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Set Up Feed and Water Systems

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What happens here

Upon successful transfer of the chicks, Josh sets up their essential feeding and watering systems. He uses a 'Brower type feeder' for their organic feed, sourced from Reedy Fork Farm. He also installs a large 5-gallon watering system, ensuring its spout is positioned downhill for optimal water flow. Josh explains the benefits of wetting the feed: it helps to sprout any seeds, releasing sugars, which makes the food easier for the chicks to digest and helps them gain weight faster, while also reducing waste (less poop). However, he decides to start with dry feed for the initial transition period to avoid additional stress on the newly introduced birds, planning to gradually introduce the wet feed over the next few days. He explains they prepare enough wet food to last 2 days, to avoid fermentation but allow sprouting.

Goal: Feeding and watering systems are installed within the pasture enclosure, with an emphasis on using organic feed that can be wetted to aid digestion and promote faster growth.

Tools and materials

  • 5-gallon chicken waterer
  • Brower type feeder
  • Organic feed
  • Water

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all right so they're all introduced to the new coop all I got to do now is put food and water in here I'll show you the type of feeder that we use and the type of water that we use it works the best this is a Brower type feeder for mobile chicken coop I have two different kinds some with a round bar up top and some with like a serrated bar up top and you can get all those at premier one and I'll post links down in the video description Coria so we're going to go ahead and fill up their feeder get some food in there put some water in there and the birds have everything that they need so for our feed we are using an organic feed mix from Reedy Fork farm it is absolutely awesome we wet our food so in other words our food starts out looking like this we put a little water with it and we feed it to our Birds we take these three buckets which are full of yuck right now because it rained like nine inches the other day but we'll take those three buckets and we'll stay two days ahead all the time with our feed we don't want it to firm it but we do want any seeds in there to sprout and when you wet it like that it releases sugar so we don't want drunk chickens we just want chickens that have food that's easier to digest and helps them put on weight faster so they poop less and they gain weight faster that's what we found if we wet the food first pretty cool sometimes it's really hard to get wet food in your feeder you can pour it directly on the ground or you can pour it in the feeder for this first bunch I think I'm just going to pour it directly on the ground I really don't want to feed them too a wet and nasty of a food as soon as I move them out in other words this is stressful on the birds so changing up their food formula right now is not the right thing to do so we're gonna feed them dry food and then over the next few days we'll start introducing them to wet food you don't want to shock your animals same thing goes with cows you can't just put them out on fresh green forage after they've been eating hay in Grain it'll make them sick so it'll give the chickens the squirts we don't want that so this is our water setup right here this is one of our waters I like it you just basically set this down in you make sure the spout is down the hill and it has a big ol lid on it here so that you can just pour a five-gallon bucket in there so that holds about five gallons ish something like that and that needs to set almost on level ground and you need the spout always…

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