I have been feeding fermented feed since late last summer. Chicks, growing stock, breeding stock, layers. Chickens and ducks both. I have butchered out quite a few birds, from 4 months old (which have gotten only fermented feed their whole life) to a rooster over a year old that ate fermented feed these past 6 or 8 months.
Not a single liver looked abnormal, all were bright red and healthy looking, even the older rooster's.
My feed never smells even faintly of alcohol, it smells mildly of vinegar. I feed out 2/3s of the bucket each day, leaving a third of the feed to keep the fermentation going. Occasionally I may mix up too much and it may take two days to feed it down to that level.
I don't make mine sloppy wet because it is a mash and has a lot of fines. I mix it the consistancy of peanut butter cookie dough or slighter wetter than that and it's that consistancy when I feed it out. I used both home made unpasturized apple cider vinegar and whey from yogurt when I started.
As usual, your mileage may vary.
THANK YOU!
That's exactly how I mix mine too.. thick cause I have so darn many birds to feed and I go through several 5 gallon buckets of feed at a feeding.
and I figured that if the livers looked bad SOMEONE in this thread would have said so.. But thank you again for confirming that they look healthy!