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    Need good recipe for gluten/soy free feed

    So. Short version. If I were so allergic to wheat and had 9 chickens, in the winter I would offer each of these in separate crocks: three or four grains, maybe some other seeds, mineral salt mixed into something, crushed eggshells, alfalfa or clover hay and/or alfalfa sprouts, maybe also...
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    Need good recipe for gluten/soy free feed

    Sunflower oil meal looks very promising. It is as high in met as soybean oil meal. Met is the hardest amino acid to supply via plants. It is low in lysine but, as stormcrow says, that can be found over the counter. It is also easier to find in plants than met is. Best to get the hulled version...
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    Need good recipe for gluten/soy free feed

    Research done after those books were published found peanut oil meal is not a good choice.
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Yep. That is what I go for also... aluminum foil, parchment paper, glass cleaner, old towels for rags, used paint brushes. Food (gotta be careful with that). But I like(d?) to go the first day because I only go to the ones where I see something else I might want. It isn't worth the gas to go...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Estate sales seem to have changed. When I started going to them semi-regularly, 10 or 15 years ago, I thought most of them were not far from garage sales in feel and pricing. Actually, garage sales have changed too but that is another topic. Then we moved to where there basically weren't any...
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    Vent sexing?

    One of the cons is that it takes a LOT of practice even with instant feedback. I saw on a documentary that some professional training programs don't provide any pictures or instruction other than having the students watch pros for a short time. Then they just do it. They do many thousands a day...
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    What chickens free ranging in a traditional management system eat I.E. how it was done before commercial feeds

    Sorry I missed your question until now. I didn't find numbers of the flocks but it gives plans for new housing they built for this flock - 17'x80'. That gives some idea of the numbers. They also talk about summer housing in addition to that building. They don't say if that building was the only...
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    Chicken coop recommendations for beginners?

    You will do better by starting a new thread. You can copy/paste this post in it. For your situation, I recommend a Woods' Open Air build or a shed conversion (either existing sheds or modifying shed plans if you build from scratch). Shed conversions are usually the most cost effective...
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    What chickens free ranging in a traditional management system eat I.E. how it was done before commercial feeds

    This is from 1922. It probably fits better in the threads about what to feed if commercial feed isn't an option but I can find this thread much easier. Its sort of related, I think. If nothing else, the list of feeds they tested gives an indication of what people were feeding chickens. I...
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    emergency feed

    Milk, skim milk, sour milk, buttermilk, clobber, whey, and other dairy products were common in rations developed by the universities who did wide scale, systematic research of feeds for livestock. The main downside was they tended to cost more than other protein sources unless the chickens were...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    That might make a difference. I so rarely use the chat option, I didn't notice that part.
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    Need good recipe for gluten/soy free feed

    Is wheat the only grain you need to avoid? I know some people who react to wheat need to avoid some of the other grains that are closely related to wheat. Cross contamination being a different issue.
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    Need good recipe for gluten/soy free feed

    This is from the chapter on other seeds and their byproducts in the section "Feed stuffs". Cottonseed meal is useful for other species of livestock but should be a max of 5% for chickens because it contains gossypol which can injure chickens and make egg yolks an unappetizing color. There are...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    "Speak to an agent" works best for most companies and is much easier to say. I assume it would work for Amazon too. Still need to say it several times. Actually, almost any short phrase said repeatedly works. If I remember right "I don't have one" worked for me last time and almost as fast as...
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    Need good recipe for gluten/soy free feed

    Animal protein "are very efficient in correcting the deficiencies in the proteins of [other feedstuffs]." It doesn't matter much what sort of animal protein is used as far as what species it is from. Bugs work as well as mammals work as well as fish work as well as birds work as well as...
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