Recent content by Shimrit

I sprout wheat, barley, milo, and oats for my girls. We built a huge sprouter with pvc and rain gutters like a lean-to with the 5ft long gutters staggered down the slanted side. We feed our 20 chickens and 5 ducks with these grains, sprouted for 5 days (so there's just a little bit of green...

We started with a mixed bag of pullets and chicks, all RI Reds. We now realize that we have 5 roosters! Nice to have a dual-purpose breed. We'll have roosters in the freezer soon! A nice head start on our meat hen raising this spring!

Hi all, I'm between Cross City and Old Town near the gulf coast in the big bend area. We have 20 hens and 5 ducks on our 1 acre homestead. I planted a small orchard, and am experimenting with what grows well here. We're relatively new to Florida, and new to rural life, though I have always loved...

We just started sprouting for our poultry. Just barley so far. My husband got this wild idea of using plastic rain gutters on a slant with a block of shaped styrofoam at the low end to keep the seeds from washing out. It works great!