Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[Beekissed]

They are along the sides to about the halfway mark and all over the bottom.

I should have been more specific. But as long as it will still work.

That's perfect! You'll see....all those holes will come in handy.

I always end up on the weird part of YouTube...cyst extractions and gross infection videos...I'm never exactly sure how I end up there...it's gross, but it's like a train wreck, I just can't stop watching.

I LOVE those! I've actually assisted in several when I worked in an acute care clinic...they smell to high heaven.

But I've always loved gross things that you can pop.

 

[Lacy Blues]

It's interesting that you should say such a thing Bee, after all the comments, etc., regarding boys and their chosen method of showing us how much they love us!

 

[Beekissed]

I like the gross stuff...but not the gross smell.

But then, some smells are worse than others. The cysts smell very sour..much like a very, very strong ferment with just a hint of stank on it.

The boys? That smells like something that would knock a buzzard off a gut wagon...like ten cans of dog farts!

 

[Lacy Blues]

 

[Turkeytruff]

LOL "all this extra feeding stuff" as DH puts it has saved a ton of $$$ and he is seeing it now. He told me we can get another free office trailer by just hauling it off. this makes the 3rd one we have picked up now. A major construction co we have in this area offers them occasionally, they are huge, 40-50 feet long by 10 ft wide. We paint them, repair what needs done, and use them as storage, etc. He has one for a workshop, now i get one for my "feeding stuff" hehe! I can do my mealworms, fodder and feeds all in there. oh, and a hatching room too, and maybe a quarantine room! Can't wait to get it here and set up.

Wow! what a SCORE!

 

[poularde]

Just joining this thread. I have quite a bit of reading to do. I have glanced through it, but i have quite a bit more to read.

So, I had just purchased some spent grains from a brewery. I had it in a plastic garbage can. The lady I bought it from said i had a few days before it would start to mold. i was hesitant to feed it at first. It had a sour smell. I feed a whole seed and grain diet to my birds now. Been feeding this for over a year and have been pretty happy with the results so far. Well my birds loved the spent grains. I mean loved. I just ran out yesterday and went back to my regular feed. My birds were quite upset. They really wanted more of that sour smelling stuff.

I have about forty birds to feed right now. i plan on getting started with the fermented feed this next week. Should I use the five gallon buckets or could I do this in my plastic trash can? I plan on reading up on this so I will probably answer my own question. Sorry, i am just getting pretty excited about this.

 

[Beekissed]

I fed 50 meat birds out of one 5 gal. (2)bucket system but I'm sure you can do it in your trash can as well. I think you may like the ease of doing it in the buckets, though, and how much easier it is to get the consistency right. The spent grains you used were probably a tad different than what you will be using because they were all whole grains and not too sopping wet, unlike the normal FF.

Good luck!

 

[poularde]

Thanks for the reply. The grains I had were more of a mash. Not whole grains and it was pretty wet. It looked like a bran mash or something. I can hardly wait to get a system going.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

I like the gross stuff...but not the gross smell.

But then, some smells are worse than others. The cysts smell very sour..much like a very, very strong ferment with just a hint of stank on it.

The boys? That smells like something that would knock a buzzard off a gut wagon...like ten cans of dog farts!

OMG

i have tears i was was laughing so hard! The boys never grow out of that either! DH embarrasses me at the grocery - ugh! he will say "honey, better move to the next isle" and have that hand in the cookie jar look

Just joining this thread. I have quite a bit of reading to do. I have glanced through it, but i have quite a bit more to read.

So, I had just purchased some spent grains from a brewery. I had it in a plastic garbage can. The lady I bought it from said i had a few days before it would start to mold. i was hesitant to feed it at first. It had a sour smell. I feed a whole seed and grain diet to my birds now. Been feeding this for over a year and have been pretty happy with the results so far. Well my birds loved the spent grains. I mean loved. I just ran out yesterday and went back to my regular feed. My birds were quite upset. They really wanted more of that sour smelling stuff.

I have about forty birds to feed right now. i plan on getting started with the fermented feed this next week. Should I use the five gallon buckets or could I do this in my plastic trash can? I plan on reading up on this so I will probably answer my own question. Sorry, i am just getting pretty excited about this.

You will be so glad you are doing it. Glad you joined in

Wow! what a SCORE!

hehehe

Thanks! I never pass up a good "maybe"! We had one that was trashed - one side was mashed in and wrecked, so we scrapped it out.

 

[Beekissed]

At least you get a warning....

The Bat and my boys will SBD right next to you in the store aisle and send you running with your shopping cart to get out of the cloud of fumes, all the while praying that no one else in that aisle thought it was you. They then look at you like a deer in the headlights and say, quite innocently, "What? I don't smell anything!" and laugh as you flee in the other direction.

As you pass that aisle later to go to the register, you can see that it is still a deserted and barren wasteland with the labels peeling off the jars and littering the floor, and black skid marks from all the shopping carts that had burned rubber to get away from the toxic area. You'll remember the aisle because on either end will be orange cones with a biohazard logo on them....

Really, words cannot describe the carnage left in the wake of one of these bombs.