Fermenting chicken food

[hookie]

Decided to give fermenting chick food a try. I read most of the articles on here.
The only thing I could find to make it in was two big spaghetti sauce jars. Went fishing today with my daughter and when we came home I was going to give them a stir but my wife moved them and must have tighten the covers. Jar #1 wasn't to bad, jar #2 had a very tight cover so I gave a good twist. Bad move. Half the food hit me and the other half went all over the room. It hit a wall and window 20feet away. This is the biggest mess I have ever made. Wanna know what it tastes like?
Remember that cheep orange cheese they gave you in school, that's it.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Yeah, tighting lids in a glass container is a recipe for disaster.
Add fermented feed all over the room with tiny shards of glass.

 

[hookie]

Yeah, tighting lids in a glass container is a recipe for disaster.
Add fermented feed all over the room with tiny shards of glass.

I was lucky it didn't shatter the glass but what a mess. Feed what was left to the girls and ate it all. Going to use tupperware from now on.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I use 5 gallon pickle buckets with the lid just sitting on top.
You can get smaller food grade buckets from bakeries.
The fermentation builds up too much gas to keep in a closed container.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Yikes! I use a very large glass jar (1.5 gal I think) but haven't picked up the lid since the day I bought it. If I must cover it due to fruit flies in summer, I just tie some cheesecloth on top.

 

[Aunt Angus]

I use gallon size Mason jars. I just set the lids on top. I screw them on only when I shake them. I unscrew them as soon as I'm done shaking them. I like the glass because the glass doesn't get permeated with the smell. But I may switch to food grade buckets now that chicken math has struck again...

 

[ChickenCanoe]

You can't get the pickle smell out of buckets either so they are a perfect container for fermented feed.

 

[CatsandCrops]

I'm glad you weren't hurt!! We use the big plastic containers that organic mixed greens come in - free, easily can be replaced whenever needed and the lids sit on them, but not tight enough for any issues.

I have a stock pile of them - no joke, probably 30 or 40 in my basement. We use them for everything; freezing giant ice blocks for the chickies on hot days, storing small treat mixes out in the garage, using as containers for starting our garden plants in the winter (the roots can grow deeper and I swear our plants have produced more since making the change).

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I'm glad you weren't hurt!! We use the big plastic containers that organic mixed greens come in - free, easily can be replaced whenever needed and the lids sit on them, but not tight enough for any issues.

I have a stock pile of them - no joke, probably 30 or 40 in my basement. We use them for everything; freezing giant ice blocks for the chickies on hot days, storing small treat mixes out in the garage, using as containers for starting our garden plants in the winter (the roots can grow deeper and I swear our plants have produced more since making the change).

Good ideas. I use the ones with slits in them to pedigree eggs/chicks when they go into lockdown in the hatcher.