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Hey if it works and you have healthy birds that's what counts . Can you use it in cold weather ? I built a pvc pipe free feeder and waters for my birds and water was my enemy.
Fermented food for chickens
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I have 55 gallon bins for water and for food. Lids on both the yellow food bin holds 350 pounds of pellets, No waste there. The water of course is 55 a gallon blue barrel and I keep a pond heater in it in the winter so it doesn't freeze. I have to fill the food about every 7 days and the water about one extra time in the week. It all works great and saves on allot of work.
You can feed it in winter. Supposedly they eat it before it freezes. And people do this on a small or very large scale. They supposedly drink much less water also, kind of like the same thing with dogs and raw food. They get a lot of voice you're in the food.
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All cool stuff . You learn something new everyday .
That's a lot of chickens, those barrels look like they work pretty well.
My chickens eat 50 pounds of pellets a day. I can't imagine making anything in a volume for them everyday to substituted all that food. I would become a slave to the making and delivering it. But I am going to look into it farther.
They would probably eat a lot less of it. And after the initial three day period to get it fermented it's not a big deal. But yes you would have to scoop it out every day.
I really don't think that 50 pounds of pellets is allot for 250 chickens. They also get all my extra foods from my house and probably 2 two foot long boxes of day old bread every day. I am not interested in getting them to eat less. I may try this if it is more nutritional for them or keeps hem warm. I hope it wouldn't be intoxicating for I don't want them to forget what their job is... LOL
