how to make my own mix

[Kingfisher]

Use to be a company over in NE Texas that mixed liter with corn and dried bakery products and cooked it. After cooking and drying it still smelled like CS. :lol2:

Aggies.......;(

 

[Douglas]

I guess I would be concerned with what kind of pathogens or other unwanted stuff would come with feeding it to ruminants.

I think it is composted a year or two before feeding.

 

[TexasBred]

Use to be a company over in NE Texas that mixed liter with corn and dried bakery products and cooked it. After cooking and drying it still smelled like CS. :lol2:

Aggies.......;(

Probably. Gotta me messin' with something all the time...sort of like the "maroon" blue bonnets we hae out here. :lol2:

 

[gravy]

Needs to be composted 21 days and temps above 130. I dumped 15 tons in a field to come back and spread later and when I came back it was gone, cows ate it. Smells like money here in N.Alabama. we had about 150 broiler houses in 10 radius till the tornado come thru in April.

 

[thendrix]

Chicken feed is mostly grain and corn. I have heard that chickens only process about 25 - 30 percent of what they eat so 70 - 75 percent is still usable feed. I have heard of stacked chicken house were the chickens on top eat feed and the chickens underneath eat chicken poo or 70 - 75 percent feed. I dont think I could stand to feed it to my cows and then eat the cows but it is a viable option.

 

[TexasBred]

Chicken feed is mostly grain and corn. I have heard that chickens only process about 25 - 30 percent of what they eat so 70 - 75 percent is still usable feed. I have heard of stacked chicken house were the chickens on top eat feed and the chickens underneath eat chicken poo or 70 - 75 percent feed. I dont think I could stand to feed it to my cows and then eat the cows but it is a viable option.

Depending on the age of the chicks chicken feed can be as high as 20% crude protein. Chickens actually convert feed to gain very effeciently. Not unusual to get a lb. of gain out of 2 lbs. of feed. The are nasty eaters tho and waste about as much as they actually eat by simply knocking it out of the feeder.

 

[sassafras manor]

Not to get off subject but our Cornish cross broilers consume about 20 lbs. of feed in 8 weeks with a live weight of 8 lbs. Needless to say they are very effecient. Maybe they were referring to layers which are no where nearly as effecient

 

[TexasBred]

Not to get off subject but our Cornish cross broilers consume about 20 lbs. of feed in 8 weeks with a live weight of 8 lbs. Needless to say they are very effecient. Maybe they were referring to layers which are no where nearly as effecient

They're efficient too....but they're putting a lot of energy into producing eggs instead of gain.

 

[HomePlaceAngus]

I am in eastern North Carolina where chicken farms is a big business and I have never heard of feeding chicken litter to cattle. Going to talk with NC State on that one.

 

[BC]

I am in eastern North Carolina where chicken farms is a big business and I have never heard of feeding chicken litter to cattle. Going to talk with NC State on that one.

Save yourself a phone call and read this by ncsu:

http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extens ... /ag61.html

 

[Wisteria Farms]

I just think I'm in shock.... never would have guessed this was being done... I yell at my dog for nabbing a wad of chicken poo off the floor in the barn... I guess I should stop hollering at her!