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Peas or split peas are a legume. Most raw legumes are toxic to poultry. Don't feed them to your chickens.

In both hot and cold weather wet feed reduces the need of chickens to drink water to soften their food in preparation for digestion. Wet food also speeds up digestion and seems to result in less heat induced strain on the birds in extremely hot weather.

Quote: Ash is exactly what it is. In order to determine the chemical content of a substance, a small amount is burned and the light emitted is analyzed. The dregs left behind from such a fire is "ash". Ash is non-organic. Since the word organic means "based on carbon" in other words "based...

She laid normally up until the molt, and you put her on FF somewhere around the end of the molt. Since then nothing, right? In that case put her back on non-fermented feed, with some chicken granite grit on the side and see if she improves. Then re-post and tell us how she is doing.

If you are feeding 1 chicken, one ton of chicken feed should last for 8,000 days or almost 22 years. 2,000 pounds per ton multiplied by 16 ounces per pound = 32,000 ounces. 4 ounces is a chickens' daily required food consumption, so 4 ounces will go into 32,000 ounces 8,000 times. Therefor...

Go back and read my post I never said that pasteurization involved boiling, that is your contention. I have already covered all of the objections to your contention that only boiling is pasteurization. Heck, I have had fevers higher than the body temperatures you now are mentioning as being...

I suppose you have never heard of a certain Frenchman by the name of Louis Pasteur? He came up with a little procedure known as ?Pasteurization. Pasteurization basically consists of applying various temps of hot water, heat or steam to food items for various times to kill cultures (not...

Then you won't have any cultures period. Except all the wild yeasts, virulent viruses, strange bacteria, and funky molds that settle naturally on your wet feed.

I feel like you're talking about me Beekissed. You have honored me greatly with your kind words so respond I must. The only propaganda I am seeing is people touting snake oil and doubtful magic elixirs for their chickens' bellies. Even Evil Corporations like the Dreaded and Greedy Monsanto...

Feeding fermented food to chickens is a very old strategy, going back centuries. The basic reason for feeding fermented food was to get the benefits of antibiotics before anyone had ever heard of penicillin.