Fast Super Easy Fodder For Fresh Greens!

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right I'm going to show you how to produce quick winter greens for your chickens to help increase their egg production during winter I'm kind of doing a series on how to increase egg production in the winter and so this is a great tip and this is a fodder system it's going to be a way to get quick winter greens so easy anybody can do it and it's good for chickens it's good for rabbits it's good for people because sprouted greens are really good they're very very healthy it's really really really simple to do I'll show you the steps anyone can do this alright quick instructions on some fodder for your chickens especially through the winter cover the bottom and we've got a basic add some water and for the very first day we want to completely submerge these seeds a pretty good bit probably about three or four inches so that they will slowly drain and soak you know really good the germination process started if the temperatures are below freezing where you are you may have to do this in your carport or somewhere where they won't actually freeze solid our winners we get below freezing occasionally but not very much so I can do this all winter long probably in the northern regions you could do this all summer long - our summers do get too hot but my water in it and I have enough holes where that water will drain out but there's enough water where it'll drain slowly so they should be good soaked by the time the water drains out and then I'm gonna add a little bit of water every day to keep them moist and we should have sprouts within two to three days and we should have actually grass if you leave it long enough within a week I don't know if we're gonna leave it to the grass stage we'll see how I feel also for the first off see now the water is already going down for the first two or three days I'm gonna go ahead and put the lid on it because seeds germinate better in the dark you have to simulate the idea that it's under the dirt so dark is better all right so for three days I've been putting about a half a foot of water in here and letting it slowly drain out and then I put the lid on it because it's gonna root a little easier in the dark kind of tricks the state into thinking it's under ground you know under the soil so three days in I've got a really good root mass going here the piece you know it's starting to all just kind of clump together and I'm starting to be able to lift it as a more or less you know solid pieces and chunks because it's starting to root entangled together so at this point I'm gonna go ahead and take the lid off and continue the process so that it can get a little bit of light and start to grow some green shoots you could feed it to this point it's I mean it's really healthy it's got more nutrition than just the plain seed this is after three days as you can see you know it's already multiplying your feet but we're gonna let it go until it starts to get some green on it because I want greens through the chickens but you can see they're already starting to shoot up a couple of days the sunlight and we'll get a lot of nice little greens off of this Oh keep going all right I'm about five days in on the wheat growth and I'm about three days in on the other batch and it's about time to start feeding out of this one so I'm gonna go ahead and show you a close what it's looking like all right we're at day 5 I started another one and there at day three if I remember right um so as you can see we've got a lot of grass growing up and I can could continue to let this go for a few more days there's still enough nutrients for that to grow but I don't think I'm going to and I'll tell you why the ones on the top are preventing the ones in the bottom from contingent from growing so if I start feeding now the ones at the bottom will still have you know the roots and little shoots they can eat if I leave it the ones at the bottom are gonna start to rot so I don't think I would go any more than day five before I start feeding it but what I'm going to do is continue to ward these every day and I'm not gonna give them the whole thing I'm gonna break them a chunk off every day so by the time I've fed them all of this these should be about at this stage and then I'll start this one afresh and so that way I'll have a rotation with just two if you had a lot of animals that you need to feed more than that like bunnies or whatever you could have of course more than one tote and you could have shorter totes you don't need them this tall I just already had these because I was gonna make planners with them and I never did so I already had them with holes drilled on the bottom so that's why I use them but of course you could use short totes have to it's because they're not going to to need that much space up in here but you can see at day five we've got a nice thick carpet here and there shoots or judging by my fingers about three inches long that's cool one out see yeah probably about three and a half inches actually so what's the matter Hannah you want some grass no not so interesting that I filmed I filmed less no yesterday evening kind of late in the evening so I decided to go ahead and wait and feed them this morning and it's actually grown quite a bit more even overnight and I put the lids on him last night because we had a bad rain and I didn't want him to get all washed out and tore up ah but so it's making for not so wonderful not such wonderful filming weather but look at that all right I think it'll be good nice root mass I don't know how but tear this out of there with one hand I have to put the camera down and tear a chunk out all right so I took just a little chunk out the side and I broke it up into smaller pieces on here [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 7min 48sec (468 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 26 2018