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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    Thanks! Any insight on brewer's yeast?
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    Doesn't it have silica and other minerals?
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    What about brewer's yeast and DE? Any other ingredients I should consider? Thanks!
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    (nutritional numbers from previous advice here and basic google search) The (imperfect) list so far: - oats (11%p - 4%f) - field peas (25.5%p - 1.6%f) - fish meal (65%p - 9%f) - kelp (8.5%p) - enzyme pack Maybe's: - pearl millet (11.2%p - 4.3%f) - quinoa (24%p - 10.3%f) - teff (12.2%p - 3.7%f)...
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    OK, so here is the plan. This mill is pretty busy and help fairly limited, so I don't want to go there asking about particular ingredients. I want to complie a list first, then go get the details and pricing for everything, come back home to polish out the details for the recipe and place the...
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    What else could I use besides sorghum? I am looking at millet and lentils. Possibly alfalfa and sunflower seeds (afterall)
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    I agree, it would be nice to see a link to study showing all this and possibly more info.
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    From what I gathered, 4 basic types/groups of phytoestrogens are: isoflavones, stilbenes, coumestans, and lignans. They have different impact. I am still learning. I am sure most plants have at least minimal amounts of phytoestrogens, so there is no escaping them, but what really matters is how...
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    Yes, the enzyme part is suspect per what I have found so far. I am skipping corn as ingredient and only use it as bait/snack in very small amounts per chicken. What else should I consider that brings the good enzymes and nutrition to the table?
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    Thank you. I have seen 5% too, so that's what I had in the calculation. Here are updated numbers. More than 2/3 of the reciple are oats (and have to be, at least in Amish store scenario, which is also all non-GMO and organic ingredients) Amish store: ~5% kelp granules (8%p - 0%f) ~70% ground...
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    Thanks for confirming this. I will change the fish meal ratio to 10%. What's the highest number you would use for kelp?
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    What are the protein and fat numbers that you have for field peas?
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    From brief wikipedia search it looks like just under 13% of protein, so it's better than most US-based grains. Not sure how widely available it is in US and if chickens native to US can fully digest it.
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    Are you sure on 10% fish meal? Yes, it's expensive but it might be cheaper to do x amount of fish meal vs 4x amount of something else, for the same end result in protein %
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    Excellent idea and I already started researching soldier fly larvae farming totes. This would be seasonally only, unless I find something that can be raised indoors without much hassle (including smell,etc.)
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