growing Chicken feed

here is a pict of red Mangle, --[stock beet]

this is a pict of Gilfeather Turnip [now days,caled a rutabaga] these may not get shared with the chickens as much, !

and - " Ground Hog Radish" Daikon type]

You can actually feed yourself and not starve.

Those should be some fat and sassy hens!

Somebody is sending me some mangle seeds. I had never heard of them. I am excited to try them.

Your girl's are sure going to eat good!! I'm going to steal some of your food ideas when it warms up enough to plant. I'm so glad you started this thread, its really informative!

I wish I had room to do that. Yours looks great.

Makes ME hungry!

those small greens are sure tasty, we have been sampling, them quite often, --

They tell me that's the best thing we can do. Eat raw and the darker the colors the better for us.

I cannot eat a lot of raw veggies due to a stomach ulcer. Too hard to digest. But I love them so much that sometimes I just do it anyway and pay the price.

Cajun, I saw something on Dr Oz about Cabbage juice. They were doing a scientific experiment challenging home remedies to see if they really work. It was determined that drinking cabbage juice for 15 days repeatedly not only helped, but completely cured ulcers in many cases! It might be gross, and hard to do, but it's worth a try if you ask me.. Sure can't hurt huh?

We cured my daughter with colloidal trace minerals.

I started having sharp pains right below my ribs on the right side after eating. So I did some surfing and read that Mastica is a good remedy. I tried that and no more sharp pains.

I even did the liver gallbladder cleanse with epsom salts, grapefruit juice and olive oil the other day. BLEEK.. but it did seem to help me feel better. I sure don't like drinking that stuff though. Lots of info online about how it has helped so many people.

Activated charcoal is another product that is supposed to draw toxins out of your stomach and intestines. We always take that for stomach aches. It stops them right away for some reason. Wish I had had that when I was a little girl.

cabbage juice works, --

Cabbage is yummy in any form.

I figure it's worth trying for sure.. My mom has a juicer she has used for years.. (She is 97) so it's probably a good idea! :)

Raw cabbage juice, is not one of my favoites, but it works well for most digestive problems, so I use it myself from time to time

I am afraid the resulting gas would kill me.

Activated charcoal is good for gas.

I knew a lady here in town years ago that had stomach problems pretty bad. I kept telling her how good activated charcoal was and she started taking it and said she felt better and was passing a lot of gas. After extensive embarrassing, expensive, and painful tests which showed she had dozens of polyps, guess what the doctors ultimately gave her? Yes, charcoal. She called and said, "You won't believe what they've given me".

Activated charcoal is also what they give dogs who are poisoned on chocolate.

It's a binding agent for toxins. When I worked EMS we would give it to people who OD'd then ipicac to make them throw it up. It wasn't pretty.

Try Beano?

How MUCH cabbage juice?

A friend i worked with used beano all the time and swore by it. She let me try some and it nearly killed me. I have no idea why but I was never brave enough to try it again.

Cabage juice, -- 1 cup 3 to 4 times/ day, -- it is the old Straga formula

To get the juice do you just shred it up and squeeze it?

you need a press, or juicer, --

got the first eggs from my new hens today, --

Whoo Hooo !!!!

What a proud papa you must be.

They look really good for first eggs.

They look like big eggs for new layers, congratulations!

Also I find the background of your picture intriguing. What am I looking at?

in the picture, you are looking at, --a glass table on our porch ,with leaf designs in it, -, the bottom of a Fairy statue, and reflections from the fading western sun, -the red behind the statue is a candle.
-- the eggs are quite large for first eggs, --they would grade as small, I will use them my self, but could sell them, -- -- cool, --

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I noticed from my sexlinks i never got any "pullet" eggs. They started out good sized. The best came from my Golden Comet. Her first egg was a large and she has never gone any smaller than that. I get jumbos from her pretty often. We were so impressed with her that DH bought 6 more GC pullets.

I have 2 bales of hay I am growing lettuce in before i plant eggplant in them. They have grass sprouts on them and I had not thought of picking it for the chicks.

Michael, Congratulations! Right on time! Didn't you say they would start laying about now? Absolutely beautiful eggs.. This is indeed a very cool thread.. so fun to follow. Thank you!

the "Girls" are /were, 17 weeks old this weekend, got 6 eggs from them yesterday, [all in the nest boxs] some of the old girls are laying on the floor, as a rebellion against being moved, -- [2 of the old Arachana hens] they have claimed a corner of the coop and chase the young ones away when they come over to their spot, -- the rest seem to have adjusted, --
Picking greens, -- right now I am picking greens for the new girls, - I need to build more fence before I can let them out into a pasture area, [that requires some more $ and I will have to wait a while and save some more].

heard some noise out at the coop, -- a rather large coon was frustrating it's self trying to get in to visit the girls, --it left when I shined the light on it, -- so far so good, --

Coon traps and dry cat food!

Great news about the eggs and especially the coop security!