or Bio section of the Supermarket. The Health food organic were pale and the yolk fragile. I know what goes into the free range organic food fed hens! And I am certainly used to better quality, even if it was winter. Home grown the way my mum did it - the best!
@@VIVAFPV the worst eggs I have every had were the bought in the Health food shops or Bio section of the Supermarket. The Health food organic were pale and the yolk fragile. I know what goes into the free range organic food fed hens! And I am certainly used to better quality, even if it was winter. Home grown the way my mum did it - the best!
What breed of chickens are they? I see a white one there also. And some brown ones. They look like mines however, when I got my eggs, the seller had no clue what breed they were 🫤.
Color eggs I get are light brown to cream to olive to a tint of blue.
My white girls have like grey feet, and one of my girls has black feet 🤭