Low Tech fodder system experiment

1. Hello, awesome! Thanks for sharing great information. At my homeland( Laos) , barley is very expensive but we grew a lot of rice, twice a year. If we use rice, will we get same nutrition as barley. Thanks.
2. Hi. Great job on experiment.My husband and I are going to build our own fodder system for our goats and chickens.Just rambling our brains to figure out where to set up and temperatures and all but this whole "DIY" system thing😅😆 is kind of intimidating. 😥I don't know why....I used to grow wheat grass to make juice and no matter how hard I try that I couldn't get over that taste(yuck) of it and toss the grass into the chicken run, oh~they love it so much!Thank you for inspiration as always 🌾
3. Nice video.. Coming from someone so 'thick, as I am. I watched it again and again, I adore honesty, I support experiments and laud those who try. tyvm floot
4. Hi. Thanks for this video. I've watched a couple of videos so far. In the event that you didn't learn it since posting this video. . .what I've learned is that oats are more likely to get mold. However, you can use a hydrogen peroxide (instead of bleach) which is still considered certified organic and it combats the mold.
   Now, for my question, how do you figure out how much to feed? Is it by weight? Like, if I've been giving x amount of grain, do I weigh that and if x= 1/2 lbs. then I give 1/2 lbs of fodder?
   I'm not great at mathematic stuff, so I tried to make it very simple for my own sake.
   I hope to hear back from you!
5. I like this method, I will be trying this for my chickens for winter.
6. Great job!!
7. Seems to me you could use one of those wire squares kit from Walmart that you can make box shelves out of and just wire in extra shelves on an angle...would have to find the trays somewhere though.
8. Thanks for posting. I always love your videos your giggles make me smile. I the prices of organic wheat berries will keep me from growing alot of this but I have wanted to do wheatgrass for my own consumption for a long time now. Now there is a fodder system exploding for animals too so I'm going guess that the prices of whole grains will go up too. ;( Guess if we wanna do it economically we have to grow our own with sunflowers or a grain that produces alot of seedhead. I've seen a professional chef/master gardener grow microgreens in soil medium. I wonder if you can clip the grasses and keep it growing with soil? Hope you get some time to get your fodder system going. :)
9. If you look up your grain's nutrient content, you can figure out what mix of grains to grow for optimum nutrition of your animals. It is suggested to use a combo of grains/beans in order to make it into a complete feed. Ruminants can eat grass that is cut from the yard (especially if you plant wheat, barley, clover and alfalfa in your yard and let it get a foot high, and cut it throughout the growing season). I plan on using a fodder system for the complete feeding (sometimes there is an extra step here) of all of my animals (ducks, quail, chickens, rabbits, pigeons, guinea pigs, and dogs.). :D
10. I love to do this after i retire from my work and go back to my home country, but the problem is the barley, wheat grass seeds are so expensive in the Philippines more than $10 for 1 kilograms, i don't know if it will be feasible in hog raising
11. Nice simple system. Buy your wheat from a agriculture farm or seed supplier. It is really cheap. $10-15 for 50lb bag. You can also buy food grade for human consumption. A nice tray can be purchased at Walmart. I think they are top trays for a plastic tub.
12. I seen one you tube video, where barley fodder was placed next to wheat fodder. The chickens ate the wheat fodder up first.
13. i used to do this with oats under lights to feed my goats that i bought at the feed store 15 years ago worked great but i used plastic lined trough on slant
14. Hi and thanks a lot for your very informative video. Quick question, do you know of anyone that tried with Alfalfa seeds and if so what was the outcome?
15. I'm new with chickens, I have 6 .  Will 1 of those trays feed 6 or will I need more?
16. Where are you buying your seeds, online or from magazines?
17. how does this cut back on your feed? We have chickens, hogs, rabbits and chickens.
18. Cool system cause its simple and affordable. I found out about pearled barley the hard way cause that's the only barley our store carried, but it only cost me 31 cents. Was able to get a 3rd pound of some red winter wheat for 15 cents so I'm giving that a try. Might just give your system a try but with 9 shelves, maybe even a pump with a timer, who knows. Thanks for sharing.
19. Love your Low-Tech 'Poor Man's' system. You shouldn't apolagize for your starter system. I've been looking for a small system b/c I only have 2 chickens to feed fodder to. Also good to know I can do something with seed I can grow at the grocery store b/c I don't want to buy 40-50 lbs before I try it on a small scale. Thanx, Barbara
20. very nice job