NT chicken rations & practices-off topic?

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Hi Folks,

It's occurred to me several of you out there are raising chickens,

and I wanted to ask questions about what you feed, and the hows and

whys, and what of the NT cooking and dietary practices you utilize

for your chickens. I also realize it might be beyond the scope of

this list. Is there an alternate list we can jump to for off-topic

but sort of related posts, or is this as good a place as any to have

this dicussion?

The discussion about dairy whey for chickens made me think of this,

and we have a chook who has had diarrhea (no other noticeable

symptoms) for about 5 days now. Curious how you all handle these

types of things, usually we give kefiili, but didn't seem to work

this time.

Also, I seem to remember in reports about " make your own " organic

feeds that it was very, very difficult to get enough quality protein

for the birds using legumes--but I began wondering if soaking and

mashing the legumes was useful to free nutrients and neutralize

phytates or whatever it is that legumes have. So far we are using

feed store feeds which are not too expensive, but I really wonder if

that's the best thing I can be doing.

Thanks, Leann