Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[Triple Willow]

Goat milk is a miracle food!  lol I love it.  I'm really attached to the goats too.  Aside from their affectionate ways, they provide what it takes to make all kinds of products...cheese, hard, chevre, farmstead, yogurt, and on and on.  I've even made whey cheese but that takes a lot of time and not worth the trouble!

One of my favorites (among many) is feta...so easy and so good!!!!!!    

Ohh I love feta! And that stuff is so dang expensive. And I do love goats. They are so affectionate and just downright funny. I could just sit and watch them for hours. lol I would love to have some milk goats but like you were talking about, it is too confining. That goat milk is some good stuff!!! I would consider it a superfood & super good! I wish I had a source to buy some around here!

Btw, LOVE the R.E.D. Friday pic you posted earlier!

 

[Beekissed]

Interesting note: Fed dry feed for two days while traveling and temps here in the teens. Both groups of birds were given two day's worth of feed, which is usually consumed pretty much the first day. Both feeders have some left over in them tonight, which never...ever...happens when feeding FF for traveling time away. Usually those troughs are picked clean, particularly the rooster pen...they never leave anything behind and usually will not stop eating until every last speck is picked from the trough.

Shows a distinct preference for the FF or just more ease in digestion, thus being able to consume it more quickly...not sure.

 

[BCMaraniac]

HEY BEE!!!! Welcome back! We missed you!

 

[Triple Willow]

Yep, glad you're back. And that reminds me, need to go stir up some ff. Mine have been getting some dry feed the last day or two because I've been running around... like a chicken with its head cut off! LOL

 

[Beekissed]

TY!

 

[Beekissed]

Yep, glad you're back. And that reminds me, need to go stir up some ff. Mine have been getting some dry feed the last day or two because I've been running around... like a chicken with its head cut off! LOL

Mine dove head first into the dry mash and then soon started coughing and choking due to the dry feed.

They can eat like hogs when it's FF but that dry slows them down a good bit.

 

[BCMaraniac]

Mine dove head first into the dry mash and then soon started coughing and choking due to the dry feed.

They can eat like hogs when it's FF but that dry slows them down a good bit.

Kinda like eating cornbread instead of grits

 

[Triple Willow]

Mine dove head first into the dry mash and then soon started coughing and choking due to the dry feed.     They can eat like hogs when it's FF but that dry slows them down a good bit. 

Mine too. They just pick at it instead of eating those big ol' mouthfuls. lol They have been looking at me like "Ohhhh come on!!!" wanting their ff. I dump some dry feed in the feeder and they just walk off and look at me hoping for the real stuff. And oh yes, the feed does go a lot further fermented!

 

[Beekissed]

Exactly! You know...it was so easy to just dump some dry mash in the trough and walk away and not worry about freezing and such. Almost made me miss the days when I just bought feed, dished it out and went on with life. I even toyed with the idea in my mind about feeding dry mash for the winter....and then I thought about all I would be giving up and I just couldn't. I just couldn't stand the thought of a smelly coop, a build up of poop that didn't compost easily in the litter, and using twice as much feed.

But...tempting.....

 

[Triple Willow]

Exactly!  You know...it was so easy to just dump some dry mash in the trough and walk away and not worry about freezing and such.  Almost made me miss the days when I just bought feed, dished it out and went on with life.  I even toyed with the idea in my mind about feeding dry mash for the winter....and then I thought about all I would be giving up and I just couldn't.  I just couldn't stand the thought of a smelly coop, a build up of poop that didn't compost easily in the litter, and using twice as much feed. 

But...tempting..... 

I agree, tempting but... nope. I'll be glad when the weather let's up a little. Frozen water is just as big a pain in the butt.