Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[aoxa]

I've started two friends that don't post on BYC on FF. Love sharing this awesome money saving, health enriching diet!!

 

[SandraB88]

ok...I've read up on the fermentation thing. Nice blog! Now I just need to find out if any of my local produce places sell the right sort of ACV. With all the rules and regulations Australia insists on imposing on **** near every aspect of life, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out ACV is banned.

 

[SandraB88]

oopsies. It seems I swore! Sorry moderator. lol

 

[armorfirelady]

After everyone posting about their FF and not enough liquid, to warm by woodstove took mine (which was next to the wood stove) into the kitchen and added some water & stirred it up well. My hens seems to like it best when its drier not runny. When I got home from the firehall i decided to separate the 2 buckets to see how much liquid was in the bottom bucket. Nada, zilch, none. Just the layer pellets that broke down into mush & some sloppy mush that was sort of watery. so I scraped it all into the top bucket & mixed it well again. I didn't add anymore water. Will check to tomorrow to see if any drained out. All smells good tho.

I did check the layer pellets that are always out for free choice. Its in a pvc pipe feeder. The last time I looked at it was a couple of months ago and it was full. Today there is only a 1/4 left. Guess those hungry hens are eating everything in sight lol

 

[Lacy Blues]

ok...I've read up on the fermentation thing. Nice blog! Now I just need to find out if any of my local produce places sell the right sort of ACV. With all the rules and regulations Australia insists on imposing on **** near every aspect of life, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out ACV is banned.

Are apples banned?

If not, you could make your own. It will take a long time but at least you would have it. I think there is a recipe somewhere on this thread telling how to do it.

 

[PeepsCA]

[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]This ACV recipe is over on the Gnarly Bunch thread:[/FONT]

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[Chaneys Ranch]

Possibly. They hatched end of September.. I didn't add ACV every-time I changed waters because I had help with chores, and they were lazy, and we changed water daily because we weren't doing FF at the time. That is the biggest benefit of FF. Less water consumed = less time spent filling all those waterers. I have a lot of them too!
I have two very large heavy waterers, 3 gallon waterers, and usually a few tiny chick waterers going at a time. That made for a lot of daily water changes. Now I may do it twice a week.. I make sure water is clear from debris daily, but don't really bother changing it otherwise.
Also - if anyone has waterfowl, ACV in their pools is a huge help!! No more green algae!

I use regular pasteurized ACV for this. Too expensive to use the ACV with mother.

WOW thanks, very good to know, on all those 100 degree days, i was changing the kiddie pools every day they. if they went 2 days

the stench alone would gag me. the ducks are worse than my 6 geese, theres only 4 and ewwww.

 

[aoxa]

 WOW thanks, very good to know, on all those 100 degree days, i was changing the kiddie pools every day they. if they went 2 days  the stench alone would gag me. the ducks are worse than my 6 geese, theres only 4 and ewwww.

I know right!!! My ducks are nasty.. I kicked them out of the brooder at 4 weeks old and said: "Nope.. You guys are on your own."

No water in the coop. It was SO much better. Their brooder smelled like farts every night. I cleaned it WAY too much. Little smelly demons!

 

[3 NH reds]

At what age did you find they went to the wet feed Bee? I tried it on my last chicks until they were 3 day olds, and they refused it. Think they'd go for it now at a week old?
Remember these aren't CX, so they won't eat as easily

I have only 3 chicks, so any suggestions on a home made feeder? I have 16 more eggs due to hatch this weekend that I'll add in with them, but lets not count our chicks before they hatch. I want them on FF from day 1, but these three had weird going-ons. 2 had splayed leg (awful incubator - already purchased a liner to prevent slipping) and one kept flipping over for 2 days straight. Finally over that.. Anyway...

My Turkey refused it for about 4 weeks. I gave up despite the smell of the poop. One day as I was getting some ff for chickens the turkey went nuts looking over at me so I gave them some and they went nuts for it. Why the change, who knows there was no change in the ff.

 

[aoxa]

My Turkey refused it for about 4 weeks. I gave up despite the smell of the poop. One day as I was getting some ff for chickens the turkey went nuts looking over at me so I gave them some and they went nuts for it. Why the change, who knows there was no change in the ff.

They only have FF in their brooder now. Have not seen them eat it. They should have a bit of dry in their shavings, so they won't starve. Hopefully they eat it eventually :/