Shelli’s Sprouts: Round Two

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.”

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