Isn’t fermented feed alcoholic??

[redinator]

If I'm drinking a beer why in the heck can't my chickens enjoy some 80 proof chicken feed????

Might chill out some roosters, or make them worse, lol.

 

[Smokerbill]

Might chill out some roosters, or make them worse, lol.

Maybe tenderize the meat???

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Maybe tenderize the meat???

Coq au vin! The earlier you start the better

 

[redinator]

Might chill out some roosters, or make them worse, lol.

This could also explain some of the misbehaving cockerels. Think about:

chasing the girls like crazy
fighting off the competition (other cockerels and keepers)
Other cockerels are so docile they're like puppies (stupid drunk) hmmm

 

[Altairsky]

Alcoholic Fermentation needs yeast and sugar.
To make a decent amount of alcohol it needs special strains of yeasts, and lots of sugar.
The most alcoholic beverage I make is a raspberry beer from wild raspberry yeasts, and I can't get lightheaded not even if I drink a liter of it.
I got some alcoholic kombucha by second fermenting it for a whole week, with sweetened grape juice, and still I could drink a liter without feeling anything other than the pungent winy flavor in my tongue.
So no, chicken feed won't make random booze.

 

[CabritaChicks]

Back in university, some students in the lab ran an experiment to see how long it would take fortified hummingbird nectar to ferment outdoors, and whether it would produce alcohol—and potentially get the hummingbirds drunk.

They discovered that the natural presence of wild yeast in the environment can indeed ferment sugar into ethanol, even in something as simple as nectar or the liquid in a hummingbird feeder. However, hummingbirds metabolize things so quickly that they don’t actually get intoxicated.

I also remember they tested different formulations and concentrations as part of the study. Honestly, I imagine fermented hummingbird feeder water probably tastes a whole lot better than fermented chicken feed—but I seriously doubt any of them were brave enough to taste it!

I remember this, as I was working on viable protein synthesis in zebra finches... and they were basically getting hummingbirds drunk (color me jealous!)

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

So no, chicken feed won't make random booze.

There was a thread on here a while ago where we were talking about what constitutes mash when it comes to chicken feed. And also about what people fed chickens before commercial chicken feed. And it got be wondering if moonshiner’s ever fed leftover mash from corn liquor to their chickens. Or pigs for that matter. I don’t have a still or I might just try it…for science haha.

 

[saysfaa]

There was a thread on here a while ago where we were talking about what constitutes mash when it comes to chicken feed. And also about what people fed chickens before commercial chicken feed. And it got be wondering if moonshiner’s ever fed leftover mash from corn liquor to their chickens. Or pigs for that matter. I don’t have a still or I might just try it…for science haha.

Yes. Some still do, for that matter. And to cattle too.

 

[SimpleJenn]

Around where I live, they ferment loads of "silage" according to my mom. It smells so bad, but the dairy cows love the stuff.
Also I may have accidentally given my chickens watermelon that was starting to ferment, there were no obvious signs of drunkenness other than the leghorns not wanting to fly everywhere and walking instead (which is rare for those ladies!)