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In the forage classes that I teach we always encourage people to work with their native grasses as opposed to planting anything annual unless the annual benefits far outweigh the time of money of other forage. For instance... rye and oats are frequently planted this time of year to extend...

I always thought of paddocks as being small dry lot areas close to a barn that provide temporary housing for various livestock. I guess our "paddocks" by the above definition are the "sub-pasture area" we rotate to each day. Each "paddock" is 164'x164' and is in a different location each...

Might help to know what some definitions of "large paddock" are. Guess I'm a little confused and and finally figuring out that a large paddock is maybe? An area a little larger than the coop? I just can't get a handle on the necessity for deep bedding in such circumstances?

In other words... for those who weigh their FF... about 1 lb of dry grains equals about 2.25 of wet grains in most of the rations I have weighed. So if you feed 1 lb/day to 3 birds, then to those same three birds you will give 2.25 lb of FF

LOL... eating the paint reminds me of a mother who brought her daughter to the doc for eating glass found on the ground. She asked the doctor what she was lacking? Doctor said... supervision

Soaking premixed feeds is nasty in my opinion. It's sticky and smelly. I soak only my grains and then add the other ingredients to the fermented grains. As far as amount... if you feed by weight... then all other things being equal the fermented grains weigh about 2.25 what the dry grains do...

We have now passed the 50" mark for rain fall this year... WOW! This has been the ultimate test for how high and dry my coop pens are... can't say the same for some other areas on the farm, but the chickens have remained in the dry. I thought at one point my sheep and maremma were going to mildew.

I dunno... I'd have to go back and look at previous year's records. I have never done this many in one year before. Usually I hatch in the spring... maybe 20-30 chicks... and yes I usually loose couple out of those, usually sometime in the first few days. I had a lot of successful hatches this...

We charge $4/dozen... we are in the middle of nowhere, so we do a delivery drop point circle once a week and folks pick up at one of those three locations. Once a month we do lamb and beef deliveries to those same locations. Anyone wanting raw milk (herd shares) has to come to the farm.

Problem is... article claims soybean is needed... that is incorrect. What is needed is some form of animal protein.

Yes... quite normal... mine eat little to nothing when free ranging all day.

Calculate your dry to wet conversion ratio... for instance mine is 2.25 That means if you are feeding production layers say .25 of dry a day, you would feed .25X2.25 of FF This is just an example. My production layers eat an average of about half a lb/day of FF when in confinement (I don't feed...