FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

[suncatcher]

Quote: Well, they grow like weeds the first month or two!!!

 

[write2caroline]

I have chicks due to come today and I thought I would give it a try with this new batch. I am not sure what I am doing but I figure it cannot hurt too much. I am going to mix about a gallon of feed and add ingredients as I use it. Do you keep it in a enclosed container or just a cloth over it to keep out bugs?
Caroline

 

[write2caroline]

So I put it in a small bucket and placed about 4 cups of chick feed in a small bucket and added 1 cup of AVC and 1/3 cup of molasses. Then I added warm water. It is sort of the consistency of wet cement. Or goopy batter. Is yours really wet like pancake batter or thicker? I just kept adding water and it kept soaking it up so I didn't measure it so much just continued mixing until all the feed was wet.

How long does it take to start to ferment?

Do I leave the lid on or cover with a cloth?

Caroline

 

[Beekissed]

So I put it in a small bucket and placed about 4 cups of chick feed in a small bucket and added 1 cup of AVC and 1/3 cup of molasses. Then I added warm water. It is sort of the consistency of wet cement. Or goopy batter. Is yours really wet like pancake batter or thicker? I just kept adding water and it kept soaking it up so I didn't measure it so much just continued mixing until all the feed was wet.

How long does it take to start to ferment?

Do I leave the lid on or cover with a cloth?

Caroline

You just made bread! Of course it's all goopy! Four cups of feed, 1 cup of ACV and 1/3 cup of molasses!!!!!!!!!?????? You have just made the most horrible concoction on the face of the earth. I'm sorry, but I'm having trouble understanding how one would get those ingredients and proportions out of reading this thread.

Four cups of feed might tolerate 1 Tablespoon of vinegar...and NO molasses. No molasses. No molasses needed. No added sugars are needed for making fermented feed, but might be needed if you are making bread for eating. Your chickens just simply do not need all that sugar as there is enough sugar in the grains and feed for their tolerance levels and to easily ferment the feed.

If you care about your chickens at all, please dump that out and start it off right or add that whole silly mixture into a 5 gal. bucket of feed and add feed and water to dilute all those ingredients to a more acceptable level.

 

[RoseMarie1]

So I put it in a small bucket and placed about 4 cups of chick feed in a small bucket and added 1 cup of AVC and 1/3 cup of molasses. Then I added warm water. It is sort of the consistency of wet cement. Or goopy batter. Is yours really wet like pancake batter or thicker? I just kept adding water and it kept soaking it up so I didn't measure it so much just continued mixing until all the feed was wet.

How long does it take to start to ferment?

Do I leave the lid on or cover with a cloth?

Caroline

you don't need that much ACV and you sure don't need the molasses.

There is sugar in food already and it will feed on that so it doesn't need anymore sugars to feed on. It would even cost ya less because you wouldn't have to be buying the molasses all the time.

 

[wlhtx]

Where the heck is everyone reading that you have to add molasses?!? This was nowhere on the radar a few months ago, but all the newbies are talking about molasses...

 

[Beekissed]

Where the heck is everyone reading that you have to add molasses?!? This was nowhere on the radar a few months ago, but all the newbies are talking about molasses...

City folks trying to complicate a very, very simple process....like making sure water is over the feed, straining it, adding kefir, yogurt, or other such nonsense. Grains have been fermenting pretty much without all that hoohaw since the beginning of time, all over the world.

It's almost like this present society likes to have more drama and stress than the next person, so they go out looking for ways to complicate every little process of their lives. Most will even complain about these self imposed stressors as if they simply happened to them and were not created BY them. Fussy routines for animals, with multiple pens and runs and cooking rice and scrambled eggs and don't forget the yogurt each morning, while changing chicken diapers with the other hand and rotating dogs and chickens in the yard so one won't kill the others, and the list of complications grow and grow and grow. All self imposed.

Sort of like people who claim they can't free range because they simply have too many hawks where they live. I'm sitting here thinking, "Does this person somehow imagine that they~ and only they~ live near the national hawk sanctuary and all of OUR hawks live at the sanctuary as well?"

 

[LOVEIGEE]

City folks trying to complicate a very, very simple process....like making sure water is over the feed, straining it, adding kefir, yogurt, or other such nonsense. Grains have been fermenting pretty much without all that hoohaw since the beginning of time, all over the world.

E-EM (clearing my throat).......I'm a city folk (with a country heart).....never heard such as adding molasses....maybe they were constipated....

Sorry, that was ugly...........Forgive me.....couldn't resist....poor baby probably thinks we are all making fun of her.......we really aren't, promise.....

 

[Beekissed]

E-EM (clearing my throat).......I'm a city folk (with a country heart).....never heard such as adding molasses....maybe they were constipated....

Sorry, that was ugly...........Forgive me.....couldn't resist....poor baby probably thinks we are all making fun of her.......we really aren't, promise.....

But do you over complicate all your pet care routines?

Now..that is not city specific...I have country sisters and neighbors who do the same.

I don't mean to make fun either...but this whole add the molasses thing had to come from somewhere and I'm doubting it was any place that also had common sense about fermenting foods~which immediately points a finger at city or urban dwellers. Most country folk know how to ferment grains...in one way or another. Hic! 'Scuse me....

 

[LOVEIGEE]

You are excused......and shoot no.....I try not to over complicate anything........poor baby.....I'm sure she got it from somewhere..........