Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[Triple Willow]

Does anybody know what will take off some serious hard water and soap scum? In my dreams I spray something on then come back in a while and rinse it off and it is GONE! Hey, a girl can dream! lol I wonder what some ff would do to it...??? I think I will put a little blob on it just to see. lol Have y'all ever had ff pretty much eat something up? One time I covered mine with an old dish towel. The dish towel ended up looking like mice had totally chewed it up! I'm going to try that again and see if it was just my imagination.

 

[Robert M]

Muriatic acid (hydrochloric acid) will do it if it's a sink or whatever. It will also remove the chrome, galvanize and other platings off plumbing fixtures.

It's what they use in re-chroming and electroplating processes to remove the old finishes. It will not hurt enamel and porcelain.

It needs to be mixed with water. If you mix it wrong, it will splatter in your face. GO HERE

 

[tcmstalcup]

Simple sign that I am overfeeding. Threw the raptors a bunch of kinda yucky peppers and a few squash I gleaned from a neighbors spent garden. They aren't excited about it. Whoops. Need to cut back on the FF!

 

[Arielle]

Muriatic acid (hydrochloric acid) will do it if it's a sink or whatever. It will also remove the chrome, galvanize and other platings off plumbing fixtures.

It's what they use in re-chroming and electroplating processes to remove the old finishes. It will not hurt enamel and porcelain.

It needs to be mixed with water. If you mix it wrong, it will splatter in your face. GO HERE

lyme away is the product on the shelves at stores. USE WITH GREAT CARE.

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I"ve been trying to catch up on this thread, and I"m just falling further and furthe behind, so I hope no one minds if I just jump in.

 

[beverly evans]

I hear ya, I don't go for any of those things and WISH I hadn't of taken my daughter when she was a baby to get any of them either.


Bee a couple of my RIR hens feathers have gotten dull looking and I'm wondering what's going on. I had been feeding them the ff and like I said on here a few weeks ago I didn't want to have to go to the large town we usually go to so I just bought some layer feed here locally. They didn't have the brand I use but had the Layena brand of layer so I bought that.
anyway when I fermented that feed it went to mush and was no consistency to it whatsoever! it was like soup and I didn't add anymore water to it than before..... It was horrible and even stuck to my scoop like it had molasses in it or something. So I decided once I fed that out I wouldn't ferment anymore of that and went to town and bought me some of my brand I'd been using that ferments well. Anyway so I figured I would just feed the other feed to them dry in the morning a little at a time until I used it up and feed the ff in the evening time. Now 2 of the rir hens feathers look really dull and I don't know IF it's because they're laying now or if its from this feed or if they need worming or what? Already asked on our states facebook page and some thought they may need worming and got other responses as well. So figured I would pass this by you and see what you thought. I checked for critters in her feathers and on her legs etc. Only found ONE raised scale and it was close to her leg band so am thinking that was why it was raised BUT I went ahead and put some castor oil on her feet and legs anyway. I think I am going to get me a mask on and dust her with some sulfur tomorrow as well. Didn't you say you can worm them with the castor oil? We're eating their eggs so I don't want chemicals. Someone suggested I use DE in their food as a wormer to. A little scared of that stuff but what do you think of using the food grade DE as a wormer?

Also they are getting oyster shells 24-7 and I am baking and feeding their crushed egg shells back to them.
Got another soft shelled egg today so another one must have started laying. Had gotten one a week or so back to but found that one. This one today was beside the roosting area and they had eaten it. Guess she didn't make it to the nests or one of them got it out since it was soft. I've been going out there 4-5x a day checking for eggs. I'm getting 3-4 eggs a day now.

RoseMarie, Do you have boys? My beautiful girls plumage on their backs is always slightly sticky feeling and dirty because the roosters are mounting them non stop and they don't get a chance to clean up I found a home for one, now for the other.
What's a soft shell egg? I've never seen one of those. I did have what seemed the insides of an egg in the nesting box the day before a small egg appeared for the first time.

 

[Beekissed]

That's a soft shell egg. Sometimes called a leather egg, fart egg, etc. They are difficult to lay due to being soft and the surface is often not very smooth, so one often sees them lying on the coop floor under the roosts...I always imagine it is because the bird just feels like she is having a bowel movement and just strains it out while sitting on the roost in the morning, instead of seeking out a nest for her egg.

 

[beverly evans]

Does anybody know what will take off some serious hard water and soap scum? In my dreams I spray something on then come back in a while and rinse it off and it is GONE! Hey, a girl can dream! lol I wonder what some ff would do to it...??? I think I will put a little blob on it just to see. lol Have y'all ever had ff pretty much eat something up? One time I covered mine with an old dish towel. The dish towel ended up looking like mice had totally chewed it up! I'm going to try that again and see if it was just my imagination.

Old fashion way, with vinegar. Modren way, with CLR or Lime Away.

 

[Triple Willow]

lyme away is the product on the shelves at stores.  USE WITH GREAT CARE. 

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I"ve been trying to catch up on this thread, and I"m just falling further and furthe behind, so I hope no one minds if I just jump in.

Jump right in!

**Thank you all for your suggestions on the hard water stains.**

 

[Triple Willow]

Simple sign that I am overfeeding. Threw the raptors a bunch of kinda yucky peppers and a few squash I gleaned from a neighbors spent garden. They aren't excited about it. Whoops. Need to cut back on the FF!

Maybe those peppers and squash just didn't look good compared to their ff. lol

I am going to start using two buckets today. I go through one too fast anymore. Every time I turn around I am out of ff! Well I guess I'll have to wait until the bucket I made this morning gets done cooking so I can use some of it to start another.

 

[Beekissed]

I wish I had moved to a bigger container back when I had the meaties because I was replenishing feed every night or every other night. But, then, that was my first experience with the process and I hadn't really had a handle on it yet. If I had to do it all over again, I'd have just moved to a big, 30+ gal. tote and mixed big batches like Kassaundra does...easy peasy, lemon squeezy.

My flock is small enough that my 5 gal. bucket suits it perfectly, but if ever I had that much stock again, I'd definitely move up on the total FF being fermented at one time.