We pasture our hens. We have nesting boxes. The space under the nesting boxes is perfect for tubs full of colonies of Dubai Roaches. We pull one "egg tray" covered in roaches and shake it off once a week from each tub. The chickens look forward to the event like kids waiting on Christmas!!!!! We feed them fermented feed and we compost their manure with wood chips and hay. They love digging in the finished compost for bugs and fishing worms. They are all super healthy and "dignified" because they are not competing for good nutrition.
Sounds like an excelent source for eggs. Where are you located and where do you market your eggs. Hope to see many more of these operations. Eggs are one of my sources of protein as do not eat mammals, so quality is big with me and paying top price for my eggs. They actually seems fresher perhaps because people have to pay the greater price if they reallly want eggs. Eggs alway a bargain and still will be for me.
Hey there Rip, You betcha! We would LOVE to share this educational vid with your subscribers and members. This was such a fun and revealing project working with farmer Matt and scientist Louisa. Fermenting is attracting a lot of attention these days as both experienced and beginner poultry peeple look for ways to provide better nutrition for their flocks. Thanks for sharing!
Love this!! What about their health? Did you see any changes in Appearance? I have started my horses on Fermented grain. I started slowly, and am up to 1 and a quarter pounds. I noticed softer tails, and they seemed calmer. I have a feeling the friendly bacteria helps with stomach and digestive issues that grains can cause. Happy stomachs, happy horses?? I will be continuing at the same rate for a month before I will know for sure. They definitely like it. Great study. Maybe the chickens fought less because they are more satisfied. Grains are hard on the stomach, at least with horses. Thank you for sharing.
Love this feedback about your horses! We hear often from customers who ferment our feed for their flocks that feathers are soft and shiny. Happy stomach = happy animals all around! Thanks for watching!
@@ScratchAndPeckFeeds We too are doing it for our chickens, but I know much more about Horse Nutrition. I have my degree in Agriculture Science, but have focused my studying over the decades to horse rations. Specifically the vitamins and minerals. They say fermentation creates B vitamins, and that is what happens with my horses when I have supplemented them with B-complex, and vitamin A. Super shiny, and soft. So this all is really interesting to me. Thank you!!
Hoping to get some clarification on the feed/water ratio. @4:50 the narration says to mix 1:2 ratio of feed:water (by weight) but the study document says: "Fermented feed, soaked in water at a ratio of 3.2 parts feed to 4 parts water for 48 h prior to feeding;" The document does not clarify by weight or volume. Study link: projects.sare.org/wp-content/uploads/Foothills-Farm-study_Full-report.pdf
very good video thank you for share this information..I have a question I have 13 two months old chicks can I feed them whole wheat fermented food ? and can you tell me what ingredient in your fermented chicken food .
Thank you for the question - you can find the info you need on feeding schedules and fermentation technique in our Learning Center on our website - www.scratchandpeck.com/learning-center/guides-infographics/. Thanks for watching our video!
I'd like to see the study continued through the lifespan of a group to compare overall laying time and health benefits. This was very interesting and I will use this information in my poultry class.
Hello guys! Thanks so much for this great video. How many decares is this farm that your grandfather and grandmother bought in the 40s? How many decares of land do you reserve for laying hens on this farm, and how many laying hens do you raise? How many square meters is the chicken tractor seen in the background of the video and how many chickens can be raised in this chicken coop?
I am late to the conversation, but I soak my whole wheat in 5 gallon buckets, and feed about 20 bird's. I let the feed soak about 10 days or so without noticing any sour smell and the girls eat it right up every day
While we have used a rule of thumb calculation that a laying hen will eat 1/3 of a pound of grain a day, after fermenting it you are able to cut down to 1/4 of a pound since the birds become full faster and are able to utilize the grain more efficiently! Check out more here: www.scratchandpeck.com/wp-content/uploads/Fermenting-Feed1.pdf
my question is about protein. I'll use milk as an example. Dehydrated milk powder contains some where around 22% protein. But, when you add water to turn it into liquid, milk, then the protein drops to around 6%. I mix my own feed and use a protein additive to attain a 20% protein feed. It seems to me that if you take a 20% dry feed and mix it with water then the same thing is going to happen as with the powered milk. The protein level is going to tank way below 20%. If so can I forget the protein additive, which is a pretty big chunk of my feed bill. Then what do you use for the protein that the chickens need? Any input would be appreciated.
Wow super informative. So pls help me out. I tried fermented feed on my 300 layers and they loved it but now I have to cut cost and measure the feed too. So pls my birds are 10 weeks old and consuming 20kg, how much fermented feed do I have to feed them
Is it possible to ferment raw pulverized whole fish? Would it become putrid and unsafe? And also is it possible to ferment the feed ingredients individually (alakat) instead of mixed rations? Thank you so much.
if the fermentation process is producing probiotics and prebiotic's there is a good chance it's the gut bacteria of your chickens that's increasing their ability to get more nutrition from their food more so....Yes bacteria and yeasts break down complex proteins sugars starches and allergens but is a three day process enough to make that a substantial gain? I'm not the authority on the subject but it would be nice to know conclusively what the case is as there is an awful lot of conflicting information on the subject.....
Hi there Mark & Denise! Absolutely, please see the link below which will direct you to the study. Thanks! cdn.sare.org/wp-content/uploads/20200115180220/Foothills-Farm-study_Full-report.pdf
Your study was remarkable, and many egg farmer can benefit from your study. Wish I could buy your eggs but am in NM. Can you market them here? Such beautiful surroundings and the operation so healthy and natural. Eastern WA you must be experiencing a lot of cold at end of January, '23. How do you keep the chickens from freezing temps? Hope to see this catch on and most all eggs available are finally prducted humanely. Factory chicken for eggs and food has been so pathetic, glad to see chickens happy living life as they were intended, to provide us food while they enjoy life. Seems the fermented feed expensive. How is it fermented? Have learned that fermented food good for humans digestion as well.
Strange audio. At about 1:10 and 10:20 the audio seems to switch to stereo but with one track of the stereo slightly out of phase with the other. It's still comprehensible, but it sounds strange. maybe special effects folks could use something like this to annoy, I mean, to simulate someone speaking under water or for how some alien might speak.
At 10:40 in the video, egg quality was referred to as being higher. The WSARE study was not inclusive of egg quality testing parameters. What was this conclusion based upon?
So I’m trying this with my 5 urban backyard hens. For now, we live in Pittsburgh, but we have 4 acres of rainforest in Hawaii close to volcanoes national park. Our property is in a subdivision zoned for agricultural work. It is there where we plan on expanding our food production efforts into making a positive impact on that area. Not sure where our journey will lead, but looking into everything from poultry, goats, mini milk cows and or steer, pigs…even short term vacation rental possibly. Looking into everything from Korean Natural Farming to Joel Salatin to Greg Judy….I thank you for sharing your results🍄🌈😃🤙
If I fermenting commercial crumble/pellet feed, is same growth and weight gain we can see in the fermented feed as compared with raw commercial feeds?? Pls explain I have duck farm feeding nearly 500+ birds your answer really help me. We are doing as commercial so weight gain part is very important for us is it does weight gain fermented commercial feeds.
Hi there, please feel free to contact our customer advocate team at info@scratchandpeck.com so they may further assist with your question above. Many thanks!
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?
While we do not have that data from the report available to us at the moment, we appreciate your questions! Please direct any product or feed related questions to info@scratchandpeck.com - THANK YOU!
Hi...Have 2 questions....1). Do u clean the feed baskets at the end of the day so that the leftover feed won't decay.....If it the case what will be the daily feed loss. How do u overcome this leftover feed challenge? 2). Can we ferment the feed if we use dry fish powder as a feed ingredient?
I ferment my feed using Scratch and Peck and there is almost 0 loss in feed, my chickens clean it all up and since the fines get absorb by the water it becomes a mash which they eat
That would mean that it is okay to add vitamins before fermentation. You should have extra water and should feed that water to your birds to be sure they're getting all the vitamins you've added.
Trying to understand how you can say that you get more eggs from the firmament feed that dry when a chickens cycle is one egg every 27 to 30 hours,what about wasted feed the left over fermented feed in the troughs sitting on in the heat will go bad.
I'd like to see a study done similarly on the nutritional content of eggs laid by hens on fermented vs dry feed.
We pasture our hens. We have nesting boxes. The space under the nesting boxes is perfect for tubs full of colonies of Dubai Roaches. We pull one "egg tray" covered in roaches and shake it off once a week from each tub. The chickens look forward to the event like kids waiting on Christmas!!!!! We feed them fermented feed and we compost their manure with wood chips and hay. They love digging in the finished compost for bugs and fishing worms. They are all super healthy and "dignified" because they are not competing for good nutrition.
Sounds like an excelent source for eggs. Where are you located and where do you market your eggs. Hope to see many more of these operations. Eggs are one of my sources of protein as do not eat mammals, so quality is big with me and paying top price for my eggs. They actually seems fresher perhaps because people have to pay the greater price if they reallly want eggs. Eggs alway a bargain and still will be for me.
This is good information. Would you mind if the American Poultry Association used this video on it's Education and Training Website?
Hey there Rip, You betcha! We would LOVE to share this educational vid with your subscribers and members. This was such a fun and revealing project working with farmer Matt and scientist Louisa. Fermenting is attracting a lot of attention these days as both experienced and beginner poultry peeple look for ways to provide better nutrition for their flocks. Thanks for sharing!
Love this!! What about their health? Did you see any changes in Appearance? I have started my horses on Fermented grain. I started slowly, and am up to 1 and a quarter pounds. I noticed softer tails, and they seemed calmer. I have a feeling the friendly bacteria helps with stomach and digestive issues that grains can cause. Happy stomachs, happy horses?? I will be continuing at the same rate for a month before I will know for sure. They definitely like it. Great study. Maybe the chickens fought less because they are more satisfied. Grains are hard on the stomach, at least with horses. Thank you for sharing.
Love this feedback about your horses! We hear often from customers who ferment our feed for their flocks that feathers are soft and shiny. Happy stomach = happy animals all around! Thanks for watching!
@@ScratchAndPeckFeeds We too are doing it for our chickens, but I know much more about Horse Nutrition. I have my degree in Agriculture Science, but have focused my studying over the decades to horse rations. Specifically the vitamins and minerals. They say fermentation creates B vitamins, and that is what happens with my horses when I have supplemented them with B-complex, and vitamin A. Super shiny, and soft. So this all is really interesting to me. Thank you!!
@@ScratchAndPeckFeeds By the way, what feed do you feed your Chickens? You said a complete feed? Organic?
@@heidibrydson3793 Lucky for us, we're in the organic, non-GMO Project verified feed business! Learn more about us here>> www.scratchandpeck.com/
@@heidibrydson3793 Lucky for us, we're in the organic, non-GMO Project verified feed business! Learn more about us here>> www.scratchandpeck.com/
How is the fermented feed prepared?
thank you
Even if a person doesn't want to do the whole fermentation process. In winter months they'd probably love a warm mash
Great work
Hoping to get some clarification on the feed/water ratio. @4:50 the narration says to mix 1:2 ratio of feed:water (by weight) but the study document says:
"Fermented feed, soaked in water at a ratio of 3.2 parts feed to 4 parts water for 48 h prior to feeding;"
The document does not clarify by weight or volume.
Study link: projects.sare.org/wp-content/uploads/Foothills-Farm-study_Full-report.pdf
very good video thank you for share this information..I have a question I have 13 two months old chicks can I feed them whole wheat fermented food ? and can you tell me what ingredient in your fermented chicken food .
Thank you for the question - you can find the info you need on feeding schedules and fermentation technique in our Learning Center on our website - www.scratchandpeck.com/learning-center/guides-infographics/. Thanks for watching our video!
Fermented feed is good for all who eat; animals and humans!!!
I'd like to see the study continued through the lifespan of a group to compare overall laying time and health benefits. This was very interesting and I will use this information in my poultry class.
Women has nice eyes.
Hello guys! Thanks so much for this great video. How many decares is this farm that your grandfather and grandmother bought in the 40s? How many decares of land do you reserve for laying hens on this farm, and how many laying hens do you raise? How many square meters is the chicken tractor seen in the background of the video and how many chickens can be raised in this chicken coop?
I am late to the conversation, but I soak my whole wheat in 5 gallon buckets, and feed about 20 bird's. I let the feed soak about 10 days or so without noticing any sour smell and the girls eat it right up every day
Better late than never, Kyle! Welcome to the flock.
Love this! Add a cup of Kefir to the soak??
Thank you for sharing this video. Can i ask how many times do you feed the chicken in a day?
Hi I'm Jawad from Pakistan .my question is how much ferment ed feed I give to my hens?
While we have used a rule of thumb calculation that a laying hen will eat 1/3 of a pound of grain a day, after fermenting it you are able to cut down to 1/4 of a pound since the birds become full faster and are able to utilize the grain more efficiently! Check out more here: www.scratchandpeck.com/wp-content/uploads/Fermenting-Feed1.pdf
@@ScratchAndPeckFeeds your link is not leading to information.
my question is about protein. I'll use milk as an example. Dehydrated milk powder contains some where around 22% protein. But, when you add water to turn it into liquid, milk, then the protein drops to around 6%. I mix my own feed and use a protein additive to attain a 20% protein feed. It seems to me that if you take a 20% dry feed and mix it with water then the same thing is going to happen as with the powered milk. The protein level is going to tank way below 20%. If so can I forget the protein additive, which is a pretty big chunk of my feed bill. Then what do you use for the protein that the chickens need? Any input would be appreciated.
Wow super informative. So pls help me out. I tried fermented feed on my 300 layers and they loved it but now I have to cut cost and measure the feed too. So pls my birds are 10 weeks old and consuming 20kg, how much fermented feed do I have to feed them
Nice work ❤
Do you feed them fermented feed exclusively?
Is it possible to ferment raw pulverized whole fish? Would it become putrid and unsafe? And also is it possible to ferment the feed ingredients individually (alakat) instead of mixed rations? Thank you so much.
if the fermentation process is producing probiotics and prebiotic's there is a good chance it's the gut bacteria of your chickens that's increasing their ability to get more nutrition from their food more so....Yes bacteria and yeasts break down complex proteins sugars starches and allergens but is a three day process enough to make that a substantial gain? I'm not the authority on the subject but it would be nice to know conclusively what the case is as there is an awful lot of conflicting information on the subject.....
Can you post a link to the study? I heard the podcast with Mike Badger and can't find the study...TIA
Hi there Mark & Denise! Absolutely, please see the link below which will direct you to the study. Thanks! cdn.sare.org/wp-content/uploads/20200115180220/Foothills-Farm-study_Full-report.pdf
Your study was remarkable, and many egg farmer can benefit from your study. Wish I could buy your eggs but am in NM. Can you market them here? Such beautiful surroundings and the operation so healthy and natural.
Eastern WA you must be experiencing a lot of cold at end of January, '23. How do you keep the chickens from freezing temps?
Hope to see this catch on and most all eggs available are finally prducted humanely. Factory chicken for eggs and food has been so pathetic, glad to see chickens happy living life as they were intended, to provide us food while they enjoy life.
Seems the fermented feed expensive. How is it fermented? Have learned that fermented food good for humans digestion as well.
I would be interested if someone studied the difference in colder climates and winter where typically egg production drops.
I live in Canada❤
Strange audio.
At about 1:10 and 10:20 the audio seems to switch to stereo but with one track of the stereo slightly out of phase with the other. It's still comprehensible, but it sounds strange.
maybe special effects folks could use something like this to annoy, I mean, to simulate someone speaking under water or for how some alien might speak.
At 10:40 in the video, egg quality was referred to as being higher. The WSARE study was not inclusive of egg quality testing parameters. What was this conclusion based upon?
This is great. Thank you.
So I’m trying this with my 5 urban backyard hens. For now, we live in Pittsburgh, but we have 4 acres of rainforest in Hawaii close to volcanoes national park. Our property is in a subdivision zoned for agricultural work. It is there where we plan on expanding our food production efforts into making a positive impact on that area. Not sure where our journey will lead, but looking into everything from poultry, goats, mini milk cows and or steer, pigs…even short term vacation rental possibly. Looking into everything from Korean Natural Farming to Joel Salatin to Greg Judy….I thank you for sharing your results🍄🌈😃🤙
Very informative sources. Thanks for sharing the testimonies .
Glad you like them!
Great information thanks what are the troughs made from
Thank you for sharing this video!
Is the narrator at the end of the video, the ice age Farmer?
Very good work. Valuable information.
Thank you.
What kind of valve are you using to fill buckets out of the barrels?
Really nice vedio ,, well information
If I fermenting commercial crumble/pellet feed, is same growth and weight gain we can see in the fermented feed as compared with raw commercial feeds?? Pls explain I have duck farm feeding nearly 500+ birds your answer really help me. We are doing as commercial so weight gain part is very important for us is it does weight gain fermented commercial feeds.
Hi there, please feel free to contact our customer advocate team at info@scratchandpeck.com so they may further assist with your question above. Many thanks!
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?
While we do not have that data from the report available to us at the moment, we appreciate your questions! Please direct any product or feed related questions to info@scratchandpeck.com - THANK YOU!
Did you simply ferment a commercial prepared feed or do you guys make your own feed
They fermented our feed, Scratch and Peck whole grain mash www.scratchandpeck.com/shop/naturally-free-layer/
Nice video
Thank you, we are proud to have taken part in the SARE study.
Hi...Have 2 questions....1). Do u clean the feed baskets at the end of the day so that the leftover feed won't decay.....If it the case what will be the daily feed loss. How do u overcome this leftover feed challenge?
2). Can we ferment the feed if we use dry fish powder as a feed ingredient?
I ferment my feed using Scratch and Peck and there is almost 0 loss in feed, my chickens clean it all up and since the fines get absorb by the water it becomes a mash which they eat
I do not clean mine out. The leftover feed acts as a starter for the next fermented batch.
When add multivitamin before fermentation or time of feeding please
Indian
Our feed is a complete diet, which means it contains all the vitamins and minerals your hens need!
That would mean that it is okay to add vitamins before fermentation. You should have extra water and should feed that water to your birds to be sure they're getting all the vitamins you've added.
Trying to understand how you can say that you get more eggs from the firmament feed that dry when a chickens cycle is one egg every 27 to 30 hours,what about wasted feed the left over fermented feed in the troughs sitting on in the heat will go bad.
Yea..yet they raise that Hybred..Isa browns... why not just use pure bred layers...
What are your recommendations for layers? I have australorps and Dominique's; do they qualify?