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Don't feel overwhelmed. Once you get it started, it's easy. Pasteurized ACV doesn't have the bacteria in it to begin the ferment. Yeast can cause an alcohol fermentation, and what you want is a bacterial fermentation,....lactofermentation. Plain yogurt or cultured butter milk that only...

Thanks. They are Bresse and Marans. It's hard to believe they are already 9 weeks old.

Here is what I did with my babies: I dug up a clump of grass near the chicken coop and put it in with the babies day 1. I couldn't believe how they would go and pick at all of that dirt. I figured if there was coccidiosis around, it would be there. By the time they left the brooder, the...

Yep. Just stir it up, add water and feed. That amount of good bacteria will give you a good quick ferment with the warm weather.....careful not to over fill or your cup will runneth over. You could consider starting another bucket with your ferment that good if you need more feed each day...

Just don't "drive" them to slaughter.

TSC is Tractor Supply and they are all over the place here, but I don't know about the West Coast. You can get them online: http://www.tractorsupply.com/en/store/harris-farms-flip-top-chick-feeder-20-in-l I just took the lid off and used a small piece of welded wire horse fence that has...

@Beekissed I borrowed your FF chick feeder idea. I have the plastic chick feeders you get at places like TSC. So I modified them for the FF:

I have repurposed horse stalls for pens as well. it is a metal barn with oak lined stalls. I used pallets to make a brooder out of one corner of the stall, had chicks in it and saw a snake come through a gap in the oak boards and drop right into the brooder. I just happened to see it, so...

Hey Bee.....isn't that where ricin comes from????

Do you have a rooster? If so, it may be awhile

I think it is 1 x 2, or thereabouts.

I agree! I love hardware cloth, but it is expensive. We just put up fence for pasture foraging for the chickens, and we had a galvanized tubular gate that we weren't using. We also had some fencing from TSC that I attached to the gate from the ground up with pieces of electric fence wire...

@Latestarter Welcome! @Beekissed He's talking about you, OT!!!

We jerry rig where I live

Here is another definition from Wikipedia: Mother of vinegar[1] - also called Mycoderma aceti (a New Latin expression, from the Greek μὑκης (fungus) plus δἐρμα (skin), and the Latin aceti (of the acid)[2] - is a substance composed of a form of cellulose and acetic acid bacteria that develops...

That is a terrific idea. When we used to breed and raise Quarter horses, we used a creep feeders for the foals. so that the mare wouldn't hog all the feed. It worked sometimes and sometimes it didn't because the mares work take their noses and manage to separate the metal bars. That won't...

First let me say that I am not a Flock Master. That said, I do believe that there is an approach to becoming one. I believe first and foremost is to understand the meaning of stewardship. With authority and dominion over animals comes responsibility. If you have authority over your flock...

It drowned because there was no air cell on that end and it pipped during the night. I opened up the shell as soon as I found it, but it was too late.

My gamebird feed is bubbly this morning, and the eggs are beginning to pip. The first pip was on the wrong end of the egg, so I lost my first big BCM chick, but I have another pip

Did I read that right?