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Fertilizer Prices Expected to Skyrocket! Use Chicken Run Compost
I agree with that part. I strongly advocate for wearing protective clothing and taking other safety precautions. That was drilled into me as a young boy taking shop class in school, for example, and I carry that practice forward with me in most aspects of my life. When I went in to nursing as... -
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I agree on being glad we don't have bans on feeding kitchen scraps and leftovers to our backyard flocks here in the US. However, I can understand why England imposed those laws. You can look it up, but I think they had to put down more than 6 million animals due to the Hoof-And-Mouth outbreak... -
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Thanks. I know I will have a 2X4 frame on the outside of the fencing. I might have to add some pole supports inside the run about halfway to support the chicken wire. I am already considering making a tent like top, so I have more headroom above me when I walk in the chicken run. My fencing is...- gtaus
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I don't drink coffee. Dear Wife has one of those Keurig coffee machines that use those individual cups. I know coffee grounds are good for composting, but I don't know if it's worth my time to tear apart those plastic cups to get to the used coffee grounds. I know Dear Wife will never do it. I... -
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Thanks for your comments @chickengr. Here is my thinking... Boiling intestines would kill pathogens and bad bacteria. It's safe to feed back to the chickens from that aspect. Most likely why you never had a problem. 🤔 However, when you think about the digestive process, all the nutrients the... -
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:hit Lost All My Bird Netting - New Pallet Wood Project My run is ~13X39 feet. I have bird netting stretched across the top to keep out our aerial threats. I live on a lake and we have hawks and Bald Eagles overhead all the time. I'm sure they would love a free chicken dinner. I don't have a...- gtaus
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Yes. That's why the BYC forums have been so valuable to me. I think real life experience matters. But I'm open to doing things differently. 👨⚕️ As a male RN, I think back to some of my first classes in Nursing school where our instructors drilled into us the notion of "Best Practices" based on... -
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No. That's not how I read that at all. When I feed leftovers, kitchen scraps, or remains to my chickens, if they eat everything, then I have nothing to worry about. However, they usually only pick at the fish remains and, in the evening, I always bury the uneaten remains deep into my chicken run... -
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I wanted to address this thought as best as I understand it. On the surface, intestine contents and manure might seem like the same thing. But they are not. The problem is that "fresh" intestines is where the pathogens may be concentrated and alive, in a liquid slurry. By the time those contents... -
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It's always great when members test assumptions. I'm open to that. I have seen YouTube videos of Joel Salatin feeding his old, culled, dead laying hens directly to his hogs. He is not going to waste any time or energy on butchering old layers for their tough meat that nobody wants to buy. So... -
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Exactly. When I was first learning guitar as a teenager, my guitar teacher told me that playing guitar alone is not usually enough to keep your position in a band - not everyone is Eddie Van Halen. Most guitarist play well, but have to be able to support the vocalist with backup vocals. :lau...- gtaus
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I played guitar and bass guitar. I sang backup, mostly, but I did have a few songs singing lead vocal. It was a lot of fun being in various bands for ~10 years when I was younger in my 40's. :lau I have one of those voices that sounds better with 5,000 watts of screaming guitar over me...- gtaus
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:clap Thanks for all the considered comments you put in your reply. I think a healthy debate is a good thing. I try to feed back as much as I can, first to the chickens, then to compost if it is a food that is harmful to the chickens or if I have some other concerns. I feed almost all our... -
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Thank you for the question. From what I am reading, if there are any pathogens in the dead animals, they would be most likely be concentrated in the intestines. Therefore, the safer course of action is to not feed intestines to your chickens. What about chickens in the wild? Turns out, they... -
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:fl Yeah, I am looking forward to trying some weed tea this year. Right now, our temps are down in the 20F's at night and water is frozen solid though the day. I hope it warms up in the next week or so. I won't think of filling buckets with water until it stays above freezing all day and night... -
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:clap Back in the day, I was in a bar band. We would wrap a piece of colored tape on our microphone, mic stand, cords, etc... so at the end of the night we knew whose gear we had. Since our gear all looked the same and we had a number of the same types of microphones, it just helped to have...- gtaus
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:hit We got hit with a 5-day snow storm this past week. All my weeds are sitting under a foot of fresh snow. Don't expect it to melt off until maybe next week sometime. Daytime highs staying at or just above freezing most days. :idunnoWith your weed tea, do you water the soil only? I have... -
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:old That's a great idea. I do have an engraving pen. Might be good to take it out and put both my initials and the warranty date on my new 15-year warranty shovel. :tongue I have had tools walk off on me, but engraving or not, they were never coming back. I hate that. But when dealing with...- gtaus
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Butchering rabbits is not all that difficult, and like most animal processing, you get better with more repetitions. I was maybe 12 years old when I first started butchering rabbits. It did not take too long to get fairly good at it. :old My grandfather was an avid outdoorsman and hunter. After... -
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I had all wire cages. If a person put some metal flashing on a slant under the wire cage bottom, the urine could drain off into a rain gutter system for collection. I'd probably have a screen above the gutter to collect the rabbit manure and let it dry out. Those dry rabbit poo pellets could be...