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I got it from the feed store - Livengood Feeds in Tomball, Tx. It hasn't changed the smell of my FF at all. It's in a pelleted form, so it breaks up as well as the pelleted layer feed.

I do strain if the feed is like cream of wheat, but I try to keep it more at the peanut butter or oatmeal stage (I don't like runny oatmeal). I find it easier to strain if I have oats or COB in the mix. Those bigger pieces help the liquid to run through.

I ferment in one bucket. Layer pellets, scratch/COB and fish meal. I'll scoop out the feed until there's about a quarter bucket left, then I add more food & warm water and cover. I add food about every 3 days.

I was comparing this years egg rates with last years and was fully expecting the decrease in lay to start going up the first week in January, like it did last year. Instead it dropped so much that only 4 hens out of 18 were laying at all. I did take into consideration that the older half could...

I don't add fresh every day. I fill up a 2 gallon bucket of the feed mixture I use, add hot water and pour that into my FF bucket (a 5 gallon bucket) and stir. Each day, I take out what they're going to eat and stir until it gets down to the last 2 inches in the bucket, then I add more...

I've been using FF for about 2+ months now. My niece came to visit and we were out in the coop and I was showing her the birds and I suddenly realized that the coop didn't smell - at ALL! I asked her, just in case I had become accustomed to the smell, but she said she didn't smell anything...

In my 1 bucket system, I have a mix of layena pellets, oats, barley & scratch grains and alternate with alfalfa pellets & BOSS. I fill up a 2 gallon bucket with the pellets/grain and add hot water, dump that in my 5 gallon fermenting bucket. The first day, I added a couple glugs of UPACV...

I haven't. Went from 10-13 eggs a day to now about 7. I don't think its the FF, though. I can see that at least 5 hens are raggedy and molting, plus, the EE's always shut down over the winter. Going by last year's calendar, the numbers pick up in January and we're back to peak by mid...

I've heard layer mash referred to here, then people say they don't feed pellets or crumbles. So, what exactly IS layer mash???

I do still use a single bucket system and strain, but I'm planning on changing that soon. I get up at 4:30 am and strain out a some feed and leave it in a small covered bucket. When my Dad gets up around 8, he'll take it out and feed the chickens when he lets them out. The FF is a mixture of...

The recipe I use is 3/4 cup milk with 2 tablespoons of white vinegar. Let sit 5 minutes to "sour"

This is also a great way to make buttermilk pancakes when you don't have any buttermilk. Just let it sit for 5 minutes or so before adding to the pancake batter. Yum!

I'm so happy that my (almost) 1 and 2 year old chickens are loving the FF. I kept reading in this thread that its harder to get the older hens to get on it, but they really chow down! Even my picky Brahmas! I added some scratch grains to my thick mixture of layer pellets & oatmeal yesterday...

Well, I'm going to jump on the bandwagon here. I've got two flocks, one is a mixed breed/age group of 14 almost 2 year hens and almost 1 year pullets and the other is 6 Brahmas. I think I've gotten lucky with my roosters. Mr. Feathers, the EE, challenged me when he was about 16 weeks old, I...