PROBIOTICS for you and your chickens

[Ukyou]

I'm back from my trip where internet was spottie. I was asked what other recipes with veggies I have tried. I have made beets, but I am still working on that recipe since while the beets taste good, the "juice around them was very gelatinous and with the dark red color it looked like I murdered someone. I do like the daikon radish.
3 lb daikon peeled and grated
1 T salt
4 T whey
I have been trying a lot of new things from this site http://culturedfoodlife.com/
got to take the kids to school
Have a great day

 

[iamsara]

hi there!
im glad to havefound this post about probiotics for hens. my housemate thinks im crazy for giving them yogurt! they love it and inhale it practically!
i cant make the home made version in my lil house, but would like to try those recipes when i can!

So, Do u all think store bought yogurt or kefir is good enough, and how often?? Should i not give them anything w sugar in it ?
I have 14 hens.
thanks to all u vetrans of flocks!!

 

[Ukyou]

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You could do kefir easily anywhere since you just make it on the counter with no need to regulate temps.

 

[vmdanielsen]

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Thanks I will try the recipe. Daikon radish? can I get it in the grocery store? If they don't have it can I substitute anther radish? I am eating the gingered carrots. At first I didn't love them. I have been putting them in my salad for work. I give the bowl the salad is in a good shaking and it disperses the carrots nicly and i really love them! Now I need to come up with a different dressing....I was thinking a toasted sesame......It would be exceptional! Will chek out the cultered foods site,
Thanks,
Ginny

 

[Ukyou]

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Thanks I will try the recipe. Daikon radish? can I get it in the grocery store? If they don't have it can I substitute anther radish? I am eating the gingered carrots. At first I didn't love them. I have been putting them in my salad for work. I give the bowl the salad is in a good shaking and it disperses the carrots nicely and i really love them! Now I need to come up with a different dressing....I was thinking a toasted sesame......It would be exceptional! Will check out the cultured foods site,
Thanks,
Ginny

daikon is a giant white radish. They have it in the grocery stores here in CA. Sometimes it is marked as white radish.

 

[AndreaS]

The daikon radishes are really easy to grow, too. My grandmother grows them to improve her soil. They have a long tap root that breaks up the ground well. I believe she over winters them and then pulls them prior to spring planting. I was thinking about adding them to my garden bed rotation to be follwed by a green manure or legume.

LOVE the cultured food site!

 

[vmdanielsen]

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Grandma doesn't live here in Northeast I bet! It is snowing again!!

 

[Germaine_11.20]

Hi, I am not sure I am doing this right. I am making both skim and goat kefir. The goat seems to be pretty easy but the skim... well when i strain it off I get very small curds that want to stay behind. Am I supposed to add the small riccota like curds back into the kefir or do I strain them out?

The goat doesn't have this issue. I used whole milk also and it did not do this either. It makes it difficult to find the baby kefir grains

Thank you

 

[snowflake]

question? kifer grains coming, do you use room temp milk or right from fridge? is 2% OK?

 

[Ukyou]

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I take the milk straight from the fridge and pour it into the jar over the grains. then leave it on the counter.