Fermented Feed Questions

[Compadre]

Hi, I've been feeding my quail fermented feed for 3 weeks now and they seem to be doing great on it until just recently. These are 4 and 6 week old birds. I am noticing more "runny" poop now though and the odor is getting pretty bad, whereas it wasn't so smelly the first two weeks of fermented feeding. I think it's time to give them a break and go back to dry game bird feed instead of fermenting it for a change of pace. Anyone do rotations like this or just stick with fermented all the way? What about the increased odor and runny poop? Anyway to cut down on that? I just add water to my dry game bird feed and a few tablespoons of Braggs apple cider vinegar.

 

[wlantry]

You may wish to post to this thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/644300/fermenting-feed-for-meat-birds

They've got all the info you'll ever need.

 

[Compadre]

Thank you; I will post it there.

 

[Invision]

I would look there but you may have to start a new batch of feed, when I was using fermented I didn't have an issue and I fed them for 4 months like that, they pooped less and everything. I only stopped because it was too time consuming to feed them constantly...