I am saving a fortune, chickens are happy and healthy!

[Thassa]

I get asked how many I have and I really don't know! Somewhere between 40 and 50 I think...may even be as many as 60! I have had 25 Cornish X come and mostly go so that really skews the numbers and next week it will be less.

 

[tunacats]

Oh you are a life saver, maybe that should be chicken saver... My husband unexpectedly passed away and I have just started to place all my chickens, 30 have found new homes and the remaining 40ish are my pride and joy. If this cuts my food bill in half, I may be able to keep them. Day 2 and they are doing great, not a bit of waste.
Thank you Lorrie

 

[dragonlair]

I just started Making the fermented feed. I can't wait to start feeding it

 

[Sjisty]

I don't think the fermented feed would work for us. We are gone almost every weekend and wouldn't be able to stir it daily.

 

[cluckcluckgirl]

So they're all still acting the same? Still the same weight, energy, etc.? Our feed bill isn't too bad, but I'm all for saving money (and gas money to pick up the food)!

 

[LindaB220]

I don't think the fermented feed would work for us. We are gone almost every weekend and wouldn't be able to stir it daily.

It's definitely worth the fermented feed. I can't tell you how happy my birds are. Love it. You only have to stir it daily the first 4 days while it's fermenting. After that I just swish around when I'm dipping it out. If you need to be gone on weekends, Put out a big serving before you leave and have the dry feeder full for the days you are gone. My 15 9 weekers drink about 1/2 gallon of water a day. Put out plenty for them in a couple of places. They will be ok. Here's a neat site for info:

http://tikktok.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/fermented-feed-faq/

 

[dragonlair]

Ok, been on the FF for a week now.

The Chickens LOVE it.

I am using less food and they are not wasting any by scratching it onto the ground.

Egg production started going up within 2 days of eating their first helping of FF.

I have it in a covered 5 gallon bucket. I keep about 1" of water over the feed. I have bubbles and burps form the feed. Sort of like lava. I take out what I need, replace it with the dry stuff, mix and leave it alone. The only mixing I do is when I add the new and later when I dish it out of the bucket into the feeding prep bucket for transport to the pens.

 

[dragonlair]

Actually, when I said I keep 1" of water over the feed, that's mostly a lie. I pour that much in to the bucket after I added new feed to the already fermenting feed. By the next feeding, the water has been absorbed and the feed is sort of like soupy Maypo.

 

[bucky52]

I have always wet my feed.but in the summer months it smells sour when I gather the food bowls at roost time.i toss it because I'm afraid it may make them sick.

 

[yyz0yyz0]

I don't think the fermented feed would work for us. We are gone almost every weekend and wouldn't be able to stir it daily.

I wonder if you got a small aquarium air pump and rigged it to bubble the FF if that would work?

Not sure if the induced oxygen would effect the fermentation process or not.