Some helpful ideas, to help you sprout from a very good article titled, "Feeding the Homestead Flock."
This
feeds around 75 chickens, so you may want to adjust accordingly.
You will need the following:
6 Buckets
Seeds
and grains to sprout (peas, whole wheat etc)
Use six, 5 gallon plastic food grade buckets, two of them are for soaking,
and the other four are drain sprout buckets. You can drill some holes in the drain/sprout buckets, in the bottoms or
half way up the sides. (small small holes)
Day 1 Soak 3-4 lbs whole wheat grains and 1-2 lbs whole oats in one
of the soak buckets.
Day 2 Pour the small grains into one of the drain sprout buckets, and rinse thoroughly, allowing
them to drain through the holes in the bucket, before returning. Set the same amounts of small grains to soak in the
soak bucket. In a second soak bucket, set 3-4 lbs of whole peas to soak.
Day 3 Pout the small grains into a drain sprout
bucket. Pour yesterdays soaked peas into the grains from day 1. It takes different grains different lenghths of time to sprout.
Both drain buckets get rinsed before returning.
Day 4 Repeat this time putting soaked peas into the bucket
containing grains started day 2.
Day 5 Again Repeat- all contents ar in all four drain/sprout buckets
Day
6 The most advanced bucket of sprouts is not ready to feed. Note that the grains are five day sprouts and the peas are four
day sprouts.
Scatter around the pasture and you are set to go. Put yesterdays soaked grain into the bucket you
just emptied, and the cycle goes on. Every day the buckets get rinsed or the sprouting grains get bacteria and smell.
Birds
will be eager to eat these sprouts, and will not put on excessive fat this way.