DIY Hydroponics – Grow your own Sustainable Livestock Feed

May 27, 2016Health & Wellness

How you can successfully grow your own feed and save yourself some money

Feeding livestock is one of the most expensive things that people have to do when they own a farm. The problem is a lot of people are not aware that they are able to save quite a bit of money on their food cost by using some of the DIY livestock feed hydroponic options that are available for them. By knowing about these benefits, it will be easier for people to get the right feed for their animals, but also have a chance to save quite a bit of money on the feed.

Grow Your Own Feed:

The first thing that farmers, especially small scale farmers will notice is this is going to allow them to grow their own feed. Since the farmers are going to get a chance to grow their own feed, it will make it easier for them to control the cost of food. Not only that it will let the farmers know exactly what is going into the feed. Granted, the farmers may need to put in some extra vitamins and minerals, but they will know exactly what kind of grain is in the feed instead of having to rely on a product label.

Efficiency:

The time it is going to take for the feed to be produced is something else which people are going to enjoy. While people may have never thought about this, they will generally be able to grow their own feed in a hydroponics system in under a week.

A good example of this is some of the farmers will take a five pound starting batch of seed and have it converted into twenty five pounds of feed within seven days. Now these results are going to vary depending on the type of seed and the way the set up is done, but it is very easy to get tremendous results.

DIY Made Easy:

The final benefit the farmers are going to find with the DIY systems is the fact that it is rather easy to set up. Since these systems are so easy to set up, they will not have to be concerned about the system being complex or impossible for them to get the setup done. So people will want to make sure they know about the fact these systems are easy to set up. And, if they are properly maintained, clean up is easy in between the seedling’s that people are going to want to do.

Conclusion:

When people are looking at their different feed costs they will often find the livestock feed versus income return is very different. In fact, sometimes the farmers will find the cost is so significant they are barely making any money because of the feed cost. This is when the farmers should know more about the benefits of using the DIY livestock feed hydroponics. By knowing about these benefits it will be easy for the farmer to see this is one of the best things they can put into their feed options to save money, but provide quality feed.

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Source: Sustainable Livestock Nutrition