red, I was going to ask you if you were doing fodder too when I read your post. I don't recall it being stinky. Like Lisa said, rinse it a couple of times a day in the first few days. I also sprayed it. I haven't done any yet this winter..have you Lisa?
Yes I have
Since about Thanksgiving maybe? maybe the week after...I have been giving them one flat per day, but there are so many chickens it is just a little snack lol. I have tons of wheat left so it is a cheap way to supplement their diet at least. I love seeing something green growing! Every year I get herb seeds in the fall on clearance, plant them in the window just before Christmas. I am a little late this year, I got them planted a week or so ago, but they are starting to come up. Then I put them all in the garden in May. I have Rosemary, Sweet basil, Curled and Flat Parsley, marjoram, greek oregano, lemon Thyme, a few others. I need to set the folding tables upstairs in the spare room and get some other starts going in a couple weeks, I especially want to get my marigolds and tomatoes going early so they are nice and big this year. I have a portable greenhouse (really simple just put together with metal tubes and fold up plastic goes over it, kind of cheesy but it works if I keep it out of the wind) that I like to get squash and pumpkins going in towards April out on my patio. Man I am getting the bug too just listening to you guys haha 
Red, there is a place here, called "blacksmith fork conservation district' http://www.uacd.org/zones/Zone1/BlackSmithFork/index.html you can buy trees and bushes in lots of ten for REALLY cheap. The order usually goes in the first part of march, you can go to their site and peruse what they have, if you wanted anything I would be glad to pick it up for you. You can only do it once a year. We have landscaped our yard from this source, it is so much cheaper than buying from the greenhouse. We planted those poplar trees I have posted pictures of that big bird of prey sitting in, from this place, they were just 18 inch branches and have grown to be huge trees. We have gotten all our lilacs and honeysuckle there...those are the ones lining my back yard along the fence, if you remember seeing them, they grew pretty fast too.
