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Re: [Market-farming] Chicken feed - growing grains for
- From: Joyce Paski <elderberrywine4u AT yahoo.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Chicken feed - growing grains for
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:59:12 -0800 (PST)
I agree! The increasing price of feed is really putting a kink in my plans for raising chickens this year. I talked it over with my mentor (Dad) who agreed I should grow my own feed. (I think he was just waiting for me to come to that conclusion on my own. Old farmers! Gotta love 'em.) Anyway, I am going to till an additional acre, split it into 4 sections and plant Indian corn, hard red spring wheat, barley, and oats. In a different part of the garden I'm going to plant another 1/4 acre of forage beets. That should make more than enough feed to winter over my small flock. I don't think growing your own feed is the hard part though -- it's how to properly store it so it doesn't go bad before you get to use it. I'm still working on that part. BTW, I'm also working on building a 1 acre hops
yard and I've found that chickens love eating hops! We are very rural and economically depressed here. I sell my non-medicated, non-GMO feed eggs for $2.50 a dozen from my farm and already the stores are selling factory farmed eggs for at least that. I think people better get to know their farmers real quick. Joyce Paski Swamp Creek Farm, Zone 3 http://www.swampcreekfarm.blogspot.com --- On Wed, 1/12/11, Joan Vibert <joan AT windwalker-farm.com> wrote:
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[Market-farming] Careful if your starting seeds in the basement in Canada!,
Allan.Balliett, 01/12/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Careful if your starting seeds in the basement in Canada!,
Joan Vibert, 01/12/2011
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[Market-farming] Chicken feed - growing grains for,
Joan Vibert, 01/12/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Chicken feed - growing grains for,
Joyce Paski, 01/12/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Chicken feed - growing grains for, Joan Vibert, 01/12/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Chicken feed - growing grains for,
Robin Follette, 01/12/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Chicken feed - growing grains for,
Joyce Paski, 01/12/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Chicken feed - growing grains for,
Beth Spaugh, 01/12/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Chicken feed - growing grains for, Joyce Paski, 01/12/2011
- [Market-farming] Growing Small Grains for CSA and Market, Allan.Balliett, 01/12/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Growing Small Grains for CSA and Market, Robin Follette, 01/13/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Growing Small Grains for CSA and Market, Sue Wells, 01/13/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Growing Small Grains for CSA and Market, BarbaraJ, 01/13/2011
- [Market-farming] Grains and SARE, MAsteveINE, 01/13/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Chicken feed - growing grains for,
Beth Spaugh, 01/12/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Chicken feed - growing grains for,
Joyce Paski, 01/12/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Chicken feed - growing grains for,
Joyce Paski, 01/12/2011
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[Market-farming] Chicken feed - growing grains for,
Joan Vibert, 01/12/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Careful if your starting seeds in the basement in Canada!,
Joan Vibert, 01/12/2011
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