fermented feed

[JIL]

I have 6 - 50lb bags of egg pellets that smell like whiskey!! can I feed this to my girls this is a lot of $$$ either way. throw out the feed or make my girls sick or worst. what would you do? thanks JIL PS can this make them sick?

[Cyngbaeld]

Fermented is ok. Mold is not. Did it get wet at your place? Could it be that some spent grain got in the mix?

Read the ingredients listing. If it mentions distillers grains or anything else with the word 'distillers' in it then there is the source of your smell. The layer feed I use has a sweetish, fermented smell to it as well because it uses distillers grains as one of the ingredients. I've been through several tons of it now.

If the pellets are wet or mushy feeling that too could explain it, but you likely would have noticed that right off.

[JIL]

not wet or mushy looks and feels normal, not musky smelling just smells like whiskey lol so they should be ok with this feed? I have a 100+ birds.

[JIL]

the bags are stored in a dry barn came from feed store to barn to feed cans I don't think they got wet at least not in my care. I've had them in the barn for over a week so they are mine. (can't send back to feed store) But if they won't get my girls sick or worst I'm ok with using it.

If the pellets are dry and hard and the bags don't look like they have been wet then I'd feed it. Read the ingredients. I'm willing to bet there are distillers grains in there somewhere.

[JIL]

thanks not sure if i still have the bags

[pancho]

Like Hagan said, examine the pellets. If they are all the same size, hard, and dry they haven't gotten wet.