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Check and see if you have a local mill that does chicken feed. I'm lucky I do. Ours has what they call layer mash. They also do pellets. The mash is the same ingredients just not ground up and pelletized. Basically some whole grains, some cracked, some legumes, some powder (vitamin/mineral...

Not in my experience. Fermenting feed, slop back, add new to the old, old makes the new work quicker, never have had funk or bad. I mix five gallon batches, well in a five gallon bucket so maybe three gallons always working. I imagine not all of the old , not every last bit gets removed...

Just add to it and mix it up.

I wouldn't eat it :lol: :eek: 5gal bucket works great for me 13-60 varying ages, I don't count :oops:, 55gal barrel would be good for a hundred. .. Three buckets would be OK, if your worrying about the ferment. During the hot summer months I'm pretty sure one bucket using the backslop to get...

I was commenting on a earlier post where they said their feed smelled like beer, it can obviously have alcohol in it (though I'm pretty sure none of mine ever has) No packets of yeast no alcohol? The Monks in Belgium don't add yeast to their Trappist ales, one of the strongest beers in the...

Good point there. Actually it has to get down around single digits or lower to freeze their water bowl, big rubber one, sunk partway into the deep litter (keeps it warmer). Even on super cold days it takes a long time to freeze solid. I just haven't wanted to bother with fermenting this last...

Shouldn't really be any alcohol in it, but if it smells like booze it most likely does. Beer only takes around seven days to ferment to 5% so if a batch of FF got some wild yeast going on in there it's possible that it could be around half the % of a typical beer within 2-3 days. I just was...

I don't think fermented feed that has 'fermented' to alcohol would hurt the chickens. IDK? though, don't quote me on that but I would think it would still be OK, not rotton or went bad or anything, just not the ferment your looking for. When I first started fermenting it was winter, and it gets...

New here, and just reading this, IMHO only, I don't claim to be a expert. DE? no, think it's over rated and not likely to do any good. Vent gleet on such a young bird? Just from my experience, like I said I ain't no expert, just my opinion, I do not feed chicks or young birds anything but...

Why I stick to fermenting, notice it in my wallet. Lucky also on the wallet I have a local mill I get 17% mash with a nice grain consistency for $10 for 50lbs, nice stuff and I can go heavy on water and it doesn't get mushy or sloppy like pellets and crumble. The extra water works great for the...

1 qt per day. Toss it all in a five gal bucket and have them scoop it out each day, doubt it would go bad in a week unless it's super hot. But....I agree with lazy gardener. When we leave on vaca I go back to just dry feed, have a big feeder and a fifteen gallon waterer with nipples. Then I...