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Hey MandalaMama, I've mixed Quaker type rolled oats in the feed too. I was worried that they were missing out on all the lovely friendly bacteria etc in the liquid. I have noticed however that they were drinking the ferment liquid from the feed trough. Now that they seem to prefer the probiotic...

Ever so helpful, chicken canoe.....thanks very much !

still getting used to this technology .... See my comments above re DE and FF.

I have read that once the diatomaceous earth is 'coated' with water it becomes ineffective, so mixing in with fermenting feed might be a waste of time. Although I have no experience is does make sense as its the prickly bits on the grains that cut into the exoskeleton s of the bugs. I also had...

Hey Tikkijane ! Thanks for your support. Same here about my husband 'letting' me have them.... funny, he loves them almost as much as I do now we have them ! This grit thing is turning out to be quite a puzzle for me. I'm not home at the moment so I can't do any local research, but the Internet...

Very helpful, ChickenCanoe. I will get back to you for some Spanish words if I draw a blank !

Oh and LindaB220, do you go all the way with home 'n steads advice and take your first batch and make a 2nd dilution then from that a third dilution ? Does it work well ? Is it the third dilution that you use when you add 1/2 cup of AEM to start a new 5 gallon batch of feed ?

P.S. I'll look out for oats as well. Good idea. Also I will be starting a mealworm farm.....I guess its not a good idea to ferment them though ;-) !!!!

Thanks, i work away a lot so Hubby keeps me up-to-date on their progress. I do miss them...... and him..... Hmmmmmmm, good point re the grit. I was hoping I could avoid that with fermenting, I mean the grains will be softer once soaked/fermented. I can't seem to find any farmer here who knows...

Thanks for that... again LindaB220. That is very helpful. I too am working on finding the right combo of ingredients to give the chicks top nutrition and no GMOs. Do you add the BOSS with shell into the fermenting feed bucket? My chicks are about 6 weeks old, from when do you think I can stop...

Sorry ChickenCanoe...thanks for that but I live in the backwoods of Andalucia, Spain. I need to stick to stuff I can get in Europe.

Wow, thanks for that, LindaB220. I was going to read up and experiment with getting the most out of a bottle of EM1. Time is too short, I'm afraid so any pointers are very welcome. Tell me, could you help me out with a few more pointers ? + in your 'recipe' above, do you mean that you make a 5...

In case you are reading this and have had mouldy nasty messes instead of lovely healthy lacto fermentation (that's what happened to me). I thought 1) i was doing it wrong, 2) it was the wrong time of year , 3) I hadn't found the right combination of ingredients or 4) it simply isn't possible for...