I have a friend with a chicken that was born with a crossed beak and something wrong with a foot...I forget what. He decided to not put it down...if it lived, it lived. Well, it lived. It's over a year old now. It cannot peck at food on the ground because the ends of the beak do not align, so it eats out of a plastic canister it can get its head down in where there's a depth of seed. The canister prevents the seed from flying all over the place, and stops the chicken from scratching at it. Regarding meal worms...I may have commented about folks who feed meal worms to blue birds, and those wild birds are just as aggressive for the worms as it sounds like your chickens are. When they want worms, they are beating their wings against your window. I guess meal worms are like drugs to them. I've not bought any. I don't want to start somethin'
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=meal+worms&crid=1AXQSH54MNFUH&sprefix=meal+worms,aps,118&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 More than a cottage industry. Maybe something you could fall back on?
I once picked up a scissor beak pullet at a bird swap. She did fine as I make arrangements for special needs. But a fox got her and others at the last carnage.
Placed an Amazon order: Filters for one of my cool mist humidifiers. Dunno why they get all gunked up. I have a water softener. Water tests say that it's working well and the salt level is low. Friggin' $16 each... Bread lame for slashing loaves of Italian bread. Apparently works better than a thicker single edge blade. Pan for making ciabatta buns...hopefully it will stop them from spreading. (Thanks for the idea, Beth.) I buy my firewood already split, but often just need half a log to keep the place warm. This had generally good reviews with some detractors...we'll see. For my compound sliding miter saw. Should have bought this a long time ago. I have a portable stand where I install/remove the saw each use. The saw remains mounted on this, so I won't have to always lift it off of the floor and carry it. (*OUCH!*)
We have lots of worms breeding now,we bought this about 10 years ago and now using it again. Worm Factory 360 Black US Made Composting System for Recycling Food Waste at Home Brand: Worm Factory 1,188 ratings $131.95$131.95 & FREE Returns https://www.bing.com/aclk?ld=e8V9To...Y&rlid=d3540a8d1c42117a570468c2115d78bb&ntb=1
We just ordered sardines,Kipper Snacks and tuna, beanie weinies, sweet peas, cost $259 for about 40 cans of meat. Salmon we bought last month for 24 cans $203.00!! I figure we can make lots of salmon patties for meals. I can't believe how much this food was.
That's an interesting system. I've tried composting off & on with minimal success. So are you raising the worms for your own use, or do you sell them?
For hens, fishing and garden. We had these red crawler and red wigglers left over from bait so hubby put them in the worm bin 5 days ago and they are really active going from one level to another, happy worms,lol.
Yes Amazon. we hear food is about to be scarce this coming fall. And meat in stores already is hard to find plus very expensive.
Marie, I just checked our local grocer and salmon is $4.20 a can (14.5 oz) for Starkist Wild Alaskan Pink. Sounds like Amazon is price gouging.
Beth I wouldn't doubt it. But our Publix grocery store only had 3 cans so we ordered it. Only had 2-12 packs left and it came in 3 deliveries. Red Top, Chicken of the Sea and Double Q. Red Top was red salmon. And guess what, it came from WALMART ! Plus 60% was bent all to hell.,we ate 2 of the worse cans made patties for us and hubby brother and sil.