Giving my flock barley mixed

[LindaB220]

Simple recipe -
Take a plastic container with a tight fitting lid and add the amount of oats that you will be using for one days feeding in it.
Add enough water to cover the oats about 2 inches and cover.
The next day a good bit of that water should be soaked up and you will have to add more water to cover the oats again.
Keep doing this until the oats don't soak up anymore water.
When the oats stop soaking up water it is done and is ready for feeding.
*Note - You can substitute some or all the water with apple juice. (the good stuff thats unfiltered and looks like they ground the tree up with the apples)

This is a little more complex and meant to feed a lot of birds. Also I found it on the net sometime back.

SOAKED OATS RECIPE
By Alan Butler
Use whole not rolled or crimped oats. The oats mixture does not affect the taste of the eggs nor the taste of the meat of the fowl.
Here is how I do my mix.....the oats do not smell bad and the fowl LOVE them.
1) Get a thirty two gallon PLASTIC heavy duty garbage container with a lid.
2) Into this container add the following ingredients:
1 cup of RED CELL vitamins
1 12oz (340 grams) container of the cheap brand of ground cinnamon
1 packet of vitamin / electrolyte powder
4 quarts of vegetable juice concentrate
3) Fill the container half full of water and stir all the ingredients thoroughly.
4) Add 100 lbs (45.5 Kg.) of whole recleaned Race Horse oats
5) Fill the container with water and cover.
6) after 24 hours add more water and do so everyday until the oats no longer soak it up.
I usually wait 5 to 7 days before I feed them depending on the outside temperature.
I feed a mix that has 25% oats in it. With this mix they do not smell or "go bad".
It seems to me from my experience with my fowl that the longer they soak the better the fowl love them.

This is dynamite.

I have a 50# bag of racetrack oats. I will be mixing up a mess of this . I don't have everything but enough to make it. Funny, I'm such a big proponent of fermented feeds and now I'll have a ton. Let's see, I'll fill a 5 gallon container 1/4 way full and add reg grains and water. In a day or so I'll have a whole container of fermented feed. I'll probably be able to make 10 buckets. Thank you so much Chris.

 

[Chris09]

• LindaB220,
• Your Welcome.Tip for you if you a big batch of oats by it's self it will last a good wile if you don't use it all. I've never herd of soaked/ sour oats going bad as long as it is always covered with water (other grains and will).

 

[LindaB220]

• LindaB220,
• Your Welcome.Tip for you if you a big batch of oats by it's self it will last a good wile if you don't use it all. I've never herd of soaked/ sour oats going bad as long as it is always covered with water (other grains and will).

Good to know. Thanks.

 

[ezicash]

so are you saying I can not give my chickens any spend barley?

 

[LindaB220]

so are you saying I can not give my chickens any spend barley?

I couldn't remember why so I did a little research and discovered it is 30% protein. You can add it to lower protein grain to make up a balanced diet. I found a forum that asked the same question:

http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/livestock-forums/goats/142240-how-much-spent-grain-feed.html

 

[centrarchid]

I couldn't remember why so I did a little research and discovered  it is 30% protein.    You can add it to lower protein grain to make up a balanced diet.  I found a forum that asked the same question:

http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/livestock-forums/goats/142240-how-much-spent-grain-feed.html

Careful. Protein is not just about protein, it is also about amino acid profile; Especially the exogenously essential amino acids.