FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

[RichnSteph]

Quote: Deb,

I built mine after seeing one online. Link provided.

RichnSteph

 

[hennible]

Anyone see any reason I should not add a bit of molasses to the FF while my birds are moulting?

Richnsteph, I bet they just really like the grubs... I offer booth FF and dry food free choice all day and night... Beyond a doubt they prefer the FF, you could give them both as an option and find out for yourself with your birds. If they prefer the dry maybe your FF is off.

 

[RichnSteph]

Anyone see any reason I should not add a bit of molasses to the FF while my birds are moulting?

Richnsteph, I bet they just really like the grubs... I offer booth FF and dry food free choice all day and night... Beyond a doubt they prefer the FF, you could give them both as an option and find out for yourself with your birds. If they prefer the dry maybe your FF is off.

I don't see why you shouldn't add it but to be honest I don't know enough about molasses to give an educated answer.

What I'm doing now is just feeding the dry pellets, a little scratch grain for variety and the BSF. I'd feed them nothing but BSF if I could harvest enough of them but with the weather turning cooler the little boogers have slowed down.

RichnSteph

 

[hennible]

I don't see why you shouldn't add it but to be honest I don't know enough about molasses to give an educated answer.

What I'm doing now is just feeding the dry pellets, a little scratch grain for variety and the BSF. I'd feed them nothing but BSF if I could harvest enough of them but with the weather turning cooler the little boogers have slowed down.

RichnSteph

I think a 100% bug diet would be too high in protein for the best health of the bird any how.
I don't know much about black soldier fly larva but I know that there's major downfalls to having too high of a protein level.

 

[RichnSteph]

I think a 100% bug diet would be too high in protein for the best health of the bird any how.
I don't know much about black soldier fly larva but I know that there's major downfalls to having too high of a protein level.

That I didn't know. Thanks!

RichnSteph

 

[NickyPick]

Anyone know of a site/place I can plug in ingredients and get a total nutrition breakdown? I'm trying to tweak my recipe, but need to know how much of what to put in to get what I need.

 

[Beekissed]

Anyone know of a site/place I can plug in ingredients and get a total nutrition breakdown? I'm trying to tweak my recipe, but need to know how much of what to put in to get what I need.

http://www.feedipedia.org/

 

[LindaB220]

Miss Linda!

Thanks Sweetie, it was the longest 4 days ever.

This brings back memories. I went from working forever in Shreveport, going by Linda. I moved to Minden (small town) to work in the district attorney's office. Immediately, I went to Miss Linda. Nobody, and I mean nobody called me Linda again. I got to like it a lot.

 

[Debs55]

Feed some of my fermented feed for the first time today believe it or not theres a dog bowl in the center of that mound of chickens, right under the white leghorn who is standing in the bowl while she eats

 

[debbiegt]

 

In a new development our chickens have started eating everything but the FF. I've had the same 5 gallon bucket going for a few weeks and am just now to the point that I need to add more feed and water to it. I'm fermenting layer crumbles with some wild bird seed thrown in for goodies. I feed in the morning about 5:30 before work and let them out of the coop at that time. By the time I come home all of it is gone and the chickens are at the fence waiting on me to feed them. I go out there and add another measure of FF to the two feeders that we have and the chickens will pick at it a bit but not really "go to it" like they do in the mornings (according to my wife). I do offer them larvae in the afternoon also since I have a self harvesting bin packed full of BSF, horsefly and common house fly larvae and once a pound of that mix hits the ground the chickens are all gangbusters about getting in there and eating. They eat the grubs like they are starving while the FF sits not 8 feet away being ignored.


Are the chickens just that much more interested in grubs than FF that they'll act like this or could it be something in the feed that they've decided that they don't like? In the mornings when I check the feeders one is usually empty and the other has about a half cup left in it. I just dump that half cup back into the FF bucket and mix it back in, should I not be doing that?


Thank you for any help.

RichnSteph

[/quote. Where did you get your self harvesting bin for your bsf? That is next on my want list. Lol

Deb,

I built mine after seeing one online. Link provided.

RichnSteph

Thank you. Ordered my set of plans today! So excited!!