POLL Do you use fermented feed?

[chickisoup]

I would like to (and have in the past) but we only have about 3 months when the nights are above freezing and I have no place to store the fermenting feed in cold weather.

 

[DrTacosMD]

I use fermented feed for one main reason: that my chicken would have beneficial or neutral bacteria on a daily basis to outcompete pathogens and disease microbes of the gut. It's like how we humans eat yogurt to maintain a healthy population of gut bacteria.

As for the nutritional benefits, they probably exist. I read a science article about an experiment showing higher nutritional values in fermented feed. But, for me, the nutritional benefit is secondary to the safeguard against gut pathogens (ex. Cocci, salmonella, etc).

 

[LI chickie]

I would like to someday.
I'm new to chickens but I have been doing and over night soak for a month and can say that I noticed less of an odor even though we've had a lot of rain/damp weather. I would like to try fermented feed someday. My husband thinks I'm nuts for complicating things and asks why can't you just throw some feed like everyone else.

 

[tjo804]

I would like to someday.
I'm new to chickens but I have been doing and over night soak for a month and can say that I noticed less of an odor even though we've had a lot of rain/damp weather. I would like to try fermented feed someday. My husband thinks I'm nuts for complicating things and asks why can't you just throw some feed like everyone else.

Show him the web site and tell him "I AM"

 

[snow5164]

That's ok to do " I am" depending on how long you've been married!!!!!!!

After 26 years mine would say go ahead!!!!

 

[Torch404]

I eat food I ferment for my self daily, why wouldn't I also do the same for my chickens?