New fodder system for less then $10

[fintuckyfarms]

I was thinking along those same lines...

[fintuckyfarms]

It's growing... so far no mold but I will soon be switching to a flood and drain auto system. Watering 4 times a day is getting old fast but it's totally worth it to have fresh clean greens to feed my birds. I have been training them to eat the greens with smaller batches of a pasture mix with clover and several grasses. They come running when I go out with it. I am going thru with my plans to build the greenhouse and I think I might build a huge system and sell fodder to local farmers. There are many small hobby farmers in my area with everything from chickens and rabbits to cows and horses and hay is really expensive in my area even tho we grow it here. Most gets shipped over seas. Anyway just a thought for now.... The experiment continues

[fintuckyfarms]

So far the only problem with the system is that I have to hand water it...
Can't wait to redo it into a flood and drain type system. Anybody have an idea how to clean the starch out of the water?
I have not had any problem with mold and I have not used anything in the water or as a pre-soak, no bleech, vinager or hydrogen peroxide.
I think I was putting too much seed into the system and have cut down about 1/2 cup of so per batch. I would like to find some barley and I am still looking fo a resource for it.

[GpsFrontier]

With seeds/sprouts there is really no need to use nutrients. So do it as a drain to waist system rather than a recirculating system. With short timed cycles and a "small" pump (very small fountain or aquarium pump), you wont use or need much water anyway. If you get the timing right and use a small enough pump, you probably wont need to run more than a cup or two of water through it on each cycle. You probably wouldn't need more a couple of 5 gallon buckets. Then just pump the water from one with fresh water in it, through the system and let it drain into the other 5 gal bucket. You can always reduce the flow rate from the pump if it still pumps too much water depending on your minimum timer settings. That would be much easier and less expensive than getting a cycle timer to run real short cycles.