Re: Chicken Experiment Results

[Guest guest]

Interesting results, Heidi. At the farm where we are cowshare owners,

the chickens are given whey (they're freerange). These birds are

HUGE and so are the eggs, with shells that are hard to crack (my

young daughter, 4 at the time, once called them 'coconuts', LOL).

If you aren't using all your whey to culture things, you might give

it a shot.

Smiles,

Tracey

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[Guest guest]

They love kefiili as well as the grains! I feed mine lots of clabbered milk,

fil mjolk, whey, etc. Anything that's extra, they get.

[Guest guest]

>Interesting results, Heidi. At the farm where we are cowshare owners,

>the chickens are given whey (they're freerange). These birds are

>HUGE and so are the eggs, with shells that are hard to crack (my

>young daughter, 4 at the time, once called them 'coconuts', LOL).

>

>If you aren't using all your whey to culture things, you might give

>it a shot.

>

>Smiles,

>Tracey

Hmmm. I don't have whey, really, the kefiili doesn't separate and I don't need

whey to culture. But I could buy some in bulk, I guess. I'd think it would be

a good chicken food (even dried?). I was thinking it would be good to

get a milk goat just for chicken food, but so far my dh nixed the idea.

-- Heidi Jean

[Guest guest]

I have goats and I buy cow milk strictly for the cream which leaves me with

all this skim milk that needs a home.

[Guest guest]

I just put it in some pans about 6 inches high. Some chickens don't like it.

Pull their water for a couple hours so that's all they have available to

drink. After a couple days they figure the program out and pretty soon they

scramble to get it.

[Guest guest]

>They love kefiili as well as the grains! I feed mine lots of clabbered milk,

>fil mjolk, whey, etc. Anything that's extra, they get.

Mine love it too! But it's pricey to feed to a chicken ... unless

you have a cow. I think you have a cow, right? We are a ways

off from that yet ...

-- Heidi Jean

[Guest guest]

Ok, I just have to ask--how do you feed the chickens the whey?

Thanks, Leann

With 15 kefiili loving pullets!

>

> >They love kefiili as well as the grains! I feed mine lots of

clabbered milk,

> >fil mjolk, whey, etc. Anything that's extra, they get.

>

> Mine love it too! But it's pricey to feed to a chicken ... unless

> you have a cow. I think you have a cow, right? We are a ways

> off from that yet ...

>

> -- Heidi Jean

[Guest guest]

What do you think the dairy whey does for the chickens? We have

been feeding kefiili with scraps mixed in, and kefir when we are

short on kefiili--they do go nuts over it.

Leann

> I just put it in some pans about 6 inches high. Some chickens

don't like it.

> Pull their water for a couple hours so that's all they have

available to

> drink. After a couple days they figure the program out and pretty

soon they

> scramble to get it.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I mix extra or leftover kefir in with the kitchen scraps....

Marie

Re: Chicken Experiment Results

Ok, I just have to ask--how do you feed the chickens the whey?

Thanks, Leann

With 15 kefiili loving pullets!

>

> >They love kefiili as well as the grains! I feed mine lots of

clabbered milk,

> >fil mjolk, whey, etc. Anything that's extra, they get.

>

> Mine love it too! But it's pricey to feed to a chicken ... unless

> you have a cow. I think you have a cow, right? We are a ways

> off from that yet ...

>

> -- Heidi Jean

[Guest guest]

The whey contains the water soluable vitamins and minerals from milk.

Because I make my cheese with a reculturable innoculant I figure it must contain

some probiotics as well.