What Do You Do With Your Waste?

[drsmurto]

I was taking my grain round to The Big Burper who also lives on Bribie, his chooks loved it but he found that barley products are not too good for chooks as it gives them stick cloaca (sounds disgusting) and he found that after a few feeds they were suffering from that problem as well, so it's back to the compost.

Not good for his chooks Bribie.

Mine have always loved the stuff, keeps them laying all through winter when my partners parents chooks go off the lay. We supply them eggs!

Of course, the pesky fox that got them Saturday night screwed that up. Double batch of grain sitting in the chook yard feeding the magpies......

8 chooks this year. :angry:

Time for night vision goggles and a sniper rifle me thinks.

EDIT - spelling

 

[elec]

Compost everything for me - mind you the cockroaches are getting damned huge from the stuff...

I'm curious though: Has anyone ever attempted to use the spent grain in baking?

Cheers.

I replaced one cup for bread flour and dropped the water a bit in a breadmaker recipe, and it came out tops. Colour was a bit grey, but texture and taste were good. Will try it again when I want some bread for dukka.


Regards

 

[Bribie G]

Not good for his chooks Bribie.

Mine have always loved the stuff, keeps them laying all through winter when my partners parents chooks go off the lay. We supply them eggs!

Of course, the pesky fox that got them Saturday night screwed that up. Double batch of grain sitting in the chook yard feeding the magpies......

8 chooks this year. :angry:

Time for night vision goggles and a sniper rifle me thinks.

EDIT - spelling

Bloody upper class 19 th century squatters introducing foxes so they could charge around the Australian countryside pretending they were in Oxfordshire. I'll let BB know about your success with the grain. :icon_cheers:

 

[buttersd70]

Compost everything for me - mind you the cockroaches are getting damned huge from the stuff...

I'm curious though: Has anyone ever attempted to use the spent grain in baking?

Cheers.

Haven't done it myself, but have read (somewhere, might be here, might be another forum...can't remember) about people using it to make snack bars.

 

[drsmurto]

Bloody upper class 19 th century squatters introducing foxes so they could charge around the Australian countryside pretending they were in Oxfordshire. I'll let BB know about your success with the grain. :icon_cheers:

:icon_offtopic:

There was an article in the news in Adelaide with some city dwelling wench actively feeding the foxes to encourage them to hang around the burbs.

Dead set moron.

Like rabbits, foxes are best served skun, stewed and with a parsley garnish.

 

[daemon]

I dig the spent grains into the soil, makes a big difference to the thick, clay like bits. Combined with a few lawn clippings and turning it over it's become usable soil again so I've been using it to build up the hop and veggie gardens.

I just brew to improve my soil for gardening, honest

 

[Bribie G]

Don't have chooks but still get the eggs The soil hereabouts is almost pure sand, this is the first time I've had success with veggies on the island.

 

[Roscoe]

Horses & cattle love the spent grain.
Trub - it just goes on the lawn.

 

[roddersf]

I replaced one cup for bread flour and dropped the water a bit in a breadmaker recipe, and it came out tops. Colour was a bit grey, but texture and taste were good. Will try it again when I want some bread for dukka.


Regards

Elec, when you say good do you mean :wub: or do you mean :icon_drool2: ?? - I'll definitely have to give it a go - hell, might even try adding the spent hops! Here's to inventing a "new style" of bread then!

 

[drsmurto]

Spent grain dog biscuits for those with a spoilt pooch.

 

[Fourstar]

Does that work? will it keep those bloody phone service/power service sellers away too?
If so, another great reason for everyone to go allgrain.

Havn't seen a witness within the past 12 months. As for the phone/utility company dudes, unfortunately my grain stench doesn't get past their sweaty kebab onion and garlic armpit odour!

So the way to really freak them out is to say "I'd love to talk to you but I know a couple of the 144,000 True Anointed and I get my religious instructions from them, thank you". Try it next time and watch their eyes darting from right to left as they desperately seek an escape route to get away from you. Works every time

Thats Hilarious!

 

[Edgewater]

Discovered that if left in a mound for only a few days used grains becomes infested with fly maggots and stinks! I have started to spread the used grains thinly around plants in the veggie patch as mulch for the last six months, it has subsequently helped open up the soil when I have harvested the veggies and dug it all in. The soil is now alive with composting worms. It hasn't caused any problems to the veggies. I tend to just spread the used hops on the lawn an wash them in or bury them. If used on t he lawn spead thin and hose in, again no problems with the lawn as the hops break down like any other organic matter.

Just recycle into your garden but don't mound too high, rake it over after a week or use a hoe to break it up!!!

Edge,
Perth

 

[marksfish]

i dump the spent grain on garden beds in a pile, the sparrows spead it for me in a couple of days.

 

[elec]

Elec, when you say good do you mean :wub: or do you mean :icon_drool2: ?? - I'll definitely have to give it a go - hell, might even try adding the spent hops! Here's to inventing a "new style" of bread then!

Well worth giving it a go, Rodders

 

[drtomc]

Does that work? will it keep those bloody phone service/power service sellers away too?

If so, another great reason for everyone to go allgrain.

Quite. I'd be reason enough to take up drinking. Unless you don't drink coz you're a JW.

T.

 

[avaneyk]

Normally the chooks get my spent grain but since a fox got them last night will go on the compost pile.

Trub etc goes all around the place on various patches in the garden.

Manticle - cats are fine with hops, mine sniff and occasionally lick the trub and don't seem interested in the hop plants. They love the grain tho, one climbed in the mash tun after i had emptied it and was licking away!

Yeah - I think its only dogs that can be poisoned by hops - hop vines were listed by their botanical name (which I've forgotten now) as poisonous to dogs in one of the books I was reading before we got our puppy at the start of the year. Have decided to not worry about growing my own hops cos the dog eats everything...

I was putting mine on the garden but started getting mice so now the grains go into the green bin with the lawn clippings. Trub down the drain..


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[hairyson]

Compost everything for me - mind you the cockroaches are getting damned huge from the stuff...

I'm curious though: Has anyone ever attempted to use the spent grain in baking?

Cheers.

Yes mate, I've used spent grain in baking bread... there's a thread in the Brew Food forum on Bread Porn with some recipes: http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...showtopic=24339
It comes out really well, looks a bit like like that Burgen bread. You can just add some to any bread recipe, without changing the recipe much (unless it's still pretty wet, then you'll have to account for the extra moisture).

 

[Mattese]

I did my first AG on the weekend, so I finally get to vote!!!

 

[yardy]

these buggers get rid of spent grain pretty quick, the eggs aren't bad after they've been into the grain either

cheers

 

[Screwtop]

Next door neighbours chooks get the spent grain, sometimes I dig it into the vege garden.

Screwy