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that white layer is the good stuff called scoby, just stir it through each day and the more you get, the better it is.

I ferment the seed, and I also make a wet mash with the crumbles and layer mash, and sometimes I add some fermented water to that, especially for the young chicks. I figure every bit of extra nutrition helps. I have the apple cider vinegar that's infused with garlic and I add that to the water...

My chooks ( except 2 ) just stopped eating their mushy FF, so I just threw out a whole bucket full and have decided to just concentrate on fermenting seed which they still love. I still ferment the finisher crumbles for my babies which I mix with some seed and they love it. They all have full...

My chooks have gone right off the FF with only 3 or 4 still eating it, so I've had to put their dry food back out again. They still love their sprouts so I have a bucket of sprouting seeds fermenting at the moment to see what happens with this, I've never done seeds before so I'm not sure what...

She is my biggest hen ( 2.7 kilos ), we have really good red soil where we live and have high rainfall, so there are heaps of worms and grubs around the farm. Yesterday one of my hens ( 2nd biggest) chased a mouse across the paddock, caught it and ran off, with the rest of the flock in tow, she...

I can just picture you with you paddle ( even though I don't know what you look like ), I was stirring away in my bucket this morning with a garden stake and thought I must look like the witch stirring the cauldron. I had a little giggle to myself because I was born on Halloween and used to tell...

This is Freckles, I think she is beautiful.

I have a few different varieties of chicken and I've found that the size depends on the variety. My 3 Lohman browns are very scrawny looking, the mixes are huge and fat, and the others are in between. They all eat the same and get the same exercise ( they free range over 8 acres all day ) just...

I do the same with mine, I leave a couple of bowls out all day, but I've been a bit worried about it going rancid and have been throwing a lot out each night. I won't throw it out anymore if your chooks have been ok with just topping it up, I'll do the same. I have a couple of bowls so the timid...

I put 10mls in a 2 litre milk bottle of water and that usually lasts about 3 days in their mash which I make fresh each day. I don't put it in their drinking water because they have access to water all over the place. Every now and then I put a soluble calcium tablet in the water instead and...

thank you for your advice, it makes me feel better about using it now.

I don't add it to their sprouting mix, only to their mash. I'm new to raising chickens and I read somewhere that the apple cider vinegar was good for their overall health and any bacteria they might have in their gut from freeranging all day. They love their mash, so it's a good way to make sure...

What I do is much less complicated than a lot of the others - I buy a bag of wild bird mix (which is suitable for the wild parrots in Australia), I soak it for 24 hours, drain it off, give it a good wash the next day and feed it to them when it starts to sprout, they love it. Another thing I do...