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  1. M

    Sprouts for chickens

    Hello! I have been feeding my chickens sprouts (experimented at first with bird seed and a chicken sprout seed mix from Amazon), and I just bought a big bag of barley, oats, rye and alfalfa from a local seed store... I am excited to start feeding my chickens sprouts more regularly from this...
  2. DuckinDonutsBensalem

    Growing Sprouts or Fodder for Ducks

    Hi there! Now that fall is here, I am looking for nutritious things to feed my young ducks. My garden is finished for the season. It's expensive to keep buying greens from my local produce place. I came across an article in Mother Earth News. I am interested in growing sprouts or fodder for my...
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  3. Bocktastic Quackles

    Too early to introduce Sprouts?

    I have a chick born on 4/16 and another 3/16 (lost one and had to get a month older one😪 But new girl is getting acquainted to her new home and bunk mate). they are going through organic chick cereal like crazy! I’ve attached the schedule I printed off from the breeder and been using it as a...
  4. analyticalblonde

    Sprouts...

    Hi All, I want to try and grow some sprouts for my girls (I have 10), especially for the very cold, winter months coming soon, and came across this great sprouter on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AJJOJD0/?tag=backy-20 It already comes with Alfalfa seeds for sprouting but also talks...
  5. Techniques in Feeding Your Flock "Off the Grid"

    Techniques in Feeding Your Flock "Off the Grid"

    I have often wondered what I would do to feed my flock should circumstances arise which prevented me from purchasing pre-bagged formulated feed from the feed store. Hurricanes, floods, forest fires, other natural disasters, not to mention the world's shaky economy, any one of these scenarios...
    • TwoCrows
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    • alfalfa hay chicken nutrition composting fermenting feed fodder homemade feed off the grid sprouting sprouts
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    • Category: Housing & Feeding Your Flock
  6. Wil781

    Is feeding fodder or sprouts considered snacks?

    My girls can't free range because of neighborhood dogs so I grow fodder and sprouts for my hens, I want them to have the greens that they miss out on. Occassionally I will give scratch, cabbage on a string or frozen ears of corn on a string, but only occassionally. I also feed fermented...
  7. A

    Fodder

    So I've never grown my own fodder, but been doing research. I'm wondering though...if I make my trays and then cover them with chicken wire or screen can I give them to the flock and leave them in the tray to regrow after they've eaten what grows above the screen? Also should I use soil instead...
  8. Vivid Hatchery

    Academic article states sprouted fodder not economical on commercial scale

    Hello everyone, I am a chicken farmer, so I read across someone recommending sprouted fodder in a thread. So, I thought I would do some research. I found a scientific article that analyzes the economic and nutritional differences between commercial and small scale, price of feed vs growing...
  9. EverythingButTheSink

    Sprouting Grains Blog

    Check out my article on Sprouting Grains! http://bit.ly/SproutingGrainsforChickens Any insight or additional knowledge from people that have tried other grains than wheat? Anyone have their own set up they'd like to share?
  10. lazy gardener

    Winter greens

    I'm trying to plan winter greens for my flock. In the past, I've sprouted wheat or barley. Often, I add millet, BOSS, and even some forage seed mixes intended for deer plots. Whole barley is around $20/50#. I have yet to find a source of whole wheat. Wheat is reported to be slightly...
  11. Nesi

    Wanting to sprout....

    So I keep reading how sprouts are great, especially for upcoming molting. I also just want to do it out of fun & curiosity. I'm still a somewhat new chicken momma. I've spent hours upon days even researching this. Everyone says DO this or DON'T do that! A lot of it is contradicting each other...
  12. S

    I need help with my sprouts

    I am having so much trouble growing my barley sprouts. The last batch I did they dried out too often too forever to grow. I'm trying to get about 3 inches of green before feeding to my gals. I finally fed it to them after about 1.5 weeks because I was worried waiting too long would make it...
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