FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

[RoseMarie1]

so the shell came off the 3rd chick and I took her out of the bator and realized she is WHITE! I have never seen a white fuzzy chick, is this common? but all 3 are running around like crazy! big mouths never stop peeping!

oh how cool and it looks snow white to. LOVE the way the one on the left is looking at it........ like whoa dude where'd you come from?

They are so stinking cute! HOPING next spring I can hatch some out!

 

[Beekissed]

What is this chick thinking? "Yer not white, dude..yer clear!" They will be laughing at him and calling him "milky", just you watch.

 

[amyandkids]

haaaaaaa haaaaaaa, rosemarie1 and beekissed that's so funny my eyes were watering I was laughing so hard. im naming it milky!!

 

[RoseMarie1]

haaaaaaa haaaaaaa, rosemarie1 and beekissed that's so funny my eyes were watering I was laughing so hard. im naming it milky!!

now THAT is fitting! too cute! lol

 

[Beekissed]

We will be very interested in Milky and the gang's progress! They look incredibly healthy and bright.

 

[amyandkids]

Thank you bee for teaching us all about the amazing f.f.! I wouldn't have such healthy and beautiful birds if it weren't for this thread and all y'all smart folks on here!

 

[RoseMarie1]

Thank you bee for teaching us all about the amazing f.f.! I wouldn't have such healthy and beautiful birds if it weren't for this thread and all y'all smart folks on here!

yep thank you Bee!

 

[KrazyChromatics]

I brought some into work yesterday because i was trading 4 hens (for what i was told were bantams... um they were brahmas!) and selling 2 roos and i brought feed to show the new owners and so i had something for them through out the day... I had several people comment on it and i had to spheal on and on over and over lol... but i put layer, starter/grower, show bird, calf manna, scratch, and alfalfa cubes *shrug* my birds think its the best, even the new girls took a liking to it right away they also got to snack on cuccumber halves for enthused customers lol, im sorry but people are too easily amused

 

[Beekissed]

I brought some into work yesterday because i was trading 4 hens (for what i was told were bantams... um they were brahmas!) and selling 2 roos and i brought feed to show the new owners and so i had something for them through out the day... I had several people comment on it and i had to spheal on and on over and over lol... but i put layer, starter/grower, show bird, calf manna, scratch, and alfalfa cubes *shrug* my birds think its the best, even the new girls took a liking to it right away they also got to snack on cuccumber halves for enthused customers lol, im sorry but people are too easily amused

Watch that show bird and manna....can be too rich in the long run and cause some organ damage with continual use.

 

[BlackberryAcres]

But, from what others report, those feeding feeds that have fish meal, meat meal, etc. are reporting some pretty foul odors when they ferment...which won't change the fermentation process but might just smell like you've got a dead whale rotting away in your backyard.

I just wanted to report on my experience fermenting the fish/meat meal. After 24 hours or so of soaking, all of the feed would float to the top and leave the water on the bottom of the bucket! Even when I stirred it up really well it wouldn't take long for that to happen again. So for now, since I got some grain-based feed again, I'm fermenting the grain feed and then mixing a few scoops of the fish/meat meal feed in with the extra liquid. I'll do that until I'm out of the fish stuff. It stinks (ha!) because the fish meal stuff was cheaper and closer to buy (and soy free), but I really want to be able to ferment it!