Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[Triple Willow]

Oh my goodness!!  Now, that's where I want to troll for good food...through a CAFO house and pick up the dying and crippled ones to take home and feed my family.     Trying to get this out of my mind.....    Then he cooked it in the scalding pot~3 minutes!!  "Don't hit that chicken, kids!!!  That's cruel!!!"      I'm appalled. 

Yep, as I said, a little crude! LOL He sure did cook the skin off that chicken scalding it, didn't he? I want to get the thought of the ammonia smell out of my mind.

 

[Beekissed]

Yep, as I said, a little crude! LOL He sure did cook the skin off that chicken scalding it, didn't he? I want to get the thought of the ammonia smell out of my mind.

Would help those sinuses of yours, TW!

How they doing today? I want to get the thought of feeding diseased and dying birds to the little kid laughing in the background out of my mind. If a bird is so bad the broiler house won't take it to the processing plant, it's got to be pretty bad.

 

[Triple Willow]

Would help those sinuses of yours, TW!    How they doing today?     I want to get the thought of feeding diseased and dying birds to the little kid laughing in the background out of my mind.  If a bird is so bad the broiler house won't take it to the processing plant, it's got to be pretty bad. 

My sinuses are better, thank you much, but I bet that ammonia would make me run for my life. LOL No teeth or cheeks aching today, thank goodness.

 

[Beekissed]

That's good news! Now...which remedy did the trick? Don't you wish you knew?

 

[Triple Willow]

  That's good news!  Now...which remedy did the trick?  Don't you wish you knew? 

I am beginning to think it was that nasty Mucinex - Cold and Sinus liquid -gag! I guess I will choke down some more of that and see. My sinuses/head haven't been as open since I took that one dose... but still better.

...or it could have been the onion soup with the ginger, red pepper flakes, cayenne and that Papa John's seasoning! LOL

 

[Demosthine]

I am beginning to think it was that nasty Mucinex - Cold and Sinus liquid -gag! I guess I will choke down some more of that and see. My sinuses/head haven't been as open since I took that one dose... but still better.

...or it could have been the onion soup with the ginger, red pepper flakes, cayenne and that Papa John's seasoning! LOL

That second option sounds much, much better and more likely! Lmao! I may have to add that to my "to-try" list when I'm sick. Got the amounts of ingredients or was it "a pinch of this and a dash of that?"

 

[Demosthine]

I saw you all were discussing the rabbits a few pages ago, but I missed out on it. I've been so busy trying to install our tankless water heater after our old unit started leaking really bad, then dealing with my wife's upcoming knee surgery, I just haven't had time...

We free range our rabbits and they absolutely love it. I haven't seen anything happier and healthier. It's been downright amazing to watch them interacting with the flock. The chickens help prune the rabbits, and they all share the fermented feed, too!

 

[Beekissed]

I saw you all were discussing the rabbits a few pages ago, but I missed out on it. I've been so busy trying to install our tankless water heater after our old unit started leaking really bad, then dealing with my wife's upcoming knee surgery, I just haven't had time...

We free range our rabbits and they absolutely love it. I haven't seen anything happier and healthier. It's been downright amazing to watch them interacting with the flock. The chickens help prune the rabbits, and they all share the fermented feed, too!

Do they come back to the housing each night like the chickens or do you have to try and catch them?

 

[Demosthine]

They just stay outside. I haven't looked for the new nesting areas for the recent additions, but our two initial rabbits found and built their above-ground burrow underneath our oleander trees, at a corner where the brick fence meets the end of a plaster bench near our beehive fireplace. When I go outside, all of the flock, plus the four smaller of the seven rabbits always come up to greet me. These smaller ones are easily picked up and enjoy being held. The first three were freebies from Craig's List and I know two of them were traumatized by unruly, bratty children. It's no surprise they are jumpy.

They really enjoy being out there munching on the huge plot of bermuda grass all the time. They tend to turn their noses up, literally, whenever I put the dried timothy hay out for them. The chickens and turkeys eat it before the rabbits even show interest anymore. I toss a bowl of pellets out a couple times a week, but otherwise, they just eat the grass and whatever food scraps go out to the animals.

 

[Triple Willow]

That second option sounds much, much better and more likely!  Lmao!  I may have to add that to my "to-try" list when I'm sick.  Got the amounts of ingredients or was it "a pinch of this and a dash of that?"

A recipe would be too much like right. LOL Cut up an onion, maybe a teaspoon of red pepper flakes, about an inch of ginger, and the Papa John's spice just for taste and boil in probably 3 cups of water. I drink the liquid and sprinkle a good helping of cayenne in it. It's really good whether it works or not. LOL Something that will open completely close sinuses/nose- about 3 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar mixed with about 1/8 teaspoon of cayenne pepper. Works every time but only for about an hour. I guess you just have to keep sipping it all day...? LOL I have been mixing it in some tomato juice- really good!