Boredom Busters for Chickens

anyone interested in some of these fabulous Boredom Busters?
They are each about the size of a softball and just as heavy. The chickens
can roll em around. some are hard like rocks and some are softer,
depends on the weather i guess. LOLOL....i live in Michigan,
so wait 5 minutes and the weather will change.

They are fresh, and low temperature cooked, and dehydrated
so the nutrients are not compromised.
I also make, if anyone is interested, horse "mommies and babies".
we have a bakery here that carries them for me.

I can email information to you if you would like, just let me know.


These are specially made for chickens who are loved and
spoiled.

Sheri
PS They have everything in them except the kitchen sink, and
they might have that too...
soy flour, wheat, corns, flax, molasses, spiceys, etc etc....
oh yes, dried fruits too. LOL.

do you have a recipe for those?

Thanks for your inquiry!

Few pounds of chicken food, some eggs,
any dried fruits, rendered lard, cinnamon, salt, powdered
nonfat milk, soy powder, flax seed, rolled and steamed barley,
bran, hard wheat flour, artesian filtered water
If I think of anything else that went into these puppies, I will
be sure to let you know! LOLOL.

I get all of our grains from our mill, specially ground for
us. Fresh, natural, zero additives and no chemicals.

Regards,
sheri

This message was edited Oct 26, 2006 10:07 PM

You're right....almost thought I saw "kitchen sink" as an ingredient! Do you know how much of each thing goes in or is it just something that's "thrown together" till it looks good? lol

yes! Just keep adding the ingredients as you would like them to be.
I would use a very heavy duty mixing machine, as you want the consistency
to be almost solid, and therefore they will dry to be like rocks.

If you really need a recipe, go google a recipe for horse cookies
and you will find basic recipes that can be enhanced for your chicken honeys.

If the chickens weren't so disgusting I would love to have them inside
my house to spend a few hours here, preening, snacking, singing.
But, I know better. Its almost impossible to have a pet chicken(s).

sigh
Regards,
sheri
PS If I lived closer I would come over and we could bake together.

I used to raise chicks in the house, and would get very attached to them. But then they get bigger and you can't housebreak them! I'll stick to dogs in the house.

oh baking them together would be such fun....maybe I'll have to look you up when I get back to MI for a visit - I'm originally from there..... I was in Mt. Pleasant before moving out of state.

HAHA lol

i let the baby guineas out of their brooder boxes [only half at a time] while i cleane dthem yesterday. for the most part, they figured out it was best to stay near the source of heat, food and water. but as i was finishing up the second group, seven of them deicded to wander around as a group, wish i had my camera! i had to close some doors [they had been closed, SOMEONE opened them!], and run around through another room to head them off. it was too funny!

yes, i had a buckeye runt named Tiony, and she kept getting hurt it seemed, and she would be back in the house. one Saturday morning while we were having breakfast, my DH came in hodling Tiny, saying the dog was swinging her around by the tail feathers!!! Poor thing! Close inpection found no injuries, just slobber. But just to be sure, i kept her on the table for observation while we finished our cereal. The boys wanted to hurry out to see the other chickens, and left their un-emptied bowls on the table. next thing i know Tiny is helping herself, and i am letting her, watching, and laughing my but off!! then i realized that was the point where i could lose it and become one of those old ladies with birds all over the house, and filthy poop everywhere. So i took her outside and told her "no more fake injuries, you live outside now!". Not long after she disappeared. We found her last month behind the hutch in the garden shed, where she was liekly trying to get away from the puppies and didn't come back out.

Getting attached to a chicken can be sad news. But she was such a delight, from the time she hatched, she stood out among 75 chicks!

back on subject, sheri, would you dmail me about your buns? My chickens will likely get bored this winter. Also sounds like something the ducks would enjoy, they are real characters!

tf

We have dogs at the house too. Most of them are in kennels but one. Shadow has been around chickens before and tried to play with them but never killed any. I would still prefer them to be in a protected area cause of the critters - not pets - running around and really don't want them wandering into neighbors yards if they decided to take a hike! lol Besides....if they're in one area it'll be easier to gather the mess for the garden - I hear it's good fertilizer! :-)

What an excellent idea!

I would throw shelled sunflowers in that mixture
I feed mine some
they need the oil in the feathers

Great idea.. but my dogs would love to eat them.. they likes to eat hen stratch or deer corns.. Ugh...... I think my dogs think they are chicken! LOL

yep, like the circle of life, dogs eat chicken food [our cats will too!], chickens eat dog food, dogs eat chicken poo!

a breeder south of here says he likes the black shelled sunflowers... i may have to grow extra sunflowers next year, just for the chickens...

What wonderful ideas!
I did put in flax seed into this batch for the oil quality.

Next time I can add sunflower seeds. I can't wait!!

I sent some to TamaraFaye and the post office drove
the trucks over her package. Don't you love the post office?

I gag when I see the dogs eating the chicken poo. today the
puppy ran out of the barn with fresh horse apples. I gagged.

Regards to all
sheri

oh yeah....I had a border collie/lab mix that just loved those road apples!!! LOL I think it's the extra "fiber" hehehe

These recipes sound good. Always looking for things to feed and entertain my girls! Wiggly and Mmisty, I grew up in Michigan also. Mt. Pleasant to be exact. Right now my 11 hens are molting, and not real interested in being entertained.

hmmm....when were you in Mt. Pleasant and what school did you go to jimdaz? kinda wonder if I ran across you at some time. Course that would depend on your age too if we were in school at the same time lol How fun!

well, i gave the chickens the crumbs out of the package, and they went nuts over it!!! can't wait to have a "boring day", i will give them the bigger chunks...

road apples, egad!

tf

What a kewl idea.
This forum never ceases to amaze me.

Is there anyone out there from Southern Maine or NH who would like to adopt some very beautiful bantam roosters? I have five now, hatched by my hens, and hate to kill them...but they do fight a lot and are hard on the hens. One is a purebred white gamecock and I have three half Black-tailed White Japanese/gamecocks. I want to keep my pure bred Japanese, but he's too wimpy to fight his way to the top, so I have to keep him and a few hens and chicks separate, or the others will kill him. Once the others are gone, he'll be top bird. Right now it's two separate sections in the coop, two waters, two feeds, etc. and with winter coming on and the slog through the snow before work, I'm not looking forward to it.