Fermenting Pig Feed: But Why?

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Fermenting pig feed is something you hear about homesteaders doing but don’t provide a good reason why they are doing it.
In this video: I show you how I prepare our fermented pig feed and talk about the benefits and cons of fermenting pig feed.
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We are a small farm located in Central/Northern Michigan. We farm every inch of our 6 acres. We breed Registered Dairy Goats, Dexter Cattle, and Heritage Hogs. Clean healthy food is important to us and we like to produce the majority of our food on the farm and we grow and raise enough to sell to local customers. Producing our own food also means we forage for wild edibles such as mushrooms and tap our maple trees in the spring to make maple syrup. In 2019 we added honeybees to the farm and have had as many as 30 active hives producing honey for us.
Our goats include Nubian goats, Mini Nubians, Fainting Goats, and Nigerian Dwarf goats.
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16 авг 2022

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@deannewilliams3321 Год назад

Nice to know all that! It also helps to keep them from dehydration when their body has to use fluids to digest the dry food. Not to mention inhaling the dust from the dry food. Thanks for a great video! I love to learn something new every day!

@SweetBriarFarmMichigan Год назад

Yeah I had mentioned that when I recorded but I edited it out because I fumbled my words lol.

@OldPecanHomestead 5 месяцев назад

Awesome information, I've been using yeast to start the fermentation of corn and theybseem to love it. I like that you use a starter from previous fermentation as to keep it regular.

@SweetBriarFarmMichigan 5 месяцев назад

Yeast fermentation results in alcohol production. So no doubt they would love it😄. The alcohol content wouldn’t be very much after a 24 hour fermentation. Whereas bacterial fermentation results in acidic products. Just wetting the feed will result in fermentation from bacteria and yeast that are naturally present the goal is to get the lactic acid producing bacteria to be the dominant organisms doing the fermentation. Which is why I used the milk to enrich the feed with a source of lactose and presumably lactobacillus organisms found in the raw milk.

@OldPecanHomestead 5 месяцев назад

@SweetBriarFarmMichigan The reason that I use yeast is because I have read it helps with amino acids. When I have it readily available i pick up expired milk from the store and ferment in the batch as well

@shawnwhalen5246 Год назад

Just like making yogurt! Excellent Mike

@boatwrightfarm Год назад

Great video 👍

@diannemiller4754 Год назад

Mike I've been feeding my hens fermented feed from whey. Is that good bacteria or should I be using raw milk. Second question when can I start feeding my new hens (6weeks) also do you think meat chickens can have fermented? Love the information of your video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

@SweetBriarFarmMichigan Год назад

I bet they would do well with a fermented feed. I always fed dry feed to my meat birds due to the type of feeders I was using. You would have lactic acid bacteria in whey. The bag of chicken feed should say when to switch to a grower or laying feed. Last time we had laying hen chicks I think we didn’t really pay much attention to it honestly, once they feathered out we put them with the layers and they ate the layer feed.

@MIPatisserie Год назад

Can you share the papers and studies you referred to? I'm curious about the difference between starting with raw milk vs just water. (Which is what I see others using. Also in the difference in fermenting for 12-24 hours vs longer times. How much raw milk did you use to start with your first batch?

@SweetBriarFarmMichigan Год назад

Here is one. Starting with water would be fine. I used maybe a quart of raw milk when I started it then the rest water. jasbsci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2049-1891-6-4

@SageandStoneHomestead Год назад

Do you keep Kunes as well? How much mash do they get for feeders and breeders? I think I overfeed everything!!

@SweetBriarFarmMichigan Год назад

We have kunekune as well. We haven’t been feeding them the fermented feed. We had one with dry skin and she was rubbing her beautiful hair off 😂so we buy a bag of purina 16% sow feed and mix in about 3/4 of a bag of alfalfa pellets and a skin supplement we get from tractor supply. I think it is mostly flax seed. But we give our 3 kunekune a scoop of that 2 times a day divided between the 3 of them. Our Rolland was over weight but he slimmed down since doing this feed. I am sure they would do just fine on the fermented feed we just had the dry skin issue on the one but her hair has grown back.

@SageandStoneHomestead Год назад

@@SweetBriarFarmMichigan okay well even then mine each get 1 Tractor Supply scoop (3 quarts) per day, and it sounds like we can cut back, especially with the scraps we feed. Plus they do eat grass. Thanks for your help!

@SweetBriarFarmMichigan Год назад

@@SageandStoneHomestead good luck!

@SageandStoneHomestead Год назад

@@SweetBriarFarmMichigan thank you!