Probiotics come in tablet form, available where you find vitamins. Get some. Get some Greek yogurt. It's thick and rich and won't go watery. It's worth a special trip to the store to get both. Here's another tip. Pick up a bottle of plain keifer from the dairy case. You can feed that to the chickens by pouring it over a little of their chicken crumbles. But the great part of keifer is that it's super easy to make your own so you always have this great source of probiotics on hand.
I use a quart container and fill it with a couple inches of the store keifer, then fill the rest of the way to the top with ordinary milk. Let it sit in a warm place for a couple of days until it turns thick, then shake well and refrigerate. Making keifer is so much simpler than making yogurt, it's a no brainer. Yogurt requires scalding the milk and incubating in a warm water bath for eight hours. Keifer just requires mixing milk and a little keifer and letting sit in a warm place. It's a perfect source of probiotics and chickens love it. You can also use it to make the best pancakes you've ever tasted.
I use a quart container and fill it with a couple inches of the store keifer, then fill the rest of the way to the top with ordinary milk. Let it sit in a warm place for a couple of days until it turns thick, then shake well and refrigerate. Making keifer is so much simpler than making yogurt, it's a no brainer. Yogurt requires scalding the milk and incubating in a warm water bath for eight hours. Keifer just requires mixing milk and a little keifer and letting sit in a warm place. It's a perfect source of probiotics and chickens love it. You can also use it to make the best pancakes you've ever tasted.
