UPDATE! Sprouting On A Large Scale Is Simple & Nutritious For Animals & Humans Alike: A Video & Discussion Of Bucket Sprouting And A Demo Of How Much Horses Love Sprouted Sunflower Seeds!

6 days ago we posted our most recent video on sprouting for home consumption. It met with great success and many of you in steem land responded with great interest - with particular mention to @abasinkanga, @biglipsmama and @goldendawne.

Many of you had not seen sprouting done with the tray that we have setup at home so we thought we'd introduce a different method for higher volume sprouting that we've used for some time with great success for our horses.

Our horses simply love sprouted seeds. It's almost amusing to watch them devour the sprouts. It's like a drug to them! In this following video, we run through three days worth of sprouts in three buckets showing them at each step of the process and follow up with a little demo with one of our horses. Now normally a horse wouldn't walk voluntarily into an enclosed feed shed through a single door, but Scarab does to get to the seeds!

Again, just using sunflower seeds which we buy in large sacks, we soak and sprout using three normal garden buckets. The first bucket we fill with a few inches of water and simply place a few scooped hand-fulls of sunflower seeds into the bucket to leave overnight. The next day or even two days later, we pour those seeds into a second bucket which we've drilled holes into the bottom of.

This allows the sprouts to drain. We also at this point run some fresh water over the seeds to rinse the stagnant water off and provide a little more fresh irrigation that simply flows through the holes in the bottom. To save this water, you can do this above the original normal bucked to restart the few inches again for the next day's soaking.

Repeat this every day such that you've always got one bucket soaking and two buckets with holes sprouting. The third day will usually provide nicely sprouted sunflower seeds so it becomes like a production line. You can use these buckets in a sanitary fashion for your own consumption (although I'd do this indoors if this is the case and rinse well) or you can do this for grazing animals on a larger scale in a shed as we do. We've only done quarter buckets or so here but you can certainly ramp that quantity up if you have a need to consume all of that. You can also use any other seeds, sunflowers we just use here because they're easy to acquire in large sacks.

For those who missed the original videos, this is the one where we explain the layered approach with a sprouting rack:

Please enjoy and I welcome any constructive comments and feedback as always!