FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

It just took me a while to get it to the right texture. I know now that mixing it "too dry" and then just adding a bit of water at a time works just FINE.

I am liking it just wet enough so I can stir it without breaking the ginormous whisk I stir it with (or my wrist).
 
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I stir mine with my scoop and when I can't at least dig it out and mix it up with that, I know it's too dry. I think my mix would probably bend a whisk though....
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You should see my whisk ...

The whisk compared to a normal "large" whisk:




The whisk in the 5 gallon FF bucket ... the whisk is touching the bottom of the bucket, the bucket is about 2/3 full of feed. I kinda "poke" the feed with the whisk, then bring the whisk out and "poke" it again. This tends to mix up the layers of feed well while "burping" out the gasses. I'd rather have a giant spatula to stir it with, but my giant spatula has a short-ish handle and I'm a total princess about not getting the FF on my hands. Also, my hands and arms aren't so strong, so stirring something this thick would be tiring ...



Yes ... the FF area of my kitchen is filthy! So sue me.
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I would melt in that heat...fat girls don't do heat so well. Humidity is even worse, so maybe the lack of humidity would help me tolerate the heat..but I doubt it. I've always wanted to see NM...I've heard it's very pretty!

I don't know what I would do without my four seasons...I love that changing that is so predictable that you can set your life activities around it. I like the rhythm of life that revolves around the awakening of the land in the spring, anticipating growing things in the garden and all the planning that goes into it as well as the labor...it's cleansing after a winter of sitting by the fire. New babies, new leaves and pink flower buds drifting to the ground in a breeze so soft it feels like a baby's kiss.

I like the summer months when things are growing, bees are working and flowers are so bright they make you pause in your day, with a harvest time of beautiful vegetables at the end. What a bounty and a blessing to see colorful jars all in a row! Honeysuckle so heavy on the air you can almost taste it and thunderstorms that vibrate down your spine in a warm tingle....bliss!

Fall is my favorite time of all! Crisp mornings that smell like the first day on Earth, skies so blue and clouds so white it hurts your eyes, and the fruit harvest overflowing. The colder weather rejuvenates me to doing all the chores we do to prepare for winter, the harvest of meat continues and the battening down and tucking in of animal quarters and the home makes me feel like the giving of love.

Then winter...a time of rest, of learning, of fellowship and stillness with the Lord, crisp nights filled with diamonds in a velvet sky, monochromatic landscapes of crisp white and stark trees accented with red birds, and the blessing of a warm house after being out in the cold. Wood smoke on the air, my breath smoking out in front of me, a warm dog jumping around in the soft powder like he's on springs.

I love them all!
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Oh, Bee!!! You just described my Almost Heaven, West Virginia. Very poetically, I might add. I have lived in New Orleans where the heat is 95 and the humidity is 95+. I've also lived in Virginia Beach, which was a great place. But there's just NO place like home. If people have never been here, GOOD!!! Otherwise, we would be totally overpopulated!!
 
Oh, Bee!!! You just described my Almost Heaven, West Virginia. Very poetically, I might add. I have lived in New Orleans where the heat is 95 and the humidity is 95+. I've also lived in Virginia Beach, which was a great place. But there's just NO place like home. If people have never been here, GOOD!!! Otherwise, we would be totally overpopulated!!


Yes!
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WV is the best kept secret tucked into the eastern portion of the US, smack dab between north and south. Low property taxes, low crime, low population and some beautiful land, music, and culture.
 
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Naw, our long campaign in the media to make it appear that WV is filled with dumb redneck, inbred hicks has been quite successful at keeping out the "intellectuals".... those that would move in and ruin the ambiance. I call that a success!
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