FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

[ShanandGem]

I once tried to feed my adult birds a raw fish head. It was still perfectly intact several hours later.
Cook some filthy little smelts with beans, scratch grains, corn and spinach and they gobble it right up though! Maybe I forgot to put a garnish on the fish head...

 

[TexasLisa]

Little tyrannosaurus rex savages!!!!

(Note to self: Never lay down around chickens and take a nap!<grin>)

I keep picturing the velociraptors in Jurassic Park. Note to self: Never NEVER fall down around the chickens.

What are you paying for chicken feed in other parts of the country? I'm paying 13.50 - 14.00/50# for layer. Multi-flock is around $18. That's without any discount. Scratch is the same price. Bag of wheat or barley last time I checked was 26.00. No grain mills any where near me.

Egg Maker Pellets (50 lb.): $14.25
Scratch w/BOSS (50 lb.): $12.75
Chick Starter--non medicated (25 lb.): $9.00

 

[mypolitedog]

I don't know if this has been addressed already, but what feeder do you folks use to serve up the FF? My 16 chicks are 9 days old today and I'm using a galvanized mason jar feeder (quart-sized) for their starter crumbles. It seems to me that the mash/mush? would be hard to clean out of those small holes...as far as I can tell, the top part does not separate from the bottom part for cleaning...

 

[Molpet]

I don't know if this has been addressed already, but what feeder do you folks use to serve up the FF? My 16 chicks are 9 days old today and I'm using a galvanized mason jar feeder (quart-sized) for their starter crumbles. It seems to me that the mash/mush? would be hard to clean out of those small holes...as far as I can tell, the top part does not separate from the bottom part for cleaning...

at that age a shallow container ... I had the long rectangle chick feeder... the adults I use old plastic gutter on 2x4

 

[mypolitedog]

at that age a shallow container ... I had the long rectangle chick feeder... the adults I use old plastic gutter on 2x4

TY!

 

[lazy gardener]

I once tried to feed my adult birds a raw fish head. It was still perfectly intact several hours later.
Cook some filthy little smelts with beans, scratch grains, corn and spinach and they gobble it right up though! Maybe I forgot to put a garnish on the fish head...

Certainly a sprig of parsley would have done the trick. Or perhaps some lemon wedges???

I don't know if this has been addressed already, but what feeder do you folks use to serve up the FF? My 16 chicks are 9 days old today and I'm using a galvanized mason jar feeder (quart-sized) for their starter crumbles. It seems to me that the mash/mush? would be hard to clean out of those small holes...as far as I can tell, the top part does not separate from the bottom part for cleaning...

Never put FF in metal. It will corrode the metal, and in the case of galvanized will leach zinc out into the feed. For little ones just starting, I initially put a plop of FF onto a paper plate or a piece of cardboard. Perhaps a pizza box. Be sure the FF is thick enough that it will hold it's shape well. It would be very easy for a youngster do a face plant into a looser mix and get trampled in. Some folks have had chicks killed in such a fashion.

 

[mypolitedog]

Never put FF in metal.  It will corrode the metal, and in the case of galvanized will leach zinc out into the feed.  For little ones just starting, I initially put a plop of FF onto a paper plate or a piece of cardboard.  Perhaps a pizza box.  Be sure the FF is thick enough that it will hold it's shape well.  It would be very easy for a youngster do a face plant into a looser mix and get trampled in.  Some folks have had chicks killed in such a fashion.

Thank you @lazy gardener! I'm still a sponge!

 

[Kiki]

I use the plastic screw on top feeder....I just spoon the ff around the bottom.

 

[Intheswamp]

Here's chickens sharing a gut pile with the pup.....gory but it's food and good food, at that.

VITTLES!!!!!!!! <grin>
I've got a deal with an old boyhood friend of mine. I don't hunt, but he does. The deal is he hunts some property of mine and it's one for him and one for me, one for him and one for me... I'll have to tell him to start saving me some scraps and guts...that oughta mess with his head a bit....we are *old* friends so he'll just figure it's one of my tangents. LOL Thinking about it, what would the good organs be for the chickens?...heart, liver,...???

 

[LilyandSparrow]

Hi there

I'm new to all this, but very interested in fermenting feed for our chicks that are coming soon. I wasn't sure what type of chick starter would work best--grain chick starter (Scratch & Peck) or crumble starter like Nature's Best organic/Purina organic.

Would love any help!