Growing fodder for chickens

[crazypoultrychx]

ok so I need some help.....I am full time fodder chick....need to change my screen name......I have a little set up in my green house and we are in south louisiana......I have a 10 tray system set up and soak my wheat for 24 hrs and then sprout for 9 days....had to extend because I wasnt getting the height I initially got when I had the heat on in the greenhouse....I also have had limited time to fool with it as we have added a dairy goat to the farm and she is preggo and needs TONS of attention....we also added heritage pullets I hatched 8 baby turkeys and well..........anyway............so the fodder is in my greenhouse and I have what I thought was gnats.....lil flying bugs and when I turned out the last batch of fodder there were itty bitty tiny freaking worms in the bottom of the tray....and since all of my trays have holes....now when I water....all I am doing is passing the worms from one tray to the next.....I bleach the trays each time I turn the fodder out but I dont want to give my animals worms.....and I am not even sure WHAT type of worms these are as they are not attracted to the typical gnat/fruit fly trap with vinegar and a jar.......so I have turned to just giving the fodder to the chickens who are not laying eggs yet my horse and goats are ******!!! any advise would be great.

I do use bleach and a white cloth to clean the trays with after turning it out.....but.....that doesnt seem like its working to stop the worms......please help.....!!!

 

[TERRY4]

ok so I need some help.....I am full time fodder chick....need to change my screen name......I have a little set up in my green house and we are in south louisiana......I have a 10 tray system set up and soak my wheat for 24 hrs and then sprout for 9 days....had to extend because I wasnt getting the height I initially got when I had the heat on in the greenhouse....I also have had limited time to fool with it as we have added a dairy goat to the farm and she is preggo and needs TONS of attention....we also added heritage pullets I hatched 8 baby turkeys and well..........anyway............so the fodder is in my greenhouse and I have what I thought was gnats.....lil flying bugs and when I turned out the last batch of fodder there were itty bitty tiny freaking worms in the bottom of the tray....and since all of my trays have holes....now when I water....all I am doing is passing the worms from one tray to the next.....I bleach the trays each time I turn the fodder out but I dont want to give my animals worms.....and I am not even sure WHAT type of worms these are as they are not attracted to the typical gnat/fruit fly trap with vinegar and a jar.......so I have turned to just giving the fodder to the chickens who are not laying eggs yet my horse and goats are ******!!! any advise would be great.

I do use bleach and a white cloth to clean the trays with after turning it out.....but.....that doesnt seem like its working to stop the worms......please help.....!!!

My chickens eat worms, small snakes, etc. So why would it be bad for them to eat those worms? Not sure I understand I guess.

 

[crazypoultrychx]

its not the chickens I am worried about....its feeding my dairy goat and horse worms.....and the fact that I am now growing worms......

 

[ArtGirl]

What I would try to do is run something through all of the trays that would kill the worms and then dump them out and start over. Maybe you can find the bug type on the world wide web.

 

[TERRY4]

its not the chickens I am worried about....its feeding my dairy goat and horse worms.....and the fact that I am now growing worms......

Oh I see.

 

[McVerdi]

I love the quartz ridge ranch setup. Awesome Job!

 

[tillyita]

ok so I need some help.....I am full time fodder chick....need to change my screen name......I have a little set up in my green house and we are in south louisiana......I have a 10 tray system set up and soak my wheat for 24 hrs and then sprout for 9 days....had to extend because I wasnt getting the height I initially got when I had the heat on in the greenhouse....I also have had limited time to fool with it as we have added a dairy goat to the farm and she is preggo and needs TONS of attention....we also added heritage pullets I hatched 8 baby turkeys and well..........anyway............so the fodder is in my greenhouse and I have what I thought was gnats.....lil flying bugs and when I turned out the last batch of fodder there were itty bitty tiny freaking worms in the bottom of the tray....and since all of my trays have holes....now when I water....all I am doing is passing the worms from one tray to the next.....I bleach the trays each time I turn the fodder out but I dont want to give my animals worms.....and I am not even sure WHAT type of worms these are as they are not attracted to the typical gnat/fruit fly trap with vinegar and a jar.......so I have turned to just giving the fodder to the chickens who are not laying eggs yet my horse and goats are ******!!! any advise would be great.

I do use bleach and a white cloth to clean the trays with after turning it out.....but.....that doesnt seem like its working to stop the worms......please help.....!!!

Are you sure that they are worms and not lavae from the gnats?

 

[crazypoultrychx]

that is possible but they still look like little worms and I am not sure if I should feed that to my preggo goat and other goat and horse......

 

[Keltgirl]

I am happily reading all the posts since page 1 while I have red wheat soaking for my new chicks. I think bird seed is a great idea and yes they germinate. The ground around my bird feeder was a garden of seed heads within a few months last year. This year I will definitely be collecting them for sprouting

 

[Keltgirl]

No, ancient seeds are continuing t be excavated and regenerated with remarkable success.

The oldest carbon-14-dated seed that has grown into a viable plant was Silene stenophylla (narrow-leafed campion), an Arctic flower native to Siberia. Radiocarbon dating has confirmed an age of 31,800 ±300 years for the seeds. In 2007, more than 600,000 frozen mature and immature seeds were found buried in 70 squirrel hibernation burrows 38 metres (125 ft) below the permafrost near the banks of theKolyma River. Believed to have been buried by Arctic ground squirrels, the mature seeds had been damaged to prevent germination in the burrow, however, three of the immature seeds contained viableembryos. Scientists extracted the embryos and successfully germinated plants in vitro which grew, flowered and created viable seeds of their own. The shape of the flowers differed from that of modern S. stenophylla with the petals being longer and more widely spaced than modern versions of the plant. Seeds produced by the regenerated plants germinated at a 100% success rate, compared with 90% for modern plants.