how long would powdered kelp last in storage?

[jmc]

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either, as far as i know. some mix it with DE and a bit of salt and free choice it to their birds, with real success.

eta: you can also just sprinkle some on the food each day.

 

[FireTigeris]

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either, as far as i know. some mix it with DE and a bit of salt and free choice it to their birds, with real success.

eta: you can also just sprinkle some on the food each day.

I thought

A)kelp would have some salt in it already (or a mechanism for keeping salt out)

B) High salt is bad for chickens...

 

[jmc]

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either, as far as i know. some mix it with DE and a bit of salt and free choice it to their birds, with real success.

eta: you can also just sprinkle some on the food each day.

I thought

A)kelp would have some salt in it already (or a mechanism for keeping salt out)

B) High salt is bad for chickens...

You are exactly right. But what I said is not my own experience, but is done and has been done with success by others...........IDK their exact recipe...........
well side, fire..............

 

[NoisyCricket]

Thank you both.
I think I will try free feeding and see how that goes. If they seem like they are over consuming, I will put it on the food.

 

[Beekissed]

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Not at all! If I were getting back into small animal husbandry, I'd purchase some more right away. I was planning to move out of country this summer and had to rehome everyone in order to go....incidentally didn't get to go, so here I am with my green acre and no colors on the grass.

I'd recommend the kelp meal for supplementation for all animals....even my dogs liked to take a lick now and again. I don't know why we don't give dogs supplements like our livestock, but they seemed to like to sample the mineral blocks and kelp meal anytime they were available.

I liked to mix the kelp meal into feed in the winter every once in a while, just for something green when they turned up their noses at alfalfa pellets. Too expensive to do it all the time but still offered it free choice.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

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You can feed it free choice as I have read that others do, but do so cautiously and monitor their intake. I used to feed salt free choice but decided against it since I felt it was too dangerous. Since kelp has salt in it, I'd just be careful.

My feed mix gets some fines down at the bottom of the feeder but I mix it in with the fresh feed and eventually it all gets consumed.