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    Keeping them healthy

    You might consider replacing the oats, corn, and sunflower seeds of the treats portion with fresh food. Things like vegetables, sprouts, and fruit have nutrients that don't show up in the standard lists of nutrients. Some of the best known are antioxidants (there are lots of kinds of...
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    No wonder chickens fed cafeteria style select each element in about the same proportion as it is in the old mixed feeds

    How much volume can a hen eat in a day? Any size hen - I can adjust for that. I know how much grain-based feed to figure but if the diet is not based on dry ingredients then it starts to matter how much volume they can eat. Or I suppose I could do more math and figure most of the ingredients...
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    Undecided- Anyone ever feel the same?

    That doesn't mean you are a flake or lazy. Learning is a good hobby in and of itself - learning a few layers deeper than the casual surface in a series of area is a great thing! You may circle back to some of them some day, or use pieces of some of them in other applications, or just have the...
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    Parenthood Thread

    Read to the babies, and let them see you reading. Babies understand much, much, much more than most people think they can. Both words and what is happening in general. That helped me dig deeper for patience and self control. It does matter.
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    Should I get an exhaust fan?

    If you get one, one rated for barns is much safer. It will have the moving parts sealed so the dust is much less likely to catch fire from the friction.
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    Water and feed system for new coop build

    One way to do it is to have the water source go to a reservoir (5 gallon bucket works well for a backyard-sized flock). Put a shutoff in the bucket, l(ike a toilet tank has is one way to do that but there are other ways). Then connect your horizontal pipe to the lower part of the reservoir...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    If you going to eat the instant oatmeal packets, you can save some money by getting the plain flavor ones. To get flavored, add 3 1/2 teaspoons of white sugar (2 teaspoons for the low sugar version), a pinch of salt, a pinch or two of dry milk, and some fruit.
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    Sally's GF3 thread

    We eat the steel cut oats version on weekdays. Dh likes it with just unsweetened dried tart cherries. I like it with the cherries, any other dried fruit too, pieces of nuts, and pumpkin seeds in various proportions. The new thing for me is adding buckwheat to it. I tried buckwheat instead of...
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    Feeding Chickens iguana?

    My son-in-law's family eats them regularly. He has too when there. They thoroughly cook all the meat they eat. Iguanas may have more reason than most meat to need being cooked. There was a news article the other day about dogs having issues from eating them. It wasn't clear if it was something...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I tried going to an estate sale on the last day. It was a two or three day sale. There were about a 15 cars when I arrived and when I left. Different ones so shoppers, not staff. For a one bedroom house. It was still crowded inside but not super crazy. I had a list of about 30 things from the...
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    Training to eat greens and other produce?

    I start with tapping each new food bowl full of their chicken food as I call them. They outgrow food bowls about once a week for the first few weeks. Sometimes I call/tap anyway if the food was low when I refilled the bowl. Then call and tap where I have treats about once per day - starting with...
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    No wonder chickens fed cafeteria style select each element in about the same proportion as it is in the old mixed feeds

    Thank you. I just borrowed it from the library.
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    No wonder chickens fed cafeteria style select each element in about the same proportion as it is in the old mixed feeds

    https://www.feedphosphates.org/index.php/guides This is worth putting here for its definitions and explanations related to feeding chickens. Also the results of some recent research. It covers plant sources and inorganic sources but barely touched animal based sources. That is probably because...
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    No wonder chickens fed cafeteria style select each element in about the same proportion as it is in the old mixed feeds

    The same source says "...Quinoa is a pseudocereal that is primarily cultivated for human consumption. There are not many published data on the use of quinoa for broilers or on its nutritive value. In the current study, the AA digestibility of quinoa was generally lower than that of corn...
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    No wonder chickens fed cafeteria style select each element in about the same proportion as it is in the old mixed feeds

    The following is mostly quoted from the source in the picture. I tried to be representative while extensively condensing and while reformatting some of it. Standardized ileal amino acid digestibility (SIAAD) was determined for bean starch concentrate (BSC)[dehulled fava beans, with no...
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