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  1. rosemarythyme

    Soft eggs, no shell, or just yolk

    You can force open the beak and stuff it inside, whole (they can swallow it quite easily), or crush it and mix it with a very small amount of wet or fermented feed and feed it to the bird in isolation.
  2. Mother of Chaos

    For those who ferment: how do you handle (human) vacations?

    I was also thinking that. I know that many chickens prefer not to eat the tiny pellet in the whole grain feed that contains many of the vitamins and whatnot, but I don’t suppose that skipping them for a week will kill them.
  3. D

    Comment by 'Danifrance' in article 'Fermenting Chicken Feed: A Straightforward Method'

    We hatched chicks…5 weeks old…Att what age can they handle the large fermented whole grains?
  4. Mother of Chaos

    Can you refrigerate fermented feed to stop the process?

    Been there, done that, got the t-shirt!
  5. Gramma Chick

    Very Sick Chicken: Please Help

    I ferment a lg bucket ...like you can get at home depo
  6. thecatumbrella

    How did your flock annoy you today?

    They didn't eat the fermented feed that I gag making for them (feed is fine, it just has fish meal stinkies). Then they didn't eat the feed they dumped all over the ground. Then they felt entitled to scream and gakel for snacks before bed. Not happening, you little turds.
  7. azygous

    Topic of the Week - Managing Expenses and Saving/Making Money Keeping Poultry

    I feed fermented feed twice a day. Every day.
  8. Mother of Chaos

    They're not eating any of the feed I buy now

    This is their preferred feed (Kalmbach Chickhouse Reserve), straight from the bag. The fermented feed looks a lot like this, but moist 🤪:
  9. C

    How to feed bulk fermented feed to meat chickens?? please help!

    details: 50 meat chickens, chicken tractor, really want to continue feeding fermented because its better for gut, lowers feed costs and provides extra water in the Texas heat. Okay so how do I feed fermented feed successfully to my meat chickens? You can see my previous post of my chicken...
  10. C

    Do any of you here ferment your soybeans and put it in your chicken feed?

    What’s the big deal with heating? 260 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes. Then after cooling dump in with fermenting feed. The problem with heating is that it is possible to kill the lysine amino acid with too much heat. But 260 for 30 minutes is the trick. Soak them then heat them then ferment...
  11. RoyalChick

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I use a coffee filter and a rubber band. Works well on a mason jar.
  12. WannabeHomsteader

    When it comes to chicken care, what are your favorite ways to save money?

    I've heard about this, but too nervous to try yet. Probably just because I don't understand the process. I regularly ferment things for myself (kefir, sourdough...) is it similar? "Stretching" the feed is great for saving money. I feel like feed is my most frequent recurring cost for the chickens.
  13. CalvinBrownie

    How do I get my chicks to like me?

  14. BlindLemonChicken

    What are your thoughts

    I do the same-the have their dry crumble all day and fermented feed for breakfast. I put it all up when I’m ready for bed. I’ve never asked for their opinion 😆
  15. J

    8 week old chicks

    Great I will try that. Thank You
  16. BlindLemonChicken

    When it comes to chicken care, what are your favorite ways to save money?

    I don’t know how much money it saves in the long run because I haven’t been doing it long but I think fermenting feed has cut down on my feed bill.
  17. Appalachickens

    For those who ferment: how do you handle (human) vacations?

    I read that kombucha scoby is loaded with probiotics so after my last ferment when the scoby was dividing, I took half and cut it up and fed some to the chicks. They went nuts for it.
  18. turkeybirdpecky

    Tricky silkie

    (The poof has fermented food in it and is a little sticky) I bought it in feb. And it was already at least several weeks old (it was pretty developed for a new chick) (its mid june) And we havent heard it crow.
  19. Mother of Chaos

    Help! What do I feed my mixed flock??!

    Have you tried them on both, so that you know that they will eat both equally? I've tried a mix, and they're eating my brand of chick feed and ignoring the flock feed. (I bought it in hopes of using it in a dry feeder, supplementing fermented food and general foraging.)
  20. Mother of Chaos

    Favorite All Flock feed?

    Kalmbach Chickhouse Reserve fermented (in the morning) and preparing to surrender and provide Kalmbach 20% Flock Maker in pellet form as the available dry supplement. Between the total knee replacement and the arrival of two new pullets in two weeks, I’m simplifying, at least for now.
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