Black Oil Sunflower Seeds.
Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds
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About how long do you all thing a bag of feed should last 15 birds? I feel like I'm feeding too much? Maybe? I've got 12 large fowl and three silkies. None grown, no one laying no one crowing. Their run is huge, but not much foraging in there since it started getting colder.
Right when i start getting good at this chicken stuff something new comes up and I worry all over again. Heading out to get MORE food, hoping to find some alfalfa pellets as well. Someone on here mentioned bagging portions and freezing it, to keep it from molding? What's the thoughts on that?
Right when i start getting good at this chicken stuff something new comes up and I worry all over again. Heading out to get MORE food, hoping to find some alfalfa pellets as well. Someone on here mentioned bagging portions and freezing it, to keep it from molding? What's the thoughts on that?
For 15 birds, a bag of feed used to last me 2.5 weeks.
OK, 195 pages. Ouch. I skimmed mostly, sorry. I have been debating doing this with my layers who happily ate spent brewery grains (with crumbles mixed in) and are not enjoying the commercial feed only (nor am I. Their poo stinks now!) So I make a batch to start and leave one cup feed from the previous batch in each time with the water/acv?
I was thinking a 3 way split scratch, alfalfa pellets, and all purpose crumble? Do I still need the crumble or will they be OK without it? No biggie either way. Costs the same as the scratch.
My chickens free range and go through minimal feed. Will they eat less or more of this?
I was thinking a 3 way split scratch, alfalfa pellets, and all purpose crumble? Do I still need the crumble or will they be OK without it? No biggie either way. Costs the same as the scratch.
My chickens free range and go through minimal feed. Will they eat less or more of this?
You have 3 options. 1. Don't use all the food out of your buckets and let what's left, "inoculate" the new stuff.
2. You can add some raw ACV in with the filtered stuff and let it sit, covered with a paper towel or something
breathable, in the dark for about a week to make more.
3. Get some frozen, concentrated apple juice, pour a few glugs of ACV into it, in a glass container, covered
with something breathable, in the dark for a couple of weeks to make more. This option is cheapest.
You'll know if you're feeding too much by how much they leave in their pan at night.
For the alfalfa pellets, you just have to keep them dry. Put them in a rubber trash can inside a building so there is no rain and no condensation and they'll take up a lot less room in your freezer.
I would keep the crumble. They really don't like the alfalfa much. I think the reason most of us use it is for green feed. It's loaded with vitamin A (hopefully) and makes the egg yolks that you'll eventually be getting, a nice dark yellow.
Mine love alfalfa pellets, they used to always steal them from our goat.
Forgot to ask the ratio of ACV and water?
black oil sunflower seed
drink water about 1 tbl spoon for 1 gallon. fermenting feed just spill some in. this measurements do not have do be exact. you can't over dose the birds
Isn't it strange how different people's birds are? I use to use bagged alfalfa meal and my birds, somehow or other, would always have just alfalfa left in their dishes at night! Even though, we would mix in an egg to their feed so that it would stick!
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