How to cut chicken feed costs by 50% by simply fermenting poultry feed
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- This video is going to teach you how to cut your backyard chicken feed bill, not by formulating your own home made chicken feed, but by simply fermenting chicken feed. Fermenting chicken feed is an easy and much healthier way of feeding your backyard chickens.
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The fermented whole grains provide good gut health, requires less feed per serving, and is a simpler way of unlocking nutrients from the grains. Fermented chicken feed can also be fed to all homestead chickens ducks, guinea fowls, turkeys, and quails. Also note that broiler chickens, road runner chickens or free-range chickens, layer chickens, day-old chicks, ducks, geese, turkeys or guinea fowls can all eat fermented feed.
When you ferment chicken feed or duck feed or poultry feed, you are basically making your chickens, ducks or poultry eat less and get full as if they ate a lot. Not only that, you are also helping your birds extract as much nutrients from the feed as possible, something that you would not easily attain had you not fermented the feed.
So this video will explain the advantages of using fermented chicken feed, then go on to teach you how to ferment chicken feed or duck feed or any other poultry feed and you will also learn the Dos and Donts of chicken feed fermentation.
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A recent video I watched by one of my mentors says you should not drain the water cos you would be loosing some healthy nutrients contained on the grain... Rather, you should add dry grains to the already fermented feeds so that it can mix up with the excess water in the fermented feed and no nutrient would be lost.
That is not a good idea either. A study I saw showed that shortly soaked food fills the chicken up resulting in less food consumption in turn leaving the chicken less nourished and it also slows egg production.
@@richl2723 what is "shortly soaked food"?
@@Norbingel Just long enough to absorb water and become soft. Like, as in 5 minutes.
@@richl2723 I see. It seems to me that the concern that nutrients leech into the water and would get lost if drained off is a valid one and that fermentation itself would result in less feed consumed because of the "bloating". Have you stumbled upon a better way of feeding with fermented stuff that avoids these issues?
@Norb Well, water doesn't get drained off. Short soaking just adds water weight to the feed, resulting in the birds feeling fuller while actually consuming less food. Like people drinking lots of water, then eating dinner. That's where the bloating is. Im no fermenting expert, but from the way I understand it is, more nutrients are gained and absorbed by the birds, using half the food. No bloating here. The fermented food is 100% in nutrients and double the dry weight. What I've noticed is that my adults eat a bit less. Chicks are pigs!
Best teaching on feed fermentation.
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Thank you very much you have given me a quality education about poultry feeding. Thank you so much i could like to learn more from you
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this was a fantastic video, wonderfully explained. thank you
Thank you so much Brett. I greatly appreciate your positive review.
@@BestFarmingTips but do the hens lay more eggs ...mine have slowed down its sending me crazy..
Thank you very i want to try out this method
this is very good information, thank you
This is such an informative video
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thanks for explaining in details
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can you give broilers fermented feed? and if so,can the broilers gain more weight compared to unfermented feed?
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Thank you very much for the knowledge sir. I have also buy my first batch of soya bean meal (sbm) and i am planning to send samples to labs to see the difference amount of cp and animo acid in fermented and normal sbm
Dear did you got the test results?
Nice one, love it,,
Thanks for watching
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I like your teachings on poultry farming, thanks so much. Please can you give us an insight on chicken diseases especially what makes a turkey to pant and have difficulty in n standing and refusal to eat, thanks
It's due to lack of vitamins specificly the vitamin E difficiency.
@@MohammedAslamtit-bitsoflife okay thank you
Thank u
You're welcome
Good video great informative video
Thanks for sharing. I have a question: why should one strain the liquid from the fermented feed? Won't one lose some of the nutrients? Thanks
Dear Sir, greetings..my question is my feed is I used to buy from the market for the brioler birds which contains medicines and other trace minirals. Can I ferment this feed too, it won't effect the medicinal value in the feed? Pls reply... Regards..
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Hi I give my chicken so. E rice with the feed at a 1:1 ratio... Is it advisable to use this mixture o ferment or should we only go for feed... Also suggest if we use maize or corn as supplements in mixture....
hie thanks for the feed saving @t what stage can one start giving fermented feeds on broiles and layers.thank you
Hi Irmore. You can start giving the broilers and the layers fermented feeds from day one. However, kindly make sure that they finish what you give them within a day and that the chicks won't sit on the wet feed, so if you are not willing to keep adding more and more fermented feed within a single day, its best to give them fermented feed after a week or 2 when they grow older.
Cool bro. Such a nice video. (India)
Thank you
Thank you very much i have seen some add Yeast and vinegar to the water in Fermentation process have you tried that ? whats your opinion ? does that fasten Fermentation process decrease it from 3 days to 24 hours ?
Could you tell me how many days to take to proper size with farmented feed and what is the final body weight?can we provide farmented feed to chicken at night?
Nice
Great tip. What do you do with water strained from fermented feed?
Nothing really, we just throw it away. that water attracts lots of flies, and it also should not be given to the chickens as drinking water. Although the fermented feed itself will have residue of that water, the amount of water in the feed will be too small to cause any damage.
Wont they get drunk
Excellent video
Thank you Steven, am humbled 😊
@@BestFarmingTips my wife and I have around 100 chickens and plan on 2000 or more birds to sell eggs. But we're spending way to much money on feed when the birds and the doves eat most of it . thanks to your informative video we can cut costs in half. Your video is the most informative video on the internet about how to ferment feed to cut feed cost. Thanks again.
@@stevenjames7667 Awwww sweet. You've just made my day Steven. Thank you so much for uplifting my morale and appreciating my efforts. I wish you all the best with your wife in your poultry project. To further cut your chicken feed cost, you may need to use the chicken droppings and do maggot farming. I will do a video on that in the next coming days. But with fermented feed, you will never go wrong.
Thanks for useful information!
How is the hot weather like Dare es Salaam? Is it really takes 3 days? Why does it become sour and chicken refuse to it?
Is there any need of boiling river water in order to kill harmful bacteria?
Please use the un chlorinated water only.
Amazing work! If I have already been using normal feed, can I just switch to fermented feed cause I hear chickens get stressed when feed is changed.
Yes you can change right away. I have never heard of anyone who encountered any challenges after switching from dry feed to fermented feed. I too at one point suddenly changed from dry feed to fermented feed and all went well.
Thank you for your reply
@@muyaakindahunsi2465 How was it? You tried?
Nice video.
Must the fermented feed be given everyday to benefit maximally or can one give like 2 times in a week, then give normal grain on the other days??
It's best to give fermented feed all the time, but if you can't do so, then give the chickens fermented feed whenever you can. I always give mine fermented feed every single day.
Great video. Thanks a lot
Pleas I'd like to know if I can ferment my own chicken mash. And should I ferment with the additives such as amino acids and toxin binder and coccidiosis already in it or add them after fermentation. Thank you for your help.
Hi, its best to add everything before you start fermenting the feed, because commercial feed contains all those additives, and i have fermented chicken feed with those additives for ages without encountering any problems.
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@@davidtoglo2485 You're welcome
Can I give fermented feed to my broilers and get a better weight gain and how long or how many days can I ferment the feed before it becomes bad for chickens thanks
Yes you can feed your broiler chickens with fermented feed. You can start feeding your chickens fermented feed from day 1, provided the feeders u use are not trays, because we wouldn't want the baby chicks to get wet while eating. you should ferment the feed for about 3 days, it warm climatic areas such as Africa don't go beyond 3 days. For illustrative purposes, if you ferment feed on Monday morning, feed the chickens that fermented feed on Thursday morning.
Could you tell me how many days to take a broiler chicken to prepare for full size with farmented feed and what is the final body weight?can we provide farmented feed to broiler
chicken at night?
As far as I understand the fermented feed should be given 24 hours or twice in a day that can last foe 24 hours.
Sir thanks for this. But can it be used for broilers??
Yes family
do you know about black soldier fly which one is better.
Well, if you have a lot of chickens or poultry, then black soldier farming may not be so feasible, and chickens can not entirely survive on maggots only, they're best used as supplementary feeding where as fermented feed usually serve as the chickens only feed or primary feeding. Lastly, to some black soldier farming is quite disgusting, where as fermenting chicken feed is clean and messy-free.
Please help me with the ration between the water and the feed
Fermented feeds can I give to the chicks.
Is it necessary to mix anything else with water for fermentation of commercial ready feed?
Hi Raisul, no it's not necessary. You don't need to add anything else, just adding water to cover your commercial chicken feed is enough for fermentation to take place.
Is fermented feeds good for layer chickens? Will it not affect their egg laying production when i start to feed them when they are 9 weeks old?
Hi, Yes you ca n give fermented chicken feed to your layer chickens. Fermented feed is also great for laying chickens.
Is it ok to feed chickens only fermented food on daily basis? Please answer this question i am waiting ❤
I learnt somewhere that straining the water will lead to loss of nutrients but we should rather missed it with unfermented feeds. Please throw more light. Thank you.
Sir, can you help me to calculate the amount of water I must add to ferment 200kg dry feed? ..
And what what will be the result of the cost of feed the dry feed which is 26.7rupees per kg after using fermented process? ..
Note: per chicken consumes 110gm feed per day.. Layers birds
Bhai do you know any information about turkey bird farming, how much feed/per bird/ per day/ per month, feed cost, duration in the farm, what feed should be given? what vaccines and medications should be given at what time and age?can you give any information if you know anything about turkeys?
Pls would there be any side effects if one decides to ferment the feeds and dry them again before giving it to the birds inorder to avoid the problem of the birds being unable to finish the moist feed?
If that is the case don't ferment.
Also should we be removing the water and adding new one or just stir and add up extra water?
You only remove water on the last day of fermentation as you are about to feed the chickens. prior to that you will just be stirring up and adding more water as need arises.
@@BestFarmingTips 1. What's the feed measurement to feed the fermented feed. Eg if I feed my chickens 1 scoop of dry, how much scoop for fermented.
2. Can I do it for both broiler and layer from day old till sale
@@anthonyonyeka6501 Usually around 66% of what you usually give your chickens is what you can start with when fermenting food. For instance, if you give them 3 scoops, you can ferment 2 scoops. You will then adjust accordingly from there, but usually that will be a good measure if what you already feeding your chickens was ok. Yes you can ferment feed for broiler chickens, layers, ducks, quails, geese, turkeys, birds, etc. simply ferment whatever feed you have been giving them as primary meal, save for kitchen and garden waste.
@@BestFarmingTips you saying I can ferment 100% of feeds I give them?
@@anthonyonyeka6501 Yes you can
Does this really work, has anyone else tried it with results?
Hello,! I keep the grains to ferment just overnight and feed them the next morning. Can you suggest what is better?
Hi Thelma. Fermenting overnight is too short a time to fully benefit from the process of fermentation. You need to allow the grains to sit in water for at least 3 complete days if you want to get best results.
Can u use 3/4 grains for whole grain meal?
Yes you can, provided the chickens are old enough to swallow them.
Thanks dear, this is a great lesson. But how do we reserve the remainder?
Hi Jesumine, Thanks for the question. You should ferment the feed that your chickens or poultry can consume within a day. You may try to put the unfinished feed back in water so that it may be consumed after another 12 to 24 hours, but the best idea is to ferment what the birds can finish within a day.
@@BestFarmingTips Thanks for your quick response. I'm grateful.
Following your instructions on fermenting the feed for the chick's, I did exactly but I observed that they don't drink water as they do before. What's the reason and what should I do? Is it alright?
@@jesuminesam676 Yes it's pretty fine and normal. When we eat powdery food, naturally we want to drink more water afterwards. Same with chickens, when you give them dry feed they will drink more water. Fermented feed is ordinarily wet, so much of the water is consumed while eating the fermented feed itself.
@@BestFarmingTips That's the truth. Thanks for your response. Grace2u
@@jesuminesam676 You are welcome. Am glad I helped you.
Can I re use the water to ferment the feeds after sieving the already fermented feeds?
I want to ask the same question.
@@fabackgibba8803 no, use fresh water
Is it okay to feed fermented rice mixed with poultry feed? Please give a suggestion
yes its ok, you can freely ferment grains and feed your poultry
nice vedio . how much water is added there
Thank you PCM. There is no specific amount of water that you use when fermenting chicken feed. All you need to do is to put your poultry feed in a bucket then add water until all chicken feed is submerged in water. Making sure that all the poultry feed is covered with water helps prevent molds from contaminating your fermenting chicken feed before the fermentation process has completed.
What water should I use? Would tap water work? Or has to be distilled? Or filtered?
any type of water is fine, even tap water is all good.l
Just no chlorine - like from municipal water.
Dont you lose the vitamins and amino acids like Lysine into the water when you soak the feed to ferment it ?
No it won't effect the outcome.
is a good method but i feel, you are just going to loss some important Nutrient in the feed because after the Fermentation you then have to make sure you get rid of the water in the feed which to me I think is bad because that water will be hosing much of the Nutrients that has been dissolved into the water and you just have take that water out.
no, not at all. the nutrients remain locked in the feed, the water has just softened the feed so that the nutrients can easily be absorbed by the animals. You will realise that the total amount of nutrients a body absorbs when feeding on fermented feed is much more than what it absorbs when feeding on the very same feed but not fermented. In other words, dry feed produces more nutrient wastage than fermented feed. This will be proved when you have your chickens, you separate them into 2 groups, you give the first group fermented feed, and you give the second group dry feed. You will see a vast difference in growth rate and egg production when the laying time comes.
@@BestFarmingTips yes we can test by our self doing by category.
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please answer my doubts one by one
1)in what age of chicken should I start to give them fermented food, should I start from day 1 or day 5 something LIKE THAT or should I start in the age one month after.
2) first we need to soak the company feed into the water, then in 3 days after seeing the form like bubbles it's completely fermented, we need to drain the water and feed it right away. RIGHT?
3) is that okay to feed the fermented feed every day from day one to 1.5 years for layers and everything. with the additional nutritious ways, you said to produce food like worms, fruits, vegetable wastes, etc.....
4) you said chickens start to eat less after weeks of eating fermented food, whats that mean? why and how is it beneficial to the chickens.
Can rain water ok for fermenting?
yes rain water can be used to ferment chicken or poultry feed
Which food stock should never be fermented, for chickens
All grains and all commercial feed can be fermented. However, greens such as vegetables and cabbage leaves as well as kitchen waste is what one should never ferment. But then greens and kitchen waste usually are treats, it wouldn't be a good idea to make that your chickens' primary meal. So you only ferment constitutes primary meal, and most cases its grains and/or commercial chicken feed (which is also made of grains anyway)
Can I give broiler fermented feed from starter stages to finisher stage
Yes, you can.
Can we use this meathod in feeding pigs.
Yes certainly you can you use the fermentation method on pigs as well, and it works perfectly fine.
Please why strained it? Will it be harmful if you feed them the fermented water??
Plz can I fermenting my feed from turkey, pullet and broiler for day one?
Yes you can ferment feed for your turkeys, pullets and broiler chickens. Although you can ferment for one day, however the results won't be as good as feed fermented for 3 days. So please allow the feed to ferment for a minimum of complete 72 hours before feeding your poultry.
@@BestFarmingTips I give my broiler n imported turkey farmemt feed but 5 die between two weeks n I notice they are sheet is green sheet
@@BestFarmingTips I think that person was asking if they can feed the birds fermented feed from day one as in when they are hatched.
Can I mixed yogurt in farmented feed?
As long is plain with not sugars or artificial flavor. It’s good. 💙
I feed my broilers the water I used to ferment the feed too. I hope that's OK?
Some say it's ok, but research says the water should not be given to the chickens
@@BestFarmingTips save a bit of for the next bucket, will speed up the process?
Are you from Zimbabwe???
What was the main ingredient and ratios.
grain chicken feed is the main ingredient, whatever grain feed that you have been giving your chickens, only that this time you are fermenting it first.
Is it okay to ferment commercial feed ?
Yes it's perfectly fine to ferment commercial feed. In actual fact, I always ferment commercial feed. I rarely make my own feed.
Awesome!! Can you use the drained water in the garden
Yes, surely you can. The drained water at tracks a lot of flies though
Sir when we prepare farmented to feed how to cover it lose or tight?
Loosely to allow chemicals/ toxins escape
@@obiageliodi8734 does we provide farmented feed to broiler chicken?is that same result with dry feed?
@@aviseksarkar3314 yes but I don't know if provides the same result as dry feed. It can be given to your broilers. You can try mixing your fermented feed with a little dry feed. I'm rearing broilers too
@@obiageliodi8734 the dry feed fed to the brioler birds, always passed out as undigested feed and it contains undigested feed particles. Therefore, it's good idea to feed the fermented feed which after fermentation increases the nutritive value and easily pass it through the birds gut system which in return improves the health and development of the bird.
Whats your production %?
I'm sorry I didn't really understand your question, kindly elaborate further
How many days did fermentation takes place
3 days (72 hours)
Can I ferment commercial layer feeds also?
Yes you can. All grain-based poultry feed can be fermented.
@@BestFarmingTips thank you so much
1. What's the feed measurement to feed the fermented feed. Eg if I feed my chickens 1 scoop of dry, how much scoop for fermented.
2. Can I do it for both broiler and layer from day old till sale
He said the feed doubles so you feed half what you regularly do.
Hi Trading Hub. My sincere apologies for taking long to reply.
1. Generally an adult chicken eats 200 to 250g of feed per day. However, chickens will tell you if they are getting adequate food or not. If they rush to you when you visit the fowlrun, even without carrying any food, or when they gobble the feed you give them and finish within a few minutes, it means they are hungry and therefore need more food. If you give them food and they fail to finish the feed within a day then it means you are giving them too much food. So after feeding them for almost a week, you should tell how much to give your chickens per day.
2. Yes you can ferment chicken feed for broilers and layers. While you can also give day old chicks fermented feed, however, make sure they wont sit on the feed, as we want the little chicks to stay warm at all times, so use feeders that allow them to only poke their heads into the feeders, and not trays where can can even sit on the wet feed.
Do u also give them the fermentation water
No, you don't give that water to the chickens. it's not the best water to give chickens, so it's best to throw it away.
Nice video, don't throw fermentation water, it attracts BSF to produce larvae (maggot) for chicken.
@@nileshrajput9437 thanks hey. certainly that's another possible use. the only challenge is that fermentation water attracts a lot of flies.
@@nileshrajput9437 how can I do that please
@@sundayukuru6258 There are many videos related to this on RUclips, you can watch.
U should give that water to chicken to drink as it contains nutrients
Sir, Do you think it will help them gain weight more and faster than non-fermented one. Will this help in saving cost on feed? I have 5000 broiler farm. Thank You
Hi Hilom, Yes giving broiler chickens fermented feed helps them grow faster and eat less. They easily get full as the feed contains water and fermented feed has readily usable nutrients as compared to dry feed. This means that dry feed is often excreted as chicken manure without being digested fully.
Do not throw your drained water it could be use for your chicken to drink
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Hi, I really appreciate your effort in helping poultry Farmers...we are currently running a poultry farm with 15000 broiler capacity in India. We used to buy commercial pre-starter, starter and finisher feed. Can i use the fermentation method on all these varieties of feed ? Do you have any suggestions on fermenting the feed in large scale? ..That greatly helps us in saving money from huge feed cost in India..Thanks
bhanu teja Cirivelu I wonder if you have tried this method? I imagine you could start with a portion and see how it works.
@@bushveldkid7640 Yes, i tried with small portion. But in large scale the only thing that worries me is the unconsumed feed that we given to hens. since the fermented feed is moist in nature it will start molding in couple of hours. I need to find some good solution for this.
@@bhanutejacirivelu42 Thing is you should only ferment feed that can be consumed within a day. So the total amount of feed that you ferment solely depends on how much chickens you have.
Thank for your valuable Video.
1.Are all the additives that commercial chicken feed have the right quality?
2.What else is added to this formation process?
3.How much is FCR?
4.To make 2 kg life bird (Broiler), how many kg of this formatted feed is required?
Hi Raisul. I may not be able to adequately answer all your questions, but what I can tell you is that all commercial chicken feed can be fermented and the benefit is way more than what the chickens get from non-fermented chicken feed. I also want to add on to that by saying, whatever amount of ordinary chicken feed that you normally give your chickens, it is more than what the same chickens consume should you ferment it.
I do this and save nothing lol
how is that so?
Fermented feeds can I give to the chicks.
hi, what we have to do if the fermented feed is unfeed ?
you should ferment feed that should be consumed within a day. if it's not consumed within a day you risk inflicting your poultry with diarrhea or related diseases. you will probably have to try to dry the feed using direct sunlight, then feed the chickens the dry feed, but always try to ferment what your poultry can consume within a day.