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THANK YOU for stepping in on this. Much appreciated.

Depends. Fish meal is subject to WIDE variations. I used the numbers from Fertrell's Fish Meal, and their published nutrition tables. Making your own, it will depend on both the fish used (white fish are lower fat than salmon, anchovies, and other oily fish) and the quality of your scrap -...

FIsh "meal" (basically, ground up fish scraps) is very low fiber, so increasing the % of fish in the recipe improves that number. Compared to the other ingredients, its low fat, so again, invreasing the fish meal improves that number. Because its an animal protein source, not a plant protein...

Usually its dried for longer-term storage. Spent brewers grains when damp, are an excellent medium for all sorts of things to colonize - and generally speaking, most of those things you don't actually want in your feed. Here's what Feedipedia.org had to say: That comment based, in part, on...

You just need to search a little further afield. This is from ICAR (cached copy) This is from the UK and insightful, if not directly translatable to raw numbers, there is some useful data This is more than you want to do - but I really find these "Peace Corps-type" projects interesting and...

assuming you are grinding the fish with bones and scales, you likely won't need added calcium in the feed - though a little oyster shell on the side is always good. That's your non-phytate phospherous source as well.

I've assumed the Fertrell's Fishmeal. I've also assumed dried Brewers grains (and Note: HUGE variation in the value of brewers grains). End result? Much better than I first anticipated. Good to be pleasantly surprised. The Fishmeal (of course) is a bit part of it. Anyhow, without...

Yes, a bog filter.

I've seen his video, too - apart from the ages of the birds, there are no doubt some number of roosters in there as well - so his per hen egg production is likely somewhat higher than first glance. Of course, he's also gathering kitchen waste at commercial scale - and if your plan is...

HomeBrew feed recipes are almost uniformly pretty bad. Most of the people making them don't know what they are doing. I won't attempt it, and there is the illusion that I'm starting to know what I am doing. I would recommend you start with Justin Rhode's recipe. He has a lot of experience...

More likely, I'll build a bog filter (the original plan) and pump into that.

It has to do with amino acid complimentation. Plant-based proteins are incomplete - they often have low (or effectively no) levels of certain critical amino acids making up their proteins. For purposes of chicken keeping, the four most inmportant, in order, are Methionine, Lysine, Threonine...

Obviously not a long-term solution, more like a nice treat, but it rained here last night. It's spring. That means the termites are swarming. Happy to say my girls are busy greeting the termites as they enter the world above. Making quick work of those explicative

My local family feed store sells it CHEAPER than the mill 40 miles away that makes it! They pass their bulk discount directly on to drive traffic to their store - but that's the exception, I suspect, not the general rule. and yes, they get a truck twice a week. Its very fresh - another reason...

Not to keep driving traffic to my own posts, but you might find this useful. Ineed to go back in and start inserting nutrition information, general comments, and warnings for each of the pictured plants as i did last year (so its more useful) - but like you, I'm a big proponent of a varied diet...

Rotational grazing has a LOT to recommend it, particularly in parasite control, but also in pasture maintenance. Its something we considered ourselves and originally planned to do, but budget considerations and my animals abilities as escape artists made it impractical. I couldn't quarter 5...

THANK YOU for the break down. I was around $3.50 a pound in my own math, but figured I'd be doing a bunch of the butchering, and ultimately, the animals are too big to justify maintaining enough to breed replacements while only seeing to the protein needs of my wife and I, so you have some...

as a matter of curiosity, how are you making the math work on the pigs? We've looked at adding them several times - I brine large chunks of meat routinely, do most of my own butchering, sausage, smoking, corning - have made my own bacon from slab. But I can't make the economics work. In this...

My discounts are cash and 500# at a time (those are the prices I quoted), but I can mix and match - rabbit feed (50#) plus goat feed (200#) plus chicken feed (200#+ of Layer, another 200#+ of Game Bird) gets me over my 500# minimum, and that fed the flock for about 4 weeks in winter. and yes...

Im finding the feed mill about 70% the price of the farm store, and fermenting offers a 5-10% benefit at most, about the same as I get by feeding crumble as an oatmeal like wet mash to reduce waste. I've seen no credible study suggesting fermentation reoughly doubles a feed value for chickens...