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  1. glib

    Mealworms breeding for chickens: do mealworms transfer their diseases to the next generations?

    Insects (all of them) tend to be quite a dirty meat. All manners of parasites for example. Chickens are uniquely defended by the fact that they grind their food in the gizzard, and that kills most soft bodied things. I do not expect mealworms to be any worse than fly larvae from a cow pie, to be...
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    Wheat Grass Mold

    Peroxide was the original 3% diluted by 10 times. It is best if you wash the grains first because there is a lot of dust in there that will neutralize your peroxide and make it ineffective against bacteria and mold. Bleach was 1 or two tablespoons per gallon, which is cheap. Salt was 4 ounces...
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    Wheat Grass Mold

    I had my share of mold problems. In my case I think it was reuse of the same facilities, so my method may not work for others. But I found that rotating salt water, H2O2 solution, and bleach solution was effective against all types of infections. I do not sprout now, but I have always wondered...
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    B12 deficiency...eggy solution?

    B12 in eggs is surprisingly hard to absorb. If you can get any offal from a butcher, to give the chickens, it will surely help. but whole bugs are competitive, if you can let them free range, and also if they have access to very fresh ruminant or rabbit manure.
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    new research debunks trad views on nutrition

    Perris, I agree that with grains a combination of biome/sprouting/fermenting outside the gut will help. Grains are so damn hard to digest, specially protein breaking bacteria will help. But even those that remove excess carbohydrates (which are still excessive after that) can help. Evolutionary...
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    new research debunks trad views on nutrition

    You focus on the microbiome because chickens are (due to economic constraints) fed a diet of food they only eat marginally in the wild. A more natural diet will benefit minimally from playing with the microbiome. You are strictly talking about confined birds.
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    Sprouting Oats for Chickens?

    Of course it will be less allergenic. the sprout has expressed enzymes specifically designed to break down those proteins. Your digestive system will use those enzymes. The proteins, specially in wheat, are designed to make you sick. The fragments (peptides) are a lot less toxic.
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    new research debunks trad views on nutrition

    I must be in trouble. I eat mostly meat (meat, eggs, dairy). One fruit and one or two ounces of sauerkrauts a day is my whole daily plant allowance. Never felt better.
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    Sprout failure

    Gtaus, that is really a wonderful article.
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    Sprout failure

    standing water I guess. they need to be wetted once a day for a minute or two but then the water needs to drain. If your problem is bacterial you can try using a dilute (1/10) water peroxide solution. Or you can try using a salt solution, which I hear works but I have never tried (guessing...
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    I'm Sending Feed to be Analyzed

    What page were the results posted? I do not have time to wade through 50 pages.
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    Lower protein amount for less poop smell?

    Fermented feed and sprouted grains (3 days, root as long as the seed) both also work to reduce smell by increasing protein digestibility. That nitrogen ends up in the chicken as opposed to the volatile molecules that make objectionable odors. Basically, increasing digestibility, both through...
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    What waste organs can chickens eat?

    rannit bones do not taste rabbity at all. they taste like bones.
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    Does anyone have any experience buying bulk food

    I would buy only whole grains in bulk, and grind them myself when it is time
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    Nixtamalization

    Regular fermented feed, anyway, will have the large increase in lysine, and B3 from the bacteria.
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    To soy or not to soy - that is the question!

    PS. In case you are wondering, chickens love natto.
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    To soy or not to soy - that is the question!

    I do not have chickens currently, and I may not have them for a long time, since my neighbors have chickens coming out of their ears. I will spend this year establishing a herd of cows, but then I will turn my attention to pigs. We will experiment with natto with 100% probability, including with...
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    To soy or not to soy - that is the question!

    I may have a different view. Phytates are gone with soaking. Now, bacillus is different from lactic bacteria, because it feeds on protein mainly, hence its powerful detoxifying properties, since most toxins, specially in grains, are in fact proteins. Natto (soy soaked and fermented with...
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    To soy or not to soy - that is the question!

    Granted it is with bacillus subtilis (natto), but there are tons of published papers about soy. Probably you are saying that lactic fermentation will not do that.
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    To soy or not to soy - that is the question!

    I don't totally understand this question. If the feed is fermented most of the bad stuff in soy disappears anyway.
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