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Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
Does not need to be Q related.
Apparently bird flu is taking off this year.. stock on chicken and eggs. They want to vaccinate all the chickens....
My grandfather had lots of chickens when I was a kid. Feed them every day with him. I still love the smell of chicken feed. He got some about twenty years ago and the hawks kept getting in the fence. Eventually they got them all. Haven’t figured that out yet, it was fenced on the top.
My parents have 8... some of the best eggs ive ever had. They feed them some chicken meal shit and mealworms as a snack. Every time I visit I throw grass clippings into the enclosure and the chickens go nuts. I told my parents to feed them more veggies but idk...I remember chickens loving rice too. What do you think? They need a mobile coop thing to let the chickens roam the yard.
I'd give them leaves and shavings and short chopped grasses, they need to scratch and peck, I "pasture" mine, they are free to get bugs and they do eat grass, they need some vegetation. They love a bale of hay, eat the seeds grains, but they can swallow long grasses and it gets twisted up in their crops, they can starve to death like that, so long grass can be a problem.
Thank you! I did not know chickens were carnivores like that.. seriously raptors with feathers. My dad lets them sit on his lap. There are hawks that have taken 2 of them so unfortunately we cannot free range them unless we kill the hawks. I'm pretty sure its illegal to do that but not 100%. I have tons of yard waste, once I move out of the suburbs I will definitely take your advice.