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Lovin' The Homestead
Free.... HELP! 
I have 80 2 week old chicks, and 20 6 week old chicks. I also have 11 bantams, full grown, and 11 Muscovy ducks.
The ducks get 2 cups a day of the sprouted grain, and it replaces veggies, and reduces their need for feed by about the same amount.
The chickens get 1/2 cup per cage per day (four cages), and it reduces their feed by the same amount. That is slowly increasing as they grow.
The chicks currently get half a cup per day for each brooder with 40 little chicks, and 1 cup a day for the bigger chicks, who are all in the same brooder still because it is way too cold for them to be outside here yet.
So a bucket half full lasts me several days - I start feeding it after two days, and feed it to them until it is gone from that bucket - start another bucket before the first one is gone. Eventually I'll probably go to a 5 bucket rotation system, don't need to yet, but likely to need to within about 2 months as these new chicks grow (and grow, and grow!).
For the goats, about a cup and a half (depending on whether they are milking, pregnant, etc), once a day (fermented grain once a day, sprouts once a day). It offsets regular grain, and directly replaces a cup and a half of dry grain (sprouted grain takes up more room, so it does decrease the cost). I just substitute sprouted or fermented grain for their regular grain, giving them the same volume, and it takes less because it expands, and they get a lot more out of it.
Haven't got the rabbits eating any sprouted grain yet, if I do, it will likely be just wheat and rye, sprouted longer so that it goes green (would have to use trays for that), and mowed off so there are no seeds on it.
I have an old baker's rack - the kind they use in bakeries that are on wheels, with shelves about 4" apart. I put pieces of plywood on about every third shelf, so there is room for light to come in between them, and use those shelves to put the sprout trays on. I just move them up as they grow, so the ones that have sprouted a few days ago are moving up where it is lighter, the newest ones are down where it is darker. Currently, I'm planting the grain sprouts in the trays in dirt, and that is best for rabbits because the greens are better for them than the grains.
I have 80 2 week old chicks, and 20 6 week old chicks. I also have 11 bantams, full grown, and 11 Muscovy ducks.
The ducks get 2 cups a day of the sprouted grain, and it replaces veggies, and reduces their need for feed by about the same amount.
The chickens get 1/2 cup per cage per day (four cages), and it reduces their feed by the same amount. That is slowly increasing as they grow.
The chicks currently get half a cup per day for each brooder with 40 little chicks, and 1 cup a day for the bigger chicks, who are all in the same brooder still because it is way too cold for them to be outside here yet.
So a bucket half full lasts me several days - I start feeding it after two days, and feed it to them until it is gone from that bucket - start another bucket before the first one is gone. Eventually I'll probably go to a 5 bucket rotation system, don't need to yet, but likely to need to within about 2 months as these new chicks grow (and grow, and grow!).
For the goats, about a cup and a half (depending on whether they are milking, pregnant, etc), once a day (fermented grain once a day, sprouts once a day). It offsets regular grain, and directly replaces a cup and a half of dry grain (sprouted grain takes up more room, so it does decrease the cost). I just substitute sprouted or fermented grain for their regular grain, giving them the same volume, and it takes less because it expands, and they get a lot more out of it.
Haven't got the rabbits eating any sprouted grain yet, if I do, it will likely be just wheat and rye, sprouted longer so that it goes green (would have to use trays for that), and mowed off so there are no seeds on it.
I have an old baker's rack - the kind they use in bakeries that are on wheels, with shelves about 4" apart. I put pieces of plywood on about every third shelf, so there is room for light to come in between them, and use those shelves to put the sprout trays on. I just move them up as they grow, so the ones that have sprouted a few days ago are moving up where it is lighter, the newest ones are down where it is darker. Currently, I'm planting the grain sprouts in the trays in dirt, and that is best for rabbits because the greens are better for them than the grains.
so I would start them out on a half a jar see if they clean that up and go from there... and then just give the chickens the rest... 
