Bill says, don't feed sunflowers to chickens because they make the feathers fall out easily. Thelma Snell, reading this after initiation into the joys of chicken plucking, suggested that we should save our sunflower seed to feed to those chickens we are about to slaughter. It will make the feather removal operation much easier! That's permaculture thinking folks. Just stand limitations on their heads to create opportunities.
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Your conditions are different, because you have a winter close-down period, and you have some of your food in store. So grow more sunflowers, or whatever, but not all sunflowers, because if the chickens get too much sunflower seed, their feathers drop out. That's because there is too much oil in their body, and the feathers are very loosely attached in their sockets.
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Agriculture collects solar energy two-dimensionally; but silviculture collects it three dimensionally.
My project thread
Agriculture collects solar energy two-dimensionally; but silviculture collects it three dimensionally.
My project thread
Agriculture collects solar energy two-dimensionally; but silviculture collects it three dimensionally.
My project thread
Agriculture collects solar energy two-dimensionally; but silviculture collects it three dimensionally.
Cj Verde wrote:
It is worth it to dry pluck if you're doing just one turkey.
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Ann Torrence wrote:
Cj Verde wrote:
It is worth it to dry pluck if you're doing just one turkey.
Worth it to save heating the water, or do you like the end result better? Curious as all I have done are chickens with scalding or skinning.
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Agriculture collects solar energy two-dimensionally; but silviculture collects it three dimensionally.
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