Can You Believe This Will Feed My 30 Chickens? Barley Sprouts
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- I love giving my chickens healthy food. I grow barley sprouts for them as well as mealworms and occasionally they get to free range. I supplement with commercial feed.
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Sprouts for Chickens.
For a larger flock, you can sprout grain in a five gallon bucket. On our commercial wheat farm, we often had spilled grain around the base of our wheat augers. This is often mixed with dirt or stones, so it is not able to be sold, but it can be put into a bucket, the bucket filled with water and set aside for a few days. The grains will get a short sprout, and when you throw it out into the chicken run, they flock to it. They love the grains with the short sprouts, and the dirt or stones in it do not matter at all.
I do the sprouted grains as well!
Thank you for being a farmer. You guys don't get enough credit.
That's great and the stones are good for them as we all know!
Oh, that’s a gorgeous, healthy batch of chickens! Thanks for your post. 👍🏻🐓🐓
Thank you! Glad you stopped by! Love those birds!!! Took video of McLintock and his 3 ladies dusting in the cool dirt 2’ away from 2” of snow LOL
I love how you save money soaking the barley for that your chickens 3 to 4 days I love your Delaware chickens. They’re beautiful.❤
Do you sell any eggs of your chickens?
Thank you! These actually aren’t Delaware. They are Light Sussex. I raise both Light Sussex (white with black) and Coronation Sussex (white with pigeon blue)
8 bucks a bag canadian if you find a local farmer who grows barley and is willing to sell. Wheat is great for this too. 80% of my turkey and chicken feed (as well as winter sheep feed) is via cheap and locally grown grains, sprouted and boiled.
Reach out and look around guys. Its win win when you support the little guy.
Absolutely agree!
Why do you boil it?
@@skittlesskittles7577 I try to boil the sprouts if I have questionable drainage when growing. Mold and salmonella can be an issue.
On top of that the boiling just makes more energy and nutrients bioavailable to the animals. Its pre digesting the cellulose so the animals eat less and stay full longer. (Up to a point)
@@MrSpankyxiv Awesome tip! Thank you for replying! 👍🏻👍🏻
Rinse in baking soda not only will it clean your grain it will also help with mold.
Soak barley for 48 hours..rinse and drain. To prevent mold, rinse them every 12 hours. Within next 2 days, it would sprout. Why make it complex...A'la Americana??.
Thank you for your comment
I'm confused, do you keep the seeds in the bucket with water until sprouted? If not, what size holes are on the bottom of the tub, and how long does it take for it to drain the water out before topping it up again?
I don’t recall what size holes. Just make sure they are small enough that the seeds can’t drain out and big enough to allow the water to drain. Yes I leave the seed in bucket and water a few times a day. The time it takes depends on the size of your holes and the amount of roots once they start sprouting.
Is it possible to rely on only sprouted barley as feed for organic chicken layer?
And my second question is
Organic chickens lay how many eggs per year, because some say 80 eggs per year and others say more than 150 eggs per year. (In free range)
Thank you and God bless you
No you can’t rely strictly on barley fodder. Depends on the breed of chicken as to how many eggs they will lay per year.
I feed many many things to my chickens. If you search my playlist you’ll find a video on all the things I feed my chickens
Excellent thanks for Ur sharing god blessed u
Thank you for watching. I have another video that explains it’s not the ONLY thing I feed my birds
Hi! Thank you for the video.
I have a question.
I did this. I proved it worked to myself also. The fodder process is cool.
However... one thing I haven't gotten a chance to prove is... if you can do this long term? Can you do this... like forever and have them not have trouble? My experiments worked but I only had a chance to do it short term because I got dogs killed my chickens. Then the city didn't like my ducks.
But I'm interested in knowing if the process can ... be used like long term without issues on malnutrition. or if I should add some other things to supplement with it?
Also you could save money using some of the barley for soups... but the barley from the feed mill is pointy... and isn't the pearl barley form. Is there a way to convert it to use that way to use for adding volume to soups (unsprouted)? I also ask this because wheat is 3 times the cost of barley... interesting right? And BOSS is also a bit less than double the cost of barley in my area.
@noahriding5780 thank you for this comment. I am sorry about your chickens. Please take some time and go see one of my newer videos I addressed this in. ruclips.net/video/1cjP9T7azXw/видео.html if you can’t click on that search for “This has been weighing heavy on my mind”…..
Thank you for the reply. I'll take a look.
Beautiful chickens🥰 Thank you for sharing! New sub🐣🩵
Thank you! I love the dual purpose of the Sussex breed! Super docile too! Thank you for subscribing! 🥰
@@KrusinTheSierra You're welcome🥰 what is their dual purpose?? You have me curious?❤️
@@ShannasCountryCreek a “dual purpose” chicken is good for eggs or meat.
@@ShannasCountryCreek in other words I use my extra roosters that I hatch out for meat in our freezer and keep the hens for eggs.
@Krusin’ The Sierra Farm Ok gotcha!! Such a beautiful breed! We started quail this year for eggs and meat.
Just protecting my girls!
Great video thanks. Love your Chickens. What breed are they please.
I raise Sussex. Both Light Sussex and Coronation Sussex. I haven’t had someone comment on this so I just would like to make it known I feed much more than this to my chickens but only supplement with commercial feed. I grow and raise a lot of their feed
I'm not clear. Did you keep the barley submerged in water for 3 or 4 days until they sprouted enough to feed to chicken? Or did you wash the grain and drain the water several times a day? I did both but if I keep the grain in water, on day 2 they start to ferment, if I drain the water but keep them moist, they mold.
No not submerged. I watered a few times a day. There are holes in the bottom of the tubs.
You could soak them in water one night with a capful of bleach and then rinse before adding them to your bucket I just don’t like to do that.
@@KrusinTheSierra Thank you for clarifying. Lovely chickens you have here. They look so healthy and clean. Never saw white feathered chickens so bright white (and their 'collars' make them look like school children in uniform).
@@d.a.tsun5104 they are my all time favorite breed Light Sussex and Coronation Sussex. They truly are beautiful birds
Thanks!
Thanks for the video. Can you tell me roughly how many grams of unsprouted barley your 30 chickens eat per day? And how many grams of meal worms do you supplement with?
I’m sorry I don’t weigh the amount of either to be able to tell you.
People have said to feed chickens 1/4 lb to 1/3 lb chicken feed, so if you weigh it, then you could balance that total weight with the meal worms/black fly larvae (more nutritious), and whatever else you feed them.
Could you sprout other things? Grass, clover, Beans, grains, ect…
I’m sure you can.
my questions to the users and experienced chicken and sheeps farm: Do i need to feed anything besidr wheatgrass ? if yes what is it ? Thank you it seems veru little info to none online
I raise live mealworms for my chickens protein and I also feed comfrey, kitchen scraps, garden scraps etc you cannot feed “wheatgrass” on its own and expect that the animal is getting all nutrients needed. I’d like to point out that I grow barley fodder not wheatgrass. I had access to barley seed in bulk and that is why
Where do you buy seed
We live quite a ways away from anything so when I go out of town… 3 hours away… I pick up a bag from a wildland seed collection company.
I buy from my local farm store.
May I ask where did you bought the seeds please?
Any local feed store sells it, like a farm animal feed store not tractor supply
I purchase my Barley from Comstock Seed in Gardnerville Nevada! They are amazing
Where do you get your seeds from?
#Spidey🕷🕸
I get my Barley seed from Comstock Seed out of Gardnerville Nevada
Where do you buy your barley?
A seed company in Gardnerville NV
Too bad no instructions about whether seeds remain totally submerged 24/7. Only a hand in and out of water.
Did you watch and listen? It actually tells you exactly what I do if you watch and listen. Thank you for your comment though.
Make chicken saddles
Why?
But can I just feed them that
NO. Research feeding barley
No that won’t be too bough unless they have ability to free range. I also feed home raised mealworms and they get scraps from the garden. I start a new thing of barley fodder every day for my birds though
Say, what's that container filled with chicken feed doing in your chicken pen? I thought you said that tiny, tiny bit of sprouts was going to feed all 30 of your chickens.
CLICK BAIT
That small amount of barley seed turns into quite a bit of food to feed my chickens. And if you look at multiple videos I have done you’ll see that I have all sorts of ways to feed my birds and at little or no cost. I don’t need to have click bait… but thanks for the comment.
Bleach!?!?!?!?!
Yes I did use bleach in the beginning as it’s said to kill the mold spores. Now I just rinse it really well before starting it.