Unopened Expired Yogurt 8/16/2017

[barred2rock]

Um... because I don't want to spend the $8. I don't want to deal with Kefir... though I have to be honest here and state that I've never tried it. I'm not lactose intolerant... or if so, only mildly so. I don't buy milk to feed to the chickens. When we have more milk than we consume, and I've not frozen the excess, the sour milk goes to the birds. I'm not spending a single penny out of pocket, while giving them a bit of extra nutrition. My birds get FF, so they get the benefit of probiotics there, and if not there, then from their DL.

Years of benefit for $8 doesn't seem like much. But whatever floats your boat.

P.S. You could use the old milk with the kefir grains to produce more Probiotics.

 

[barred2rock]

http://oureverydaylife.com/difference-between-fermented-milk-spoiled-milk-39235.html

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Here, if the food's not moldy, if it seems decent and not swollen with gases or changed in any way...and if's it's a decently acceptable food that isn't known to kill a chicken...I will feed it. I don't think I've had milk go bad...but cottage cheese, cheese, sour cream old vegetables, old raw eggs...all that lovely stuff that may not make the end...it's going to the chickens. Just not all at the same time.

 

[Smuvers Farm]

Years of benefit for $8 doesn't seem like much. But whatever floats your boat.

P.S. You could use the old milk with the kefir grains to produce more Probiotics.

Kefir isn't expensive, nor *difficult* per se, to make.... HOWEVER, it's something you do take on as another project...... and I bet people already have their hands full with projects they find interesting. Grains have to be fed, babysat, coddled in some ways... just like SCOBYS...... and with the convenience of tossing a couple spoons of expired yogurt, who wants to take on something else?

 

[barred2rock]

Kefir isn't expensive, nor *difficult* per se, to make.... HOWEVER, it's something you do take on as another project...... and I bet people already have their hands full with projects they find interesting. Grains have to be fed, babysat, coddled in some ways... just like SCOBYS...... and with the convenience of tossing a couple spoons of expired yogurt, who wants to take on something else?

I spend less time per 24 to 48 dealing with the kefir than I do making the chickens fermented feed. Pouring milk really isn't that difficult or time consuming.

P.S. I use the kefir for my and my family's benefit more than I do for the chickens, cats and dog; but we all get it.

 

[BantyChooks]

Here, if the food's not moldy, if it seems decent and not swollen with gases or changed in any way...and if's it's a decently acceptable food that isn't known to kill a chicken...I will feed it. I don't think I've had milk go bad...but cottage cheese, cheese, sour cream old vegetables, old raw eggs...all that lovely stuff that may not make the end...it's going to the chickens. Just not all at the same time.

I've accidentally offered foods to my birds before that are listed as toxic. They wouldn't touch them.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I've accidentally offered foods to my birds before that are listed as toxic. They wouldn't touch them.

I'm surprised they didn't press charges. I would've.

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm surprised they didn't press charges. I would've.

Too bad the extra cockerels didn't chow down on them, eh?

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Too bad the extra cockerels didn't chow down on them, eh?

Awwww....not the rooties.

 

[BantyChooks]

View attachment 1141209 Awwww....not the rooties.

Nasty 'rooties' that would be in the pot if I weren't an expert procrastinator.... Lol.