Re: {Disarmed} Our Home-Grown Melamine Problem

Ya know...I just rake up the leaves to watch the chickens go nuts.  My
husband thinks I'm a bit crazy.  And I'll put a couple of trugs full of
leaves in their chicken coop to scratch around and play with.  I just get
amused watching them get all silly about a pile of leaves.  Not much
different than watching your kids rake up the leaves, only to turn around
and jump in them.
I get my grain from a local mill as well.  And there is a Quiznos (like a
Subway) across the street from where I work that just throws away their
bread at the end of the day.  Sometimes I'll go over there and ask for the
leftovers for my chickens...and THAT is a banner day for them.  Talk about
noise....man, they come RUNNING when they see the big bowl of bread crumbs
coming their way.  I give bread crumbs to my ducks and "Lady Chatsworth"
too.  And I give them scraps from the kitchen as well.  They love that
stuff.


On 11/18/08, Daryl <dp2413@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Jesse,
>
> I no longer bother to rake leaves. If we think of it, or we need to mow
> anyway, we run the lawn mower over them to break them down some. Otherwise,
> my chickens do a great job of scratching them into smaller pieces.
>
> We feed some corn, and lots of vegetable scraps and windfall apples or
> whatever in season, but I also get feed from the local mill. It's made from
> "real" grains, not wheat gluten or animal by-products. There's one brand
> available that always smells like dead animals. Yuck! I don't go there.
>
> d
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Bell" <justjess01@gmail.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 6:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] {Disarmed} Our Home-Grown Melamine Problem
>
>
> My chickens get scratch and some cracked corn and seeds, and they free
>> range.  They have the BEST eggs...and I have no compost pile anymore
>> because
>> they FOUND it and have scratched it all out looking for bugs.  I rake it
>> back up, they scratch it back out.  It's a game we have going on.  It's
>> really funny to watch them.  I raked up a bunch of fall leaves...they ran
>> over there making all kinds of noise and scratching them out in a big
>> pile...then, they turn around and go "HEY...LEAVES!  and scratch them
>> right
>> back where I had them, then turn around and go "HEY...LEAVES!!"  It's the
>> funniest thing I've ever seen.
>>
>
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