Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[Brandi Leigh]

It gets really cold here in the winter sometimes -20 or colder. Would it be possible to use a cookie tin warmer to keep the ff from freezing, like I do the water? I work 10 hr. shifts so smaller feeding through out the day are not possible. Really want to try this method. I do use a 100w light bulb by the roosts so my chickens don't freeze to death,but the water would freeze without the warmer because it's on the floor.

 

[aoxa]

I'm having the same problem, I have geese,ducks and chickens and I have been giving them a gallon bucket of ff a day only been feeding straight ff for 5 days now, but it's completely gone by noon. or before, I don't want to over feed them but I don't know if I should give them more or not, this morning i did an experiment and gave a half gallon of feed divided into 3 trough feeders by the time we got home from Church all gone so I gave them the other half gallon they acted like they hadn't eaten in years. They scarfed it down so fast.  Then the rest of the afternoon they had nothing to eat. Maybe i need to in crease to 11/2 gallons and see if they leave any. 

Maybe twice a day is our option, and I would up your feed if they are acting that hungry.

Only thing with us is that we are gone from 7:30 am - 5pm Monday - Friday. Sometimes fiance is off early, but not always.

I'll probably add one more feeder and hope that holds them off until I get home. No one looks worse for the wear though

 

[aoxa]

It gets really cold here in the winter sometimes -20 or colder. Would it be possible to use a cookie tin warmer to keep the ff from freezing, like I do the water? I work 10 hr. shifts so smaller feeding through out the day are not possible. Really want to try this method. I do use a 100w light bulb by the roosts so my chickens don't freeze to death,but the water would freeze without the warmer because it's on the floor.

I don't see why not. Works for the water

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

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.

OMG so not kidding!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Maybe twice a day is our option, and I would up your feed if they are acting that hungry.
Only thing with us is that we are gone from 7:30 am - 5pm Monday - Friday. Sometimes fiance is off early, but not always.
I'll probably add one more feeder and hope that holds them off until I get home. No one looks worse for the wear though

I am thinking the same thing, not much to forage right now and with the hawks circling so much they haven't ventured far, I hate the thoughts of them going to bed hungry so I think thats what I'll do fed in the morning and then again in the afternoon. and give a little more ff. Thanks aoxa.

 

[aoxa]

Maybe twice a day is our option, and I would up your feed if they are acting that hungry.

Only thing with us is that we are gone from 7:30 am - 5pm Monday - Friday. Sometimes fiance is off early, but not always.

I'll probably add one more feeder and hope that holds them off until I get home. No one looks worse for the wear though

I am thinking the same thing, not much to forage right now and with the hawks circling so much they haven't ventured far, I hate the thoughts of them going to bed hungry so I think thats what I'll do fed in the morning and then again in the afternoon. and give a little more ff. Thanks aoxa. 

Darn hawks! Some lovely crows chased away a cooper hawk this morning

Clem also went crazy to this. She's learning e

 

[3 NH reds]

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.

I have a hound dog that can lay a room out flat.I tried acv in the water adding eggs to her food no luck. She turns around when she farts like someone is talking to her

. I checked my home brew acv and it is going, just not all the bubbles from homemade beer.

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

I have a hound dog that can lay a room out flat.I tried acv in the water adding eggs to her food no luck. She turns around when she farts like someone is talking to her . I checked my home brew acv and it is going, just not all the bubbles from homemade beer.

My mom had a German Shepard that would get embarrassed after she farted. She'd rip one, get that 'I just got caught chewing slippers' look, tuck her tail and hunch walk out of the room.

 

[aoxa]

I have a hound dog that can lay a room out flat.I tried acv in the water adding eggs to her food no luck. She turns around when she farts like someone is talking to her . I checked my home brew acv and it is going, just not all the bubbles from homemade beer.

I used to have a dog like this. She would up and leave the room - offended by the smell.

I think it's an old dog thing.. She lived to be 17. Oldest dog ever. I was really upset when she passed. I had her from birth - 15. She was beagle x lab. She would lay in the middle of our road with legs straight up in the air. Every time my dad thought she was dead. She just liked to lay like that. It was odd.

And every time there was a thunderstorm, she would run miles away... Crazy thing!

 

[3 NH reds]

The best fart story I can remember was a19 year old boy who loved to go by this pretty young lady we worked with and fart in front of her. He then tried to get a date and couldn't understand why she laughed and said you are kidding right. She further lays him out by saying she would go out with me if I were single and I am older to say the least. He never did figure what was wrong and said she must just like older men