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Examine Raw Organic Feed Ingredients

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How Chicken feed is made...it might surprise you!

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What happens here

Take the opportunity to physically examine the individual raw ingredients that make up the organic feed. Examples include organic wheat, roasted soybeans, crab meal, poultry nutri-balancer, alfalfa meal, fish meal, aragonite (calcium), organic corn, and grit. This hands-on inspection allows for a better understanding of the quality and appearance of what goes into your animals' diet.

Goal: Visually inspect the various raw ingredients used in organic animal feed.

Tools and materials

  • Corn Organic Reedy Fork Organic Farm — Energy source in organic feed
  • Crab Meal Reedy Fork Organic Farm — Mineral and protein supplement
  • Fish Meal Reedy Fork Organic Farm — Protein and omega fatty acid source
  • Grit Reedy Fork Organic Farm — A supplement for avian digestion
  • Organic Wheat Reedy Fork Organic Farm — A primary ingredient in organic animal feed

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depends on what your preference is all right guys look up there that crazy-looking that outfit that is your feed mill the actual mill itself actually mill and mixer where we mix your feet now different types of feed are gonna have a different like size in other words so if you're doing chick starter it's going to be much finer and much more powdery yeah it's gonna have them smaller grind do you gotcha so you have to set this mill up and it's all done by computer also it's simple yet we have to set it up or sale I don't change the screens and different screens and that kind of thing also that's part of even there's so many pipes coming in because some of the things we grind hole that goes in a meal hole some to some things go in ground so things Corral cool now I'm looking over here in these bins and I see what looks like dirt almost what is that this one's got flax meal in it okay so that's flax meal and that you put flax in for the Omega threes for the mega threes and for the protein it's got a good amount of protein in it awesome so we put and over the hump from here I see some it looks like hold on I'm coming around here so this is looks like yeah so you bring in your own gravel sure do you play well for so the birds need grit and that's how they digest their food guys and if you're not familiar where the chicken well it's got a few chambers in its stomach the first one we call the craw I don't know what you call that what do you know what the real technical term for that is I've always heard Kodachrome yep we call it the cross so if you have a baby chick and it's got a big old swollen spot it's not cancer okay it's the it's not a goiter either it's the crawl and what that is is the food that's the first chamber of the stomach it's moistening the food it brings it down into the gizzard area which requires grit okay so you got to have grit in your gizzard in order to break down the food so the chickens don't have teeth they have a gizzard pretty cool this is where we bagged up to feed 50

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