Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[armorfirelady]

Apparently BUD was very clever and was trying to last as long as he could lol

 

[JesNflock]

Mash should have the same nutrition as the pellets or crumbles..the only difference between all these feeds is how fine the grains are ground. The crumbles and pellets are steamed after a fine ground to get them into the shape/texture they are used, whereas mash is just ground rough and left in it's original ground texture...some things fine ground, some just cracked. It definitely makes a difference in the experience of FF, as the mash stirs up like a mortar or rough smashed potatoes whereas the other two types of feed will dissolve down into a peanut buttery or corn meal mush consistency. The mash is less sticky and easier to dish out, doesn't hold quite as much moisture and doesn't raise as high as the other feeds when fermenting and is easier to gauge how much water it will absorb so as to get the thickness of the mix right.

Good to know and being able to gauge it better is great for me (as I obviously was having issues with that in the past...I think I'm getting the hang of it now. It's nowhere near the souplike consistency it was when I first began this lol)

 

[JesNflock]

BUD, the unchicken, truly became an unchicken this morning, folks. You'd have been proud of him...he really had me going!

I had trussed his legs along with all the others the night before and laid him in a deep bed of leaves on the coop floor. This morning, no BUD. I looked everywhere and couldn't find BUD. Finally, about 10 yds away from the coop, I spotted him...he blends so perfectly with the leaves on the ground that he was well camouflaged. I thought he had truly just disappeared into the spirit realm, from whence he had come.

He also was very stubborn about leaving this world. He had to hop out of the pop door, move clear around the coop from out of a tunnel of hay bales and hop around the corner of the coop and then hit the straight away down a grade. BUD, you will be remembered.....

I was very impressed with how much meat he had put on and how tender that meat was. I think he would have finished out as a very large rooster if left to develop as I think he was probably about 3-4 mo. old and that large already. His testicles were not even bean size, so might have been even younger than I thought. I'll post later on his processed wt compared to the older hens processed today.

Oh my! I was really laughing when I read about dear BUD!

 

[Beekissed]

BUD turned out at a respectable 2.5 lbs dressed wt, with the older hens going 3 lbs, 3 lbs and 2.5 lbs. Eleven pounds of bird, total this morning from 4 processed, not including the giblets. They will be deboned forthwith and their bones and gibs added to a large stock pan for the making of...stock, of course...what else would one make in a stock pan?

Their meat will add to all those previously processed and will be canned into jars tomorrow, along with the stock and some jars will just hold stock. I'm figuring out to 16 jars of meat and stock and who knows how much of just stock. Then I will be canning up some deer meat as well.

Soup meat!! YAY!

Saw an ad in the locals the other day for 6 young roosters...for FREE.....hmmmmmm.......

 

[Arielle]

RIP BUD, you deserve it!! lol

 

[beverly evans]

We have this problem in our wood shed .. the man said building paper would help.

I think it is that tar paper stuff, it is waterproof.

 

[beverly evans]

BUD turned out at a respectable 2.5 lbs dressed wt, with the older hens going 3 lbs, 3 lbs and 2.5 lbs. Eleven pounds of bird, total this morning from 4 processed, not including the giblets. They will be deboned forthwith and their bones and gibs added to a large stock pan for the making of...stock, of course...what else would one make in a stock pan?

Their meat will add to all those previously processed and will be canned into jars tomorrow, along with the stock and some jars will just hold stock. I'm figuring out to 16 jars of meat and stock and who knows how much of just stock. Then I will be canning up some deer meat as well.

Soup meat!! YAY!

Saw an ad in the locals the other day for 6 young roosters...for FREE.....hmmmmmm.......

Go get 'em!!

 

[BCMaraniac]

BUD turned out at a respectable 2.5 lbs dressed wt, with the older hens going 3 lbs, 3 lbs and 2.5 lbs. Eleven pounds of bird, total this morning from 4 processed, not including the giblets. They will be deboned forthwith and their bones and gibs added to a large stock pan for the making of...stock, of course...what else would one make in a stock pan?

Their meat will add to all those previously processed and will be canned into jars tomorrow, along with the stock and some jars will just hold stock. I'm figuring out to 16 jars of meat and stock and who knows how much of just stock. Then I will be canning up some deer meat as well.

Soup meat!! YAY!

Saw an ad in the locals the other day for 6 young roosters...for FREE.....hmmmmmm.......

Bee,

Do you cold pack your chicken and then process in the pressure cooker?

 

[BCMaraniac]

RIP BUD, you deserve it!! lol

Don't you mean RIB???(REST IN BROTH)......

 

[JesNflock]

Don't you mean RIB???(REST IN BROTH)......

luv this!