Got a buddy of mine that delivers feed to the chicken farms........ He said they go from little yellow biddies to 8-9 lb birds in 60 day's! now I aint no birdologist but I'm pretty sure that ain't normal.......
Not sure what the store bought items have in them. But do a search and its easy to find stuff where people are making the same stuff at home. And its natural and has to be better in the end. Used to feed out 2 calves each year for our meat. Wish I had never done it, as when we were out and had to buy some from the stores. It was not fit to eat, filled with god knows what. Where ours only got crushed corn grown my me. Ran through the mill by me and fed to the calfs by me.
Had lots of people try to take me into feeding mine this or that stuff that would make them taste better. Grow faster and bigger. No way did I want all those hormones in our grain fed beef.
Pete
RetiredRR, canebreaker LIKED above post
Got a buddy of mine that delivers feed to the chicken farms........ He said they go from little yellow biddies to 8-9 lb birds in 60 day's! now I aint no birdologist but I'm pretty sure that ain't normal.......
Three can keep a secret................If two of them are dead! (Benjamin Franklin)ShilohRed, Luvfatslabs LIKED above post
thats my point mid C.
reading up on chickens i found this fact. "In 1925, it took 16 weeks to raise a chicken to 2.5 pounds. Today, chickens weigh almost double that in just six weeks!" now most of this is from selective breeding. that part cant be all that bad. but there is man made additions to their diets too. thats the stuff that should concern us. same thing im aasking about deer attractants/feed.
ShilohRed LIKED above post
He said they " ween " the chickens off the regular feed with a different feed for two/three weeks prior to harvest...............wonder why?
Heck even store bought veggies have a way longer shelf life than your typical home grown veg.......... who really knows what that means. But it is a fact.
Three can keep a secret................If two of them are dead! (Benjamin Franklin)
Now you know why most chicken legs are broken these days. They gain weight so fast there bones can't hold them up. Unreal as a nation we let this happen.
I know some will not believe this. But my wife was having female issues. Always bleeding and about that time I got where for 3 months I could not get out. And if I did it was in a wheel chair. So she swapped from Walmart milk to a different brand. As she could grab it on the way home from work. Well after a month of drinking the different milk her bleeding issues went away. When she went back to her female doctor she told Marilyn that happens a lot. Its all the crap they feed the cows to make them give more and more milk. Hormones are going to destroy us.
Pete
RetiredRR, river scum LIKED above post
production is money ..........got to feed all the masses and make mo money
Three can keep a secret................If two of them are dead! (Benjamin Franklin)
Now's the time, if not to late in your area to check the clearance of pool salt. Check the label for pure salt without additives. I got 2 40 lb bags for $1.80 at walmart. Then a trip to Sam's for 2 50 lb bags of sugar.
I take a 2 gallon bucket of salt and 2 gallons of sugar and pour on and around a stump before a rain moves in. After the rain it's hard to find either the salt or sugar on the ground. I do this every 2 to 3 weeks. After a few months the area looks like a garden ready to plant.
They eat well here. During the summer I got about half of my purple hull peas. Now they have topped my greens. I've seen a 6 point and 4 point that run together and 8 doe with fawns so far this year. 4 acres in the city is hard to hunt on since I can't use a gun.
I do not feed but fertilize white oaks near water, weed eat honeysuckle and fertilize, and have salt licks in place by spring . to costly unless you own your own place . Most want scout well enough to find my enhanced places but will find feeders for sure .