Recent content by saysfaa

If I were to try picking chicks out of a bin of Easter Eggers or Ameraucana, what colors could grow up to be black? I know what color Australorp chick down is, do all chicks with that color pattern grow up to be black?

Mine like clover and young cosmos plants best. And radish greens.

No. Mine like the leaves when the plants are young but not later. Turns out the concentration of the toxins is much lower in young leaves. As long as the chickens have access to other food, they are very unlikely to eat enough to harm themselves.

This is the rocket stove I built to make maple syrup. It worked really well. They can be made big enough to heat homes or with a coffee can and four soup cans. I think hikers have smaller designs than that to boil a cup or two of water with a few twigs. Insulating the elbow helps get the fire...

I don't have ideas for getting the wood dry other than stacking it under over. But it might help the over all situation to build a rocket stove. It is the most efficient wood stove, uses small pieces of wood, doesn't require wood be cut to length, and is easy to build.

The wool hen works with the chicks' body heat. You would need to adjust the size of everything - let the wool strips hang lower, maybe use smaller wool strip. If you don't have wool, fleece may work - most people used that. If you don't have either wool or fleece then feathers might be an...

There is a way to get the right moisture level by sealing in a jar with salt and water. The proportion of salt to water makes it work but I don't know what the proportion is. It is probably published somewhere if you wanted to look for it.

I don't know how to encourage chicken hens to raise quail chicks. However, I raised my chicken chicks without electricity by using a wool hen and hot water bottles. The posts where I got the information on wool hens did it without the hot water bottles...

I noticed this too. My chickens were enthusiastic about common earthworms but reluctant to eat a night crawler I dug up. l looked a little for an explanation. One possibility is "food imprinting." It seems that a food eaten in a critical period of development will be preferred thereafter...

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If she were mine, I would retire her rather than breeding her again. Udder suspension is a genetic trait. In dairy cattle, there are pretty good records to use in selecting a sire to improve that trait but I don't think such records are much available in goats. I sympathize. In case it can...

True. And that should be considered. On the other hand, Pfizer spends a LOT of money, often without credit being given. I don't know if they give money to wiki but they do give money to where wiki gets their info.

Another possibility is that it is the purity that causes the digestive problems. I think the other types of enzymes, phytochemicals, and so on in traditional food buffer each other as compared to getting isolated parts as in the white food versions.

I did. Did you read it critically or dismiss it because of the name? Nothing in it contradicts what is in the wiki info except wiki's confidence in the purity of the enzyme isolated from the fermentation broth vs the pdf's contention that traces of other things sometimes remain. And the...

No. No. No. I don't even know how many noes to put after reading that Sigh. I'm not opposed to the GRAS concept when it is used for things people ate before oleo was devised. Using it for this is just wrong. But thank you. Unwelcome as this is, I'd rather know about it than not know. Edit to...