Tom (Nelson), As I understand it, the char is mixed into the feed because most African chickens run loose. In other communications from Sister, I understand that she has been feeding the chickens very

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Stephen, Thank you so much for this post. Not only am I very interested in chicken feed (I am not joking), but I especially appreciate your emphasis on the need for context. It has long driven me craz

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Hi Kevin, This question should be asked of Stephen since he has done more research on this question than I have - I just grow trees and have tried to get others who know more than I do to use their sk

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Hi Alan Would you see any advantages and disadvantages associated with the addition of char, that was otherwise good for biochar, to poultry bedding, for adsorption of ammonia associated with the deco

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Hi Stephen, It is great that you have recognized that "biochar" is not what should go into chicken feed or chicken litter, but it is what actually comes out after the use of activated charcoal or char

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Hi Frank We need to look at the feed char Mara Seeds have been producing and selling in NSW and detailed published work by Surya Bhattarai that have done over the past 10 years in Australia as a more

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There are a range of aspects as with everything in natural resource management, regenerative farming and restorative forest landscape management … Rather to constantly looking at and limiting the inve

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That may be part of it. Poultry operations have been adding biochar to bedding to reduce ammonia. The birds ingest the biochar. We understand that turkeys especially like wood biochar which may be mor

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Does the biochar serve as grit for the chicken's gizzards... ? Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

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there is a really comprehensive summary of the results of trials with Chickens in Hans-Peter Schmidts review of feeding biochar to chickens. 2 things are important that we have learnt. Animals will se

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You can see in the pictures that particle size varies. The biochar is made from corn cobs and corn stover so it is very friable compared with a wood char. Tom

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Hi Tom, What particle size are you using? Wae Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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From Sr. Miriam Paulette in Malawi: The ratio was 1:2 that is biochar 1: feeds 2. And I feed them with biochar mixed feeds for a week then I take a break for a week. Please note that this is my own in

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Tom, If you look at the video https://bit.ly/38MiQDC you will see that the biochar is made from corn cobs in a TLUD and from corn stover in pit kilns. Biochar is mixed in the feed. We don’t know the p

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Hi Tom, Do you apply the biochar to the food, or to the bedding? I understand chickens preferentially peck biochar out of the bedding because of the attractive pH. What percentage of biochar to feed o

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From Sr. Miriam Paulette, Warm Heart Foundation, Malawi: I am glad to share with you the results of biochar when used in poulty. Before I started mixing my chickens' feeds with biochar I could get onl

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