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I'm having doubts about the fermented feed right now. It's only been...36 hours, and it's bubbly like it should be but I'm worried about actually feeding it to the chickens. The first 24 hours it was in my shed, which gets hot. I moved it to the garage and then my husband, the chicken hater, complained about a bucket in his man-cave. So the bucket is currently in my office at home. Anyway, I might shelve the fermented feed until I can keep it in the shed without the heat turning it rancid.
 
AZKat said:
I had my baby today! 7 pounds 13 ounces, 20 and 3/4 inches long, and the cutest baby girl I've ever seen!
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WOW! Congrats Kat!! Pictures!
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GREG BOAM said:
I have 2 new, three week, old Ameraucanas. I have a flock of 5 full size hens. right now my wife has them under a heat lamp in the house in a rubbermaide. She and I were wondering if it would be safe to put them in with the flock in the nesting box? Thoughts?
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I think that's too young as well... I introduced all of my new babies by putting them in a grow-out pen that shared a wall with the big girls. They were all ranging in age from 5-8 weeks. When they had shared the fence for about a week or so, I opened a little part of the fence that the babies could go in and out of but the big girls could not. This way, they could introduce themselves but when the big girls picked on them too much, they had somewhere they could go to retreat.
I would wait until they're closer to 6 weeks and then make a little area where they could get to that the big girls cannot. Make it big enough that you can keep some food and water in there for them as well, as sometimes the big girls chase them away from those. Someone on another thread bought a couple panels of that plastic fencing from Lowe's (kind of like a cheap little picket fence??) and just made a blocked off corner for them. The little ones could squeeze through the fence into their own "safe" area when they wanted. Maybe you could do that under the trampoline somewhere? Another good way to introduce and see how they do is let them all free-range together so they are not in a confined space all of a sudden.
AZKat said:
I had my baby today! 7 pounds 13 ounces, 20 and 3/4 inches long, and the cutest baby girl I've ever seen!
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pipemum said:
I'm having doubts about the fermented feed right now. It's only been...36 hours, and it's bubbly like it should be but I'm worried about actually feeding it to the chickens. The first 24 hours it was in my shed, which gets hot. I moved it to the garage and then my husband, the chicken hater, complained about a bucket in his man-cave. So the bucket is currently in my office at home. Anyway, I might shelve the fermented feed until I can keep it in the shed without the heat turning it rancid.
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I haven't fermented feed yet. My only experience with fermenting is with pickles. And I know there is a temperature zone for pickling vegetable so that you are getting good yeast and little to no mold. Is there an optimal temperature range for fermenting feed as well? It seems like it would be too hot here to get that 70-76 yeast fermenting range. I just read about people throwing feed and water into a bucket and letting it go. I'm wondering if they are in colder climates though. How do you guys do it?

Also, can you just still put the feed into a hanging feeder? Or do you have to offer it differently? Does it go bad in the feeder if they don't eat it fast enough? How does all that work?
 
ChicksOfHazzard said:
I haven't fermented feed yet. My only experience with fermenting is with pickles. And I know there is a temperature zone for pickling vegetable so that you are getting good yeast and little to no mold. Is there an optimal temperature range for fermenting feed as well? It seems like it would be too hot here to get that 70-76 yeast fermenting range. I just read about people throwing feed and water into a bucket and letting it go. I'm wondering if they are in colder climates though. How do you guys do it?
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X 2 I also have been wondering about the temperature parameters for fermenting feed. Is there a temp to never exceed?
 

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