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RE: Fermentation of chicken feed to save costs and improve uptake of nutrients for the birds
It's very interesting chickens eat 25% less feed after they consume enough nutrients they need. People will eat less too if they eat food with more nutrients than chemicals in it.
Did the grains germinate a little? If so, more vitamins in the sprouts!
I like how you used road kills! It's imitating the Nature food cycle which never wastes. We fed our chickens and ducks with black soldier fly maggots, feeding on any organic kitchen scraps.
The grains were milled already. Although, we also experimented with sprouting wheat and barley for chicken fodder as well. It worked really well too. We sprouted the grain in our greenhouse for the birds. But it was a lot of work as we had to keep the greenhouse fire going to sprout the volume of grain we needed for the birds. So we abandoned the idea. But if push came to shove, it would work well too! I did not make any calculations, but I suspect sprouted grain would result in even more feed savings, but it is also a lot more work too.