Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[write2caroline]

I have heard about fermented foods and I am curious if you can use it on layer birds too?

Caroline

 

[RoseMarie1]

Yep good thing you did have undies on! LOL

Kassaundra, like I said, I had never even heard of or seen these things before. These are so tiny tiny that you can't even hardly see them. I was hoping that I only had the ones in the house that I found but I have found a few actually on me. Can you fill me in on what people do who have an encounter with them and don't know it until it's too late? How do you or how can you be fairly sure they are all out of the house?

Anybody know how dangerous Pyrethrin is?

Bee uses the Pyrethrin I think she said it was organic. Been TRYING to find some of the stuff around here but haven't found it yet.

Is this is? It's spelled different though? I was going to google it to see what it looked like so I would know what it looked like. Is it a powder or spray?

http://www.motherearthnews.com/orga...rethrum-spray-zw0z1304zkin.aspx#axzz2ebtHqdW5

 

[Beekissed]

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Let Bee note that it's a very, very last resort when all other things have failed.

Usually things like that are just not necessary in a natural setting but my birds came from a setting that wasn't anything close to being natural and after half a year of trying to help them naturally, I used this stuff early this spring~once was all it took and that is scary all on its own.

But..if you have to pull out the big dogs, I'll use this stuff...only on the birds, on the roost and in the bottom of the nest box. Not in the litter. I'll even go so far as to place a dab in their dusting spots over under the brush pile, but not in my litter. Even organic things can kill some of the bugs I would like to keep around and, though this particular one degrades in sunlight and is supposed to be less harsh than other things we could use, I don't sprinkle it around like fairy dust.

 

[skitzkle]

I have heard about fermented foods and I am curious if you can use it on layer birds too?

Caroline

Yes! You can ferment layer pellets in just water in a couple of days. I know the more experienced "fermenters" will chime in. I have been fermenting grower crumbles for my soon to be layer flock for a couple of months.

 

[RoseMarie1]

Yes! You can ferment layer pellets in just water in a couple of days. I know the more experienced "fermenters" will chime in. I have been fermenting grower crumbles for my soon to be layer flock for a couple of months.

I am using the layer crumbles but started out with the chick starter crumbles and all I did was add water to mine and put a towel over the top to keep out bugs. I covered the food in water when I first started it out but after I got it fermented good I don't add as much water to it now. I started mine at like 10 am in the morning and by that evening it was bubbling already. It's hot here so that helped it out but was even better after 2-3 days. But I fed out of mine that next day that I started it.

 

[Beekissed]

And, man, did it do her chickens good! Gotta put on sun glasses to look at them.

BTW, Rose, on the other place I posted your pics of the run the folks were drooling your pretty birds.

 

[Triple Willow]

You poor thing!  What a horrible thing to go through!  Are you eating a lot of garlic?  Getting that into your blood stream and seeping from your skin can sure help for some blood sucking insects.  Of course, it will keep everyone else away too....

That Skin So Soft is some good stuff...but I hate the smell of it.  I hate poison too...but sometimes it's just a fact of life.  I don't like to get bitten by bugs, so poison I will use if I have to. 

Soon it will be fall and no more ticks after first frost!  e

Oh yes, I never look forward to winter but I could take some winter right now! However, these ticks will party all winter long all cozy right here in my house if I don't murder the little vermin! I went to the health food store to get some peppermint oil for my home brewed concoction. Crazy but the cashier girl said that she had got into some of these ticks not long ago too. The way she talked she got into a bunch of them!

I got some pumpkin seed for when the time comes for deworming.

 

[Beekissed]

You can spread Borax all over the carpets and let it sit for a day and then sweep it up...it will desiccate them. Don't get it in your lungs...make ya cough!

 

[Triple Willow]

I'm not crazy about Skin So Soft either but I do believe it helps with things like ticks, fleas and mosquitos. It's kinda stanky! My poor dogs turn and try to casually walk the other way and hide when they see me with a spray bottle! LOL So many people were using Skin So Soft for bugs that Avon came out with a line of bug repellents.

 

[Kassaundra]

You can spread Borax all over the carpets and let it sit for a day and then sweep it up...it will desiccate them. Don't get it in your lungs...make ya cough!

Borax the washing powder, or Boric acid the stuff you kill shelled insects with?