Prepare Wet/Fermented Chicken Feed

have the devil is in the details the Devils in the details when it comes to farming and being successful at raising egg-layers what you're shooting for is as little labor as possible as good a bird as possible that can get as good a forage as possible good food in low food waste and not burning all of your energy keeping them fed and watered so let me show you what we do and I had to restock the feed barrel today typically we go to Reedy Fork farm and we get all organic feed I had to run out because of this whole crisis that's going on in our country right now I had to run out and get feed was quickly as I could wherever I could get it just for your sake of knowledge if you buy 50 meat birds it takes a thousand pounds of food to finish off 50 meat birds so if you go and get the commercially available feed and don't buy in bulk you're gonna spend quite a bit of money okay so just a little bit of food for thought sometimes it's hard to find there we go through the right string to pull now I want to show you something that you may not have ever thought of this is the commercial feed available from tractor supply from your local farm store we do crumbles for our young birds and pellets as the birds get older so as soon as they finish up all of this chick starter that we're using right now will move on to a formula that has pellets they waste less with pellets I'm telling you right now but as our young birds are growing here's what we do so this is the feed from performance okay look at it look how palatable that is let me compare the two side-by-side this is chick starter from tractor supply this is chick starter from the other livestock store this is much more palatable than this because this is so powdery I'm going to chuck that in there this is so powdery man it's like dust look at that look at my hands the back of my hands are covered with dust a chicken look at this chicken can't eat that imagine being a bird and trying to choke down that dust it's like eatin sawdust it just it's not gonna work man I'll be honest with you I'm not happy with that feed at all I don't think that that's appropriate to feed chicks and even digging down in here there are whole kernels of corn I think it's a lot of filler I don't think it's good for my Birds once we get done I've got to use it all up and once we get done with it then we'll be moving on to an organic food from Reedy Fork farm there'll be a link in the video description to read a fork farm there are wonderful…