Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[Triple Willow]

Self sustaining. People can eat it too.   
https://www.tn.gov/twra/pdfs/chufa.pdf

Yep, says it has several health benefits:

"It has been reported to be a “health” food, since its consumption can help prevent heart disease and thrombosis and is said to activate blood circulation and reduce the risk of colon cancer. [15] This tuber is rich in energy content (starch, fat, sugar, and protein), minerals (mainly phosphorus and potassium), and vitamins E and C thus making this tuber also suitable for diabetics. Tigernut tubers contain almost twice the quantity of starch as potato or sweet potato tubers. The oil of the tuber was found to contain 18% saturated (palmitic acid and stearic acid) and 82% unsaturated (oleic acid and linoleic acid) fatty acids. [16] The moderately high content of phytosterols further enriches the quality and value of tigernut oil as a food source.

According to the Consejo Regulador de Chufa de Valencia (Regulating Council for Valencia's Tigernuts), [17] the nutritional composition/100 ml of the Spanish beverage horchata de chufas is as follows: energy content around 66 kcal, proteins around 0.5 g, carbohydrates over 10 g with starch at least 1.9 g, fats at least 2 g."

 

[Triple Willow]

You know Bee knows how to train them to stay back til the feed is served.  Ask her.  I just keep mine locked up til I'm through.   : )

I'm afraid I might hurt their legs if I get too rough with them. I want them all to make it to slaughter.

 

[Beekissed]

You know Bee knows how to train them to stay back til the feed is served. Ask her. I just keep mine locked up til I'm through. : )

That was regular dual purpose roosters being used for meat...I doubt there is a force on Earth that could train a meaty chick to stay back from a feed trough.

They are like flies...you can keep brushing them off and knocking them down but they spring right back where they were.

 

[beverly evans]

Quote: Well, if they are all that wonderful we'll all just have to plant us some of them there tigernuts! If normal food ever gets scarce there are some people who will know where to get stuff like tigernuts to get by on. What was that wild vegetable or sprout that we were talking about months ago? It had a funny name. Rosemarie will remember, maybe Triple Willow. They grow wild and people go out to harvest them in the woods when in season.?????

 

[Triple Willow]

Well, if they are all that wonderful we'll all just have to plant us some of them there tigernuts!  If normal food ever gets scarce there are some people who will know where to get stuff like tigernuts to get by on.  What was that wild vegetable or sprout that we were talking about months ago?  It had a funny name.  Rosemarie will remember, maybe Triple Willow.  They grow wild and people go out to harvest them in the woods when in season.?????

Was it ramps or polk salad?

 

[LindaB220]

Yep, says it has several health benefits:

"It has been reported to be a “health” food, since its consumption can help prevent heart disease and thrombosis and is said to activate blood circulation and reduce the risk of colon cancer. [15] This tuber is rich in energy content (starch, fat, sugar, and protein), minerals (mainly phosphorus and potassium), and vitamins E and C thus making this tuber also suitable for diabetics. Tigernut tubers contain almost twice the quantity of starch as potato or sweet potato tubers. The oil of the tuber was found to contain 18% saturated (palmitic acid and stearic acid) and 82% unsaturated (oleic acid and linoleic acid) fatty acids. [16] The moderately high content of phytosterols further enriches the quality and value of tigernut oil as a food source.

According to the Consejo Regulador de Chufa de Valencia (Regulating Council for Valencia's Tigernuts), [17] the nutritional composition/100 ml of the Spanish beverage horchata de chufas is as follows: energy content around 66 kcal, proteins around 0.5 g, carbohydrates over 10 g with starch at least 1.9 g, fats at least 2 g."

Where do you buy them?

 

[Kassaundra]

Well...processed Fat Cochin today. Never saw a bird take so long to die...ever. It was a good cut and he bled out to the last drop...and was still alive, blinking, breathing, trying. Then, another first, when I removed his breast filets they were still jumping and moving in my hands, like frog legs. I've had or seen slight twitches in the meat before on a fresh kill but not to the degree of this. All I can say is that bird was a fighter....all the way, even until after death, his body was protesting the passing.

Really fooled me, this fancy pants sissy bird, that turned out to be pretty darn tough in the face of a larger, heavier rooster, kept his flock, had learned how to forage and watch for preds, etc. Even died like a champ and a fighter....Rest In Soup, Fat Cochin!

I had one that I processed whose heart was still quivering after death, bleed out, plucking and evisceration.

 

[cortner1195]

I had one that I processed whose heart was still quivering after death, bleed out, plucking and evisceration.

This is not unusual as the heart has it's own pace making node. It will continue to fire long after there is no longer input from the brain. If the primary SA node fails to fire there are other areas in the heart muscle that will attemp to take over. Cool s ience.

 

[Renee97038]

I have been lurking on your thread for months and haven't caught up. I hope someone,can give me a simple fermented recipe for my meat birds that are just 1 week old. I am feeding Scratch n Peck Starter and it's fairly finely ground. It says it's actually a mash mixture. How do I mix up a batch with such fine particles, then get it drained for them to eat? I will start by using about a gallon of grain in my ceramic crock. How much brags apple cider vinegar should I add and how much water to start the first batch?

 

[MargaretYakoda]

I have been lurking on your thread for months and haven't caught up. I hope someone,can give me a simple fermented recipe for my meat birds that are just 1 week old. I am feeding Scratch n Peck Starter and it's fairly finely ground. How do I mix up a batch with such fine particles, then get it drained for them to eat? I will start by using about a gallon of grain in my ceramic crock. How much brags apple cider vinegar should I add and how much water to start the first batch?

Just put in enough feed to make a thin gruel. As the feed ferments it swells some and becomes oatmeal like in consistency. If it isn't thick like oatmeal, just toss in a bit more feed. As for how much ACV, I'd say a glug, maybe a glug and a half. And the amount of water depends on how many chicks you are feeding.

We've got six chicks at the moment, and the broody, so I started their FF with a bit of the liquid from the big girl's FF bucket, about three cups of water, and a glug of ACV. I let that sit for the 24 hours that the little fuzzballs were hatching. By the time they were all hatched the FF was ready. They're six days old now, and they're all gobbling it up right along with their Mama!