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Post by karenbc on Nov 8, 2019 23:47:27 GMT
Earlier this fall I canned up something like 300 jars of apple chunks, with additions of fennel seed, dandelion blossoms, rose hips and clover leaves/blossoms. Whatever I could find around the yard.
Today I mixed up 2 jars of that, 2 scoops of mixed grains and water, cooked it up on the woodstove. By the time I carried it out to the chicken barn it was still warm but not scalding. The hens dived right into it. Nice treat for them on a damp, cold, rainy day.
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Post by horseyrider on Nov 13, 2019 14:56:30 GMT
If I get to come back in another life, I'd like to be one of your chickens. My life there might be short, but it'd sure be sweet!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2019 4:27:20 GMT
I can up fish waste for chickens and cats. My neighbor is a fish prosessor and all waste must legally be removed from her property. The cost would be crazy but composting off-site is legal so it's free to me.. Plenty of calcium as it the heads and bones mainly.
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Post by mogal on Nov 14, 2019 11:55:40 GMT
We grow Enterprise apples that we use as a storage apple for eating fresh through the year. If any are still around when the next crop comes in, I usually juice them in a Meihu-Liisa and make apple sauce from the pulp if I have time. If not the chickens really enjoy it. What they don't eat, they scratch into their bedding that ultimately becomes compost. Happy chickens, happy compost pile, happy gardens, happy gardener.
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Post by Use Less on Nov 14, 2019 14:21:14 GMT
Canning fish waste sounds like a lot of work! My FIL was a butcher in NYC, in the old days before wings and innards cost more than chicken parts. He brought home LOTS; she canned it for dog food. She was a "worker", for sure, but I'd bet that got old. They spent much of their vacation at the house he owned in the Adks picking wild blueberries, which she canned. Upwards of a hundred quarts some years, and only there 2 to 3 weeks...
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Post by dw on Nov 15, 2019 21:37:51 GMT
I always feed the chicken left overs from making apple sauce and they LOVE it!
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Post by feather on Nov 16, 2019 1:18:44 GMT
I fed my DH a mixture of cooked pears and grain today, and every day.  He likes it. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2019 2:45:45 GMT
Canning fish waste sounds like a lot of work! My FIL was a butcher in NYC, in the old days before wings and innards cost more than chicken parts. He brought home LOTS; she canned it for dog food. She was a "worker", for sure, but I'd bet that got old. They spent much of their vacation at the house he owned in the Adks picking wild blueberries, which she canned. Upwards of a hundred quarts some years, and only there 2 to 3 weeks... No, a Thai big knife. Fish waste comes to my door in five gallon buckets. Woodstove holds 4large canner It's free. Tattler lids.. jars were free. To pay for that much protein I would have to travel, $gas work away and come home and still split wood. This way with the jiggler on the canner I have 90minutes a batch to to get thing done here. It is ugly to look at but ... |
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Post by mogal on Nov 16, 2019 3:09:38 GMT
I fed my DH a mixture of cooked pears and grain today, and every day. He likes it. Does he lay well on that diet?  |
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Post by feather on Nov 16, 2019 3:48:57 GMT
I fed my DH a mixture of cooked pears and grain today, and every day. He likes it. Does he lay well on that diet? He says 'bock bock bock'. |
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He likes it.