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I have around 65 chickens, mostly Orpingtons, so they are larger than most breeds. I give them about 13-14 pounds of fodder every morning and then in the afternoon I give them as much pellets as they want. This is the size tray I use.

~~I don't use bleach or anything. I soak for 24 house and then I keep it in a drained bucket for 48 more hours rinsing about 2 times per day, THEN I transfer it to a tray, I have found that this is the best way for me to get great root growth and when I add it to my tray stand, I don't have to...

You are correct on fermenting feed. It should smell like a sour dough bread or friendship bread. It should never smell bad or like it has alcohol! If it does somebody has been watching moonshiners and got their stash mixed up with their chickens. Lol! (Technically you would have to add sugar and...

Tell that to the people who are doing it.

Seriously, this is way better for your chickens than some concoction a manufacturer put together, healthier too. I am well on my way to eliminating those pellets, but not until I know they have enough. I'm making a consistent 13 pounds tare weight right now, I am going to try to get to around 20...

Another great link, this is a 1 hour long webinar on utube. These guys are experts.

Here's a good little link for more detail on how much to feed poultry. http://simplecountryhome.com/2013/07/30/growing-fodder-for-chickens/

Chickens are way different than humans, you can't compare how they convert foods to how we do. I admit, I still have a lot of research to do myself, but as far as I've seen, fodder is at the very least, a good main meal. I have been giving a good snack of pellets late afternoon as I am unsure of...

The seed is about 20% digestible , and the fodder is about 80% digestible.

I am not growing enough, I thought I made that clear, other than calcium, fodder is plenty, MORE THAN what they actually "need". Wheat or Barley is really all they need, if you all want to put all that extra stuff in there, that's great, but they don't need it. I originally looked into this to...

I simply don't have enough growing per day at the moment. The protein levels in wheat fodder is more than sufficient.

I think you are on the right track. I have around 70 chickens I'm trying to go fully fodder(other than grit and calcium). I fed them about 14 pounds yesterday, and they didn't get enough, I fed them about 2 gallons of pellets a little later and they were on it hard like they were hungry. Before...

We all don't do it the same way. I do soak mine for 24 hours because I am not set up to be able to rinse more than 2, maybe 3, times per day. If I were to only soak for 6 hours, the seed would dry out. The way I do it, they do need to be saturated.

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Please quote where I said chickens are not affected by e-coli, thanks.

Wikepedia is just not a reliable source, there is so much wrong info on there, they should take that down altogether. People use this system to feed million dollar cattle and horse operations, let alone alpaca, rabbit, chicken, etc. etc. With the amount of money and research that goes into...

I'm soaking for 24 hours, then draining and keeping them in the same bucket for another 24 hours (rinsing once), then putting in the tray. So far, seems to sprout better.

It's sprouting.

Mine just ate 13 pounds, it was 2 pounds of seed to start with.

For measuring purposes, weigh what fills your container filled at 1/2 inch deep so you know how much to soak.