Market Farming

["MAsteveINE" <MAsteveINE AT 207me.com>]

 

I'd love to know what others are doing for feed (and charging for eggs).

Joan Vibert
Windwalker Farm
Ottawa, Kansas


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 Your operating methods might have to change in order to

change the price you are paying for a bunch of labor but chickens

will thresh small  grain and use the straw for bedding if you find a way to

dry and store it before/until feeding.

 

Chickens dote on root vegetables, and cabbage, which can be stored

well into the  winter burried under those small grains in the barn or under

low grade hay/straw heaped in the field.

 

Corn is easy to hand pick when dry, not bad to shell with a had crank sheller,

but to be well used by chickens needs cracking, which means a machine

and what not.

 

Note that open pollinated corn and grain are the first hit and worst damaged

by varmints in the growing and storage processes, so if you are trying to

get away from hybrid and gmos ........plant extra.

 

MAsteveINE