Waste Grist

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Re: Waste Grist

Post by fatnurse » Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:38 am

Awesome thread, I'm about to do my first AG tomorrow, my chickens and ducks are going to love breakfast on saturday :D

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Re: Waste Grist

Post by WishboneBrewery » Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:03 am

Pay-off last night, our neighbour brought us eggs :)

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Re: Waste Grist

Post by chris_reboot » Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:19 am

and don't they taste all the better for it? 8)

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Re: Waste Grist

Post by Twistedfinger » Fri Jan 14, 2011 1:01 pm

God I miss my Chucks :( I'm Sorry I had to let them go now, specially that I could treat them to spent grain now I'm brewing.

I might get a couple of feertilized eggs and have a go at raising a few again. Good for the kids and they should be extra tasty with a waste grist diet :twisted:

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Re: Waste Grist

Post by boingy » Fri Jan 14, 2011 1:13 pm

Twistedfinger wrote:God I miss my Chucks :( I'm Sorry I had to let them go now, specially that I could treat them to spent grain now I'm brewing.

I might get a couple of feertilized eggs and have a go at raising a few again. Good for the kids and they should be extra tasty with a waste grist diet :twisted:
The only problem with hatching from eggs is that half are likely to be male, and will annoy your neighbours for a good few weeks between finding their voice and being big enough to eat.

We have three chooks and, greedy as they are, they would struggle to get through the grain from an 8 gallon batch so I freeze the grain in small bags and then chuck 'em a frozen lump of grain every now and again. They love chasing the frozen lump around the garden. If only I could freeze the grain in perfect spheres it would be even more entertaining...

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Re: Waste Grist

Post by Shadowknight » Fri Jan 14, 2011 2:02 pm

boingy wrote:
Twistedfinger wrote:God I miss my Chucks :( I'm Sorry I had to let them go now, specially that I could treat them to spent grain now I'm brewing.

I might get a couple of feertilized eggs and have a go at raising a few again. Good for the kids and they should be extra tasty with a waste grist diet :twisted:
The only problem with hatching from eggs is that half are likely to be male, and will annoy your neighbours for a good few weeks between finding their voice and being big enough to eat.

We have three chooks and, greedy as they are, they would struggle to get through the grain from an 8 gallon batch so I freeze the grain in small bags and then chuck 'em a frozen lump of grain every now and again. They love chasing the frozen lump around the garden. If only I could freeze the grain in perfect spheres it would be even more entertaining...
Cut a hole into a tennis ball. ;)
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Re: Waste Grist

Post by befuggled » Fri Jan 14, 2011 2:20 pm

The horses in the adjacent field have found that they can reach the top of the compost heap :shock:
They now come running across when I appear with a load, although they are a bit hesitant while it is still steaming hot! :lol:

It is a shame that the neighbours with chucks and ducks so two faced..... :(

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Re: Waste Grist

Post by rimski » Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:13 pm

Twistedfinger wrote:Good for the kids and they should be extra tasty with a waste grist diet :twisted:
I like kids as well although I don't think I could eat a whole one :wink:

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Re: Waste Grist

Post by Patterd Ale » Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:44 pm

We have 40 odd chooks and they soon clear up my grains. The rats were a problem earlier but the HW97K is always waiting. Blatting a rat with a .22 must give an amusing effect? Rather fancy having a go with the .22-250, serious backstop required! Poor value though at over a pound a round. However the worst outcome from my grains occurred when the terriers got amongst it. They love it and feast with devotion. Then after an incubation period proceed to pebble dash the kitchen at night with the most monstrous turds. Keep it away from dogs in my experience!

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Re: Waste Grist

Post by DomClarke » Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:02 pm

Patterd Ale wrote:Then after an incubation period proceed to pebble dash the kitchen at night with the most monstrous turds. Keep it away from dogs in my experience!
Sorry but that made me laugh!

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Re: Waste Grist

Post by Patterd Ale » Tue Feb 01, 2011 8:55 pm

You got dogs? Hilarious in someone elses kitchen! Perhaps spike your neighbours dogs? New urban game perhaps.

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Re: Waste Grist

Post by Graham » Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:28 pm

Don't know if it has been mentioned yet, but, a year or two ago, someone on here posted a recipe for making dog biscuits out of used grain. I do not own a dog, but I made some anyway. The dogs down the local pub went mad for them. One day an Alsation followed me home. I left the pub a good half hour before the dog 'escaped', so it must have followed the aroma home.

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Re: Waste Grist

Post by boingy » Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:38 pm

Graham wrote:Don't know if it has been mentioned yet, but, a year or two ago, someone on here posted a recipe for making dog biscuits out of used grain. I do not own a dog, but I made some anyway. The dogs down the local pub went mad for them. One day an Alsation followed me home. I left the pub a good half hour before the dog 'escaped', so it must have followed the aroma home.
Now that right there is an entertaining pub game: feeding laxative grain biscuits to other folk's dogs.

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Re: Waste Grist

Post by rimski » Wed Feb 02, 2011 8:48 am

boingy wrote:
Graham wrote:Don't know if it has been mentioned yet, but, a year or two ago, someone on here posted a recipe for making dog biscuits out of used grain. I do not own a dog, but I made some anyway. The dogs down the local pub went mad for them. One day an Alsation followed me home. I left the pub a good half hour before the dog 'escaped', so it must have followed the aroma home.
Now that right there is an entertaining pub game: feeding laxative grain biscuits to other folk's dogs.
Unless of course they can escape and follow you to your house :wink:
I now swap grain and beers for eggs to some friends I didn't know kept chickens the eggs are lush

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