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X2 on that one. Once you get some you can make more by adding it to apple juice. It takes some time but it is cheaper.

This is my 1st year with jumbo rock cornish and they are not the pigs I thought they would be, they leave food when they get full. As far as what amount to feed them I just estimate the amount of FF I give them and feed that amount less of regular feed. Mine are almost at the end so I am...

Actually I just added it in with no weight or volume measurement, I add around 3 or 4 cups if I had to guess. It is the morning treat that they dive bomb for. Well being cornish rock and rangers they dive bomb any food. So far the weights are right on target. I Will get a weight tomorrow to see...

I ferment scratch or corn only, no feed and add that to their diet. everyone loves it. Start with ACV with the mother but you can save the liquid from old batches and use that. My mash juice is 3 or4 years old and I brew in open 5 gallon buckets outside wide open with no cover

Ok I will ask the question that has been covered all over but my work is nuts and I have no time. to read this huge thread How do I decide how much fermented scratch to give my Cornish cross? I need to weigh out the food for them as they are eating anything but I can't weigh out the mash because...

Yep you said it all. I just don't care for it.Two years ago we lost power for a week because of snow that took out trees left and right. Now that winter is coming I need to think of when to shut down my 55 gallon drum and three nipple waterers feeding off it. Last year I added a tank heater and...

I have never worried about covering it in over 2 years. I still make mine outside in the open air in the two bucket set up and use the old liquid to start the next batch. My Free range rooster is finally getting some size, he goes to the bucket and helps himself here and there. He is free...

Yep there are times I see them run over each other for the FF. Put out plain old scratch grains and they just look at it. Bee you have to get nipple waterers, end the dirty water stuff. You can use 5 gallon buckets, soda bottles or go all out and use a 50 gallon drum and pvc pipe. Mine feeds...

I would guess that is what it was. Have not seen it recently and the pond is to nasty to swim in so we can admire from a distance We get a ton of Gardner snakes in the spring in the hay. They don't bother me but at some points you might think it is a plague, some of them end up in the coop when...

I make mine with apple juice. I get the bottles of Walmart juice drink about 6 oz and add some ACV from an old batch. I pour some in the 50 gallon drum that feeds all three nipple waterers. No need to add it to the mash because it sits open outside and has lots of good stuff in it Our pond has...

I think the amount of food eaten can be affected by the breed.Cornish have a reputation for eating everything they can get, NH reds are good with their food and only eat what they need. We have 3 dogs, 2 labs and a Hound Lab mix. The Labs would never stop eating but the hound does. We left her...

I use hay in the coops and as mentioned deep liter. when the poo builds up more hay right on top and once a year I take it out and start again. I have used pine bark chips in one of my runs that has lots of water, helps with some drainage

Well I just made a 50 lb bag of later pellet mash. Did not do this by choice but by a big blunder. We had a rain spell the other day that would not stop. I left the lid up on the storage container and it was full of water. I'm to cheap to toss 50 lbs of feed so mash it is.

That is my summer plan. All open with whatever comes in, it sure brews quickly. Bee I decided to go back to the deep liter idea because all the floors ae dirty and hard to clean. Found out how well my solar electric fence works when I hit it bringing a wheelbarrow in to take some old stuff out

I got a free composter that I feed the shavings from chicks I raise. I added some ACV to it and rotate it every now and then. The ammonia smell gets strong,, all that nitrogen. IT breaks down quickly like that and yes it gets warm but never hot enough for a fire. So it is safe to deep liter...

There really is no going bad with this stuff. It's going to have an off smell and using the ACV it may even get a grey film on top and that is just the active culture or " the mother". I have fed batches that were one month old and have no problem. I always re use the old juice. in beer making...

Mash can sit out all day with no problem. As far as do they need to eat it all at once depends on what percentage of their daily feed it is and what is in the mash and the nutritional value of the mash. A simple mash like just cracked corn fermented would not be enough to feed that exclusively...

I am with Bee I use the two bucket system, there is a constant white slurry on the bottom so the fermentation happens quickly. This time of the year I do it all in the open with no lid so they get all the wild yeasts not to mention the bugs, slugs or rodents that pop in. I am fermenting cracked...

Well I have been fermenting cracked corn outside in the summer heat. It has the added bonus of random protein like slugs, wasps, moths but yesterday I had a mouse. Even though the liquid level was low it still didn't make it, I think it passed out in the sour mash and that was that, bad night at...