by Catherine Haug
Please refer to my earlier post: It’s a Small World – Hydroponic Sprouts (Apr 27, 2010)
Shelli sent the following May 5 update on her sprouting experience, as feed for her dairy goats:
“Round two of sprouting. I had to throw the first one out due to fermentation. [It tasted] a little like beer. It also was a bit foamy and just had a funky smell all together. I threw it into the compost pile. We have a few renegade chickens and they LOVED it.
I got a hold of [my Lakeside contact] to ask a few more questions just to clear things up.
I’m on day three and my sprouts have doubled in size. I rinse daily and move into another bucket putting the bottom sprouts on top and top on bottom.
I had a little spill on the floor during this process and collected them and offered them to the goats. Lola wasn’t impressed, but my Pork Chop gobbled them up.
[For the second batch] I used the same mixture, this time only with more barley and less oats and same amount of sunflower seeds.”
