I have no idea! Mine are lucky enough to have grass year round. Did you search the fora for silage? I reckon there's no topic not covered somewhere on this site!
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I’ve read quite a lot here and it all seems to concern fermenting grains and commercial feed. Cool idea! I’m going to give that a go, but what I was wandering about when I clicked on the topic was fermenting greens for winter. Do chickens like silage?
I ran into someone who is selling spent grain. I am wondering if it is like the fermented grain you are speaking about?
so both of these grains are safe to feed chickens right? I have been doing some reading on the fermented grains and it seems safe enough.Not quite. Spent grain is almost always grain that has been boiled as the first stage of making beer or other alcoholic beverages. They boil it to extract some of the content and then usually just throw away the grain before moving on to adding yeast to ferment their beverage. Still great for making bread and feeding chickens! Depends a bit on what type of grain, but still usually useful for at least supplementing their normal feed.
Fermented grain is stuff that has been soaked and has been sitting for a couple days, with "wild" airborne yeasts floating in and starting to ferment the grain.
So "spent" is just wet/soaked grain, while fermented has been sitting in that wet state for a few days. If you took spent grain and added some water back to it, and then let it sit, it would turn into fermented grain.
Yes.so both of these grains are safe to feed chickens right? I have been doing some reading on the fermented grains and it seems safe enough.