Ashes for the Chickens
So, I've seen the discussion about stoker ashes on the garden. I was wandering if it will hurt to put ashes in the chicken yard. It has been so cold and snowy there really is nothing for the chickens to pick at and I know they need "grit" My mother always did this and it never seemed to hurt anything.
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Your Mom did it and you are still alive. I would bet there is a good chance your Mom's MOM did the same as well. You don't have a 3rd eye or arm growing do you? No? Then spead some ash for those birds! WOO HOO COAL ASH FOR EVERYONE!!
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I don't think Perdue Chicken has enough birds to make a dent in the ash I'm making this year! I fully intend on dumping hot ash, right out of the ash tub right on the driveway for the next 72 hours so no one eat the gray snow!!! Send the chickens though. I have a flock of 12-16 wild turkeys that frequent the yard,....maybe they'll take some ash off my hands
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Now that is FUNNY!! Unless you be talking about my MOM?!titleist1 wrote:Your mom needed grit to pick at?!?!?!?!?
i feel like I should do like Larry the Cable Guy and add....dear lord I am so sorry for that last joke right there.......ONEDOLLAR wrote:Now that is FUNNY!! Unless you be talking about my MOM?!titleist1 wrote:Your mom needed grit to pick at?!?!?!?!?
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That about covers it OD
ONEDOLLAR wrote:Your Mom did it and you are still alive. I would bet there is a good chance your Mom's MOM did the same as well. You don't have a 3rd eye or arm growing do you? No? Then spead some ash for those birds! WOO HOO COAL ASH FOR EVERYONE!!
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When I was younger we used to put Ashes in the Pigeon coop. Didn't seem to bother the birds at all, and made it easy to rake up the poop.
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Flo is the one who said it.samhill wrote:Maybe that's where "eat my grit" came from. For some reason I can't think of the show.
Valerie Harper starred in it.
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