Organic Chicken Feed Poultry Peas Oat Wheat Sunflower Barley Flax * 20 lbs * Homemade

Organic Chicken Feed Poultry Peas Oat Wheat Sunflower Barley Flax  * 20 lbs *  Homemade
Organic Chicken Feed Poultry Peas Oat Wheat Sunflower Barley Flax  * 20 lbs *  Homemade - фотография #2
Бренд: Homemade
~ 2 778 ₽ 30.00 $

Характеристики

Type Food
Poultry Species Chickens Ducks Turkeys

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Want to feed your chickens the best? 

We have you covered!  It is puzzling why someone would invest their time and effort to raise their own chickens only to feed them the same unhealthy pellet feed product as the factories.  Even organic pellets have unpleasant additives. Read pellet feed labels (even organic pellets) and you will discover why we refuse to use pellet feed (even organic) and mix our own whole foods We did the mind-boggling research for you and offer a great non-gmo feed option for you.  We share our sprouting and fermenting methods to help save you money!

You can feed our whole grains and seeds as is dry, soak in fruit juice , soak in raw organic cow milk, or save money by offering your chickens  this  as a fermented, sprouted, or as fodder feed. 

 What Ingredients did we choose and why?

To ensure your poultry is getting their needed nutrition, we designed this mix to be approximately 17% Crude Protein and offers a variety of grains and seeds. This is perfect for Healthy Poultry.

Red Winter Wheat is a major energy source for chickens. 

Millet is rich in amino acids and iron. 

Green Feild Peas  The protein is highly digestible and has an excellent amino acid profile. Peas have 

high levels of lysine—more so than soybeans. Peas are low in the sulfur amino acids methionine and cystine.

Oat Groats are rich in protein B vitamins, calcium and fiber. Oats are also a good (and cheap) source of energy. All oats — no matter how they’re processed .

Flax seeds boost omega-3 fatty acids in eggs, and are also rich in protein (37 percent), B vitamins, and minerals.

Black oil sunflower seeds (often called BOSS) are like candy to chickens. But good candy! BOSS is high in protein , rich in minerals and vitamins, and the high oil content gives feathers a beautiful gloss. 

Barley is a major energy source for chickens. 

Brewer’s yeast  can be sprinkled on feed if you desire extra protein. It’s a great source of B vitamins and protein (around 35 percent) for chickens.  Extra protein assists in growing back feathers that may have been lost in mating or molting. When raising meat birds you may want to add the extra protein for faster weight gain.

Note: Offer chickens free choice of water,  grit for digestion, and extra calcium to harden egg shells.  Offer calcium by crushing their eggs shells and offer them as free choice in a feed pan, and/or soak feed in fresh organic raw cow milk, or supplement with oyster shells.


Benefits of Sprouting or Fermenting Chicken feed

Fermenting and/or sprouting your chickens’ feed can have huge health benefits for your flock, can lower your feed bill and can even make your chickens lay larger eggs.

Poultry  feed  manufactures use heat and water to process into pellets/ crumbles  .  YES, even  ORGANIC certified manufactures.  Thus, reducing the shelf life and nutrient content of the grains .

 Health Benefits:

The main reason to sprout or ferment seeds and grains is to make the nutrients in them more available for poultry digestion.  Seeds and grains come with a "preservation system" that is designed to protect their stored proteins, fats and minerals over an extended period of time until conditions are right for germination and growth. This "preservation system" consists of items that are "antinutrients" when ingested. 

These antinutrients help protect the seeds from pest infestation and/or ingestion by animals, keeping them from being devoured before they can germinate in the natural setting.  Grains and seeds can sometimes even pass though the digestive system intact, then are excreted in the feces due to this preservation system and are still be able to sprout and grow!  These antinutrients include blocking calcium, magnesium, copper, iron and zinc in the intestinal tract leading to deficiencies
in these essential minerals.  

Sprouting or fermenting seeds and grains reduces or eliminates the antinutrient properties inherent in grains and increases bioavailability of many nutrients including B vitamins, vitamin C, folate, fiber, and essential amino acids such as lysine.   As the seeds sprout, enzymes that are needed to properly digest the proteins in the grains are produced making them available for our use.

The gastro-intestinal tract is the foundation of a bird’s immune system. Fermented feed has naturally occurring probiotics  that balance the system and create a barrier against diseases carried by the local wild birds. The probiotics in the fermented feed increases immune system and general health. 

Lowering your feed bill:

We offer an affordable way to provide the right diet to your flock.  Your chickens get a higher nutritional benefit from the feed which means they can eat less. Dry feed creates over a 10% waste as it scatters when lil’ Miss Henrietta decides to hop into the feeder and dig for gold.  Sprouting produces a greater amount of feed for our money.  Similar to fermenting  it gives a greater "bang for our buck", not only making the grains more useable nutritionally, but also resulting in reduction of feed and grain used partly due to increased volume created by sprouting and partly by increasing useable nutrients.  This is another great way to lower feed costs while at the same time producing a healthier flock.

Bigger Eggs: What happens when hens are really healthy? It has been shown to increase egg production and increase egg size. They start to lay bigger eggs - hard to complain about that! 

Method to Ferment Poultry Feed

Day 1: Fill a  container with the amount of feed your flock consumes in one day and place it into the container. An adult chicken will consumes 1/4 lb / day. Add  double the amount of unchlorinated water as you do feed.  It is important to make sure enough water is being provided to cover the feed after absorption. Cover and set aside for the  next 3 days, shaking the mix 1-2  times each day. You will know the fermenting  process is working when little bubbles start  appearing on the surface!

Day 2:  Create another container of feed/ water.

Day 3:  Create another container of feed/ water.

Day 4:  Empty the fermented chicken feed from Day 1 into a bowl and feed it to your hens.  Watch them go crazy for it!  Wash your jar and repeat Step 1.  Place your jar at the end of the line next to the jars from Day 2 and Day 3. 

Day 5: Feed the fermented chicken feed in the jar from Day 2 to your hens, wash your jar, refill, and continue the rotation process.

 DO NOT USE A METAL CONTAINER as  acids from fermentation can react with metal and leave bad things in your chickens’ dinner, so use plastic, glass or lead-free ceramic crocks.

 

Method to Sprout Poultry Feed

For a small flock of 6 chickens:
1.  Place sprouting seeds into a metal mesh strainer. Start with 2 cups/ day and adjust based on how much they eat.

2.  Put the strainer in a large bowl and cover with water to soak overnight.
3.  Drain & Rinse the seeds under your facet the morning. Empty the water in left in the bowl.
4.  If your strainer touches the bottom of your bowl, place  a mason jar ring in the bottom of the empty bowl to ensure the strainer is lifted up and allows room for any moisture to drain from the strainer while keeping the seeds from sitting in the water below.   Keep the bowl in an area where it won't receive direct sunlight.  You can place a paper towel over the top to keep out excessive light.

5.  Twice a day (i.e 7am and 7pm), lift the strainer out of the bowl and rinse under cold water from the faucet.  Then either toss the seeds around a bit in the strainer (like tossing a pizza dough) or give them a little stir with your hand and replace the strainer back in the bowl on the ring.  (The rinsing and tossing or stirring with your hand is important. This will keep any molds from growing in your seeds.)

 For a large flock:

When Sprouting for a larger flock of birds you can use plastic food-grade 5 gallon buckets .  To make a straining bucket, drill holes about 1/2" apart in the sides and bottom that are small enough to contain the grains but large enough for the water to drain through easily.  Add seeds to the straining bucket. For soaking, place the straining bucket down inside another regular bucket and cover the seeds with water.  After soaking overnight, lift the strainer bucket out, drain, empty water from bottom bucket and proceed the same as with the smaller scale strainer and bowl method, rinsing 2 times a day and tossing or stirring with your hand each time to prevent the sprouts from molding or matting together.

 Ingredients

Mix Ratio

Natural Crude protein

 Red Winter Wheat

30%

13.5%

 White Proso Millet

20%

9%

 Yellow Peas

20%

24.5%

 Yellow Feed Popcorn

10%

9%

 Oat Groats

10%

14%

 Black Oil Sunflower

5%

26.3%

 Flax Seeds

5%

37%

  Total Protein in Dry Mix 16.215%