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Picking a Bone

2/24/2013

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The dogs are not the only ones who get to have the meaty bones. Chickens love a fatty bone and will spend a long time picking it clean. They are omnivores, that enjoy meat, in fact need it to have a balanced diet. In the summer they forage for worms, slugs, bugs, insects of all sorts, plus will tackle mice and sometimes snakes, if they are small enough. Along with grasses and seeds, the proteins they get from eating critters, offers a balanced chicken diet. They also eat dirt or sand, which allows the gizzard to work at grinding the food, particularly whole grains and seeds, plus a source of calcium. Long ago, the shells of the eggs were dried and smashed, then fed back to the chickens. This is done on The Fat Ewe Farm and the chickens and ducks also get free choice oyster shell to satisfy their need for calcium. 


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This gander is the one who has been ousted by his clan. Since hatching, he has spent his entire life with the 4 other Embden geese. However; it is breeding season now and there are 5 geese, 2 females and 3 males. Yesterday, the 4 others, females included, made it evident that this gander was not going to be breeding and was no longer welcome in that flock. I rescued him from where he had hidden between the wire and the fence. He was stuck there anyhow and could not have gotten out on his own. I always count the geese before turning them in for the night and when he was missing, I began to hunt for him. I heard the scuffle only minutes before and sure enough, there he was, the skin torn right off his back under those feathers. But, not all is lost. The Toulouse gander has 2 girls, so I will attempt to pair one of them with this lone gander away from the flock. I can imagine how he must feel being ostracized from the only family he has ever known, without any explanation, and violently expelled at that. It seems the ganders and geese have a bone to pick with him too. 

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Harley has some trouble with digesting grain and corn. I am convinced that the problem is that the products used for dog food are genetically modified. Research has shown that one major side effect is the gut explodes in tiny little holes that leak not yet properly digested food into the bloodstream, which causes an immune reaction. 
Harley seems to be in pain after eating comercial dog food, but he sure likes to chow down on rack of ribs of beef.

A wonderful little treasure...
This morning a tiny chickadee settled near some then unclaimed bones and availed himself of the fat, flitting to the bone and to the caragana tree again and again. What a delight to watch the littlest of the creatures enjoy the bones as well. Thank you Creator for the splendour of the magnificent animals and birds and their ways, not matter how peculiar to us humans. 

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