Complementary Feed For Chicken At A Summer Cottage

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

About fashionable hobbies and their consequences

I recently arrived in Kingisepp for food for my birds. At the base where I was shopping, an assembly of local grannies gathered to discuss the global financial crisis. Naturally, everyone got it, especially the presidents: ours and the American.

Seeing how the loaders were dragging the sacks into the car, the grandmothers walked around and at my expense, they say, the rich have nothing for anything, well, and that "they mustache died."

Oh, how nice it is to feel like an oligarch, at least at the level of your native Yamburg district. But the grain sellers quickly lowered everyone to the ground, explaining to the audience that I was not an oligarch, but an honest toiler of a chicken coop. “Yeah, - the old women caught me by the hand, - since you know everything about chickens, then tell us how our ancestors did without feed.”

Yes always please! Excuse me.

Firstly, our ancestors kept many different cattle, which they fed with what they raised and stored themselves or bought at bazaars, fairs, in lobbies, i.e. grain and hay. In the process of life of cows and horses, manure was formed, excuse me, but already in it and in the litter, according to the residual principle, chickens were picking. They managed to get something out of the pig trough. All waste from the table went there too. In the summer, of course, they switched to pasture.

But do not flatter yourself, the productivity of our agriculture is still lagging behind the world one, and even in the old days it does, and if you remember that our entire history is always one with a bipod, and seven are guardsmen …

In short, we quickly forgot what hunger is, and we will not remember, we will lose our agriculture completely. It is possible to buy someone else's technologies, but young people should introduce them, and in the countryside there are almost only grandmothers and drunks. To stay young, they have to pay, give them a lot of money, and provide loans. And in our country they would rather bring slaves from Asia. But slave labor is unproductive, and our climate is somewhat different from the Asian, the American, and the European. And we all see over the hill!

Okay, let's see where we are. Remember the folk song? "I will sow a swan on the shore, my fat swan …". It would seem that this is a weed, with her "roundup", and the old people bowed to her, she, mother, saved not a single generation of our ancestors from hunger. We want to save money on purchased feed, we collect seeds of quinoa, horse sorrel, shirina, sweet clover, chicken millet, mouse peas, goat's rue. We collect the seeds when they are ripe, and feed them ground in wet mash, and only for adult birds: chickens, guinea fowls, pheasants 7-10 g, ducks, geese 30-50 g, turkeys, peacocks 50-70 g per head.

The acorns are collected and dried well. Before feeding, they are boiled, crushed and added to the mash in an amount of up to 15 g per head per day. We do not give any of this to young animals, so as not to cause unnecessary fermentation in the intestines, and it is difficult for an immature body to digest such a protein concentrate.

Horse chestnuts are used in the same way as acorns. Beech flour made from nuts is a good complementary food for poultry, only nuts must first be fried in order to destroy the poisonous substances they contain. Add beech flour in the amount of 5-7% of dry concentrated feed.

A good vitamin supplement is rowan and viburnum berries, which contain a lot of carotene. But it's not even about vitamins. It should be remembered that the botanical name of mountain ash - "sorba" gave birth to such concepts as "adsorption" and "adsorbent". What it is? For example, washing a greasy pan, adding dishwashing liquid, adsorbent, and separating the fat from the dishes. In the same way, mountain ash separates decay products from a living organism. Birds of prey necessarily peck at mountain ash to cleanse themselves of toxins, otherwise they will be poisoned by their own poison - the result of the decay of animal proteins. We must bear this in mind as well.

We hang rowan bunches in all corners of the chicken coop. Birds will not bite quickly, they will pinch as needed. In addition, we hang different brooms, nettle brooms are especially good, but linden, birch, acacia and willow brooms will also work. We prepare brooms at the height of summer and dry them in the shade.

In winter we hang spruce paws in the house, this simple procedure is very good for air disinfection. We harvest the needles and make vitamin decoctions, which we give instead of water.

Hay, especially protein-vitamin from leguminous grasses (clover, alfalfa, goat's rue), mowed before flowering, is not only a chic bedding material, but also an excellent addition to the daily diet of birds.

It is not necessary to say that all substandard potatoes, beets, carrots should go to feed the bird. You can also specially grow root crops for birds, for example, fodder beets are very good in this sense. If you feel sorry for sharing cabbage with your wards, prepare a "hryapa" for them, i.e. top green leaves from heads of cabbage and beet tops. Chop all this finely, add a little salt, add the milk sourdough and ferment in a tightly closed container. Store in a cool place.

In the same way, you can prepare succulent herbs: snow, woodlice, coltsfoot, burdock.

We do not throw away potato and other vegetable peelings, cook, crush and add to a damp mash. We also do not pour out the water from under the potatoes. Gutting fish - we cook all the waste and steam it with pork feed or bran.

In short, the need for invention is cunning, and we are not afraid of any crisis.