Re: Food formulas

From: nuele (fowls_at_nuele-online.de)
Date: 08/07/04 

Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 22:25:31 +0200

Karen Woodward <Karen_Woodward@comcast.net> wrote:

> Nuele <fowls@nuele-online.de> wrote:
> >
> > Now I feed as much as they can eat in 15 minutes in the morning,
> > and the same amount in the evening when I come home.
>
> Is there some reason you don't feed them ad lib? Those feed troughs and
> feeder cans are designed to just hang in the chicken house. If yours are
> getting some excercise, they should be too busy growing to get too fat.
> Shouldn't they?

<g> that's what I thought until I killed that one hen last week, because
she was feather pecking. I'm sure she would have died of a fatty liver
one day, perhaps soon. You should have seen her.

They are really running around all day. I have yet to see a breed that
is more agile. They can start at the far end of the meadow nearby and
come flying right up to where I stand, calling them. That's more than
one hundred meters, I would guess, and there's the fence in between that
they have to cross. They fly like partridges (and it is a great sight!)
A fence two meters high is something they will laugh about. I'm not
exaggerating.

> The only caveat I've been told about is not to give layer pellets to growing
> chicks as the increased calcium can cause bone problems in growing chicks.
>
> K.

This hen was two years old. The one I killed accidentally last year was
three years old and still laying - she sure was chubby, and the lady who
showed me how to pluck and gut her was surprised about the fat in her as
she knew the breed. But last year's hen was nowhere near as fat as this
one now. It was disgusting.

That's why I no longer feed them ad lib.

Nuele (D) 

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