Hand Mill

[KNAndrs]

I found a hand crank cast mill at my Grandpa's old place. I was thinking of buying whole grains, oats or barley or something, and hand milling that for the chickens. Any thoughts on supplemental grains?

I have a bunch of kids at church who love to turn that crank...

Pastor Ken

 

[so lucky]

Sunds like a good idea to me. I'm thinking of buying a mill to mill flour for bread making. (for me!

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[SteveBaz]

Would not getting a food processor work better and easier?

Just a thought

Steve

 

[KNAndrs]

I don't have a food processor...

The mill goes through a quart of corn in about 3 minutes.

Lots of fun too!!!

 

[the-bird-man]

i have one and i have used it to mill some things for the girls. the wounder mill jr is what i have and it is amazing and it mills a ton of different things and is so easy

i like it because it is easy to adjust the size of what is milled from fine powder to cracked grain and it adjusts by the turn of a nob and comes with both steel burs and stones

sorry i get a little excited about this kind of stuff

 

[teach1rusl]

We just bought a grinder at an auction, one of those big cast iron red ones

I love it!! We planted feed corn just for fun (and for the girls). Of course now we have a ton of corn, but we only give them a handful about 2x a day for snack. Which means we'll have way too much corn

We should have planted something nutritious.

 

[galanie]

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I think that is the best one on the market right now. I wish I'd gotten it instead of the Family Grain Mill I did get. The one I have does what I've needed it to do so far, but I just think the one you got is better. For instance, I'd love to make nut butters in one but mine won't while the Wonder Mill Jr will.

A food processor won't grind much in the way of quantity unless you get an attachment for it. Even then it doesn't do the job a good mill will. Warning: Stay away from the cheap ones. You'll wear yourself out. Even when hand cranking the better ones, they are much easier to turn plus clamp down much better.

 

[the-bird-man]

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I think that is the best one on the market right now. I wish I'd gotten it instead of the Family Grain Mill I did get. The one I have does what I've needed it to do so far, but I just think the one you got is better. For instance, I'd love to make nut butters in one but mine won't while the Wonder Mill Jr will.

A food processor won't grind much in the way of quantity unless you get an attachment for it. Even then it doesn't do the job a good mill will. Warning: Stay away from the cheap ones. You'll wear yourself out. Even when hand cranking the better ones, they are much easier to turn plus clamp down much better.

i agree. we looked at the cheep ones but they did not do as much and are hard to adjust. i tried different ones at food storage places around here and the wounder mill is by far the easiest to use and has very little parts and is very well made. but yeah if anyone is looking for a mill i highly recommend you look at the wounder mill jr

 

[yinepu]

I miss my old hand mill!

as it is I am using a coffee grinder to grind up food for my baby quail.. and when I bought game bird feed last week for the older birds all they had were large pellets.. so yeah.. having to grind up 50 pounds of feed in a lil coffee grinder is a royal pain!

ah the things we do for our birds!

 

[KNAndrs]

Since we are so cold up here I was thinking of doing a high protein/fat grain.

Any thoughts?