Yes mine love dandelion. It surprises me because I figured it would cost more than the soy meal
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Mine get them.out of the yard lol...
Yeah when I first got these things I found out I could hand feed them with dandelion. I’m curious if they’ll keep the dandelion down in the yard a bit?
Perdue used to feed marigold to chickens Old man frank Perdue used to stop up and shoot the breeze with my grandfather years ago. Very down to earth fellow. When he died I never had anyone from the actual top of the company stop out anymore. Change in times I guess
I believe at one time he tried to have every employee over for a meal (not all at one time though)
He ate my grandmothers cooking 3 times that I personally recall. Literally stopped out and hung out 2-3 hours. They respected one another.
It is too bad what happened to the company later
I double checked the protein of our local scratch and it is actually only 9%. We have Bartlett layer pellets and crumbles/mash and I think it does come in at 17%. Some custom feeds leave our mill with ground alfalfa pellets, but with the price it is few and far between.
I’m giving 15 a bag for that stuff currently the chickens seem to like it and they’ve been laying well even through the winter so I figure 15$ a week I can live with. Plus eggs for me and the neighbors.
Interesting scrounge today. Took my tractor up to sons place to till the garden spot. While there he managed to pickup 15bags of top soil that had washed down the creek during the last rain storm. Dont know where it came from, but its a long ways up the creek too any houses and they aint close to the creek. As I tilled to the end of the first garden row, I looked up toward the road and between the road and the fence was two full bags of livestock feed. Now I usually dont charge my son for tilling his garden, but today I loaded up the truck with the new found treasures and will start fixing my garden pots tomorrow and will be filling the chicken feeders with the free feed.
The Lord will provide.
Just ran across a video, ,about feeding chickens pinto beans and pasta to improve egg laying. Never heard of this before. I havent researched this yet so asking if anybody else has heard of this and does it work. My thoughts are that buying pinto beans and pasta would probably cost as much or more than just buying eggs.
Another link for feeding beans.
i don't feed chickens, but they sure do provide feed i like.... wings to grill and put bbq sauce on, thighs n legs to smoke with pecan... and of course, the always great yard eggs for breakfast! ~ with the price of eggs these days, we buy qty at Sam's... carton says free range. limp D yolks, these are definitely free range eggs ~
Good grief thats an expensive way to feed chickens.....
There's a food pantry close to here where they sell pasta cheap. I'll be watching the neighbors chickens Tues- Sat so I will try the pasta/beans thing. Can't hurt!
Can't hurt, but gotta be dirt cheap to beat mill prices. I have to check what I paid for dried pinto beans, but in pretty sure it was around $ a buck a pound.
Well WalMart here is 8lb bags for $8.88 so $0.86/lb. I am sure the Amish store has them cheaper in 50lb bags but I will bet a dime they are way over feed price.
Well your math is off, but I will overlook it this time. I think some are missing an important fact, you dont just switch to a bean only diet. I havent checked the local grocery store for a price check of large bags of beans. I am sure my local feed store doesnt sell them. I still havent researched the beans, but I suspect the beans are just a source of protein. adding some beans to a scratch or layer pellets would raise the protein levels in the feed. Might be something else in the bean that helps too, I dont know. At anyrate, I told the wife to cook up a pot of beans, for me to eat, and I will slip the birds a bowl full.. If it works, I have a mill and I will try mixing some beans in corn and see how well that works out.
The mill should be using roasted soy beans as a source of protein in their feed. Decent article to give a read.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ch...ion/the-risks-of-too-much-protein?hs_amp=true
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ch...ion/the-risks-of-too-much-protein?hs_amp=true
Well my math was not off but my fat fingers sure were.
I meant to type $6.88 but for some reason I typed $8.88. If it is a simple protein issue then I will assure you soybean meal is cheaper than buying pinto beans. I would have to look and see what the protein content of whole pinto beans are and work a Pearson square but I really doubt they will be more cost effective. If they were we would not be using SBM.Similar threads
