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I'll admit I prescribe to the mentality of "that looks 'bout right." I have a bucket that I fill with water and then I scoop a bunch of dry grain into my fermenting bucket. I add water until it covers the grain and then stir. The water level goes down, so I add more water. I do that until the...

I'm feeding fermented to my four month olds. I don't have any issues with them even though one duck came from the feed store a little bowlegged (it never got worse but its the funniest looking waddle), but ducklings would still need the yeast (brewer's I think?) supplements I would imagine...

Mine only makes it for two to three days as well. I replenish in the evening and by feeding time the next day the smell has permeated the mix. If I have a spare minute in the morning before heading out for work I'll give it a stir and check the water content one last time, but I get up before...

For that matter if you make a fodder stand you can grow outside season too, even in the dead of winter, I believe there's a separate thread for that somewhere on here... just search fodder. I have found a local source (a nearby homestead that sells the excess from their shipments) for organic...

Do turkeys really eat that much more!? Has me rethinking future flock sizes, ouch. Right now I'm not able to offer any data on ducks, but in a few months I may be able to figure out some numbers, at the very least daily consumption of FF. Want to wait to calculate their feed usage until they...

Hmm, I'll have to try that Molpet, thank you. Try a couple of days with slightly moist food and move from there as well... I know .05 pounds less per day per chicken doesn't seem like much, but in my flock of nine that adds up to 160 pounds less per year. That is a significant enough savings to...

Okay, you're seeing rates similar to mine then... I wonder if we can get enough numbers in here to say that on FF chickens consume on average .05 pounds less of feed per day than standards represented in certain written materials... There I go getting scientific again, dang it... time to go...

If I hadn't been bored at work I would have skipped the math... Haha! Let's just say working on the prairie with nothing but the wind to keep you company is good incentive to find something to do.

I have enough birds a gallon jar wouldn't tide them over for more than a day... Since I'm using a five gallon bucket I left the lid off and put it where bugs wouldn't get to it for the first couple of days. Once it was good and started, I could tell by the smell, lol, I set the lid on top but...

You're welcome, never thought I'd be doing science experiments as an adult, but luckily I remember the format. If I get the fodder system up and going I can repost in a couple of weeks with further findings. it's good to know as much for myself as for others, so I can point and say hey look it's...

Feed rates... good idea. So let's see here. A bag of 35lbs would typically last nine birds a pinch over two weeks (15-16 daysish) when unable to forage. That's approximately .24-.26 pounds per day per bird. Note that that quantity is not less whatever was spilled on the ground, or consumed by...

Yep About two weeks now I use a 5 gallon bucket and keep adding more feed and water to a starter quantity. Stir it daily, more than once preferably but time constraints are what they are. Can't say I'm fond of the smell, but the chickens don't care. My normal organic layer pellets The first...