I think your videos are very comprehensive in covering each individual topic. It's also fun to watch your personality pop through the dialog. It's very delightful and keeps my eye glued to the screen.
FYI. Pickle juice is NOT a fermented product. It’s a PICKLED product (unless they are fermented pickles, but that’s a very different process, and not very common). Big difference! Use a little sauerkraut juice if you need a good start!
Wow.Pretty good info.So many benefits from fermented feed. I will use rice , which is readily available in my country Guyana. Thanks so much. Love it. 🇬🇾
Thanks for this video, could you show exactly the grains you use and the bags they come in, it would give us a better idea of what to look for when we go to the feed store. Thanks in advance, also, love your glasses!😊
I start my grains with a wine or bread yeast and keep it going for a long time by tipping over. Safer than waiting for wild yeasts to kick in, though it can be done.
If we lived close , I'd bring you SEVERAL of those containers ! Had to watch the video twice ! YOU are SO CUTE / PRETTY , that I was distracted the first time and hardly heard anything you said . I've kept chickens all my life but not the last 5 years . SURLY do miss them . If I do , I am gonna try your method . HINT : Last time I had a BUNCH I made a deal with the feed store . I'd take him my surplus eggs and trade them for chicken food . He always had customers waiting for fresh eggs and I fed mine , virtually for free . Find yourself a metal or plastic GRATE ( think Dollar Store) put it in the bucket and weight it down so the sunflower seeds are always submerged ♥
We tried fermenting our feed when we first got our chickens and they didn't really like it. I'll definitely have to try the strainer and more water to make sure I keep the feed below the water level as maybe that was the issue...
I just started fermenting feed for my ducks. It always seems like they take a couple days to embrace the taste and texture of a new feed source. I think the ducks like the probiotic water that I can't get totally strained out. They make their holes in the feed to sift through the water.
I love those containers, too. Mine still solid after 10yrs, though I won't use them because they've been sitting whole time. I use horse bedding now for cat litter, but nothing beats those buckets. ☺ I tried to ferment yesterday, wondered why not more advanced because near 100 degrees outside. I forgot about the chlorine.
I did a lot of research. Although I do give them scraps and all of the leftover microgreens from our microgreens business. The Barley contains most of the nutrients they need but not quite enough protein so I mix in other grains including sunflower which is high in protein. The sunflower shoots that we give them are ridiculously high in proteins and nutrients so trust me they get enough nutrients.
Do you have to use all the fermented grains at once or can you keep getting some alittle at atime to feed the chickens as long its submerged under the fermented water?
compost tea one 5 gal bucket fill with water two cup of compost two onces molasses to start fermention put fish tank bubbler to keep it from going bad and alive sound the same as you are doing`
KikiB1121 in I give 1/3 lb food for ea chicken. But there is quite a few things that go into the feed bucket. Not just fermented feed.....and I use a scale.
Yes the cold does definitely slow the process down. When it goes gets cold around here I usually ferment for at least 4 days before I feed it to the animals.
Do you give it to them every day as their main food ? We've been giving our chicken fermented chicken layer, mixed with corn every day. We find that our chickens are not laying to many eggs. We have approximately 35 chickens and we live in northern Ontario were it gets pretty cold. Before we started to give them the fermented chicken feed we sometimes got 6 or less eggs everyday. Now its maybe 2 , sometimes none. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
That's a really good question. For a while we had. But we don't have any more now. We've never really had a problem with raccoons as far as I know thank goodness.
Lol guess ur girl is trying to say thanks for this great meal with a peck. Thanks for the video The grains we have here are Cereals are Corn (yellow and white) Millet Sorghum The bean (legumes) are Beans Soya beans. Which can I combine and mix for fermenting? Thanks.
Okay, thanks. Normally I read when preparing dry feed, the soya beans have to be baked in order to release some stuff that won't digest easily. Do I need to still bake my soya beans before fermenting?
mimijenipha I've never fed my chicken soy of these before so I'm not really sure. Right now I'm giving them barley sunflower and Oates and sometimes Milo that is fermented.
Okay. I mixed white corn (maize), millet and sorghum. Today is day 2. I've started getting the sweet/sour smell already. Thanks so much. You have been so helpful. Wished I could show u my birds ☺
