I would plant another patch of millet next year and hand harvest the seed heads for sale to pet stores or open you own online store. Millet sells for a LOT of money to people with pet birds such as parrots.
Cleaning and greasing equipment will keep them from catching fire, especially bearings. I think the millet was a success. Oh, and keep a fire extinguisher handy.
I love how people think of this ancient grain as just animal feed. You literally can use this just like barely and wheat! You can even use it in place of rice and oatmeal!! This grain also is incredibly nutritious for people!!
If that pearl miller seed is high in protein it can replace a significant amount of chicken feed. I'm going to try and grow some on a patch of land for hay for rabbits and the seeds for chickens.
Lots and lots of diversity in the greenery that becomes more and more usable for fodder, can make some really nutritious bales. Mixing many different varieties of fodder plans including pea, sunflower, rye, millet, bracchias and whatever is available in your area naturally - even weeds - makes for good feed bales especially if the ground is left a little longer than ideal before knocking it over, drying out and baling. The more variety over an eighty to ninety day growing period is most often considered best. Something I learned from people like Salatin, Savory and others...
With storing bales of millet and hay that aren't dry, are you at all concerned about the possibility of fire in your barn? As a retired rural firefighter I've seen more than my fair share of hay fires caused by farmers who put away their hay before it was dry enough. Be sure to be moving those bales and checking for hotspots!
Yeah, I always check and wont stack wet hay. If the hay is a little green it wont get that hot and on this small scale the stacks are small enough to not hold too much heat. I also broke these bales open so they didnt mold
Make your self a simple thrashing bench. Check the videos by Tillers. Just using some lumber, nuts and bolts and screws you can make one in an afternoon.
you could fence off that area for your chickens to forage and their poo will fertilize your field. Free forage less feed for you chickens. More help for your bare field. Try to never send your fields into winter naked.
I personally would not feed millet hay to the horses since you have other options. Foxtail millet has high oxalates so it could make them calcium deficient. Also some horses grazing millet hay may have lameness and joint swelling. Pearl millet can have an alkaloid buildup that horses may also react to.
Our ancestors must be rolling in their graves: Millet was the primer grain in the ancient times in the Caucasian world and Mesopotamia bless you but try some ground up in your whole grain bread.
I would plant another patch of millet next year and hand harvest the seed heads for sale to pet stores or open you own online store. Millet sells for a LOT of money to people with pet birds such as parrots.
Cleaning and greasing equipment will keep them from catching fire, especially bearings. I think the millet was a success. Oh, and keep a fire extinguisher handy.
I love how people think of this ancient grain as just animal feed. You literally can use this just like barely and wheat! You can even use it in place of rice and oatmeal!! This grain also is incredibly nutritious for people!!
Great video. I'm thinking about planting millet in my backyard for my chickens! This helped me make up my mind
If that pearl miller seed is high in protein it can replace a significant amount of chicken feed. I'm going to try and grow some on a patch of land for hay for rabbits and the seeds for chickens.
Use some of that millet seed to make a deer food plot in the woods. Great way to up your hunting game.
As a celiac I’m happy to see small farms grow anything I can eat
Is there an update 🤔 video on the baled millet. How did it work out for all of your animals. Was it worth the time and effort.
Came out good I take it.
Chicken feed forever Millet and 🌻
It was a good crop. I like the idea of a sunflower field. Sunflowers will help your soil too. Looks like you have some good soil already.
Cool Vid Sir happy to see that you found some other food that you can plant for Pigs..... Anyway to save a Buck !! Right ! Thank u Sir
Your cow is so cute😍
Good video 👍
Try some mammoth sunflowers and grow a pole beans with them. Peace
Lots and lots of diversity in the greenery that becomes more and more usable for fodder, can make some really nutritious bales.
Mixing many different varieties of fodder plans including pea, sunflower, rye, millet, bracchias and whatever is available in your area naturally - even weeds - makes for good feed bales especially if the ground is left a little longer than ideal before knocking it over, drying out and baling.
The more variety over an eighty to ninety day growing period is most often considered best. Something I learned from people like Salatin, Savory and others...
You'd better be careful with weeds as there are a lot of weeds that are toxic to livestock!
Nice job. I know those critters are going to enjoy the oils and stuff in the millet! Blessings from NE Missouri!
Loose bails can still get moldy if there's enough moisture.
With storing bales of millet and hay that aren't dry, are you at all concerned about the possibility of fire in your barn? As a retired rural firefighter I've seen more than my fair share of hay fires caused by farmers who put away their hay before it was dry enough. Be sure to be moving those bales and checking for hotspots!
Yeah, I always check and wont stack wet hay. If the hay is a little green it wont get that hot and on this small scale the stacks are small enough to not hold too much heat. I also broke these bales open so they didnt mold
you might check into austrian winter peas dont know if they will grow that far up north you could go ahead and plant them this fall
Make your self a simple thrashing bench. Check the videos by Tillers. Just using some lumber, nuts and bolts and screws you can make one in an afternoon.
Mold is not the problem as you already know it is heat and fire.
Also, the mold:)
Put a generous amount of salt on top of the bales. Whenever we had slightly wet hay that's we did, and it seems to help keep the mold down.
Sorghum seed pods any thing like that...
you could fence off that area for your chickens to forage and their poo will fertilize your field. Free forage less feed for you chickens. More help for your bare field.
Try to never send your fields into winter naked.
where can I buy millet seeds ?
try clover
I personally would not feed millet hay to the horses since you have other options. Foxtail millet has high oxalates so it could make them calcium deficient. Also some horses grazing millet hay may have lameness and joint swelling. Pearl millet can have an alkaloid buildup that horses may also react to.
Good to know!
chicken tractor to let them clean off the land?
What kind of millet is that?
Looks like Proso but I could be wrong.
Seems like a great product. I do wonder if rodents will get into that?
We keep a couple cats in the barn to help with that:)
First (maybe)
Our ancestors must be rolling in their graves: Millet was the primer grain in the ancient times in the Caucasian world and Mesopotamia bless you but try some ground up in your whole grain bread.