Colorado

[Poka_Doodle]

We used a horse stall for a pen and it worked well. I prefer Cornish Cross

 

[Alexz7272]

Alrighty CO people! Do you create your own feed or do you purchase it? I am currently using Ranch Way feeds and looking into Agfinity for my sheep/goats. I really want to stay local but curious what everyone else uses

 

[Latestarter]

I use the Agfinity feeds for my chickens. If I were staying here and had ruminants, I'd still use them for that as well.

 

[Alexz7272]

@Latestarter I have not look into their poultry feed yet, may I ask if it is reasonably priced typically?

 

[Poka_Doodle]

I use Purina

 

[Latestarter]

Yes, I pay $11.50/50# bag for 16% layer feed pellets, not crumbles. The 20% layer is I believe $12.50/#50 bag. I do fermented feed for my birds and the crumbles are lousy for that. When I have to feed dry, they prefer the pellets to the crumbles. They like it better than the Dumor feed at TSC. I've used that as well. I buy it at the Ace Hardware/Agfinity feed store in Brighton

 

[NH homesteader]

OK I'm gonna derail this post. How do you do the fermented feed? My husband wants to do it but I don't understand what that entails.

 

[Latestarter]

There's an entire thread dedicated to it over on BYC. I'll post a link to that as well as a link to the reference site for beginner info. Much has changed and morphed over how it was done at the beginning of the thread, and it's thousands (17,500+) of posts, so you might want to just start/jump in about 20-30 pages (10 posts each) from the end and read forward.

http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/644300/fermenting-feed-for-meat-birds

https://tikktok.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/fermented-feed-faq/

http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/no-strain-hot-water-easy-fermented-feed-method-w-video <--- good, but it's even changed a bit since this. No need to "cover the feed with water to soak". Just put in enough water that you can mix it like a thin oatmeal or gruel... As the grains/feed absorb the water you can always add some more. What I feed out now is like a very, very thick oatmeal. Almost like wet grains.

 

[NH homesteader]

Cool thanks I'll check it out. I am a member there too but I can't stay on top of everything and my chickens are usually the least of my concerns!

 

[Latestarter]

Completely understand that! Sorry for the thread heist Alex!