Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[Angelicisi]

Protein ammendment...lol

Ha, ha! TW you amuse me so.

My ff is doing better upstairs now, however when I went to stir it, there was a dead fly in it. Must have gotten into the feed & didn't see it when I scooped it out. Will my ff still be ok?

 

[armorfirelady]

Ha, ha! TW you amuse me so.

My ff is doing better upstairs now, however when I went to stir it, there was a dead fly in it.

Must have gotten into the feed & didn't see it when I scooped it out. Will my ff still be ok?

Heck they will love the fly treat. Bugs are my girls favorite treat Just stir it in serve

 

[Shellz]

Awesome! Thanks!

 

[Beekissed]

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Yep...if I had a batch fermenting for 6 mo. I'd be a little worried too...by then all the available sugars would have been consumed and the LABs would have died out and left the mix open for bacterial and mold growth. But...the batch isn't fermenting for 6 months. The "batch" is being used up and a new batch started in a matter of days, with only a minimal amount of the grains being recycled but eventually fed out by sheer probability.


Sure...anything can happen. But, if you try to imagine all the possibilities of all the things that can happen in this kind of method or with the health of chickens, pretty soon you're jumping at shadows. Which I consider a 1 in a million chance of gross contamination of the FF by harmful pathogens in this case a huge jumping at shadows.

I understand OCD...was raised by a man with it pretty badly and his fears were many and irrational(you can't let your kids go swimming the in the public pool..they'll get AIDS. Yeah, that type of fear), so I get a little jumpy myself when I hear one. Please forgive me for having an ingrained aversion to irrational fears.

Now, unless several people on these threads were reporting similar findings after feeding FF for 6 mo. and then their birds not wanting to eat it and then finding that, if they were forced to resort to eating it anyway and the birds then sickened or even died, then I would say that "just to be safe" assessment of the situation would have great merit. But they haven't.

 

[Triple Willow]

Ha, ha! TW you amuse me so.

My ff is doing better upstairs now, however when I went to stir it, there was a dead fly in it. Must have gotten into the feed & didn't see it when I scooped it out. Will my ff still be ok?

I think I'm glad I amuse you. LOL Like they said, that fly is just added protein. When gnats were after my feed so bad back in the summer I tried my best to murder the little vermin by stirring them down in the feed! They are such pests! A few months ago I was scooping some feed out of a bag and I scooped out something that looked like a stiff leaf. I looked closer and it was a mouse! It had I guess been processed along with the feed. Ugh! What was left of it was about as flat as a leaf and dried out. Ugh again! LOL I guess there was added protein in that bag of feed huh? LOL My first thought was to throw the feed away or take it back!!! Then I thought, "this is just chicken feed from a feed mill, they would eat the dang mouse anyway." I did toss the petrified mouse but kept the feed. hahaha ...that's still gross!

I'm glad your feed is doing better.

 

[Beekissed]

Found 10 FREE meat roosters in the locals....various breeds of Leghorns, Sex Link, Brahma, BO, NH...of 7 mo. and older. Might be building me a temp pen tomorrow and fetching me some cheap meats again. Who knows? Maybe I'll find another BUD....

 

[Triple Willow]

Found 10 FREE meat roosters in the locals....various breeds of Leghorns, Sex Link, Brahma, BO, NH...of 7 mo. and older.  Might be building me a temp pen tomorrow and fetching me some cheap meats again.  Who knows?  Maybe I'll find another BUD.... 

You might actually find BUD again! hahaha

 

[Beekissed]

Reincarnated into a BO....oh, the horrors!

 

[Triple Willow]

Reincarnated into a BO....oh, the horrors! 

He could come back as a vicious little leghorn! LOL I'll have you know I am still hurt over the red eye thing. hehe

 

[Triple Willow]

Found 10 FREE meat roosters in the locals....various breeds of Leghorns, Sex Link, Brahma, BO, NH...of 7 mo. and older.  Might be building me a temp pen tomorrow and fetching me some cheap meats again.  Who knows?  Maybe I'll find another BUD.... 

You have got me wanting to do that but I am paranoid I will bring in some kind of swamp flu or something and kill all my birds.