* Poor Mans way to make chicken feed * pic

Dutchman · Jan 30, 2012

I read in a mag. how a guy crack corn with his chipper ... the corn cracks more when the chipper is running fast ... I ran it wide open . chickens seem to like it , try haveing the co-op crack the corn and they left to many not crack .. so decide to do it my way ...
Anyway I try it this past week , and decide to blow it right in my grainery ..
only plug it twice .. trying to feed it too fast ...
just thought I would share... hope you enjoy the pictures ..

Mark

Case Nutty 1660 · Jan 30, 2012

I like it Mark looks like a smart way to me!!!

fixerupper · Jan 30, 2012

If it works, why not do it? Back in the day, I pitched many a round bale through an old Gehl sileage chopper for stock cow feed when the neighbor was hiring a tub grinder to do the same job. Jim

Chris(WA) · Jan 30, 2012

I think that is a great idea. I have often looked at the screens in my chipper and thought of the screens in a chopper hammer mill.
I use an old Papec silo filler to chip larger stuff than my chipper will easily handle. Works swell for that!

Anonymous-0 · Jan 31, 2012

Neighbor has a smaller one that he uses to make feed for his goats... Collects old bread from a bakery and the neighbors always drop bags off, ear corn that he gathers after the farmers pick (with permission), some hay or grass/green bush stems.. Runs it all thru and they go nuts.... Sure beats paying for the real thing.....

fixerupper · Jan 31, 2012

When I used to haul bean meal out of Sioux City I'd sit in the parking lot of the plant and watch an older man come with a garbage can and scoop about the same time every evening. He'd scoop up all of the different products the truckers would clean out of their trucks before they were loaded with meal. The stuff he cleaned up was fed to his chickens. He'd get corn, oats, wheat, DDG's, DICAL, and whatever else the truckers hauled to feed plants. His only expense was gas for his old Ford Ranger. Jim

Traditional Farmer · Jan 31, 2012

Great Idea.

JRSutton · Jan 31, 2012

I don't have enough cows/goats/chickens to really justify the "proper" equipment - that's a very interesting alternative.

Might have to give that one a try.

Thanks for sharing

1130Leo · Jan 31, 2012

It looks like that chipper works much better for that than it ever did chipping brush, I had one and it didn't work worth a darn for my brush so I sold it, now I wish I still had it.... Great job!

RGMartin · Jan 31, 2012

I run ear corn through mine from time to time. While not the quality grind you would get from a Gehl or NH, it does a fair job. Her hens don't complain.

I will probably pick up a few feeder pigs when we get closer to spring. I imagine their feed would go through it as well.

Hard to justify a grinder mixer for a few 100# a month.

Iowa Jim · Jan 31, 2012

WOW, inventive, but tht looks like a huge mess. I wonder how much corn you are actually losing.

Dutchman · Jan 31, 2012

What you see on the ground is OATS CHAFF .. and were I pulled it apart ..{it pluged , trying to feed it in to fast } chickens will clean it up , for they are running loose ...

mark

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