Fermented Feeds

[bustedchicks]

Mine keep stepping in the food too. I noticed they eat most of it off their foot anyway.

 

[RoosterLew]

I put mine in $4 plastic feed pans from the feed store.
Each pan will feed about a dozen chickens, and yes they step in it!
My Ameraucana Rooster scratches in it...LOL

 

[Lilyput]

Aloha,

I use a terra cotta pan, but they keep stepping in it. I also use he round kind for the babies with 6 pukas on the top.

I just bought this feeder with a bar that goes down the middle above the feed. Weʻll see how it goes. The gap for eating is kinda narrow.

Aloha, Puhi

I used the long feeder with the gap for while, but it was messy. My glass "pie" plate has 2 inch sides and they don't seem to step into it.

 

[LCfarms]

Should your ferment start to get warm? Mine isnt, but my experience with other fermenting, such as silage, the feed starts to get warm. Thoughts?

 

[LindaB220]

Should your ferment start to get warm? Mine isnt, but my experience with other fermenting, such as silage, the feed starts to get warm. Thoughts?

I really never noticed any warmth. I soaked some whole oats a couple of weeks ago for 5 days until ferment. They said keep adding water each day. By the fifth day it was bubbling like I had it on a burner. I did it in the storeroom and will never do it again. Smelliest eveh!!! Not like ferment but like soured oats. The chickens eat it though. I made a ton of it.

 

[kpgoldstar]

Should your ferment start to get warm? Mine isnt, but my experience with other fermenting, such as silage, the feed starts to get warm. Thoughts?

Mine gets warm but I live where it is very hot, 118 today. Sometimes it feels as if steam is coming off it. There are times when I store it in the fridge for a few days at a time because it just gets too over-fermented.

 

[LindaB220]

Mine gets warm but I live where it is very hot, 118 today. Sometimes it feels as if steam is coming off it. There are times when I store it in the fridge for a few days at a time because it just gets too over-fermented.

Wow, and I thought 99 was a big day for La. Of course the humidity adds a lot more ump to it. You definitely win the top temp award today.

 

[6of6chicks]

Deleted 7/24/2014.

 

[Chris09]

I really never noticed any warmth. I soaked some whole oats a couple of weeks ago for 5 days until ferment. They said keep adding water each day. By the fifth day it was bubbling like I had it on a burner. I did it in the storeroom and will never do it again. Smelliest eveh!!! Not like ferment but like soured oats. The chickens eat it though. I made a ton of it.

LOL,
Was that the recipe that I gave you? If so I told you that it was soaked/soured oats.

If you feed it right when it stops soaking up water it a soaked oats and shouldn't smell as bad.

Did your batch have a yeasty smell, and was it somewhat foamy on top?

 

[LindaB220]

LOL,
Was that the recipe that I gave you? If so I told you that it was soaked/soured oats.

If you feed it right when it stops soaking up water it a soaked oats and shouldn't smell as bad.

Did your batch have a yeasty smell, and was it somewhat foamy on top?

My problem is that I misunderstood what you said. I made a batch like fermented feed and still have a ton of it left. I think I started with 25 lbs of oats and it pretty much filled the 18 gallon container up. Still feeding out. The water is going down and the smell is a little better. But what a lesson. Listen the next time.