vinegar

[16Conservationist]

Using a metal tablespoon is just fine. Your answer to the reason no metal and vinegar is right on. It is the overall acidic reaction to the metals, but that takes much more exposure time than a few seconds.

 

[jtr]

thank you so much for telling me this no need to get worked up anymore about my girls

 

[5chicks4us]

Make sure that what you're using is really Apple Cider Vinegar and not just white vinegar with coloring added. The cheap brands tend to do this and it will say it right on the bottle. I use Bragg's personally because it has the "mother."

 

[jtr]

what does the "mother" do???????

 

[CaroleW]

The 'mother' is the part of the vinegar that actually is alive and if you add the correct new food for the 'mother' it may reproduce under the correct conditions to make more vinegar. You find the 'mother' in raw, unfiltered, unpasteurized vinegar-it is the brown cloud in the bottom of the bottle. Distilled or pasteurized vinegar has no 'mother'- it is not alive and so could not reproduce to make more vinegar.

The 'mother' has a lot of beneficial organisms (probiotics?) sort of like yogurt or kefir (which reproduces easily, in my experience) in that they restore the flora to the gut and help the digestive system function properly or recover from antibiotic treatment (in humans anyway).

I've seen some debate on these boards as to if this applies to chickens... I don't know but I've been giving my hens ACV treated water and kefir to supplement their feed since I got them a month ago. They are healthy so far and at least two have started laying.

Search for the other apple cider vinegar (ACV) threads that will explain much better and with more info than I have. Hope this helps in the meantime.

 

[Oneacre Homestead]

Hi , can you use white vinegar?

 

[Neil Grassbaugh]

Turbatrix aceti
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Vinegar eels
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Secernentea
Order: Rhabditida
Family: Panagrolaimidae
Genus: Turbatrix
Species: T. aceti
Binomial name
Turbatrix aceti

Synonyms
Anguillula aceti


Turbatrix aceti (Vinegar eels, Vinegar nematode) are free-living nematodes that feed on the microbial culture, called mother of vinegar - that is used to create vinegar - and may continue to persist in unfiltered vinegar.
Although they are harmless and non-parasitic, leaving eels in vinegar is considered objectionable and is not permitted in vinegar bottled for consumers in the United States. Manufacturers normally filter and pasteurize their product prior to bottling to prevent the eels from occurring. They are usually about 2mm long and feed on the bacteria from apples.

Vinegar eels are often given to fry (baby fish) as a live food, like microworms. Vinegar eels are only found in unpasteurized vinegar. Vinegar that has been pasteurized no longer has the live bacterial and yeast culture that these nematodes require for sustenance.

Bon apetite

 

[ben is a terror]

What about ducks and geese? If they can have it are the measurements the same 7to1

 

[galanie]

Quote:
While we might think it's "gross" to drink them, for the chickens, what is the harm? None.

 

[BoltonChicken]

Hi , can you use white vinegar?

Sure, but it won't do the same job as organic ACV. I use Braggs Organic. Bought it from the 'health foods' section of Kroger.
Keeps out the algae and bacteria and has several benefits for the chickens.​