Hydroponic Fodder - Great supplement with hay!!
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- Опубликовано: 3 дек 2024
- This video was shot about 6 years ago in the winter when we were building our greenhouse. We use Fodder as a replacement for hay when we have a bad yield. Really easy to grow. Sprouts with plan water.
Great video . Folks can supplement this feed in the winter , now they know , not that hard and the animals appreciate it !! :) Great start to finish process. thank you .
You bet!
Very interesting. I will try your solution tomorow. Best wishes from Spain.
One of the best bang for the buck feeds for any farm animals.
It is barley is cheep when it comes right off the field
Thanks. They really do love it!!
Yes they do
they to eat it. very nice!
Very timely! I’m learning how to grow fodder large scale for my chicken/egg production
Chickens love it. We feed it to our egg layers. I should have included it in the video but it was just a old vid i put up
Awesome. I used to work for a fodder chamber mfr, we fed out fodder as the main feed.. worked quite well
That's awesome...Fodder is very interesting
@@HomegrownPassion I know right? This is a quick vid of us feeding the cattle across the street from Southfork Ranch and some others. ruclips.net/video/m5zSKedIPfk/видео.html
Great job 👏
Thank you! 😃
Do the animals eat the thick white mat of roots as well, or do they tend to only eat the green portions and leave the rest behind?
They eat everything...of course they start off with the green part.
Oh my goodness! I grow little tiny trays of wheat and sunflower fodder for my chickens in the winter! Occasionally I do pea shoots too! I cut them for stir-fry and give the bottoms to the chickens.
I only have 4 hens and one roo so one little tray of wheat fodder a day or peas or even lentils really helps them in the winter.
I sprout things for us too so it only makes sense that it would be good for our critters.
We feed it to our laying hens and they really like. I think its good for them to eat something green and different than just a mash from a bag.
@@HomegrownPassion or our leftovers lol. If I know we won't eat the left over veg from dinner it ends up out to the hens. I occasionally get eggs in winter too but we have a small light as the coop has only one tiny window.
And by hanging a low light they kinda warm under it on super cold days.
We bought a heater that looks like a radiator and have used it during below zero weather but they don't seem to need it as much as you'd think.
One day I might pick up a small extra dairy calf. The boys I mean. The big flea market auctions them off and I might grab one for about $50 and grow me some rośe veal. But I have to decide if I'm up for it work of feeding ever so many hours lol
Are you doing the growing hydroponically with additional light? I've tried a couple of times now to feed my hens but haven't yet been fully successful. If you would like to do a slightly more detailed video I would love to watch and learn. Great film, thanks for keeping the channel content coming.
Hi Johnny...no lights or nutrients are used in sprouting the barley. The trays are on a timer for watering which is just straight tap water. Will look into doing another video on fodder...thank you for your support!!
@@HomegrownPassion thank you, I thought that might be the case. I'd love to see the technical intricacies, (such as timings of water and lighting, weights of seed per area etc). Thank you for responding it makes your channel so much more personal. Regards from Denmark in Europe.
Are you planting the seeds onto a substrate or directly in the channels?
directly in the channels. You can grow fodder in greenhouse trays on a small scale if needed
70 to 80 moisture you cant use it to replace hay, hay gives them energy and energy warms them in the winter but its a good supplement
Thanks...we do only use it as a supplement...I should probably change the title...
Barley Fodder is 85 to 90% digestable by cows...whereas Hay is around 30% digestible
I suspect it would take a lot more fodder to feed those horses, cows and sheep.
Let’s assume fodder was your only source of food for your herd and you had zero access to hay. How many pounds of barley seeds would you need and how many of those grow beds would be needed to feed for 3 months.
No idea... we only use it as a supplement. We got rid of the horses about 5 years ago...no more sheep...so we only have cattle now...
Some of the cows looked a bit fussy about it.
they always are