This is clever. I kept my feed in my DH's server closet this winter, the only place in the house reliably over 60 (all those servers keep it WARM in there) but I think he would appreciate the brewers belt or reptile heat mat as an alternative!
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So how warm does the FF need to be kept over the winter? hadn't thought about that, but guess I better.
You are all so useful on this thread... thanks!
Welcome to the "end".One question I do have, though...husband's new job is at an organic bakery, and since they know they can't pay him what he's worth they've offered him all the day old bread he can haul as chicken feed. Its an all-sourdough bakery, how should I best handle this windfall? Mix it in to the FF? Feed it dry and just toss it in the yard? Its not moldy, just the "oops" cuts when they slice for their deli customers, and the occasional bit of day-old bread - the bakery doesn't sell the day olds, as the owner put it to my husband, "this is Maine - if we sold day olds, we'd never sell any fresh bread!"
All I can imagine is that someone likes to leave the wood in the FF bucket....or lives in an environment that is not conducive to prompt drying...that would be a bad thing as it would encourage mold. But, I use a big, old bit of wood to stir every day. Have done for quite some time. A good stir, tap tap, lean against the wall on my bucket shelf and it's good to go. No muss no fuss.Ah! I remembered my other question from earlier too- someone mentioned not using wood or metal to stir the FF. I get not using metal other than stainless steel that doesn't sit in the bucket, but why the objection to wood? I whittled myself a nice big feed spurdle (rounded stick used to stir porridge on Scotland for centuries) the other night, and I quite enjoy using it. I used a nice stick of maple off our own land, and my husband just about peed himself laughing when he saw me knocking around a 30-gallon trash can with a huge knobby stick.