19/04/2025
🐥🐓🍚🌾MAKING YOUR FEED FERMENTATION PREPARATION TO LOWER COST OF FEED🌾🍚🐓🐥
Basically fermentation is the process of covering foods in liquid and allowing them to sit,
which creates probiotics that assist in digestion and gut health.
If you’re raising chickens for eggs, numerous studies have shown that fermenting chicken feed to give to your chickens can increase egg weight and eggshell thickness, and boost the chickens’ intestinal health and immune system, increasing their resistance to diseases
including SALMONELLA and E-COLI.
STEPS ON FEED FERMENTING:
Step One:
Fill your container about 1/3 full with chicken feed, Cover with water so the chicken feed is completely submerged.
Cover your container and let it sit for three days.
Step Two:
Strain the liquid and give the solid chicken feed to your birds.
Only feed your chickens what they will eat at one sitting to prevent moldy feed.
GUIDELINES ADVICE:
Here are some easy fermenting tips to help you through the process of fermenting chicken
feed that will help you add fermented feeds to your chicken’s diet.
CHICKEN FERMENTING FEED
SAVES MONEY:
Because the nutrients are more readily absorbed in fermented foods, feed requirements lessen, and there is also less waste since the chickens
love it.
It’s believed that chickens will eat 1/3 to 1/2 less fermented feed than regular dry feed.
This increased nutritional absorption leads to reduced food intake since nutritional
requirements are met faster with less feed.
Additionally, fermentation increases enzymes in the feed and actually introduces vitamins, specifically the B vitamins (folic acid,
riboflavin, niacin, and thiamin), not present before fermentation.
This all leads to your chickens requiring less feed to achieve the same nutritional intake.
TIPS FOR A SUCCESSFUL FERMENTING:
Kindly use a mix of grains, oats, seeds, legumes, crumble or pellets. You can Also make your own poultry feed formulation, or use a commercially available brand.
Use a loosely covered glass container ( or BPA-free plastic or food-grade stoneware ) .
Also use de-chlorinated water – use either well water, purchased filtered water or let tap water sit out for 24 hours.
Remember to cover grains with several inches of water and add water as needed to ensure they remain covered. stir it several times a day and wait until you see bubbles forming on the
surface to feed ( usually after about 3 days ).
Please store it in a dark, cool place, not outside and not in the sunlight. You can feed fermented feed to chicks and
ducklings as well. Be sure they have grit to help them digest the feed or limit them to fermented chick starter.
It okay to realize that your fermented feed will have
a smell, It should smell sort of tangy-sweet, like sourdough bread. And lastly keep the liquid after you’ve strained out
your grains to start a new batch again.
WARNINGS:
DON'T TRY THIS FOR FERMENTING CHICKEN
FEED:
Please don't add any yeast or apple cider vinegar to your ferment, That will encourage the creation of alcohol
which you don’t want on your chicken. Also don't store your fermented chicken feed in the sun.
And again don't allow the water level to drop below the level of the solids.
Please and please don't feed if you smell a sour, rancid or ye**ty smell. Also don't feed if you see any mold, Toss it all out and start over.
There are numerous scientific studies practical done on
this topic. Which proves that fermenting is good for your chickens’ health and your pocketbook.
If you’re wondering what to feed chickens for improved eggs, you can begin by trying your hand at fermenting chicken feed.
