Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[Lacy Blues]

Ugh! I am so jealous!

Yes, you can grind grains and ferment for chicks.

 

[groverlvchx]

That's really good information. Thank you for posting. I will undoubtedly start using oregano in my feed now. I have also been using thyme on occasion, not constantly but maybe once a week or so, as a preventive. Cinnamon too? I know that insects don't like cinnamon, is this the reason for feeding it? So that it would repel mites and lice from the inside or as a repellant only for internal worms?

X2!! Thank you!!

 

[armorfirelady]

Thanks for the info Aoxa....great info. Def going to add oregano plants to the list for the veggie garden in the spring

 

[LilyD]

Cool I am getting 25 chicks come march and I want to try this with them. They will be my first shipped chicks in a while so I am hoping that better feed will help the babies so they don't end up with pasty butt from shipping. So far the layers have loved it although it's funny almost to the bird they all have started moulting and are almost done even though they started in December. It will be the fastest moult I have ever seen but it's funny that they decided to do it in the coldest month of the year. Silly girls.

 

[aoxa]

I wonder how much you need to add for it to be beneficial... Oregano is expensive unless you grow it yourself, but it's much too cold right now!

 

[3 NH reds]

Cool I am getting 25 chicks come march and I want to try this with them. They will be my first shipped chicks in a while so I am hoping that better feed will help the babies so they don't end up with pasty butt from shipping. So far the layers have loved it although it's funny almost to the bird they all have started moulting and are almost done even though they started in December. It will be the fastest moult I have ever seen but it's funny that they decided to do it in the coldest month of the year. Silly girls.

MY egg layers are in a big molt and like you said its the coldest time to be doing this. Just started a new batch, I had stopped due to being indoors but the molting makes me feel sorry for them

 

[Mumsy]

I wonder how much you need to add for it to be beneficial... Oregano is expensive unless you grow it yourself, but it's much too cold right now!

This is a good question that I also wonder. Cheaper in dollar stores.
I add it into the FF until I can see it and smell it.

 

[whidbey]

This is a good question that I also wonder. Cheaper in dollar stores.
I add it into the FF until I can see it and smell it.

Oregano is a fast growing periannel out here Mumsy, it is always spreading and I have move it and control it,

 

[Lacy Blues]

Oregano is a fast growing periannel out here Mumsy, it is always spreading and I have move it and control it,

Would you be interested in sending "starts" to those of us who would like to grow it? Is it dormant in the winter?

 

[Mumsy]

Oregano is a fast growing periannel out here Mumsy, it is always spreading and I have move it and control it,

Yes. I have it growing and thriving in my potager garden. I harvested it and dried it in the fall. Have used all of that already. The plant is dormant right now.