Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[Beekissed]

Something about changing the pH or some such thing...I don't understand it all but I know that both parents need to have the ACV. I got more female offspring for my chickens, rabbits and sheep. One farmer reported 85% females in his sheep herds as opposed to formerly getting around 55%.

 

[Pozees]

ok. i have finally po'd myself. after cleaning up my coop area from switching back to fermented feed. which took over an hour to do. cleaning chicken poop is just a thrill but necessary. a lot of the cornish x were huddled in an empty feed pan, when there were two full gutter feeders outside the coop area. well i chased the birds off to remove the empty pan and i found a smothered bird at the bottom of the mass. i am just wondering how dumb can these birds be. i chased them out of the coop area so they knew where the feeders were and the idiots ran right back in. just a frustrating day. these are the dumbest birds i have ever worked with and have raised cornish x before. i feel like calling the hatchery and sending this batch back.
i know they had or have a dear abby. i wonder if i could use bee kissed as one for chickens. i can read it now.

dear bee,
i am a frustrated chicken guy. first my chickens xxxxxxxxx. and my rooster xxxxxx.

yours truly,

frustrated

Sorry you had such a hard day. Some days just challenge us. Think of this: there are millions of people around you who have never known the satisfaction of eating chickens and eggs they have grown, nourished, and nurtured, knowing everything they ate and did. There is a certain magic in watching hens forage, hearing roosters crow, and knowing what went into the food on your plate.

 

[Lacy Blues]

Now that one on the right is the one I'd want to eat. I haven't bought store bought eggs in so long I forgot how sickly they look.

You know what is kind of funny? Those store bought egg yolks are actually darker than they were a few years ago. Think butter!

The reason they are darker is that they are trying to keep up with the home grown egg market and they've added marigold oil to the commercial feed rations. They may have improved the egg yolk's color, but they didn't improve the nutrition going into the egg. All the marigold oil does is STAIN the yolk.

Butter even looks like they're adding more yellow dye. Has anyone ever seen yellow milk? Isn't butter made from milk? I think the British call it "clotted cream." Butter. It's white.

 

[Lacy Blues]

Something about changing the pH or some such thing...I don't understand it all but I know that both parents need to have the ACV. I got more female offspring for my chickens, rabbits and sheep. One farmer reported 85% females in his sheep herds as opposed to formerly getting around 55%.

Next year, in the spring, I will definitely be checking this out! That would be so nice not to have to kill a bunch of roosters just for being roosters!

 

[armorfirelady]

This grey mold is what we often shove to one side to get kraut or pickled corn out of a crock...won't kill ya but I wouldn't want to eat it. I'd probably keep it more moist, feed it more and stir it more often to avoid this type of mold on top....just not sure about it at all. I found something similar on the back of my scoop, down in the handle of it...

We'll have to do some research on this, huh?

Well I just stirred it back in since I thought it was the Mother & didnt smell bad. I mixed in the last of the other buscket of FF into this bucket as well. And thats what the hens got for breakfast this morning before I left for work. I will check when I get home to see if they ate any. I put it in the heated dog bowl to see how warm it keeps it.

 

[galanie]

I get that exact stuff every time I ferment any type of grains. I think it looks yucky but the chickens still love whatever comes out of a container with that on it. It's gotten so that I don't think it's really fermenting till I see that.

 

[Leahs Mom]

I get that exact stuff every time I ferment any type of grains. I think it looks yucky but the chickens still love whatever comes out of a container with that on it. It's gotten so that I don't think it's really fermenting till I see that.

When you ferment veggies you skim that off the top (like Beekissed said). I've had a little in the last week on mine that I haven't had before. I've been skimming it off and discarding it before stirring.

 

[Lacy Blues]

Part of the scary color of your mix looks like you may have just added a LOT of alfalfa pellets. Correct or no? Until I read that you had added these, the color kind of scared me too.

 

[Dianuzhka]

just sharing my bucket.




yesterday one of the pumpkin got mold and turn soft so i froze it for the night and this morning put it in the bucket, i'll report back if anything goes wrong.

 

[chicken curious]

Quote:
We buy yellow butter directly from a farm and I know they aren't adding anything to it. When cows are on pasture, the butter is more yellow, especially in the spring when they are eating all the new growth. The raw milk we buy there is not homogenized and the cream sits on top until we shake it in...the cream is always 'creamy,' not white, but it borders on yellow, especially in the spring. Butter is this fat, very concentrated. Anyway, I know margarine is colored to look like dark butter and now butter is often colored, too, since most cows aren't on pasture, but I wanted to point out why they are aiming for this color...it is the natural color of butter from healthy cows.