Caring for chickens & turkeys in freezing cold and protecting them from bird flu
Let food be their medicine
Taking a break from my regular topics, I offer the following as ways that small scale free range chicken & turkey farmers can protect their flocks from the current bout of “global warming” and the spread of bird flu. Did you know that they test for bird flu with a PCR test?
I offer this as an organic farmer from the mountains of British Columbia, Canada. By December 21, the solstice, we had 5’ of “global warming” induced snow fall on our farm and -35 degree temps. So glad that David Dubyne was clearly wrong.
Handling extreme cold
Birds can handle extreme cold if you keep them out of the wind, dry, and with enough roost space. Basically, they are covered with a down coat, feathers, that they can wrap around themselves, and they snuggle up next to each other. Make sure that the birds on the end of the roosts do not get pushed up against the wall of the coop.
Stopping bird flu.
I am no vet, so do your own research, but this is what we do.
You can feed your birds 8 different categories of food that will make them very healthy. To keep this short, each underlined food listed below links to a source that describes the health benefits, dosage, do’s and dont’s, etc. I do not recommend everything in these video’s, so please do your own research.
Forage. Free range birds have much better immune systems.
Sprouted seeds. Sprouted seeds have, on average, about 10 times the nutrition of an unsprouted seed. We feed our chickens & turkeys (and rabbits) sprouted organic hard red wheat, organic Du Poy lentils, organic peas, etc, and our cost is the same as chemically farmed chicken scratch or layer mix. (takes some labour) As example, organic Du Poy lentils have the highest amount of protein of any lentil, 40+%, yet they cost $120 per kilo, vs $20 per kilo for chemically farmed, gmo chicken scratch. To keep the cost level, we start 1/6 the volume, sprout them for 10 days, and then feed them to the birds. If you ever want to see happy birds, feed them sprouted Du Poy lentils.
Fermented seeds. Anaerobic ferminting produces a load of beneficial pro-biotics that help keep your birds gut in order. (Gut = God uttering truth)
Sunflower and other dried seeds. We do not sprout sunflowers as the birds seem to prefer them dried, especially the shells.
Squash, winter and summer. Squash is easy to grow, can last, fresh, all winter with correct storage, and chickens love them. We intentionally let some of our summer squash grow to enormous size and simply toss them, whole, into their free range. They eat the whole thing, skin, stem, seeds, flesh. We also feed our dogs squash, which they love, and of course our selves.
Liquid supplements in their water
Mushroom extracts
Dry supplements. These are fragments of sea shells that cleanse the birds intestinal tract of parasites.
Advanced chicken care: Chickens on Psilosybin.
In this video, Dr. Stamets talks about how a blend of Lion’s mane and Psilosybin (at a dose so low that it has zero psychological effect), can induce neurogenesis, the regrowth of brain neurons. (beginning at 16:45) These results are stunning, and suggests tremdous opportunities for the hopefully post-pharmahorror sick care system.
Wondering how this might affect chickens, I began testing them with various dosages. This video shows the results. Our chickens are now doing basic arithmetic and reading at grade 3 level.
Of course, I am only kidding and wish you a merry Christmas.
Hope you had a good laugh at that last idea. No one should ever feed Psilocybin to their chickens and birds.