Karen. Do you eat yogurt? Do you consider yogurt to be partially spoiled? Or do you appreciate it for the product it is? Mainly milk that has the benefit of probiotic bacteria that make that product more easily digested, while giving your gut a healthy dose of probiotics to promote better health for you? Babies can easily digest yogurt, while milk often gives them difficulty. Do you eat any other fermented products? Cheese? Even cottage cheese? Old fashioned dill pickles, sour kraut? Same thing. The fermentation process enhances the nutrients, and in a lot of cases breaks down the anti-nutrient properties of the food. Fermentation has been used for both people food and animal feed for thousands of years. I've been feeding FF for 4 years, and my birds lay sooner and better and have better feather condition than my neighbors and friends flocks, who eat "fresh feed". My conversion rate for the last two bags of feed resulted in 29%, and 13% savings compared to giving dry feed. I was surprised at the difference between the 2 bags of feed. But, equate the increased consumption to the fact that my girls have just recently started laying again, so they were eating more feed with the last bag b/c of all of those gorgeous eggs, in spite of the cold weather. Takes more feed to make eggs and heat. Generally, I can plan on about 30% cost savings per bag, and this is with giving them as much as they will eat.
and feed it without waiting another 3 days. I do one bucket in the winter and just keep it going.
